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Diablo 3: Blizzard Faces Legal Notices From France, Germany over False Advertisement

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Saturday, June 16, 2012 1:53 PM GMT
Diablo 3: Blizzard Faces Legal Notices From France, Germany over False Advertisement

By Vinod Yalburgi

Game developers Blizzard finds itself in a spot of bother, thanks to legal notices issued by French and German consumer advocacy groups, regarding the always-on-internet Digital Rights Management (DRM) issue with recently released bestselling gamer Diablo 3.

The contention is that Blizzard has not clearly mentioned the need for an Internet connection as a requirement to run the single player campaign. Gamers also contend that the hassle of overloaded game servers deprives them of a satisfactory gaming experience.

"The problem with the game being permanently tied to the consumer's battle.net account seems to be that it prevents resale. The VZBV require that both of these things be made clear on the box," reported Diablo IncGamers.

The two European countries look to join Korea in ensuring fair marketing practices; the Korean Fair Trade Commission earlier issued a sales ban on all grey market items concerning the game.

Meanwhile, reports from Diablo IncGamers quote French consumer standards agency Que Choisir as demanding Blizzard fix all connections issues for French gamers inside of 15 days or face court cases.

Here is a translated summary of the original post:

"In France, the very serious "UFC Que Choisir" organization (focused on protecting consumers of all kinds of products) has received over 1500 complaints in 4 days from gamers about connect-ability issues and has asked Blizzard to have a permanent solution within 15 days and to communicate completely and transparently about problems encountered in due time. They are also requesting that affected gamers be given damages for troubles they may have had, and, in a much broader but more official manner, are asking the DGCCRF to have a close look at online-only DRMed games and how they work, including economically. They basically feel that it's wrong to assume that an entire nation (well, at least France) has equal internet quality and reception across its entire territory and hence, online-only seems are harmful for some (many?) consumers (which is who they're trying to protect)."
Cinema Blend has stated they feel Blizzard is guilty of imposing the always-on requirement for running the single player campaigns on Diablo 3 and also its inability to deal server load issues hampering gamers' experiences. It seems the company has yet to address server problems in the US and South Korea and has only 15 days to address French gamers' concerns.


Furthermore, reports in N-TV (Google translation)suggest Germany's entry in to this debate (with the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV)) is to hold Blizzard accountable for antitrust violations. The German consumer watchdog has set a deadline of 13 July for Blizzard to respond to its legal notice.
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Diablo 3: Blizzard Faces Legal Notices From France, Germany over False Advertisement - Entertainment & Stars
 
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blizzard will get multi million doller lawyers and france will surrender their country
 
whiners on these forums are missing the bigger picture of events, they may some day soon..not have anything to whine about....should this trend continue with Diablo III.....highly unlikely though....
 
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Gee think they saw this coming in advance...:cool:


All of which makes the possibility of a sale of the company puzzling to say the least.
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Vivendi Reportedly Considering Selling Activision Blizzard

According to Bloomberg, higher ups at Vivendi (VIV) are looking at selling off game publisher Activision Blizzard (ATVI), the publishing house behind such popular franchises as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft.

Vivendi has a 61% stake in game publisher and may be looking to offload all of it, according to Bloomberg?s sources.

Activision is Vivendi?s fourth largest company, and the second fastest growing, with $4.76 billion in sales last year, and share value outperforming both EA and Take Two, Bloomberg reports. All of which makes the possibility of a sale of the company puzzling to say the least.

So why would Vivendi sell its fourth largest company?

The answer may be as simple as a shift in business strategy:
Vivendi jumped as much as 5.3 percent in Paris and Activision fell as much as 6.2 percent in New York. A sale of Activision would be an attempt by Chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou to unlock value from assets he has said are at a discount because of the holding structure at Vivendi, which also owns Universal Music Group and phone operators in France, Morocco and Brazil.

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An exit from Activision would be another retreat from the globe-trotting conglomerate structure Vivendi pioneered under former CEO Jean-Marie Messier, who nearly bankrupted the company with a $77 billion acquisition spree before he was ousted in 2002. In 2009 Levy undid Messier?s signature deal by selling Vivendi?s stake in NBC Universal, the TV network and Hollywood studio now owned by Comcast Corp. (CMCSA), to General Electric Co. for $5.8 billion.


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In other words, this is simply a reverse of an earlier global strategy that the current management at the French mega-corporation sees as the cause of the current nine-year slide in stock value. What this means for Activision Blizzard is harder to say, though it?s doubtful too many changes will come to the company given the success of its current franchises.


Meanwhile, whether merely reversing an earlier trend of ad hoc global acquisitions will solve all of Vivendi?s woes is an open question, though often undoing the mistakes of the past becomes much more than simply walking them back.
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Vivendi Reportedly Considering Selling Activision Blizzard - Forbes
 
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If blizzard is in a lawsuit with all these other places. Maybe they will drop the lawsuit on Bossland and co.
 
looks like all they want from Buzzard is to increase online up-time ....fix or add servers etc


Furthermore, reports in N-TV (Google translation)suggest Germany's entry in to this debate (with the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (VZBV)) is to hold Blizzard accountable for antitrust violations. The German consumer watchdog has set a deadline of 13 July for Blizzard to respond to its legal notice.
 
acti blizzard has hit its peak... sell sell sell

- call of duty is dying franchise
- mists of panderia aka we ran out of lore so here is cute panda
 
unpredictable times can also be the most rewarding times.....under these conditions anything can happen...ride the razor edge....rock on! :cool:
 
SkyCrown said:
unpredictable times can also be the most rewarding times.....under these conditions anything can happen...ride the razor edge....rock on! :cool:
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Would this mean that Acti/Blizzard will use more underhanded methods to make quicker bucks out of you and me?
 
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Would this mean that Acti/Blizzard will use more underhanded methods to make quicker bucks out of you and me?
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Their are many on these forums who are much better qualified to speculate on that ...than myself.

My take is ....these are exciting times we are in now. Neither good or bad, just unpredictable. In these conditions some who make tactical judgements come out ahead. Other times it is all fluff and irrelevant. Having everything predictable has its benefits, but very little can happen for change ....better or worse in those environments.

For what is worth have acquired multiple DB 3 user lifetime licenses and Diablo accounts to match, even knowing all these events occurring. Ready to hedge my bets ...and speculate. Win or lose, these will be fun times ahead! :cool:
 
Or that gold value will jump because all dirt-poor koreans cannot sell their firstborns for a 10-year old laptop to goldfarm anymore.
 
too many retarded whiners.... they all knew that you have to be online when u want to play it... maybe 1 out of 1000 didnt know it.
now they act like its something new to them.
 
Blizzard has multi-millions and can easily afford this, but it doesn't help the share prices...

The complaints about people not being able to get online is what started this off, the rest of it is just finding small faults.
 
I hope the RMAH will be closed for ever. Currently I can't buy $hit with gold. All good items are on RMAH and the ones that you can buy with gold are > 10 million. Really garbage.
 
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