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Blizzard To Require Real First and Last Names For Official Forums
An anonymous reader writes "Recently, Blizzard Entertainment implemented a Real ID feature for some of its current games and all of its future Battle.net-based games. Today, Blizzard announced that it intends to require usage of the real names of Battle.net posters for its StarCraft II forums before release, and for its World of Warcraft forums shortly before the release of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. From the announcement: 'The first and most significant change is that in the near future, anyone posting or replying to a post on official Blizzard forums will be doing so using their Real ID — that is, their real-life first and last name — with the option to also display the name of their primary in-game character alongside it. These changes will go into effect on all StarCraft II forums with the launch of the new community site prior to the July 27 release of the game, with the World of Warcraft site and forums following suit near the launch of Cataclysm. Certain classic forums, including the classic Battle.net forums, will remain unchanged.'"
I'm assuming it's under the parents name for the account which should be a pleasant conversation at work when your boss asks you why you are trolling the warlock forum?
open source sub sim. I might start coding again for this. http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/contribute/
Wonder how long it'll be until someone finally tracks down a troll (in real life) and loots their corpse
Images of the ending of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back come to mind ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjWFZPJZTxU ).
:)
And those images are happy, indeed.
Now you bastards will know how it feels
- Johnathan Doe
Fortunately, my real name actually is KÖRGULL THE EXTERMINATOR, so I won't be needing to change my battlenet ID.
Respectfully,
Divide B. Zero III, Esq.
Dare to Hope. Prepare to be Disappointed.
You insensitive clod! My name really is Leroy Jenkins
Hi, I Boris. Hear fix bear, yes?
You must be using a different internet than I am. Could you tell me how you get access to the one you're using? It sounds nice.
No, I'm a 3 year veteran of Slashdot, and a 2 year veteran of the World of Warcraft forums. In the WoW forums, where every post is linked to a character, people judge others' posts by the quality of their gear rather than just the quality of the posts. On Slashdot, this doesn't happen.
I know that the popular opinion of anonymity is that it just invites trolling, but I've had the opposite experience.
A female playing WoW?
I put on my robe and wizard hat
Oh come on, most of those children and adolescents are 4chan.
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Also, I bet a lot of WoW freaks will legally change their name to their avatar's name. That should be fun.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
His point is that, unless you're trying to read the trolls/flamebaits, you won't.
Sadly, though, he had to feed a troll to make it. Now I'm offtopic. :/
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
And yet everyone gives out their real name on Facebook when they have the choice to give a fake one.
Not everyone.
not that my "A. Guy" profile is used for much more than looking at other people's public stuff, but still...
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I think posting a person's real name is a great idea. I'd never get embarassed by having my real name associated with some lame username that I picked over 10 years ago.
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Go die in a fire.
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You actually get that? I'm female and play WoW, and those episodes have been so few and far between it wasn't worth worrying. Although my guild leader did want nekkid pics.
Dear Sir,
There must be some mistake. I know for a fact your line terminated with the first Divide B. Zero. Obviously, some kind of error has happened.
Regards,
C. P. Unit
(I'm preparing for contradictory comments below).
No you're not!
When confronted with one problem, some think "I'll use recursion". Now they are confronted with one problem.
A way to differentiate between the real girls and the guys playing female characters
Yes I am sure Leslie, Alex and Sam will turn out to be just what you dreamed of...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Hi, Micah Whipple!
"To alleviate people's concerns, Blizzard employee Bashiok decided to say his real name on the forums, his real name is Micah Whipple Address: 473 Avenue B Lakeport, CA 95453-6032 Phone Number: (707) 263-0190 Age: 28 Family: Kimberly K Whipple, age: 54 Jason Stephen Whipple, age 34".
Oh god, you think YOU'RE upset? I'm a hot, constantly naked, supermodel lesbian nymphomaniac and now that's going to be right under my name on the forums too.
Blizz admins just want to make sure all those bikini clad elf chicks they have been cyberlicking are actually females.
An anonymous survey from the Daedalus project a few years ago (http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/) quoted 40% of warcraft females are actually a female and with Blizards own stoppers preventing players from ever changing the real name the account was created with, I'm guessing theres going to be a lot of surprise transvestites popping up after the patch release.
When Facebook was just getting off the ground, I registered for an account. As Spispopd J. Spispopd ...
Got the wife some mule Farmville accounts just recently, too. Last name? O'Confusion.
Ooooooo, I've infringed Facebook's terms, noooooooo
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