Comments on: Why Real ID is a Really Bad Idea

By: The Very, Very Late 2010 MMO Recap: Here Comes the New Stuff, Same As the Old Stuff | Vicarious Existence

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:46:58 +0000

[...] they also tried to implement a RealID system without a lot of serious thought about the implications of revealing real world inform…. Superficially RealID was about improving player communication options and improving the quality of [...]

By: iPhone News : Game Center terms of service updated, real names shared on invitation

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:08:42 +0000

[...] Entertainment tried to require real names to be shared on their World of Warcraft forums, their community raised such a clamor that they had to back down and keep the forums [...]

By: Is Blizzard’s Real ID Feature Really an Invasion of Privacy? « A Synthesised Perspective

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:27:36 +0000

[...] to have more meaningful and accessible friendships across all the services Blizzard provides. As pointed out in this post on Hellmode, however, many users were strongly against aspects of the Real ID feature, especially the mandatory [...]

By: Game Center terms of service updated, real names shared on invitation

Game Center terms of service updated, real names shared on invitation — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:16:21 +0000

[...] Entertainment tried to require real names to be shared on their World of Warcraft forums, their community raised such a clamor that they had to back down and keep the forums [...]

By: Game Center terms of service updated, real names shared on invitation | Design City

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:02:44 +0000

[...] Entertainment tried to require real names to be shared on their World of Warcraft forums, their community raised such a clamor that they had to back down and keep the forums anonymous. But Apple hasn’t had that problem, [...]

By: Elaine Mercer

Elaine Mercer — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:08:15 +0000

Working to protect our privacy online and being encrypted citizens does require a set of online hygiene that we have to stick to in our online behavior. If we allow forums, like Blizzard’s, to make such potent breaches of our privacy without regard we will certainly fail.

There is a trade-off in risk reward between a continuum of identity and the collision between different parts of our lives.

By: dave

dave — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:55:19 +0000

one more reason to not play on the official servers.

the wave of the future will be niche market games, tightly knit (smaller) communities, decentralized and peer-to-peer environments.. so honestly, fuck em. I’ve cast my lot with smaller games long ago and never looked back. Mainstream “MMORPGs” are not even RPGs.. too many fucking clowns coming in and ruining the environment for people who actually know how to stay in character while hacking and slashing.

By: derfalconer

derfalconer — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:47:24 +0000

For what it’s worth, The story is true. The player it was done to was a guild leader (Bamx, of the guild Avarice) on US-Warsong back in vanilla. Some fine trolling was had that night.

By: Ex Blizzard Fan

Ex Blizzard Fan — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:20:59 +0000

No, they’re not listening to us. Otherwise, we’d have LAN support in SC2, proper chat channels, and many other things that we’ve been asking for years. The backlash was just too big, as they would’ve known if they had thought about this for a single minute. Problem is, they’re too busy trying to emulate facebook and thinking how to make us cough our data to make a ton of money out of it.

Blizzard has completely lost its way. Before Kotick, quality and the fans were the top priority. Now, it’s money money money.

By: Parent

Parent — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:05:38 +0000

Does a parental controlled account block all chance of RealID names being used?