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iranian gamers have already a hard time to play wow diablo3 or wow because of their goverment
a A big thread popped up late last week on the WoW EU forums, where a gamer in Iran reported that he was no longer able to log onto Battle.net via any Blizzard game. Much fan rage and debate ensued, until yesterday, a Blue voice weighed in. With very bad news, should any of you be located in that particular nation and desirous of gaming.
Lurdlespore: Our team has been watching this thread closely, and we understand the desire for more information about this situation. Blizzard Entertainment cannot speak to any reports surrounding the Iranian government restricting games from its citizens.
What we can tell you is that United States trade restrictions and economic sanction laws prohibit Blizzard from doing business with residents of certain nations, including Iran. Several of you have seen and cited the text in the Terms of Use which relates to these government-imposed sanctions. This week, Blizzard tightened up its procedures to ensure compliance with these laws, and players connecting from the affected nations are restricted from access to Blizzard games and services.
This also prevents us from providing any refunds, credits, transfers, or other service options to accounts in these countries. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes and will happily lift these restrictions as soon as US law allows.
surce http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/battle-net-blocked-in-iran
my opionion i thank god for living outside iran because of that it sucks you cant play anymore your game that you like epecialy with no lan funktion
now discuss
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Suspicion of being used in war simulation.
Seriously, wtf Iran.
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no the joke is blizzard is blocking not iran
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Yeah I'd love to warp in 5 colossi to take out NYC in my next attack on the US. Give me a break..
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Reminiscent of trade embargos. E-trade embargos! The internet is not as nationless as one would like to think.
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by Blizzard? or by goverment laws?
Cold war incoming :< Really sucks for Iran, but nothing to do against until the laws change...
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Was following this thread on blizzard forum. Quite sad for Iranians, not only get banned but no refunds as well.
This is the first time that I've felt that something political had a different influence on daily lives of people similar to me. If they ban Iran, god forbid they could ban China as well
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Probably blizzard got a phone call from government and were forced to block iran.
@haduken: there aren't any restrictions for trading with china, or are there?
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On August 30 2012 18:16 imPermanenCe wrote: by Blizzard? or by goverment laws?
Cold war incoming :< Really sucks for Iran, but nothing to do against until the laws change...
by blizzard this time...... blizzard is a US commpany afterally and must obey their goverment otherwise i guess they must pay to US goverment as punishment
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Thats crap, unlucky to the Iranian players. Nothing they can do if their Goverment is acting the way it is. IMO Blizzard is doing the only thing they can do, not fuel the fire anymore and just cut it off dead.
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On August 30 2012 18:09 Twinkle Toes wrote: Suspicion of being used in war simulation.
Seriously, wtf Iran. In that case, we should be sending them free copies. It would teach them that nukes aren't all they're cracked up to be.
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This also prevents us from providing any refunds, credits, transfers, or other service options to accounts in these countries This is the part that gets me. I'm happy I'm not in Iran, I'd be furious - not at the government, but at Blizzard for not refuding my expenses when they fail to deliver the product promised.
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On August 30 2012 18:40 plated.rawr wrote:Show nested quote +This also prevents us from providing any refunds, credits, transfers, or other service options to accounts in these countries This is the part that gets me. I'm happy I'm not in Iran, I'd be furious - not at the government, but at Blizzard for not refuding my expenses when they fail to deliver the product promised. Bound by law....
Come on, it's not that hard.
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On August 30 2012 18:40 plated.rawr wrote:Show nested quote +This also prevents us from providing any refunds, credits, transfers, or other service options to accounts in these countries This is the part that gets me. I'm happy I'm not in Iran, I'd be furious - not at the government, but at Blizzard for not refuding my expenses when they fail to deliver the product promised.
Well, as much as i love to spit on Blizzard, they haven't got any choice here.
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On August 30 2012 18:40 plated.rawr wrote:Show nested quote +This also prevents us from providing any refunds, credits, transfers, or other service options to accounts in these countries This is the part that gets me. I'm happy I'm not in Iran, I'd be furious - not at the government, but at Blizzard for not refuding my expenses when they fail to deliver the product promised. It sucks that it is somehow legal to rob people of their money because they are from a particular nation. Ban I'm fine with but the us govt's refusal of refunds is pretty much legal theft.
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On August 30 2012 18:40 plated.rawr wrote:Show nested quote +This also prevents us from providing any refunds, credits, transfers, or other service options to accounts in these countries This is the part that gets me. I'm happy I'm not in Iran, I'd be furious - not at the government, but at Blizzard for not refuding my expenses when they fail to deliver the product promised.
How in the fuck is it Blizzard's fault?
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Should only be a matter of time now till the revolution starts. You can take my pride but you cannot take my starcraft!
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Title is sort of misleading. The US has an embargo and thus is stopping battle.net
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Oh come on. Businesses skirt laws as long as it's profitable and doable. If they had the interest of their customers in mind, they could drag this issue to court, set up a proxy company outside US regulation, or have a third-party stand for servers and costumer support for the region.
I'm not saying Blizzard's the big satan here, but their willingness to shaft Iran seems a bit too easy.
Edit: My main problem here is the lacking refund when the promised service is not presentable, embargo or whatever being irrelevant. The customer payed for a product which has not been delivered, and the company should take the consequences of that, irregardless of surrounding issues.
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IMO this will only result in a growing anti-american feeling, sad...
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