OMFG Blizzard support is so much better than Riot's it's fucking sad

Scrimshäw··1 votes·673 views

Me: Soo, I have a question, I've looked through your purchase policy and didn't find anything about this.

Say I buy a hero for $10, then the hero goes on sale in the next 3 days or so, would I be able to get a partial refund? You know, for the difference of the hero? ($4.99 or whatever)

If not, I'll just be a lot more reluctant about making off-sale purchases

ONE FUCKING HOUR LATER, at 2 AM Greetings,

I'm Game Master Demvandi and I'm contacting you about compensation for heroes Sales.

I understand your question and your concern, but I'm afraid that at this time we do not offer any partial compensation for heroes or skins that go on sale shortly after being purchased. Keep in mind that the weekly sales run from Tuesday to Tuesday though, and that the items on sale change weekly. Other sales may come around from time to time, but these will not be announced ahead of time. My advice to you, if pricing is a concern, is to wait until the hero you're interested in goes on sale. It could be it will be soon, or it might take a while.

If you have any questions, regarding this or anything else, don't hesitate to contact us again.

Good luck out there.

THEN I ASKED ANOTHER QUESTION ABOUT A TICKET THAT WAS MERGED WITH THAT ONE

24 MINUTES LATER THEY RESPONDED...

OH

MY

GOD

WHY CAN BLIZZARD REPLY LIGHTNING FAST WITH ACTUAL HUMAN RESPONSES AND RIOT IS LIKE, THE EPITOME OF PATHETIC SUPPORT

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kJs2 votes

Blizzard, multiple top selling genre of their games with Diablo series, Warcraft series, World of Warcraft series, the Starcraft series and now Hearthstone with probably staff members reaching over 1 million, and you compare it to Riot with one game that they can barely cover with updates, new skins, new champions, events that are massive etc.

Smart post you got here. /s

Scrimshäw2 votes

riot makes over 1 billion a year..

kJs2 votes

Riot making over 1 billion a year is irrelevant to my post and yours.

What I'm saying is Riot can barely keep this game up and running the way they currently do it while Blizzard has kept 3 of their best-selling games running. The manpower and resources it would take to cover 3 games over 1 game is quite different.

alasarcher2 votes

As someone who plays World of Warcraft for almost 10 years, i can tell you that Blizzard support is dreadful. Sometimes it takes even a week to get response.

Scrimshäw1 votes

did you mean to say "as someone who hasn't played world of warcraft in almost 10 years"?

alasarcher1 votes

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did you mean to say "as someone who hasn't played world of warcraft in almost 10 years"?

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/kazzak/Elaynne/simple

SmokedAlmonds1 votes

Fast support for stuff like this is over rated imo. For my internet, insurance, power. Things like that I need fixed immediately. If an issue with a game takes a few days it's not a big deal, id rather not pay the premium for faster support.

Riot support isn't particularly speedy but easily satisfactory for me. I have had responses to every ticket in about a day with reasonable responses. I know some people have issues with punishment related tickets but I suspect that is mostly because they are bogged down with "I disagree with the rules" type of tickets. But in that department they could probably use a bit of improvement.

As you your specific issue, riot just preemptively solved that by announcing sales ahead of time so that ticket is never required to begin with.

Princess Emma1 votes

Except people complain that Blizzard has terrible support as well. This goes for every major and/or popular company whether they be gaming or not. There is plenty of complaints over others saying their support sucks such as Microsoft, Nexon, Blizzard, Walmart, you name it.

Sometimes you may get great customer service, sometimes you may get shitty customer service. It's all volatile

Scrimshäw1 votes

i can say with confidence that about the 10 times i've emailed blizzard support in my life, i've never gotten a canned response unless it was from the forum team (those guys are actually shit)

like this one, where i reported someone who told me to kill myself, even using the incorrect "reason"

Hey there Chris!

Thank you for reporting censored for offensive behavior. These violations are a detriment to our game, and I greatly appreciate you contacting us to help make the game a better place for all of us! Due to how seriously we take these matters, I will be investigating the chat and actions of this player around the reported time, and I will take the appropriate actions as the use of inappropriate and offensive language in general, or against another player is not allowed in our game.

Going forward, please utilize the new Right-Click Report Harassment feature on any offensive names or chat you see. Not only is this an extremely easy and effective way to report these issues without needing to spend time opening a ticket, it allows us to process these reports faster and more efficiently. o-(^-^)-o

While I cannot reveal the specific actions that we take on another account, I can identify what actions we do take on confirmed cases of this type of violation. In the case of a verified violation, our penalties can range from an account warning to a suspension to even account closure depending on factors such as the severity of the violation and the history of the account. But rest assured, I will do everything I can to ensure the integrity and fun of the game! polishes the mighty Hammer of Justice

Safeguarding the community's experience is a very important service that we are glad to provide to our players. =)

Be sure to let us know if you need anything else as I absolutely want to make sure you get fully taken care of here. Thanks so much again for contacting us, and I wish you the best going forward! :)


then i was silenced, (their version of a chat restriction but you can't speak to anyone), and some guy messaged me after we won the game, "silenced noob get good %%%got" something along those lines, and the report feature like, bugged or something, and i had to email them a screenshot of it, got this response within 2 hours:

Hey there.

Yea, that kind of behavior does stink and isn't something we support. I am going to look into this for you and take the what action I can to stop this behavior. Now for the RP :)

I assure you that appropriate actions will be taken, and I know that "appropriate actions" sounds kind of robotic but they told me that "Sundering their souls with the FIERY HAMMER OF JUSTIFIED JUSTICE!" sounded redundant and overly dramatic.

While I would like to share with you details of their trip down justice lane where they are forced to drink justice juice straight from the tap of justice, due to privacy concerns, we will not be able to notify you of our findings, nor of the actions necessary for resolution of this issue. Now I think I have said the word Justice enough and must get on to implementing it.

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