Please login to experience the full glory of the Dragoon forums!

Join the forum, it's quick and easy

Please login to experience the full glory of the Dragoon forums!
Would you like to react to this message? Create an account in a few clicks or log in to continue.

Real ID -- Do we finally have our WoW killer?

Go down

Real ID -- Do we finally have our WoW killer? Empty Real ID -- Do we finally have our WoW killer?

Post by TheHidden01 Wed Jul 07, 2010 1:55 pm

Real ID -- Do we finally have our WoW killer? Realid-rb-77

Okay, maybe we do and maybe we don't, but there's no question that Blizzard dropped a huge bomb on their community yesterday.

Battle.net forum members were treated to a wall of blue text yesterday, but here's the core of the issue: "The first and most significant change is that in the near future, anyone posting or replying to a post on official Blizzard forums will be doing so using their Real ID -- that is, their real-life first and last name -- with the option to also display the name of their primary in-game character alongside it."

Given the fact that the most gamers cut their teeth on internet security lessons, this announcement was met with a predictable storm of protest. It can be argued that it's a pretty short leap from someone's real name to their forum posts to their game name/account information, even if they choose not to link their character names directly -- and that's treading in dangerous territory. Everyone either has a horror story or has heard one.

A huge number of the over 13,000 forum posts are variations of "See ya", including many popular MMO bloggers. But the fact that others saw this as only a good thing proves that there are two sides to every coin. So where do you stand on this hot topic? Is it something that will finally get the WoW forums in order or will upset players truly leave the game for good this time? Let us know what you think in the comments below.

TH
TheHidden01
TheHidden01
Dragoon King
Dragoon King

Male
Number of posts : 19977
Age : 35
Location : Somerset, UK
Position in Command : King
Reputation : 46
Points : 48505
Registration date : 2007-03-11

http://www.alwaysdragoons.com

Back to top Go down

Back to top

- Similar topics

 
Permissions in this forum:
You cannot reply to topics in this forum