Right? This is Mussolini trying to get admin permissions on the third Reich. I don't have a dog in this one.

The intent is almost strictly for WoW, discord is advertising that it's to allow for merging of WoW clan chat and discord messages, I would assume via the discord client which is why it asks for so many intents. Screw that regardless though.

presume the plan is for the battle net app to act as a pseudo discord app and let you control everything on your discord account through it.

Yeah, to me that sounds like what's going on. They're trying to implement a Discord client within their game, and to really do that successfully, it needs permissions to do all the Discord things.

I would do anything for battle dot net, but I won't do that

They never asked me to verify, so it doesn't seem mandatory

Listen, Valve promised me a cake, and it turned out to be a lie.

I actually really hate the bullshit fluff they add to the permissions request. It's not cute, permissions should be concise and clear.

Join servers on your behalf would be required to do something like "Join the World of Warcraft community server" or "join your guild's Discord server" buttons. Theoretically permanent links could work here, but Discord has made permanent linking harder to do for legitimate reasons, and it wouldn't work for smaller servers.

Email and third-party connections seem questionable. Why should Blizzard need to know my Discord account's email?

Yeah, why is this even mildly infuriating? If anything, it's good to see transparency like this.

It's not saying the program will do any of those things without your input. It's just letting you know that your input in one program is using another programs data.

Doesn't rich presence already cover most of that without needing to handover this amount of perms to a third-party?

IIRC this means that the Battle.net app would be able to see the details of a connected Twitch account, for example. I think I've seen this used in certain situations for things like account management apps or in a few servers that want to verify the identity of people, e.g. creator communities.

It's... The base app for all blizzard games, ofc it exists. I hate blizzard as much as the next guy but wow, the Diablo ripoffs, hearthstone and all the other crap is in there.

the scrolling screenshot function on my phone is... imperfect

Not enough cake

at least the cake isn't a lie this time

Just wait until battle[.]net gets pwded

i actually exported my discord messages last year to do this for myself locally but it was too much effort

Youre getting downvoted but Blizzard really has gone into the shitter since... Uhh... Wrath of the Lich King? Maybe like 2 weeks into Overwatch?