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Blizzard Relents on Real ID

[Jul 09, 2010, 7:53 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Blizzard has backed off from its plan to require posters to the StarCraft II forums use Blizzard's Real ID system to use real names. The World of Warcraft Forum has a statement from Blizzard CEO & Cofounder Mike Morhaime, which reads in part: "We've been constantly monitoring the feedback you've given us, as well as internally discussing your concerns about the use of real names on our forums. As a result of those discussions, we've decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums." He goes on to discuss they still have high hopes for improving the player experience with the Real ID system: "I want to make sure it's clear that our plans for the forums are completely separate from our plans for the optional in-game Real ID system now live with World of Warcraft and launching soon with StarCraft II. We believe that the powerful communications functionality enabled by Real ID, such as cross-game and cross-realm chat, make Battle.net a great place for players to stay connected to real-life friends and family while playing Blizzard games. And of course, you'll still be able to keep your relationships at the anonymous, character level if you so choose when you communicate with other players in game. Over time, we will continue to evolve Real ID on Battle.net to add new and exciting functionality within our games for players who decide to use the feature."

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Re: Blizzard Relents on Real ID

Jul 11, 2010, 04:08

Luke

nice statement but I'm not buying it. As I said, hundreds of millions of people are using facebook, and lots of them are even posting their lives on the site. That's far from "being anonymous", and, mind you, this "openness" could one be of the reasons for Blizzard to come up with the stupid idea of Real ID. "People are posting their lives on facebook, so it can't be that big of a deal to have them post their real names on our forums." "People are posting their lives on facebook, " if that makes there life good , i have np with it , at all , but stay there at facebook, don't infect games with it. people on wow act in another way i say when it comes to loosing loot beeeing in there eyes harasm if there is a way to get back on peps in the forum they will do it, and with a very popular , game with alot of sub there is a bigger change (if implanted) to hit people with hack and gold scam , and so on. Its a big marked in some contry , selling gold , and opening the real id in forums makes it even easyier than it is now the way they rage when a ninja runs of with the loot , the way people be it young / old talk to eachother in the game people cheating eachother, making fun of other, the nerf of the game have brought it to a level of youngster and they act in that way , faceshet have nada to do in a game nada , why the h...is it so importend to see what your freinds are doing when you play a game? , just use the phone , i do think thats why we have it to call eachother , or use alt + tab go on what ever you have installed to talk to them , be it skype , vent , so on , why do we have to have all implanted to games , guess peps are use to have all in one place , so it may be to HARD to use more than the one finger they are using to attack with in wow

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Comment [quote="Luke"Jul 11, 2010, 04:08]i[nice statement but I'm not buying it. As I said, hundreds of millions of people are using facebook, and lots of them are even posting their lives on the site. That's far from "being anonymous", and, mind you, this "openness" could one be of the reasons for Blizzard to come up with the stupid idea of Real ID. "People are posting their lives on facebook, so it can't be that big of a deal to have them post their real names on our forums."]i i["People are posting their lives on facebook, "]i if that makes there life good , i have np with it , at all , but stay there at facebook, don't infect games with it. people on wow act in another way i say when it comes to loosing loot beeeing in there eyes harasm if there is a way to get back on peps in the forum they will do it, and with a very popular , game with alot of sub there is a bigger change (if implanted) to hit people with hack and gold scam , and so on. Its a big marked in some contry , selling gold , and opening the real id in forums makes it even easyier than it is now the way they rage when a ninja runs of with the loot , the way people be it young / old talk to eachother in the game people cheating eachother, making fun of other, the nerf of the game have brought it to a level of youngster and they act in that way , faceshet have nada to do in a game nada , why the h...is it so importend to see what your freinds are doing when you play a game? , just use the phone , i do think thats why we have it to call eachother , or use alt + tab go on what ever you have installed to talk to them , be it skype , vent , so on , why do we have to have all implanted to games , guess peps are use to have all in one place , so it may be to HARD to use more than the one finger they are using to attack with in wow [/quote]

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