Blizzard Sued Over Battle.net Authentication

An anonymous reader writes "A man has initiated a class-action suit against Blizzard over a product used to shore up Battle.net security. Benjamin Bell alleges that Blizzard's sale of Authenticators — devices that enable basic two-tier authentication — represents deceptive and unfair additional costs to their basic games. (Blizzard sells the key fob versions for $6.50, and provides a free mobile app as an alternative. Neither are mandatory.) The complaint accuses Blizzard of making $26 million in Authenticator sales. In response, Blizzard made a statement refuting some of the complaint's claims and voicing their intention to 'vigorously defend' themselves."

Re:This is ridiculous

[kurzweilfreak]

Zomg, a company makes money off of sales of something that you don't need to play the game? Travesty! That has to be illegal!

Re:This is ridiculous

[mat.power]

He's technically correct, the best kind of correct!

Re:This is ridiculous

[yndrd1984]

It's the principle of making the customer pay for this after the fact. If the game requires authenticators to use its features, it should come in the box.

I'm billing Ford for my gas, oil changes, and regular maintainance. I'm also suing because the advertisements showed an attractive woman in the car, and mine didn't come with one - I had to buy one separately from some "RussianBride" company. What a rip-off!

Re:Surprised?

[Anonymous Coward]

The stupid, it burns

Re:Surprised?

[ynp7]

Also, what's the deal with caps lock? Why the hell is that key still on the keyboard? NOBODY uses it and... I've gone waaaaaaaaaaay off-topic haven't I? I'll shut up and let the rest of the post be insightful.

I use caps lock every day, you insensitive clod! It's cruise control for cool.

Re:Surprised?

[TranquilVoid]

Well I just found out now, very surprising. And I thought I was uncrackable with PaSsWoRd too :(