EPTBnet forums to be Real Name Only - Page 73
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dbddbddb
Singapore969 Posts
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Aldair
United States78 Posts
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InfiniteIce
United States794 Posts
On July 07 2010 10:09 InfiniteIce wrote: I submitted the story to CNN via http://www.cnn.com/feedback/tips/newstips.html I fully expect 500 pages by the time i return No, but seriously. This needs public attention. https://www.esrb.org/privacy/contact.jsp Did this too. And this. http://www.la.bbb.org/Business-Report/Blizzard-Entertainment-13050668 Judging from past results I don't think forum posts are going to solve this. Especially when nobody posts in the forums anymore :[ | ||
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AeonStrife
United States918 Posts
I am pretty sure some of you guys have already seen this. This just baffles me. I honestly would love to see their team meetings from now on. They can't seem to think ahead on anything... | ||
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vesicular
United States1310 Posts
On July 07 2010 11:37 InfiniteIce wrote: He also said "if he had a unique name"...etc Random trivia: There are 3 people in the U.S. named Sean Plott. I wonder how long before the WoW thread hits 1000 pages. I think his thing was he just felt weird posting as his real name, and would just rather post as Day[9]. I got the impression he felt creeped out by the idea. At this point actually, I bet a lot more people online know him as Day[9]. It would make sense for him to want to keep building that brand. | ||
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InfiniteIce
United States794 Posts
On July 07 2010 11:42 vesicular wrote: I think his thing was he just felt weird posting as his real name, and would just rather post as Day[9]. I got the impression he felt creeped out by the idea. At this point actually, I bet a lot more people online know him as Day[9]. It would make sense for him to want to keep building that brand. Oh, yea. I wasn't trying to diminish your post or anything. Just adding some spice to a thread that makes me wanna /wrists <3 | ||
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kajeus
United States679 Posts
On July 07 2010 11:43 InfiniteIce wrote: Oh, yea. I wasn't trying to diminish your post or anything. Just adding some spice to a thread that makes me wanna /wrists <3 Yeah, he himself acknowledged that his thought process was not necessarily the most logical.  I suppose that is the brunt of this outrage anyway... | ||
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Razor[cF]
United States46 Posts
First lets talk about the things that make it easier to find someone. If you post your information, such as interests, address, phone number etc on facebook, you are easy to find. All you have to do is search for a name and interests and voila, person found. If you post on networking sites such as Linked In, you are easy to find. LinkedIn shows where you went to school, where you work, where you did work, what your qualifications are etc. This narrows down the search and often if you can get someone's work or home number with that information. If you own property that you pay taxes on, your information is easy to find. If you have been married, divorced, or have been taken to or taken someone to court, you are easy to find. Marriage licenses, property taxes etc are public government information which is easy to find if you know where to go. If you don't know where to go, there are many websites that will simply charge you $1.50 to find the info. Male - Ages 10-14 [Low, little internet exposure, no property owned in the eyes of the government, small harassment probability] Roughly 5% of the gamer population. Male - Ages 15-18 [Low-Moderate, moderate internet exposure, no property owned in the eyes of the government, very small harassment probability] Roughly 40% of the gamer population. Male - Ages 19 - 23 [Moderate, moderately high internet exposure, little property owned in the eyes of the government, very small harassment probability unless provoked] Roughly 30% of the gamer population. Male - 23 + W/kids and family [Moderately High, moderately high internet exposure, job may depend on Politically correct behavior (works for the government, has a job that requires security clearance, etc.), has a family who could be at risk] Roughly, 10% of the gamer population. Female 10-14 [Moderate, low internet exposure, no property owned in the eyes of the government, likely to be sexually harassed and and low probability taken advantage of (I pray)] Less than 2% of the gamer population. Female 15-18 [Moderately High, moderate internet exposure, no property owned in the eyes of the government, very likely to be sexually harassed and moderate probability to be taken advantage of] Less than 10% but more than 5% of the gamer population. Female 19-23 [High, High internet exposure, little property owned in the eyes of the government, very likely to be sexually harassed, and moderately low probability to be taken advantage of] Less than 5% of the gamer population. Female 23+ w/family [Moderate, Low to High internet exposure, low to moderate property owned in the eyes of the government, not likely to be sexually harassed, low probability to be taken advantage of] less than 2% of the gamer population. So, what we see is that only about 15% of the population really has the chance to be affected when in reality we are more likely to see less than 1% actually be affected. 