I’m sure there are perfectly valid reasons for them to take full control of our discord accounts and this won’t be abused.
Can you do all of those on a battle net account? I would, in good faith, presume the plan is for the battle net app to act as a pseudo discord app and let you control everything on your discord account through it.
PS: I searched very hard for that good faith.
Edit: Know what? Discord ain’t exactly known for its ethical behaviour, so fuck em.
Right? This is Mussolini trying to get admin permissions on the third Reich. I don’t have a dog in this one.
The intent is almost strictly for WoW, discord is advertising that it’s to allow for merging of WoW clan chat and discord messages, I would assume via the discord client which is why it asks for so many intents. Screw that regardless though.
presume the plan is for the battle net app to act as a pseudo discord app and let you control everything on your discord account through it.
Yeah, to me that sounds like what’s going on. They’re trying to implement a Discord client within their game, and to really do that successfully, it needs permissions to do all the Discord things.
Why are some of them duplicated?
the scrolling screenshot function on my phone is… imperfect
Damn, if they’re going to get all that up into my account the least they could do is bake me a cake. The nerve.
Some of these permissions I didn’t even think was a possibility for discord integrations, holy cow.
Til battle.net still exists and didn’t die with wc3.
Why no cake.
Listen, Valve promised me a cake, and it turned out to be a lie.
I really just wanted a cake, but I guess that’s the one thing it can’t do.
I mean, it’s trying to integrate itself into Discord at a high level, so much so that you can see if a friend is online to send them an invite or message without needing to open the app.
The only odd thing is to join servers in your behalf, but if you wanted to join a server without opening Discord directly, wouldn’t it need that permission?
This doesn’t seem that egregious, and the long list is quite informative of exactly what it can do.
Yeah, why is this even mildly infuriating? If anything, it’s good to see transparency like this.
It’s not saying the program will do any of those things without your input. It’s just letting you know that your input in one program is using another programs data.
And for some reason, some permissions are listed twice. Idk if it’s a bug or an attempt by OP to artificially make the list look longer.
Join servers on your behalf would be required to do something like “Join the World of Warcraft community server” or “join your guild’s Discord server” buttons. Theoretically permanent links could work here, but Discord has made permanent linking harder to do for legitimate reasons, and it wouldn’t work for smaller servers.
Email and third-party connections seem questionable. Why should Blizzard need to know my Discord account’s email?
Doesn’t rich presence already cover most of that without needing to handover this amount of perms to a third-party?
On one hand, it could be useful with the likes of WoW to have a better chat app with guild servers and rooms. I think many players are already there. Blizz adapts to what is still hot.
But on the other, one’s personal discord account can hold a bit more value than an addon to BattleNet, it may have it’s secrets, even in the list of servers you joined, and it probably have friends not interested in that at all. I’d probably create a new acc if I need one for that purpose.
I am surprised Discord didn’t do something to sandbox Blizzard’s integration. Like creating a user who have access to these and those servers with these permissions. Probably they didn’t thought about that, but it could’ve made integrations more safe and viable.
What do you mean, this is to improve user experience!
“Improving user experience” would be to not use any of those two apps.
What are the third party connections? This could literally be anything.
IIRC this means that the Battle.net app would be able to see the details of a connected Twitch account, for example. I think I’ve seen this used in certain situations for things like account management apps or in a few servers that want to verify the identity of people, e.g. creator communities.
I’m happy not using blizzard or other Microsoft products.
I bet they’ll try to buy discord soon.
Imagine continuing to play Blizzard games after all they’ve done. Some gamers really are cucks for nostalgia
Youre getting downvoted but Blizzard really has gone into the shitter since… Uhh… Wrath of the Lich King? Maybe like 2 weeks into Overwatch?
mods help i’m being cyberbullied :(
