My complaint to the ESRB regarding Blizzard's recent announcement

[glitteringlynx]

I'm sharing this for you guys in case you would like to use any or all of this and make your own complaint with the ESRB. I highly advise reading the blue post in the second link first so you can have an idea what is being implemented. Because the ESRB lists member websites has protecting the privacy of its users, and since the Battle.net and

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[return2zero]

I've been keeping up with this all day on WOW.COM. The thread is still growing and it's 1am.
http://www.wow.com/2010/07/06/blizzards-responses-on-the-real-id-situation

[glitteringlynx]

That's nothing, check out the original post from the World of Warcraft forums:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25712374700&sid=1&pageNo=1

It started at 9am PST (noon eastern) and as of 2:45am it's at 825 pages. It EXPLODED as soon as the announcement hit. Understandably, people are pissed. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this will change and I now think I see why they're actually making this change:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2010/05/blizzard-and-facebooks-friendly-social-networking-deal-launches-with-starcraft-ii-/1

DO NOT WANT

[dumbpression]

It reminds me of the law they passed here to stop child pornography, by requiring all pornographers to disclose the real name and home address of models on request. It doesn't solve the original problem, and it creates an even worse one. I don't know why a company would want to impose such a stupid rule on itself.