This sort of thing is genuinely cool. I've always been a fan. In fact, I even found most if not all of the Bush-isms to be tolerable use of word parts. I tend to communicate and learn by way of concepts, so perhaps this has something to do with it...
Preach it, I have _never_ used my real name on the Internet. I use misnomers, aliases and fake names everywhere, without hesitation or prejudice. I don't give out my race, sex, age or religious beliefs, I relish in the anonymity.
Have you ever given your real name, or had it discussed, via email? Particularly via an email that is indexed and searched regularly by a third party? In short, if your mom uses gmail, your ID is known to Google, at a minimum.
Real ID is required to use the friends list in game.
Are you talking about StarCraft? Because this doesn't look to be the case in WoW. You can use either the new RealID system, or the old friends system, or both.
If I'm posting about my problems with class balance in WoW, the class that I play is of interest.
True, but so would your level of experience playing that class, in each type of gameplay offered, as well as any experience you may have playing the class you're QQ'ing about.
None of this would be reflected in the nomination of a single character.
They'll have to kill the cards altogether if they want that. There's just not any feasible way to get each and every retailer to do your information collection for you.
But that's still backwards - my forum persona should be associated with my in-game character, not my real ID.
I think the biggest disconnect here is that your in-game character doesn't have a need to post on the forums. You, the player, do - but not the character in any way. It isn't as if your character needs to find the location of Mankrik's Wife by using the game's forums to complete that quest.
Now that people are forced to disclose their names, I'm pretty sure guilds would start openly discriminating people based on their race, religion and nationality just based on the names alone. In North America, if you have a "strange name", it's pretty easy to pinpoint exactly what you are IRL. This I think would be the basis for a new form of pretty disgusting discrimination among gamers.
But this is a non-loss scenario. Guilds are volunteer organizations and if they're going to kick you for being brown, it would be FAR better to get it over with earlier rather than later. It isn't as if Blizzard can stop them from doing so. You wouldn't want to be in that guild anyway. Go find one with human beings in it instead, or start one of your own.
One possible good outcome would be if they would allow you to IGNORE RealID accounts just as you can friend them. We have some real winners on our server, and I'd just as soon never hear from them nor any of their alts ever again.
Anyone remember a hundred years ago when there was a very real problem with stalkers looking for girl's names in phone books and then stalking them and/or killing them? Phone companies now seem obligated, or at least cooperative, about letting you put whatever the hell you want in phone books. I used to make up the silliest fake names.
Anyway. I'm excited to see what the damages are like when some girls get murdered and raped over their wow forum posts.
This is sort of a non-starter, isn't it? How does the WoW information lead to their location? Wouldn't they have to use other information that would either exist or not despite the RealID change? And finally, if someone were looking to rape and/or murder, why wouldn't they just abduct someone at random and/or from within their real life? What does WoW have to do with it? ESPECIALLY since the attacker's real name is in play here as well, or at least as much in or out of play as the victim would desire their own name to be...
None of the dangers are actually being increased here, are they?
What's so special about the Blizzard forums that you must post everything related to the game there?
The only think I can think of is this: Blizzard only communicates through their own forum.
If you want to talk about what Blizzard's developers have done, you can go anywhere you want. If you want to talk to Blizzard and even, occasionally have them answer back, well there's only one place for that.
At present this is the only reason people tolerate the trolls. They don't really seem to want to discuss things amongst themselves. They want to post where they know their ideas are being read by development.
And not everyone lives a convenient distance from a "big-box store in the United States"
Anyone that doesn't live near where they would have access to broadband and/or copies of the game itself isn't necessarily relevant to the conversation.
Presumably, if you can buy the game, you can buy the game time codes.
Likewise, you can even get them online directly from sites like 'gametimezone', etc.
2) Anything on Blizzard forums goes on Google, and comes up in search results. That means anybody who uses their forums is going to be labeling themselves, forever after, as a nerdy computer game player to future employers, dates, etc...which is not something that is looked upon positively by many people. I would certainly discriminate against potential employees if I saw that they were a WoW geek
Whereas I might discriminate in favor of such an employee. WoW is a bit like 'new golf'. A person being a player would mean that they would fit in better culturally, would better relate to a portion of the non-work-conversation, etc. It would be a really minor factor, to be sure, but definitely better than a number of other hobbies I can think of.....but then I work in the IT field. Not sure about your environment and their hostility towards gamer 'nerds'.
If I had to use my real name on Slashdot, I wouldn't post nearly as much. I'd make sure to restrict it only to things I was comfortable with all current and future employers seeing
I've said this on here before, but I was once employed by such an employer. They wanted complete editorial control over each and every one of their employees very thoughts. They even went so far as to consider firing employees wouldn't agree to vote the way the upper management thought was 'right'.
If your comments on Facebook, etc, ever caused such an employer to pass you by, then those comments did you a favor. Trust me. It is better to not get the job than to have to replace it because you're not ideologically compatible.
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This sort of thing is genuinely cool. I've always been a fan. In fact, I even found most if not all of the Bush-isms to be tolerable use of word parts. I tend to communicate and learn by way of concepts, so perhaps this has something to do with it...
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Preach it, I have _never_ used my real name on the Internet. I use misnomers, aliases and fake names everywhere, without hesitation or prejudice. I don't give out my race, sex, age or religious beliefs, I relish in the anonymity.
Have you ever given your real name, or had it discussed, via email? Particularly via an email that is indexed and searched regularly by a third party? In short, if your mom uses gmail, your ID is known to Google, at a minimum.
Meet me at the mission at midnight, we'll divvy up there.
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We will not see Juan Rodriguez post a long, and insightful analysis of warlock DPS only to have about 50 replies using the term "dirty mexian"?
