A few days into "Blizzard goes fucking nuts!"
Also known as "The Evil of Corporate," or "Attack of the TL;DR."
The epic idea of making it so that to post on the official forums, you have will to use your RealID to post under, to stop trolling.
Your RealID that consists of your real name, the one on your billing account. What could possibly go wrong?
People suggest some reasons. But this is a bit more serious than the latest QQ over the latest nerf. At the moment of typing that thread has 2495 pages.
One of the posters, not seeing what all the fuss is about, dares people find him. It took 20 minutes. It went worse for one of the Devs when he put up his name, his finders were less considerate and plastered his info up. Apparently he's had to lock up his Facebook and disconnect his phone number.
The term "slippery slope" is one of those overused phrases just invoked to scaremonger, but when you look at the higher ups plans for the game and their grand vision for RealID and talk of social networking, it looks like they are set on sledding down that slope no matter how much the customer protests.
Then there is the fact that to opt out of it ingame you need to go through hopes and enable parental controls. Or that if you use RealID to track those people you trust, that your friends of your friends can see your real name even though you never decided to trust them. And not forgetting that pesky bug that means some addons can get access to your RealID.
I've actually canceled over this, putting RealID down as the reason when I managed to force my finger to click on that final "cancel account" button, but it's the strongest way to voice my disapproval. Blizzard, I want to waste my money on your game, on your stupid little pets, (but not sparkle ponies, I resist the sparkle pony), on those lumps of pixels I spent hours farming. But I don't want my real name out there. I'm lucky, my name isn't that unique and I don't show up on the first few pages on a google search. But I don't want to have to worry that the prick who gets pissed that I killed him in a battleground, or won that loot roll will be able to find out my real name. Before I just had to lie and never vent with strangers to avoid the hassle of playing while female.
While I play with my main characters, on the occasions I raid or dungeon, I do play with people I know in real life, sometimes I want to get away and make a little alt somewhere no one knows who I am.
I don't want to have to post my real name if I want to QQ over the latest nerf, or if I have to use the forums for technical support, and certainly do not want it in game.
If I wanted a Facebook I would have a Facebook.
I just want to pretend to be a cow/owlbear who shoots lasers and kills dragons and wastes time collecting pixels.
Edited: I finally get my rant written up and and they turn around and cave. Bastards.
Still don't like how difficult it is to opt out of RealID, but hopefully this means I can resubscribe.
Still not buying a sparkle pony though.
The epic idea of making it so that to post on the official forums, you have will to use your RealID to post under, to stop trolling.
Your RealID that consists of your real name, the one on your billing account. What could possibly go wrong?
People suggest some reasons. But this is a bit more serious than the latest QQ over the latest nerf. At the moment of typing that thread has 2495 pages.
One of the posters, not seeing what all the fuss is about, dares people find him. It took 20 minutes. It went worse for one of the Devs when he put up his name, his finders were less considerate and plastered his info up. Apparently he's had to lock up his Facebook and disconnect his phone number.
The term "slippery slope" is one of those overused phrases just invoked to scaremonger, but when you look at the higher ups plans for the game and their grand vision for RealID and talk of social networking, it looks like they are set on sledding down that slope no matter how much the customer protests.
Then there is the fact that to opt out of it ingame you need to go through hopes and enable parental controls. Or that if you use RealID to track those people you trust, that your friends of your friends can see your real name even though you never decided to trust them. And not forgetting that pesky bug that means some addons can get access to your RealID.
I've actually canceled over this, putting RealID down as the reason when I managed to force my finger to click on that final "cancel account" button, but it's the strongest way to voice my disapproval. Blizzard, I want to waste my money on your game, on your stupid little pets, (but not sparkle ponies, I resist the sparkle pony), on those lumps of pixels I spent hours farming. But I don't want my real name out there. I'm lucky, my name isn't that unique and I don't show up on the first few pages on a google search. But I don't want to have to worry that the prick who gets pissed that I killed him in a battleground, or won that loot roll will be able to find out my real name. Before I just had to lie and never vent with strangers to avoid the hassle of playing while female.
While I play with my main characters, on the occasions I raid or dungeon, I do play with people I know in real life, sometimes I want to get away and make a little alt somewhere no one knows who I am.
I don't want to have to post my real name if I want to QQ over the latest nerf, or if I have to use the forums for technical support, and certainly do not want it in game.
If I wanted a Facebook I would have a Facebook.
I just want to pretend to be a cow/owlbear who shoots lasers and kills dragons and wastes time collecting pixels.
Edited: I finally get my rant written up and and they turn around and cave. Bastards.
Still don't like how difficult it is to opt out of RealID, but hopefully this means I can resubscribe.
Still not buying a sparkle pony though.