People seem to be very keen to paint me out to be supporting the contract or other presumptions. I will repeat, that I stated that the contract is written in legalese that most don’t understand. I have stated repeatedly, to no avail, that it should come have come in plain English. I think the initiative is a positive one but the feedback/concerns are valid from discord owners/communities. Blizzard have taken this on board and made a post saying they are going to review it. However, I do think some are taking this a bit far, Blizzard is not looking for a way to take over community discords, it’s not looking for a way to sue people. For some reason making any observation that is not jumping on the bandwagon is met with these kinds of comments. The reason that people believe all these things goes right back to my point about it being in legalese.
The contract for buying my house was a lot bigger than this contract, and I had a conveyancer (solicitor) handle it. In the whole scheme of things when buying a house, paying for legal service to handle it, is not a huge cost. It is however unreasonable to expect players/communities to have to engage the services of a solicitor to get on board with this initiative. I have never advocated people should sign this if they are unsure what it says, in fact you should never sign a contract for anything that you’ve not read or can’t understand. I have never said it was wrong to object to the contract. I think it’s unreasonable for people to be expected to get legal advice to enter into this arrangement with Blizzard.
I look forward to seeing what they come up with. As do many others.