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HyperDeath
Profile Joined May 2010
United States64 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-09 17:54:38
July 09 2010 17:52 GMT
#181
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yay now we could all stop stalking blizzard employees

Edit: i was really worried at first that The head of activision was just going to ignore the wishes of those who posted against us and go through it anyway...really reassuring that didnt happen
Hide Tech, Distribute Cheese
Capnstank
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada47 Posts
July 09 2010 17:53 GMT
#182
Blizzard actually listened to us!
PietjeP89
Profile Joined April 2010
Belgium83 Posts
July 09 2010 17:54 GMT
#183
And once again , blizzard is a god now..

Gamers have worse mood swings then a girl on her period
Merikh
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States918 Posts
July 09 2010 17:54 GMT
#184
The best community in the world :D. Put our foot down!!!
G4MR | I mod day9, djwheat and GLHF's stream
RoosterSamurai
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Japan2108 Posts
July 09 2010 17:54 GMT
#185
On July 10 2010 02:08 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
Amazing I actually wasn't sure they could be convinced to change this one, but I'm glad I was wrong.

I thought the same thing. Looking through the BlizzardPR's twitter, they seemed hell bent on keeping this first and last name business for good.
RageOverdose
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States690 Posts
July 09 2010 17:54 GMT
#186
Glad to see Blizzard listened to everyone's concerns. Yeah, I was defending it, but not because I thought it was the only good idea they could use; the intention was to help, after all, although as many people brought up, there are other ways. It was a bit disheartening to see that people really didn't trust their fellow gamers. But in retrospect, I guess there isn't much of a reason to.



HubertFelix
Profile Joined April 2010
France631 Posts
July 09 2010 17:56 GMT
#187
Good decision.

Now remove the possibility to see irl friends of irl friends ingame.
MelonPan
Profile Joined June 2010
Belgium12 Posts
July 09 2010 17:56 GMT
#188
Someone needs to post in that official battle net topic that this smells like PR bullshit.

1. In no way does it clearly state ReaLID names canceled in the Thread title itself. They can leave it open for the future like this.
2. I'd like to take some time to speak with all of you regarding our desire to make the Blizzard forums a better place for players to discuss our games. We've been constantly monitoring the feedback you've given us, as well as internally discussing your concerns about the use of real names on our forums. As a result of those discussions, we've decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums.

At this time? jeez, that's the 2nd time which leaves everything open to be introduced again in the near future.
JWD
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States12607 Posts
July 09 2010 17:56 GMT
#189
GJ Blizz.
✌
Bensio
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United Kingdom621 Posts
July 09 2010 17:57 GMT
#190
Indeed GJ Blizz

This was one of the stupidest things they have done in a while.
Skee
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada702 Posts
July 09 2010 17:58 GMT
#191
Good job! They messed up, but then they fixed it. ^^
TossFloss *
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada606 Posts
July 09 2010 17:59 GMT
#192
The real question remains: a calculated publicity stunt or poor judgment?
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Arrian
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States889 Posts
July 09 2010 17:59 GMT
#193
This is good, but we need to inspire a full retreat on all of the things that matter. Maybe we'll get our LAN in some form, but there's still chat rooms and cross realm play to nail down.
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Pocketokun
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada74 Posts
July 09 2010 18:01 GMT
#194
well finally seems like part of the Ol' Blizz is here watching and caring a bit for their community and kind of parody of what Mao said once "if all hundreds of thousands of blizz users decide to stomp on the ground the world is gonna get it"
If you gotta do something, DO IT
HeIios
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden2523 Posts
July 09 2010 18:02 GMT
#195
On July 10 2010 02:59 TossFloss wrote:
The real question remains: a calculated publicity stunt or poor judgment?


Honestly, they've dropped the ball on so many things I doubt this is a stunt of any kind. I'm pretty sure they didn't have a high opinion of their customers until we started backlashing, maybe they thought they could get away with this agenda. THEY WERE WRONG!
Silu
Profile Joined June 2010
Finland165 Posts
July 09 2010 18:02 GMT
#196
On July 10 2010 02:54 PietjeP wrote:
And once again , blizzard is a god now..

Gamers have worse mood swings then a girl on her period


Well, beta on hiatus = a nerd's period. Angry mood swings and can end in uncontrolled bloodshed.
Sadistx
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
July 09 2010 18:02 GMT
#197
On July 10 2010 02:08 PokePill wrote:
The entire thing was a ploy for media attention, you guys didn't "win."


Sadly, you're probably right. It's like when a celebrity "accidentally" leaks naked pictures on the internet.

Still, good PR move by blizzard.

"Do something terrible" ---> "let the community rage" ---> "media whore attention" ---> "cancel said terrible thing" ---> "everyone loves blizzard".

Oldest trick in the book.
Pinkie
Profile Joined May 2010
United States145 Posts
July 09 2010 18:03 GMT
#198
This thread deserves the Colbert Bump.
The Difference between Stupidity and Genius, is that genius has its limits
farseer_dk
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada71 Posts
July 09 2010 18:03 GMT
#199
awww 4chan didn't even get a chance to screw with the info yet
mao
andeh
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States904 Posts
July 09 2010 18:03 GMT
#200
too bad we cant get this type of response with chat channels/lan/region lock
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