Blizzard's Real-ID system and the OcUK forums

Wouldn't be happy if this was forced on me in a game. Plenty of stories out there of emotionally unstable individuals seeking out other players to do them harm (wasn't there an attack on a chap with a samurai sword recently?). I'd hate to think an accidental team-kill in CoD or similar lead to someone looking me up to give me real life grief. No thanks.

Same goes for OcUK. All you need is one nutter to ruin it for all. I'm happy to dealing with user Trusts in MM but still prefer posting under this pseudonym.

Still - be interesting to see how quickly I could be unearthed on Google considering I share my name with the lead singer of the Dave Matthews band ;)
 
I probably wouldn't mind that much on here as most people are relatively normal, but on other forums no thanks.

It really is a pointless addition though and I see no use for it at all. They even proved on there that it's bad, when they found the address, phone number, etc. of a mod who posted his name to prove everything was 'fine'. He then acts like it's no big deal, despite all his details being out.
 
It doesnt bother me much as i never post on the forums, but all i can say is that its NOT going down well in my guild. A good 90% of my guild are 20ish yr old players of both sexes who i generally regard as "normal" people :p

The general mood is that activision are on the road to dumbing down WoW and making us all pay more for less... the talk of quitting and not getting cata is growing daily.

Now i have heard all this before, especially before expansions... but this time it feels different somehow.

Personally i think this is going to backfire somewhat and they will back down. The shareholders will get scared once the share value drops after all :p
 
Its the female players who have more of a right to be worried, they usually end up being stalked by a nutter at some point :p
 
The only way this could make sense as a way of cleaning up the forums is if Blizzard want and actively support stalking and assault in response to posts on their forums.

Blizzard is providing real world personal information on posters - the only way that could clean up the forum is if the real world personal information is used to enable real world vengeance for a post. Otherwise, it's completely irrelevant. If you're reporting someone to a mod/admin/whatever for something on a forum, it doesn't matter if you know their real world name or just whatever name they post under in that forum. Their real name is only relevant if you want to find more real world information on them so you can attack them in the real world in some way.
 
Spektor said:
Are people forgetting it's a forum? You aren't forced to post there. This isn't a web wide law coming into effect that your real name is tagged onto anything you ever do from now on, it's just a single, lone forum, of which there are gagillions of other forums that don't.

The only people who would care about this change are the people who get kicks from spending all day trolling on there. Apart from those people nobody else is required to post there.
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To sort out issues with ingame pets and mounts etc the only way to do so at the moment is to POST on the technical help forum and get a soft reset on your account done by whoever reads it.

Thats one of many reasons people are forced to look at the forums.

The RealID idea on a whole is utterly retarded and has only been brought about due to an even more retarded contract with facebook.
 
James J said:
The RealID idea on a whole is utterly retarded and has only been brought about due to an even more retarded contract with facebook.
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Do they charge for that? Or does it only cost for the AH application?

And people thought Blizzard was bad before :p Loads of features and items for IRL money, deals with other websites and soon real names displayed on forums.

I wonder what's next. Real names instead of character names?
 
chaotic_uk said:
why is blizz doing the things the fans do not want/need ?
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IMO it is a way in which they can reduce the player base's reaction to game changes they don't like. Wow has become stale to a lot of its player base and I think they are preparing for a player back lash to the changes that will come with Cataclysm. They are thinking of ways in which to control their player base of future games, how to tie them into social groups that move from game to game. They are planing to use the social aspect of gaming as marketing, ie get the core of a group into a game and there is a good chance that the others will follow. Which works also with older games(wow), I still drop by the old wow guild's forum I was a member of ever now and again, I stopped playing wow coming on 2 years now.
 
twentyone said:
It is also the official forums where you can get help with accounts and transfers, give suggestions, look for members for guilds etc.

Driving people away from it is just stupid.
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Not really. It's an option to post there about those things. Most people don't. Just look at the amount of posts compared to the actual user base.

Everything about transfers, etc can be found in the FAQ or, if it's a real problem, you open a ticket.

Simple. Personally, I've never posted on their forums and never will. See no point.
 
If it happened here, say goodbye to me on these forums. The argument 'you are only worried if you have something to hide' is crap. I don't have to want to hide something to want my privacy!
 
Here's another reason why it's a completely bad idea;
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