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Overwatch (1) was a multiplayer first-person shooter video game created by Blizzard. It was released in 2016 and cost around 40€.

Earlier this year, Overwatch 1 was shut down:

  • The servers are down.
  • The game is not playable from the official Blizzard game launcher.

It has been replaced by Overwatch 2, which is considered its "sequel" by Blizzard and is free to play, but with very high-priced in-game cosmetics.

I do not understand how this is considered a legal action for the following reasons:

  • I paid 30/40 bucks for the right to own Overwatch 1 (did I  ?) and to play it.
  • Overwatch 1, for which I paid, is now completely unusable for me, so the service (if not the product) I have paid for is now not available
  • It is replaced by a free to play game (what happened to my 40 bucks ?)

While playing OW1, I earned ingame credits which allowed me to purchase cosmetics (so, basically, I got those cosmetics in exchange for my time, not for my money). Those cosmetics have been "transfered""transferred" to OW2 and they now cost an insane amount of money (something like at least 10 dollars each, and there are a lot of them (purchasable and than I unlocked in OW1)). However, as I just said, I did not purchase the cosmetics, I (think I) purchased the product and the service provided to use it.

Questions

  • Did I pay for the right to own and play Overwatch 1, or just for the right to play it  ?
  • Why is it legal (I assume, as they did it and I did not hear about some legal action taken to them for that) for Blizzard to shutdown completely (more like "take away from customers"  ?) a product and a service for which customers have paid  ?

PS: I used the "france" and "united-states" tags as I am frenchFrench and live in France and Blizzard EntertainementEntertainment is a USA company.

Overwatch (1) was a multiplayer first-person shooter video game created by Blizzard. It was released in 2016 and cost around 40€.

Earlier this year, Overwatch 1 was shut down:

  • The servers are down.
  • The game is not playable from the official Blizzard game launcher.

It has been replaced by Overwatch 2, which is considered its "sequel" by Blizzard and is free to play, but with very high-priced in-game cosmetics.

I do not understand how this is considered a legal action for the following reasons:

  • I paid 30/40 bucks for the right to own Overwatch 1 (did I  ?) and to play it.
  • Overwatch 1, for which I paid, is now completely unusable for me, so the service (if not the product) I have paid for is now not available
  • It is replaced by a free to play game (what happened to my 40 bucks ?)

While playing OW1, I earned ingame credits which allowed me to purchase cosmetics (so, basically, I got those cosmetics in exchange for my time, not for my money). Those cosmetics have been "transfered" to OW2 and they now cost an insane amount of money (something like at least 10 dollars each, and there are a lot of them (purchasable and than I unlocked in OW1)). However, as I just said, I did not purchase the cosmetics, I (think I) purchased the product and the service provided to use it.

Questions

  • Did I pay for the right to own and play Overwatch 1, or just for the right to play it  ?
  • Why is it legal (I assume, as they did it and I did not hear about some legal action taken to them for that) for Blizzard to shutdown completely (more like "take away from customers"  ?) a product and a service for which customers have paid  ?

PS: I used the "france" and "united-states" tags as I am french and live in France and Blizzard Entertainement is a USA company.

Overwatch (1) was a multiplayer first-person shooter video game created by Blizzard. It was released in 2016 and cost around 40€.

Earlier this year, Overwatch 1 was shut down:

  • The servers are down.
  • The game is not playable from the official Blizzard game launcher.

It has been replaced by Overwatch 2, which is considered its "sequel" by Blizzard and is free to play, but with very high-priced in-game cosmetics.

I do not understand how this is considered a legal action for the following reasons:

  • I paid 30/40 bucks for the right to own Overwatch 1 (did I?) and to play it.
  • Overwatch 1, for which I paid, is now completely unusable for me, so the service (if not the product) I have paid for is now not available
  • It is replaced by a free to play game (what happened to my 40 bucks)

While playing OW1, I earned ingame credits which allowed me to purchase cosmetics (so, basically, I got those cosmetics in exchange for my time, not for my money). Those cosmetics have been "transferred" to OW2 and they now cost an insane amount of money (something like at least 10 dollars each, and there are a lot of them (purchasable and than I unlocked in OW1)). However, as I just said, I did not purchase the cosmetics, I (think I) purchased the product and the service provided to use it.

Questions

  • Did I pay for the right to own and play Overwatch 1, or just for the right to play it?
  • Why is it legal (I assume, as they did it and I did not hear about some legal action taken to them for that) for Blizzard to shutdown completely (more like "take away from customers"?) a product and a service for which customers have paid?

PS: I used the and tags as I am French and live in France and Blizzard Entertainment is a USA company.

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Overwatch (1) was a multiplayer first-person shooter video game created by Blizzard. It was released in 2016 and cost around 40€.

