EPTStarcraft II gamers forced to use real names in Blizzard forums:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/starcraft-ii-gamers-forced-to-use-real-names-in-blizzard-forums/story-e6frfro0-1225889236645
And the effects of the Real ID forum changes are.. - Page 3
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JaspluR
Australia174 Posts
Starcraft II gamers forced to use real names in Blizzard forums: http://www.news.com.au/technology/starcraft-ii-gamers-forced-to-use-real-names-in-blizzard-forums/story-e6frfro0-1225889236645 | ||
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Fruscainte
4596 Posts
OH GOD SURE IS TYRANNICAL DESPOTIC STATE EH? | ||
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MindRush
Romania916 Posts
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Baarn
United States2702 Posts
On July 09 2010 13:03 McCain wrote: It'd be hard to explain why Blizzard didn't just apply the real-name change to only the Korean forums. No the reasoning here to combat trolling and the CM's having to facepalm 80% of their day or more reading trash flame posts back and forth is just a bonus to having to conform to Korean and even Chinese law (you know the big new market Blizzard would like to get more people interested in their product and services they offer.)  | ||
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EmeraldSparks
United States1451 Posts
RealID: The Ladies Weigh In The RealID issue really affects the World of Warcraft community more than the Starcraft community, since first, everybody worth a damn posts on teamliquid anyway, and second, WoW players are generally far more invested in their accounts and characters than Starcraft players - in particular, little permanent identity exists for a Starcraft player, accounts can be made and thrown away willy-nilly, and none of the RP aspect exists. Anyway, while surfing the internet to catalog the the chaos raging across the internet, I found the wow_ladies livejournal community (exactly what it sounds like,) which has a lively discussion, mostly devoid of the anonymous one-liner simple rage found in a lot of threads, detailing some of their personal stories and why they oppose RealID, many of which have canceled their accounts on principle. Real ID and our voices They also have a broader, more general discussion about why the new change just blows: RealID MASTER POST #3 | ||
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Zlasher
United States9129 Posts
Yahoo.com adds their thoughts too lol, this blew up http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/ penny arcade too | ||
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sevia
United States954 Posts
I'm not sure how widely this is known, but it seems like Blizzard hates this change as much as we do. Their mouths are sealed, any employee who comments on it (much less criticizes it) is at risk of losing their job. It seems like our suspicions of Activision being fully in control of BNet 2.0 are absolutely undoubtable at this point. "The merger will not affect Blizzard's independence as a developer" my ass. The implications that this has for Starcraft as a community and an esport, and for gaming in general, are horrifying. It's so sad to see a once great company like Blizzard fall to the monstrous profit machine Activision... If the investors want the names of millions of gamers posted publicly, it will happen. If the marketing execs want to turn Battle.net into a walled-off advertising farm, it will happen. If Bobby Kotick wants all future Activision-Blizzard titles to be subscription based with mandatory for-pay DLC, it will happen. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. | ||
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btx0
Germany184 Posts
http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-opt-out-of-realid.html | ||
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RoyalCheese
Czech Republic745 Posts
It's so sad to see a once great company like Blizzard fall to the monstrous profit machine Activision... If the investors want the names of millions of gamers posted publicly, it will happen. If the marketing execs want to turn Battle.net into a walled-off advertising farm, it will happen. If Bobby Kotick wants all future Activision-Blizzard titles to be subscription based with mandatory for-pay DLC, it will happen. i agree, and thats why i canceled order of my copy of sc2...i know it doesn't mean shit in larger scale of things but there is no way i'm supporting this...good thing is that the battle.net fiasco made space for new good RTS to emerge so i will just keep looking for it | ||
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Rabiator
Germany3948 Posts
Seriously there is only one thing that might make Blizzard turn back and that is high profile people / communities issuing a joint statement that they wont support the company if it continues down this path of nonexistent privacy. What would happen to Starcraft 2 if Day[9], Artosis, TL, HD Starcraft, Husky, major tournament sponsors and whoever else is spreading the Starcraft 2 vibe around the world, would actually say "We wont broadcast anything until real-ID is gone" and advise their fans to "not buy the game until your privacy is ensured"? | ||
