Network players have had the experience of suddenly popping up an agreement window when logging in to the game and clicking agree to continue the game, and the vast majority of players will not read the terms of the agreement carefully, after all, as long as they want to play the game, there is no other choice but to agree. Recently, Blizzard released the latest version of the Blizzard End User License Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement") on its Asian Service official website, effective on March 28.
In an important notice earlier in the agreement, Blizzard stated that the counterparty of the player contract residing in Hong Kong and Macau, China (i.e., the contract counterparty) under the new agreement is Blizzard Entertainment, and the counterparty of the player contract in Taiwan is Activision Blizzard Taiwan Branch.
Obviously, this change in the agreement is related to Blizzard's previous announcement that Asian servers will support Hong Kong dollar payments, and after March 28, Asian server players who live in Hong Kong, China or Macau, China will only be able to spend on the Asian server Battle.net platform in Hong Kong dollars, and will no longer be able to spend in New Taiwan dollars. When the payment currency changes, the counterparty to the contract naturally changes.
It seems that the new protocol is a supporting change, and it seems that there is nothing tricky, but some players have found that articles 11 and 12 of the agreement seem to be hidden secrets. As we all know, for the convenience of registration, the vast majority of national server players choose their residence area as Hong Kong, China when registering an Asian server battle.com account. After March 28, if a player needs to appeal due to a mistakenly blocked or other reasons, players in Taiwan, China will appeal to Blizzard Taiwan, while players residing in Hong Kong, China and Macau will have to appeal to Blizzard Entertainment. This should be a change in response to changes in the counterparty to the contract.
Some players think that Blizzard is trying to block the mouth of Asian service players living outside Taiwan, China to use the "Consumer Protection Association" to appeal, and then the complainant's family sentence "Your account is not under the control here, you want to appeal to the United States to find Blizzard Entertainment" is called back, and it is more difficult to unblock after the player is mistakenly blocked. Some players believe that Blizzard is to deal with a large number of studio script numbers registered in Hong Kong, China, and the next step is to intensify the crackdown on studios.
In addition, some players have found a clause related to banning, players will receive a warning notification from Blizzard when they violate the first violation, and if they violate it again, they will not be permanently banned but will be banned for up to 7 days. Some players think that this is good news for ordinary players, and they will no longer have to worry about being forever blocked for no reason; Some players also think that this is Blizzard opening script in the indulgence studio, and only 7 days is too little.
However, another clause in the agreement states that for violations such as plugins, hackers, scripts, malicious exploitation of game vulnerabilities, etc., Blizzard may immediately terminate the agreement and seal it forever. Blizzard has previously said in the blue post that most of the violations for ordinary players will not be directly and permanently blocked, and you will not be polite for studio script plugins, the question is whether the current Blizzard has the ability to distinguish between ordinary players and studio script plugins?