World of Warcraft

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World of Warcraft

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Basic Information
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Product Type
In Production
Official Website

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World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online game maintained by Activision-Blizzard entertainment. Despite its critical acclaim since the 2000s, the treatment of the product has had a historically negative trend, facing anticonsumer affairs at the request of its publisher. Junk

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Consumer impact summary

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

• User Freedom
• User Privacy
• Business Model
• Market Control

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Incidents

This is a list of all consumer protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the World of Warcraft category.

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• Example incident two (date):

Incidents affecting the entire product line can be found in the product line article: Product line article, or company article if there is no product line

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See also

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