BlizzCon Is Kill: The Spyware Required For This Year's Con

The Quartering reports on the smartphone application that is now required to attend BlizzCon this year. It's a shitshow, obviously.

I heard about this while watching Asmongold's livestream today, where he played the video and commented on it as he did so. The TL/DR is this: that app scrapes ALL your data and hands it over to Google, Facebook, and several other major data clients. You have to install it and let it have full access to your phone/tablet in order to access the convention that you already bought tickets to attend.

Nope.

There is nothing BlizzCon offers that can't be done better and cheaper, something Blizzard already knows; as I type this, the Mythic Dungeon International is still going on, streamed live on Twitch, with viewers equal to the live events at BlizzCon. Hearthstone, Overwatch, Starcraft II, etc. are all better off watched from home live on the Internet than attending in-person. They know this.

Furthermore, most of those attending don't care that much about the con itself; most who go are there for what goes on outside the convention, such as the parties and meetups, and as such there's considerably more people in Anaheim than are ticket-holders in the event space. This? This is unacceptable. Cancel your plans, folks. BlizzCon is Kill.