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First my Battle.net account was automatically locked when I logged in with my correct password, because my “login pattern” had changed. By which I guess they mean I logged in at all.

Then resetting my password was about an 11 step process involving 4 emails, a code phrase, many warnings, a “Battle Tag” I didn’t recognize at all (probably from total disuse) in the subject line of an email I was warned to ignore if I didn’t recognize… but if I had followed that advice my account would still be locked… on and on until finally my account was unlocked, I was invited to pointlessly log in on the Battle.net webpage, and then when I finally made it back to the Diablo III client, I got this:

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“Thanks for trying to play our fucking game, here’s your punishment.”

 

FFS. You folks mock console gaming but I’ve never had to deal with this level of Keystone Kops fuckery on my XBox.