I don’t know why this has gotten me so upset, but for some reason the idiots who are complaining about Battle.net have me just plain angry. I feel like there’s something wrong with me because of it. Why does something which has no bearing on my life at all effect me so? Why should I care that these few people just don’t get it? Is it that my faith in humanity is somehow on the line? I think it may be. You see, If there are people out there who are this dumb, what’s that say about humanity on the whole? Our average IQ just dropped a few points.

Ok. I’ll tell you which of the people I find so exasperating. It’s these people who are bitching and complaining that they have one household email account, and they can’t set up Battle.net because of that. Here’s the most recent forum post I could find on the subject, but it’s not the first I’ve seen.

So are you saying that each person has to have their own individual email address? I have set up my battelnet account, so what do I do with my 12 yo son’s account? He shares my email address. How do we manage two accounts with one email?

This was from The English European Forums. Perhaps they do things differently than we do over here. But I doubt it’s that different. I understand that things are different now than they were when I was a kid. I understand that people are more security conscious and all that, but when I was a kid and the “Internet” first showed up, the day it was set up on my dad’s computer I had my own account. My cousin who was probably 6 at the time, had his own account. Our dads limited our time on the accounts, but we had free reign over what we did with them, which was very little. There was no such thing as shopping online, so we couldn’t really get into trouble in that way.

My nephew who is 8 has his own domain, with email attached to it. He doesn’t get to log on without Mom there, as she has his password and he doesn’t know it. But still he has his own. Who are these luddites who only have one email account for an entire household? I saw one guy complain that his wife and he share a single email address. Why? How do you separate the emails? How do you Christmas shop like that? If I shared an email with my wife(if I had one) she’d be able to see the order confirmation emails, the shipping confirmation emails of everything I bought for her at Anniversaries, Birthdays, Christmas, Random Wednesday just because…. That would not work! Do these people not shop online?
I don’t understand how someone who owns a computer which can play World Of Warcraft, and DOES play World of Warcraft could be so computer un-savvy to only have a single email address for an entire family. I have 12. Me. Alone. How can two, or three, or four people share just one? I just don’t get it.

What I really love(sarcasm) is that some of these people are using their “single Email household” as a threat towards Blizzard. Threatening to quit the game if Blizzard forces them to change to a Battle. net account. “If I don’t get my way, I’m taking my three World of Warcraft accounts and I’m going home!” *huff*

Seriously… Please do. I don’t want to have to deal with you anymore. You people leaving would help to lower my blood pressure. Please. Just go. Take your stupid technology-fearing self away and stop ruining my day!

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