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.'"

Comments

Re:I actually like this trend...

[omnichad]

For pore sod, try a facial cleanser!

Re:YOU'D RATHER ATTACK MY ASSHOLE WITH YOUR TONGUE

[selven]

Mod parent up. He's making rather good posts if you account for the fact that the subject line only allows for 50 characters, a mere 36% of that allowed by Twitter - his post would even be above average on Twitter despite the 64% character penalty he's incurring.

Re:I actually like this trend...

[cruachan]

3 .. year .. 'veteran'?

Jeez, is that all it takes to be a veteran these days. What price those of us who remember the dawn of the endless September.

Re:Define Real Name

[WillAffleckUW]

I was on the Internet back when 300 baud was fast, Bobbie.

And used to hand check my S100 bus computers with an oscilliscope and hand tune my floppy drives.

You see, we didn't store everything on the Internet back then.