Bnet forums to be Real Name Only - Page 29

Please someone hit blizzard on the head, I think they've lost it for real this time.

I dont see why this is bad for girls. If your a creep irl do you walk up to a stranger and talk to her? Why would they act as if they would with an alias when they dont have one themselves anymore?

On July 07 2010 04:31 Razor[cF] wrote:

I don't have a problem with releasing my name, but there are many people who could be harmed directly or collaterally without knowing it. I definitely think this is a bad idea.

27 years old.
Married to a woman named Stephanie.
Has a young daughter.

Narrowed down to a few possible locations. Most likely you live in Orem Utah and attend school in West Valley. Otherwise, there's phone numbers for San Diego and Mountain View locations. The fact that you're the second helps, but that's nothing that couldn't be fixed with a phone call.

And a few inferences.
Politically aligned liberal.
Most likely a goon.

Keep in mind this is only what I've found in the past 10 minutes. A little bit of /effort or social engineering could get me a lot more. What'd you get using my information?

On July 07 2010 04:34 Parnage wrote:
Real ID is a really good idea in concept, track your buddies cross games, converse with people and such, except it's being poorly done in nearly every aspect.

Already most of the Blizzard forums are up in arms over this, and quite frankly I can't blame them. This is backlash they need to fix quickly if they want to keep some respect.

*sigh* Please someone hit blizzard on the head, I think they've lost it for real this time.

On July 07 2010 04:20 keV. wrote:


I relayed a post earlier that I think accurately reflects my stance on the issue of "It's out there."

Facebook is a social networking site that is primarily used for facilitating EXISTING relationships. It is by choice people go there and upload pictures of them at the beach with their friends. Linking the two doesn't make any sense. One is a game, one is a site where you intend to put yourself on the web.

Do I really have to argue why some people might want their gaming habits kept on the down low? (for the record, I personally don't care.. but its not about me)

Think about the piece of mind that some (a large number) of Blizzard customers loose, for the POSSIBILITY of a better forum... It doesn't add up and I think it is insane of a company to do that to their users.

On July 07 2010 04:26 Mulloy wrote:
Haha, I just realized that before opening this thread or just after it I posted in the US Midnight release thread, providing the address of where I'll be picking up my copy on release night. Wooo~

Edit:



No, you're free to be as reclusive as you want to be, but you still have the decision as to what shows up online in your name. (Well, barring people spoofing your name.) You still have the choice to post or not post, and even if you do post, you still have some degree of flexibility in whether your Real ID can be tied to anything else if you have a more common name, though that, of course, is debatable depending on names.

Ultimately though I'm still of the opinion that gaming isn't the stigma it was in the 80s. You had people seriously linking games to worshiping the devil.With the popularity of the various Madden titles and all the other sports games, I really don't see why you wouldn't want to tear down the stereotype, but this change wouldn't make you expose yourself. You can still just not post on the battle.net forums, which are typically the worst place for anything other than blue text, which is often decried anyway.

It's still your choice either way. I mean I work in Utah and make no attempts to hide the fact that I'm an atheist, so I guess my concerns about playing video games 'tarnishing' my reputation is a little lower on my priority scale.

On July 07 2010 04:32 Offhand wrote:


27 years old.
Married to a woman named Stephanie.
Has a young daughter.

Narrowed down to a few possible locations. Most likely you live in Orem Utah and attend school in West Valley. Otherwise, there's phone numbers for San Diego and Mountain View locations. The fact that you're the second helps, but that's nothing that couldn't be fixed with a phone call.

And a few inferences.
Politically aligned liberal.
Most likely a goon.

Keep in mind this is only what I've found in the past 10 minutes. A little bit of /effort or social engineering could get me a lot more. What'd you get using my information?

On July 07 2010 04:35 Mulloy wrote:


Nothing because I don't care.

It's actually Taylorsville (from the US Midnight Release thread), I'm 29, and I attend SLCC to finish off my long delay AS because I'm a lazy ass.

On July 07 2010 04:35 Steven.Bonnell.II wrote:
Congratulations, but now what? The point I'm making is that looking up that information is trivial. Anyone can find out that information about you in many different ways.

No one cares who you are on the internet. If you're paranoid that someone is going to track you down based on your name, you need to GTFO the internet ASAP.

On July 07 2010 04:39 Serpico wrote:
so you put people's personal information out in the open just to reduce trolling? What the fuck? People will troll, SO WHAT? It's not even CLOSE to being worth what they're doing now. Blizzard could you know, hire more moderators with that bottomless pit of money they have. Anything that puts more pressure on the end user and less on themselves, what a joke.

On July 07 2010 04:38 pheer wrote:
lol following charlie's link

On July 07 2010 04:39 vesicular wrote:


Some of us would just rather not share our names, but might have something to contribute to the battle.net community. Why is wrong to want the option to not share our names? I think that's all people are asking for and it's not an unreasonable request.