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This is good news. But i still don't understand the original desicion to implement real id on forums.
I mean I cant really see how a company like Blizzard doesn't think a major change like this through?
Did they not expect the major shitstorm this would cause? The positive aspects hardly outweighted the negative ones but they sill announced it. Then just moments later does a U-turn about NOT doing without any real reason behind it.
Is this another blizzard/activition clash? Perhaps a clash between the battle.net director who came over from Xbox live and the core founding persons of Blizzard?
Such a weird situation imo.
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On July 10 2010 02:33 jtgizmo wrote:Show nested quote +On July 10 2010 02:29 spinesheath wrote:
So guess it's about time to say sorry to Bashiok. He was an innocent sacrifice.
I'll support that, good guy got hit with sledge hammer for wrong reasons....
Why ? he shouldnt have put all his personal data online in the first place.
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On July 10 2010 02:32 StayFrosty wrote:
I'm glad they cancelled the plan for now. Bnet forums were about to become a shitfest.
The forums were about to become a barren wasteland.
One of the most obvious reasons for them to revert this change is the simple conclusion that if people don't like it, they wont use the forums. And what good are your new and improved forums if nobody ever posts on them. Kinda defeats the community mission doesn't it.
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Why would you ever use bnet forums anyway? That place if full of retards. The only reason to use that would be for solving technical issues.
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On July 10 2010 02:34 Odoakar wrote:
I'm a bit disappointed with all of this...everyone is happy now that RealID won't be forced on the forums, and no one seems to remember that this is still in Blizzards plans:
EVERYBODY remembers that, don't be cynical!
For now this is a small victory for the blizzard customers, and thus it's also a win for Blizzard.
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impressive. we won...
people shall sing about this battles for aeons to come!
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TL: Striking fear into the hearts of Activision since 2008.
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I'm impressed that all that effort actually made something happend.
Good job guys.
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Good work guys. I'm sure the 50 000 posts on the WoW forums probably helped too  .
...no really, the initial thread has almost 2500 pages, that's like 50 000 posts. Crazyness!
I'm just really trying to figure out how these weird suggestions keep getting announced at all...I mean, it seems to me there are a lot of bad ideas coming out of Blizzard lately. At least they listen to their playerbase here and there.
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On July 10 2010 02:34 Odoakar wrote:
I'm a bit disappointed with all of this...everyone is happy now that RealID won't be forced on the forums, and no one seems to remember that this is still in Blizzards plans:
'Blizzard has reserved the right to “enhance or merge the personal information collected at a Blizzard site with data from third parties. Blizzard may also provide your personal information to other companies or organizations that offer products or services that may be of interest to you.”'
That's standard fare now. They probably are sharing something with Facebook. I would think that's the end of it. I mean... what particularly senstitive data is unique to your bnet account?I guess playtime/ hardcore gamer level, but I can't see that being particularly harmful to you if it's released to a 3rd party.
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oh blizzard, i can't stay mad at you.
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On July 10 2010 02:34 Odoakar wrote:
I'm a bit disappointed with all of this...everyone is happy now that RealID won't be forced on the forums, and no one seems to remember that this is still in Blizzards plans:
'Blizzard has reserved the right to “enhance or merge the personal information collected at a Blizzard site with data from third parties. Blizzard may also provide your personal information to other companies or organizations that offer products or services that may be of interest to you.”'
It's as if they tryied pushing through with something they knew would have fans in uproar, and when they admit they were wrong, no one will notice that other small thing they really wanted to push through in the first place
But I guess we should still see this as a good sign, Blizzard listening to their community
As I mentioned already, I think they just plan to establish the RealID system gradually. I don't think they expected that uproar, though, considering that they already work with facebook and facebook basically ignores privacy anyways, so they probably thought that people are fine with this.
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I'm glad they cancelled it, to bad it came at the cost of giving out a CM's personal information and people finding everything about this guys life on the blizz forums.
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It's a step in the right direction, but still no channels and no LAN. It's a good step for safety reasons, but not for gaming reasons.
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Usually you break the bad news before the good news...hopefully EU servers will be up before the week-end!
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I am kinda thinking that Bashiok might have sacrificed himself to proof the point.
At least its a nice thought and nothing we can exclude.
If I am really right, I salute to him.
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Wow this was the last thing i was expecting from blizzard. Maybe its because the news got involved and didn't wanna hurt the reputation of the company as a whole? Idc though woot
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The people have spoken. But I have a feeling this may be the last victory over the evil Activision overlords of Blizzard.
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I played devil's advocate for the idea a little bit but always thought that they would U-turn.
Glad they did.
On July 10 2010 02:40 Liquid`TLO wrote:
I am kinda thinking that Bashiok might have sacrificed himself to proof the point.
At least its a nice thought and nothing we can exclude.
If I am really right, I salute to him.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. He seems like a level-headed guy and thus I find it hard to believe he didn't really know what would happen when he threw is name into the shitfest. It seemed like an obvious bait to me.
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