Earlier this year, Overwatch 1 was shut down:

  • The servers are down.
  • The game is not playable from the official Blizzard game launcher.

It has been replaced by Overwatch 2, which is considered its "sequel" by Blizzard and is free to play, but with very high-priced in-game cosmetics.

I do not understand how this is considered a legal action for the following reasons:

  • I paid 30/40 bucks for the right to own Overwatch 1 (did I ?) and to play it.
  • Overwatch 1, for which I paid, is now completely unusable for me, so the service (if not the product) I have paid for is now not available
  • It is replaced by a free to play game (what happened to my 40 bucks ?)

While playing OW1, I earned ingame credits which allowed me to purchase cosmetics (so, basically, I got those cosmetics in exchange for my time, not for my money). Those cosmetics have been "transfered" to OW2 and they now cost an insane amount of money (something like at least 10 dollars each, and there are a lot of them (purchasable and than I unlocked in OW1)). However, as I just said, I did not purchase the cosmetics, I (think I) purchased the product and the service provided to use it.

Questions

  • Did I pay for the right to own and play Overwatch 1, or just for the right to play it ?
  • Why is it legal (I assume, as they did it and I did not hear about some legal action taken to them for that) for Blizzard to shutdown completely (more like "take away from customers" ?) a product and a service for which customers have paid ?

PS: I used the "france" and "united-states" tags as I am french and live in France and Blizzard Entertainement is a USA company.

Overwatch (1) was a multiplayer first-person shooter video game created by Blizzard. It was released in 2016 cost around 40€.

Earlier this year, Overwatch 1 was shut down:

  • The servers are down.
  • The game is not playable from the official Blizzard game launcher.

It has been replaced by Overwatch 2, which is considered its "sequel" by Blizzard and is free to play, but with very high-priced in-game cosmetics.

I do not understand how this is considered a legal action for the following reasons:

  • I paid 30/40 bucks for the right to own Overwatch 1 (did I ?) and to play it.
  • Overwatch 1, for which I paid, is now completely unusable for me, so the service (if not the product) I have paid for is now not available
  • It is replaced by a free to play game (what happened to my 40 bucks ?)

While playing OW1, I earned ingame credits which allowed me to purchase cosmetics (so, basically, I got those cosmetics in exchange for my time, not for my money). Those cosmetics have been "transfered" to OW2 and they now cost an insane amount of money (something like at least 10 dollars each, and there are a lot of them (purchasable and than I unlocked in OW1)). However, as I just said, I did not purchase the cosmetics, I (think I) purchased the product and the service provided to use it.

Questions

  • Did I pay for the right to own and play Overwatch 1, or just for the right to play it ?
  • Why is it legal (I assume, as they did it and I did not hear about some legal action taken to them for that) for Blizzard to shutdown completely (more like "take away from customers" ?) a product and a service for which customers have paid ?

PS: I used the "france" and "united-states" tags as I am french and live in France and Blizzard Entertainement is a USA company.

Overwatch (1) was a multiplayer first-person shooter video game created by Blizzard. It was released in 2016 and cost around 40€.

Earlier this year, Overwatch 1 was shut down:

  • The servers are down.
  • The game is not playable from the official Blizzard game launcher.

It has been replaced by Overwatch 2, which is considered its "sequel" by Blizzard and is free to play, but with very high-priced in-game cosmetics.

I do not understand how this is considered a legal action for the following reasons:

  • I paid 30/40 bucks for the right to own Overwatch 1 (did I ?) and to play it.
  • Overwatch 1, for which I paid, is now completely unusable for me, so the service (if not the product) I have paid for is now not available
  • It is replaced by a free to play game (what happened to my 40 bucks ?)

While playing OW1, I earned ingame credits which allowed me to purchase cosmetics (so, basically, I got those cosmetics in exchange for my time, not for my money). Those cosmetics have been "transfered" to OW2 and they now cost an insane amount of money (something like at least 10 dollars each, and there are a lot of them (purchasable and than I unlocked in OW1)). However, as I just said, I did not purchase the cosmetics, I (think I) purchased the product and the service provided to use it.

Questions

  • Did I pay for the right to own and play Overwatch 1, or just for the right to play it ?
  • Why is it legal (I assume, as they did it and I did not hear about some legal action taken to them for that) for Blizzard to shutdown completely (more like "take away from customers" ?) a product and a service for which customers have paid ?

PS: I used the "france" and "united-states" tags as I am french and live in France and Blizzard Entertainement is a USA company.

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Is it legal for Blizzard to completely shutdown overwatchshut down Overwatch 1 in oderorder to replace it with overwatchOverwatch 2?

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Earlier this year, Overwatch 1 has been completely shutdownOverwatch 1 was shut down:

  • The servers are down.
  • The game is not playable at all from the official Blizzard game launcher.