1% may not seem like a lot, but when you have 50 million gamers in the US, that's about 100,000 people that will be at the least, sexually harassed because of this change. Not to mention people that will lose jobs, people that won't get jobs, people that will be just harassed in general, whether its through pranking or whatever, and there may be 1 or 2 deaths because of it. There is NO positive thing that will become of this system, not one. Only one or two hypothetically positive things could come from it, that could be solved by a number of OTHER solutions that would provide much less risk to the gamer population. To someone who really has no property, doesn't have a life (baby job or no job, no family, no real responsibilities other than school, etc.) there is no amount of text that is going to explain it to you, you just won't get it until you become a responsible adult and/or mature. Lets just hope that Blizzard/Activision understands what president they are issuing and stops before its too late. For their own sake. I personally will never post on a forum where my first and last name is publicly available for viewing and permanent web search engine storage. | ||
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vesicular
United States1310 Posts
On July 07 2010 11:43 InfiniteIce wrote: Oh, yea. I wasn't trying to diminish your post or anything. Just adding some spice to a thread that makes me wanna /wrists <3 Haha, no worries. I do find it interesting that the very people that may have the most to gain from everyone knowing their real names seem somewhat hesitant of the whole thing. But when you spend your gaming career building a moniker, and everyone knows you by that, I can see why they might be put off by having to leave that moniker behind. | ||
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vesicular
United States1310 Posts
On July 07 2010 11:47 Razor[cF] wrote: Male - 23 + W/kids and family [Moderately High, moderately high internet exposure, job may depend on Politically correct behavior (works for the government, has a job that requires security clearance, etc.), has a family who could be at risk] Roughly, 10% of the gamer population. You vastly underestimate the number of gamers 23+. It's the vast majority of gamers this day and age. This isn't the 90's anymore. | ||
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dbddbddb
Singapore969 Posts
ActivisionBlizzard has abstained from protecting the privacy of their customers with their new planned forum policy changes for their MMO World of Warcraft. http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25626109041 Forcing people to display an unreasonable amount of information to the public to partake in product discussion, feedback, or support is heinous at best. I hope that some manner of recourse exists for customers at some date and their status as “ESRB Privacy Certified” is reevaluated Go. | ||
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Razor[cF]
United States46 Posts
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miltondtf
Portugal50 Posts
Ok I see the point in all this.. and I must say that indeed there is a Blizz masterplan at the works. I can bet you that when this goes forward BLIZZ will release a $25 paid service were you can hide your personal ID.. or better yet a $5 subscription fee to "keep it secrete, keep is safe!" | ||
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vesicular
United States1310 Posts
On July 07 2010 11:52 Razor[cF] wrote: 10% is 5 million people. Many people who get older don't have time for games etc, so they move on. Where virtually every person who is 15-18 does play games. http://www.theesa.com/facts/index.asp 3. The average game player is 35 years old and has been playing games for 12 years. 4. The average age of the most frequent game purchaser is 39 years old. 5. Forty percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (34 percent) than boys age 17 or younger (18 percent). 6. In 2009, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 play video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999. | ||
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Xiphiass
Latvia144 Posts
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Razor[cF]
United States46 Posts
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illu
Canada2531 Posts
My company has no need for video game junkies. | ||
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iNty.sCream
Germany195 Posts
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On July 07 2010 11:54 Xiphiass wrote: Sums everything up - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiauaGbxipAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiauaGbxipA I lol'd so hard during that. Once it got to the "and Terran mech is still completely overpowered" I was giggling like a little girl | ||
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Erock
United States21 Posts
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