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On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 3:57:56 PM UTC-6, Lewis wrote:
> In message <doaa0m...@mid.individual.net> 
>   Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 20:07:34 +0200, "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum>
> > wrote:
> 
> >>I stopped my sub back in january, reinstalled windows on all comps and 
> >>forgot all about this group.  a.g.warcraft just came back to me a few 
> >>mins ago when I was reading about sandbox games!
> 
> > Good to hear from you again! :-) Even if many are no longer playing,
> > it's still always nice to see the familiar names posting here from
> > time to time.
> 
> My ub expires again in a couple of weeks and I will not be renewing any
> time soon. Tokens have gotten quite expensive, and I'm going to wait and
> play Legion for a month or two and then I will likely be done with WoW
> for good.
> 
> At this point, the only way that I would consider playing it into the
> future is if I were able to isolate it completely from the rest of my
> system (that is, in a sandbox were none of Blizzard's shit could touch
> the rest of my system).
> 
> Recently, Blizzard has been leaving background processes running when
> neither Battle.net nor any blizzard game is running, they keep
> installing "new" versions of the launcher all the time forcing me to
> punch holes through the firewalls over and over for the "new" apps, and
> they are "chatting" way too much with their home base.
> 
> Not to mention that often teh "new" launcher apps are binary clones of
> the "old" app (that is, bbyt-forbyte identical just in new folders with
> new names).
> 
> I am not normally paranoid, but I don't trust Blizzard/Activision and
> they are the reason that I run Little Snitch on my Mac.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. 
> I don't think that is a coincidence

Blizzard needs to appear to its playerbase that it is doing things that are worth paying attention to, thus the launcher spam.