How to Delete Your Blizzard Account Without Hassle

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How to Delete Your Blizzard Account Without Hassle

Blizzard is a large gaming company with many games all connected to your Battle.net account. Over time, however, you may have found yourself caring about and playing your collection of Blizzard games less. You may also have become frustrated with Blizzard's position in the Hong Kong political issues going on in China and their clumsy handling of user bans as a result.

Since 2019, many people have sought to only to find the process long, tedious, and oddly intrusive. To fully delete your Battle.net account, you will need to submit a support ticket, provide extensive personal information to verify the request, and then wait up to 30 days to actually see your account deleted. If Blizzard won't delete your account, or you need a faster solution than Blizzard has to offer, DoNotPay is here to help.

How to Delete Your Blizzard Battle.net Account the Official Way

Log Into Blizzard Battle.net

To , you will first need to log into your Battle.net account to submit an account deletion form and begin the process.

Review Everything Blizzard will Delete

  1. Your Name
  2. Personal Contact Information (email, phone, ect)
  3. Security Details
  4. Payment Methods
  5. Purchase History
  6. Purchased Games, Promotions, and Items
  7. Game Accounts and Saves
  8. Customer Support History
  9. Battle.Net Account Balance

Submit an Account Deletion Request

Follow the Account Deletion Request link while logged into your Battle.net account.

Provide and Respond with Extensive Personal Information

As part of submitting your request to delete your account, you may be asked extensive questions about your personal information to verify your ownership of the account to be deleted. Part of this, Blizzard informs us, is to provide a photo of your government-issued ID. However, the other information they may ask is not disclosed publicly.

Wait Up to 30 Days for Approval and Account Deletion

Once you have requested that your account be deleted and your request is verified, it may still take up to 30 days for the process to be complete. This is an additional month for your Blizzard account. Be sure to cancel any subscriptions and payments during this time.

Why does Blizzard take so long when other large companies can delete your account in the blink of an eye? They want to give you a chance to cancel the deletion and keep your business.

Can I Delete With — A Summary

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Live ChatNo
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PhoneNo
WebsiteYes

Deleting Your Activision Account is a Separate Process

Blizzard explicitly mentions that deleting your Battle.net account does not delete your Activision account, though you will lose access to Activision games loaded onto Battle.net.

You will need to file a separate support request through Activision to delete your Activision account, if that is also your goal.

How to Delete Your Blizzard Account If You Lost the Old Email

If you can't log into your Battle.net account, you can't submit an account deletion form. This is bad news for anyone who has since lost the email address they made their Blizzard account with. Blizzard has been around for a long time, so this is a fairly common problem, especially if you no longer play Blizzard games and need to clean up old accounts with your personal information attached.

Blizzard does not offer comprehensive support for account recovery, but DoNotPay does. We can help you restore your account to a new and working email address so that you can log in and complete account deletion, or take care of the account deletion for you by going around through corporate and channels.

Wait, I Want to Recover My Battle.net Account Instead

If you're looking into deleting your Battle.net account because you can't log in anymore, you have options! If you haven't successfully restored your password with Blizzard due to a lost email address, DoNotPay can help by having the password reset sent to your new email. We can also help you manage your paid subscriptions to avoid unwanted fees, appeal account bans, and control the messages you receive from your Blizzard account.

Deleting Your Blizzard Account with the help of DoNotPay

Is Blizzard having a problem deleting your Battle.net account? Blizzard is notorious for dragging their feet and providing reluctant customer service when they don't want to lose their stats on their servers. Whether Blizzard won't help you log in to delete the account, won't verify your identity, or won't hit the button on account deletion, DoNotPay can help.

Give us your verification info and we'll deal with the customer service SNAFU that is Blizzard account deletion so you don't have to. We'll have your Battle.net account closed soon and let you know that your data has been fully cleared from Blizzard's servers.

How to Delete Old Accounts Using DoNotPay:

If you want to delete old accounts but don't know where to start, DoNotPay has you covered in 7 easy steps:

  1. Go to Delete Old Accounts product on DoNotPay.

  2. Select the type of account you are trying to delete, such as email, streaming service, social media, gaming, eCommerce, and more.

  3. Tell us more about your account, including usernames and associated emails / phone numbers.

  4. Help us verify your account ownership by entering the date you first created the account, when you last logged in, any payment methods saved under the account, etc.

  5. Upload photographic evidence if you have any that can help prove your account ownership.

  6. Enter any last known or previously used passwords.

  7. Enter your contact information and submit the task!

DoNotPay Works across All Accounts with the Click of a Button

We can help you delete more than just your old Blizzard account. If you have accounts that need clearing up, especially those connected to lost email addresses, DoNotPay is here to help. Here are a few other typical accounts that may have gone dormant with your name still attached that we can help you delete.

What Else Can DoNotPay Do?

DoNotPay was founded on the idea of making life easier for people and cutting the red tape where it doesn't need to be. Here are a few other services we offer that might just save you time, money, and a few headaches this year.

Deleting your Blizzard account takes a lot more work and time than it should. DoNotPay can help. Let us deal with the hemming, hawing, and foot-dragging Blizzard wants to put you through so you can delete your Blizard Battle.net account without hassle or delay.

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