Change name on battlenet
The lawsuit is ongoing follow the latest developments here. Since then, CEO Bobby Kotick has called the company’s initial response “tone deaf”, employees have staged a walkout, Blizzard president J Allen Brack has left, and the ABK Workers Alliance has demanded change at the company. Finally, some name changes just won’t be permitted, so watch the swearwords.Īctivision Blizzard is facing a lawsuit filed in July by the state of California (since expanded for QA and customer service contractors) alleging years of discrimination and harassment. Furthermore, if you want to take advantage of this offer, make sure to submit a ticket by the cutoff date of November 5. If you’ve already got a free BattleTag name change – most players should have one by default – you won’t get another one, as they don’t stack. Anyone who wants to change their BattleTag can simply head here and submit a ticket on the Overwatch support page and Blizzard’s team will process the name change within about thirty days.
In connection with this name change, Blizzard Entertainment has revealed that it’s giving players the chance to change their own names on too, for free. From this Tuesday, October 26, McCree will become “Cole Cassidy” instead. It was announced back in August that Overwatch gunslinger character McCree would be changing his name, thanks to being named after lead level designer Jesse McCree, who was let go from Blizzard following a lawsuit filed against the company by California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
#Change name on battlenet for free#
In honour of a major character’s name change happening in Overwatch this month, Activision Blizzard has announced that any players who “might have the desire to do the same” will be able to change their username entirely for free – but only within a certain time frame.