Seeing a lot of people suggesting that people avoid playing or especially streaming any of their games tomorrow to coincide with the planned #ActiBlizzWalkout but in all seriousness, you should make that a permanent break not a one-day thing.

There are other MMOs out there, and
I think at this point every single one is free, or free up to a certain level cap, so feel free to try a few and find one that gets its hooks in you.

If you're a Diablo junkie, you similarly have an absurd abundance of options. Path of Exile is basically the same game, and free.
If you're an RTS junkie, that's a much less active genre, but maybe try one of these? slant.co/topics/9373/~-…

If you need some sort of character-choice-based arena shooter, Team Fortress 2 never went anywhere and is still free. And if you specifically want a superhero theme you
still have like a dozen other games with that exact aesthetic all over the place. Just skip that one from Riot because the whole point here is NOT supporting sex creeps driving their own employees to suicide.

That similarly takes the most obvious HotS alternative off the table,
but while again, there are plenty of free MOBAs out there, might I seriously suggest just going cold turkey on that one? The whole genre is just inherently a terrible toll on one's mental health.

And there's definitely better virtual CCGs out there, and definitely free ones...
I'm gonna really keep this going though.

If you for some reason are really jonesing for a Blackthorne fix, I feel like still not enough people ever played Flashback. You can get the first 2 Oddworld games for PC cheap. I'm sure there's a ton of more recent indies I'm forgetting.
Top-down racers are, shockingly, way more of an active genre these days than I'd have thought: store.steampowered.com/curator/366933…

And checking around, there's still places you can get the whole Goblins! series, should run fine in DOSbox too. Alternatively they're still making Trine games.
So there you go. Free alternatives (or maybe like $5 investments for the older ones) to literally everything they've ever published. Fuck'em. Burn'em to the ground. Uninstall their launcher and never look back.
Oh and by all means, if there was something I should have mentioned on this list but left off, let me know. Even if it's something you had a personal hand in. Promote your stuff, it's cool by me.

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