World of Warcraft/Battle.Net sigh

[cericonversion]

There's some more preview info up about the new stuff coming for Battle.Net, and...I'll quote.

Battle.net's social networking and communication capabilities will be some of the service's biggest new features. This new social backbone for the entire service will seamlessly integrate friends lists, matchmaking, messaging, and more. Text and voice

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[cericonversion]

That may be viable too. I am leery of the push for such things - it's not just trans people who have genuinely good reasons for not wishing so much linkage, and I am very far convinced that Battle.Net designers have gotten any clue about that.

Also, if I'd realized, I would have set up a separate e-mail for battle.net login. I now very deeply regret using one of my standard ones and there seems no obvious way to change it.

[lisaquestions]

Yeah, I'm really grateful I had that paranoia attack just before Wrath and moved my e-mail address to something I use for nothing else...but I really regret having any portion of my real name on that e-mail address. I would've used something different if I'd known how battle.net was going to evolve.

Of course, I'm the person who quit WoW for a year because I didn't like the required/automatic opt-in for the Armory.

[cericonversion]

I'm wondering how to most usefully try to tell any of this to Blizzard.

[lisaquestions]

File a GM report
Cancel your billing and type this as the reason in feedback, and then start it back up.

I can't think of anything else off-hand. If you start a thread on the forum, it'll be slammed by a zillion people who don't care about what you're saying, they just want you to shut up.

[cericonversion]

Oh, yeah, definitely not the forum.

[lisaquestions]

Grr, deleted and tried to copy paste as a reply:

But yeah, if you suggested food is necessary for survival, people would earnestly argue that everyone should be willing to starve to death while playing WoW. Contrariness is one of the forum's cosmological constants.

[cericonversion]

This made me laugh, and the cat's giving me his "what are you up to now" look. A good note to go try for more sleep on.