It has been replaced by Overwatch 2Overwatch 2, which is considered its "sequel" by Blizzard and is "free to play" (payfree to win in reality)play, but with very high price-priced in game-game cosmetics.

However, I do not understand how this is considered a legal action for the following reasons:

  • I paid 30/40 bucks for the right to own Overwatch 1 (did I ?) and to play it.
  • Overwatch 1, for which I paid, is now completely unusable for me, so the service (if not the product) I have paid for is now not available
  • It is replaced by a free to play game (what happened to my 40 bucks ?)

While playing OW1, I earned ingame credits which allowed me to purchase cosmetics (so, basically, I got those cosmetics in exchange for my time, not for my money). Those cosmetics have been "transfered" to OW2 and they now cost an insane amount of money (something like at least 10 dollars each, and there are a lot of them (purchasable and than I unlocked in OW1)). However, as I just said, I did not purchase the cosmetics, I (think I) purchased the product and the service provided to use it.

Questions

  • Did I pay for the right to own and play Overwatch 1, or just for the right to play it ?
  • Why is it legal (I assume, as they did it and I did not hear about some legal action taken to them for that) for Blizzard to shutdown completely (more like "take away from customers" ?) a product and a service for which customers have paid ?

PS: I used the "france" and "united-states" tags as I am french and live in France and Blizzard Entertainement is a USA company.

Is it legal for Blizzard to completely shutdown overwatch 1 in oder to replace it with overwatch 2?

Overwatch is a multiplayer first person shooter video game created by Blizzard. It released somewhere in 2016 I think and cost arround 40€

Earlier this year, Overwatch 1 has been completely shutdown:

  • The servers are down
  • The game is not playable at all from the official Blizzard game launcher

It has been replaced by Overwatch 2, which is considered its "sequel" by Blizzard and is "free to play" (pay to win in reality) with very high price in game cosmetics.

However, I do not understand how this is considered a legal action for the following reasons:

  • I paid 30/40 bucks for the right to own Overwatch 1 (did I ?) and to play it
  • Overwatch 1, for which I paid, is now completely unusable for me, so the service (if not the product) I have paid for is now not available
  • It is replaced by a free to play game (what happened to my 40 bucks ?)

While playing OW1, I earned ingame credits which allowed me to purchase cosmetics (so, basically, I got those cosmetics in exchange for my time, not for my money). Those cosmetics have been "transfered" to OW2 and they now cost an insane amount of money (something like at least 10 dollars each, and there are a lot of them (purchasable and than I unlocked in OW1)). However, as I just said, I did not purchase the cosmetics, I (think I) purchased the product and the service provided to use it.

Questions

  • Did I pay for the right to own and play Overwatch 1, or just for the right to play it ?
  • Why is it legal (I assume, as they did it and I did not hear about some legal action taken to them for that) for Blizzard to shutdown completely (more like "take away from customers" ?) a product and a service for which customers have paid ?

PS: I used the "france" and "united-states" tags as I am french and live in France and Blizzard Entertainement is a USA company.

Is it legal for Blizzard to completely shut down Overwatch 1 in order to replace it with Overwatch 2?

Overwatch (1) was a multiplayer first-person shooter video game created by Blizzard. It was released in 2016 cost around 40€.

Earlier this year, Overwatch 1 was shut down:

  • The servers are down.
  • The game is not playable from the official Blizzard game launcher.

It has been replaced by Overwatch 2, which is considered its "sequel" by Blizzard and is free to play, but with very high-priced in-game cosmetics.

I do not understand how this is considered a legal action for the following reasons:

  • I paid 30/40 bucks for the right to own Overwatch 1 (did I ?) and to play it.
  • Overwatch 1, for which I paid, is now completely unusable for me, so the service (if not the product) I have paid for is now not available
  • It is replaced by a free to play game (what happened to my 40 bucks ?)

While playing OW1, I earned ingame credits which allowed me to purchase cosmetics (so, basically, I got those cosmetics in exchange for my time, not for my money). Those cosmetics have been "transfered" to OW2 and they now cost an insane amount of money (something like at least 10 dollars each, and there are a lot of them (purchasable and than I unlocked in OW1)). However, as I just said, I did not purchase the cosmetics, I (think I) purchased the product and the service provided to use it.

Questions

  • Did I pay for the right to own and play Overwatch 1, or just for the right to play it ?
  • Why is it legal (I assume, as they did it and I did not hear about some legal action taken to them for that) for Blizzard to shutdown completely (more like "take away from customers" ?) a product and a service for which customers have paid ?

PS: I used the "france" and "united-states" tags as I am french and live in France and Blizzard Entertainement is a USA company.

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