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sluggaslamoo
Australia4494 Posts
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smileyyy
Germany1816 Posts
On July 09 2010 17:37 Rabiator wrote: Sure you can "pretend to be a kid" and activate parental controls, but that doesnt deal with the issue. The real issue is Blizzard pretending that trolls and harrassment are rampant on their forums and that they need us to use our real names to post there to prevent such things from happening. As the parental controls and easily created fake IDs allow you to still post anonymous, it becomes clear that their whole explanation is actually a lie. The integration of Facebook and this push for real-ID only has one goal: selling our data and sending more spam ads our way. Why not add our battlenet email address to our real name and save the spammers some time? Seriously there is only one thing that might make Blizzard turn back and that is high profile people / communities issuing a joint statement that they wont support the company if it continues down this path of nonexistent privacy. What would happen to Starcraft 2 if Day[9], Artosis, TL, HD Starcraft, Husky, major tournament sponsors and whoever else is spreading the Starcraft 2 vibe around the world, would actually say "We wont broadcast anything until real-ID is gone" and advise their fans to "not buy the game until your privacy is ensured"? And there will be still enough people to buy it :> but I do get your point. The problem is that the RealID is already implented in WoW you can get everyones name due to a bug in the system. Even if you did not activate it. I personally doubt theyll get rid of that system no matter what you do since its their long term plan to intergrate/convert battle.net in to a social-network-platform :o. This just the beginning what comes next ?. Na I lost all my trust in Activision-Blizzard. I doubt I will buy the next Blizzard game but Millions will. Since the younger generation does not know better and are spoiled with the Console/DLC/Facebook crap | ||
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Integra
Sweden5626 Posts
If the link simply just a general information that explains that Blizzard has made a change about the forum posting policy and nothing more then I won't add it. However if it brings up the changes from a perspective not yet already covered I might add it. | ||
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Disastorm
United States922 Posts
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RoyalCheese
Czech Republic745 Posts
Man I wish blizzard could just leave activision. I guess thats not possible though right? no they can't...what i would love to see though is if most of the developers and game designers left blizzard and started new company and made some new awesome games...but thats not gonna happen for obvious reasons | ||
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FuRong
New Zealand3089 Posts
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fams
Canada731 Posts
On July 09 2010 15:11 MindRush wrote: i would say that terran stalkers got a HUGE BUFF with Blizzard's recent realid patch I have to admit, I laughed... I think the Real ID thing is a poor idea, in the sense that people have a lot of personal info about them revealed. On the Facebook topic, I think it is a very good idea for exposing E-Sports and SC2 as a whole to people who might otherwise not have heard about them. On a side note: You can simply use a fake name to get around the Real ID thing. And for Facebook, as someone posted before, simply change your privacy settings on Facebook, or as I pointed out, just use an email not associated with Facebook in the first place. You can stay hidden and anonymous rather easily. | ||
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[MIG]kenny
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Integra
Sweden5626 Posts
On July 09 2010 18:27 [MIG]kenny wrote: You seem to have forgotten the most important news site: slashdot.org It's only generic general information it doesn't contribute to anything. | ||
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Ownos
United States2147 Posts
On July 09 2010 18:21 fams wrote: I have to admit, I laughed... I think the Real ID thing is a poor idea, in the sense that people have a lot of personal info about them revealed. On the Facebook topic, I think it is a very good idea for exposing E-Sports and SC2 as a whole to people who might otherwise not have heard about them. On a side note: You can simply use a fake name to get around the Real ID thing. And for Facebook, as someone posted before, simply change your privacy settings on Facebook, or as I pointed out, just use an email not associated with Facebook in the first place. You can stay hidden and anonymous rather easily. Or you could just not use their forums... Plus I do believe for some things, you need proof of ID that you own the account, as far as customer support goes. Like if your account gets hacked. So I wouldn't recommend that. | ||
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