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Reminds me of Blizzard asking me to send them a photo of my ID in order to delete a Battle.net account. Which is a ridiculous hurdle and it makes no sense since they don't have anything to check my ID against. I ended up stripping all the information, changing the email to a temporary one and abandoning the account.

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I'm in EU, I was able to completely delete my entire battle.net account two weeks ago, (active since 2005) just by going to the support page and filling some web form. No ID photo required. Once you send that, you get an email confirmation and unless you cancel the request, your account will be permanently deleted in a few days.

The account removal page didn't even work few months ago. I was getting some generic error messages and eventually gave up as it didn't seem to be temporary. Asking for more data when I clearly want the exact opposite is funny.

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