Please do note that these offenders would be posting such under their own real names as well.
Further, people that post such responses to a long insightful analysis need to be ignored, not placated by obfuscating names.
Real ID is required to use the friends list in game.
Are you talking about StarCraft? Because this doesn't look to be the case in WoW. You can use either the new RealID system, or the old friends system, or both.
If I'm posting about my problems with class balance in WoW, the class that I play is of interest.
True, but so would your level of experience playing that class, in each type of gameplay offered, as well as any experience you may have playing the class you're QQ'ing about.
None of this would be reflected in the nomination of a single character.
You make an interesting point, but since when is playing WoW not discreet? You're not exactly stripping, pimping, etc... It's just a video game.
They'll have to kill the cards altogether if they want that. There's just not any feasible way to get each and every retailer to do your information collection for you.
P.S.: When you run on my Verizon iPad 3G then you'll truly be a MMORPG ...
So, in your world, there's no such thing as an MMORPG? Because in mine it all got started several years before 'iPad' and '3G' were even on the radar.
But that's still backwards - my forum persona should be associated with my in-game character, not my real ID.
I think the biggest disconnect here is that your in-game character doesn't have a need to post on the forums. You, the player, do - but not the character in any way. It isn't as if your character needs to find the location of Mankrik's Wife by using the game's forums to complete that quest.
Now that people are forced to disclose their names, I'm pretty sure guilds would start openly discriminating people based on their race, religion and nationality just based on the names alone. In North America, if you have a "strange name", it's pretty easy to pinpoint exactly what you are IRL. This I think would be the basis for a new form of pretty disgusting discrimination among gamers.
But this is a non-loss scenario. Guilds are volunteer organizations and if they're going to kick you for being brown, it would be FAR better to get it over with earlier rather than later. It isn't as if Blizzard can stop them from doing so. You wouldn't want to be in that guild anyway. Go find one with human beings in it instead, or start one of your own.
One possible good outcome would be if they would allow you to IGNORE RealID accounts just as you can friend them. We have some real winners on our server, and I'd just as soon never hear from them nor any of their alts ever again.
$40, hell, you can get a vanilla box for $20! Even tie it into your real account and get a mount out of the deal. Double reason to do it!
Again, though, this is a non-point. Unless you're attempting to illustrate that rural communities exist, other countries exist, etc.
I'm ready to stipulate to all of that, because none of which has anything to do with the topic at all.
Prince can just WoW under either his birth name or a pseudonym. Besides, I doubt his Purpleness would want to divulge his real identity anyway.
Anyone remember a hundred years ago when there was a very real problem with stalkers looking for girl's names in phone books and then stalking them and/or killing them? Phone companies now seem obligated, or at least cooperative, about letting you put whatever the hell you want in phone books. I used to make up the silliest fake names.
Anyway. I'm excited to see what the damages are like when some girls get murdered and raped over their wow forum posts.
This is sort of a non-starter, isn't it? How does the WoW information lead to their location? Wouldn't they have to use other information that would either exist or not despite the RealID change? And finally, if someone were looking to rape and/or murder, why wouldn't they just abduct someone at random and/or from within their real life? What does WoW have to do with it? ESPECIALLY since the attacker's real name is in play here as well, or at least as much in or out of play as the victim would desire their own name to be...
None of the dangers are actually being increased here, are they?
As others have said:
1) There isn't any requirement that this match the name on the account,
2) There are alternative forms of payment.
What's so special about the Blizzard forums that you must post everything related to the game there?
The only think I can think of is this: Blizzard only communicates through their own forum.
If you want to talk about what Blizzard's developers have done, you can go anywhere you want. If you want to talk to Blizzard and even, occasionally have them answer back, well there's only one place for that.
At present this is the only reason people tolerate the trolls. They don't really seem to want to discuss things amongst themselves. They want to post where they know their ideas are being read by development.
And not everyone lives a convenient distance from a "big-box store in the United States"
Anyone that doesn't live near where they would have access to broadband and/or copies of the game itself isn't necessarily relevant to the conversation.
Presumably, if you can buy the game, you can buy the game time codes.
Likewise, you can even get them online directly from sites like 'gametimezone', etc.
with the World of Warcraft site and forums following suit near the launch of Cataclysm.
:D
(Note the race/class changes that make this possible...)
2) Anything on Blizzard forums goes on Google, and comes up in search results. That means anybody who uses their forums is going to be labeling themselves, forever after, as a nerdy computer game player to future employers, dates, etc...which is not something that is looked upon positively by many people. I would certainly discriminate against potential employees if I saw that they were a WoW geek
Whereas I might discriminate in favor of such an employee. WoW is a bit like 'new golf'. A person being a player would mean that they would fit in better culturally, would better relate to a portion of the non-work-conversation, etc. It would be a really minor factor, to be sure, but definitely better than a number of other hobbies I can think of... ..but then I work in the IT field. Not sure about your environment and their hostility towards gamer 'nerds'.
If I had to use my real name on Slashdot, I wouldn't post nearly as much. I'd make sure to restrict it only to things I was comfortable with all current and future employers seeing
I've said this on here before, but I was once employed by such an employer. They wanted complete editorial control over each and every one of their employees very thoughts. They even went so far as to consider firing employees wouldn't agree to vote the way the upper management thought was 'right'.
If your comments on Facebook, etc, ever caused such an employer to pass you by, then those comments did you a favor. Trust me. It is better to not get the job than to have to replace it because you're not ideologically compatible.
Yes, because trolls would never stoop to using fake "real" names.
Well, they'll find it very difficult to do that unless they figure out a way to spoof the same name on their credit card.
FYI, you can buy 'Game Time Cards' with cash at every big-box store in the United States.