Battle.net forums to use real ID only

[mikill]

BlizzForums?

It's still somewhat alive you know? There are still some people posting there including me.

www.blizzforums.com

Sorry I 'll change that, I was thinking of the wrong thing.

[Cotcan]

As anyone else noticed on http://blizzforums.com/, there's a link to sclegacy? Looks like we soon will have a flood of new members.

[Twilice]

This is scary, it's a bad way just to avoid trolling users. Seriously those who troll are just going to use a false name.

I think this isn't a good idea, rather the other way around. To many players somehow, and you will not really be able to say what you want at some points. (scared of what people not agreeing with you knowing where your mail-box live)

[hyde]

I never go on B.net forums. It's full trolls and the community managers spoon feed the masses with generic crap.


I'm a big Diablo fan and it was really annoying when they just destroyed the seasons ladder by saying "Oh Hay Guise, a patch is coming out with a ladder reset"
"Yeah like soon as in the next 60 days"
More like 1.2 years later ... =_=


On this, I think it will be good and bad. I'm not exactly comfortable with having my actual name being listed on the internet and being archived. There are some ethics involved in this which I don't think is so great, the possibility of having your identity breached is quite easy. Having your Facebook (Which is a box of worms for some people), Email, real name, and WoW billing information? It's just a SIN# from being a total information hotspot for information predators to attack. If I hack into someones account, I will know where they live, their phone number, their face book and any private information there, their school/workplace networks, their close ones, etc.

Lots of customers already fall victim to the phishing emails...this is just going to make things worse in the long run.

[spychi]

Blizzard does not give a fuck about us then, they are making the facebook integration for two reasons:
marketing promotion and more marketing promotion
they insist with the real ID because they know that if people will start "liking" SC2 other people will see that by getting notification posts about friends activity

[ArcherofAiur]

Holy shit 75 pages already on the wow forum version of this announcement!

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...12374700&sid=1

Hidden Content:

[Noctis]

let's be real online gaming has been heading this way for a long time now

[silencbank]

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it funny that all the people who are like "how dare they release our names so that people can spam us" are the same ones that are going "here is the names of the people who are going to release our names so let's spam them". To me it sounds like you all are the problem, not the solution.

Im not completely sure why people are so overly fearful of people knowing their name on a gaming forum. There are TONS of worse places to put your name in that are more susceptible than the starcraft 2 forums. I do not use the battle net forums anyway, since there are other places that have the same news that are on the forums AND more stuff that I find useful. While this may not be the smartest idea, I am definitely not gonna be afraid of all the shit that COULD happen cuz that is just a sad way to live. Tons of shit can happen to anyone at anytime, I just choose to not let fear of bad force me to do something. Bigger things to worry about in life than someone spamming me in my Facebook account or something.

[Perfecttear]

Just change your name on your profile and problem solved.
The only reson why you would ever need your real name and adress on your acount, is if you are buying something from their stores, if not you can get creative with your personal info.

[DemolitionSquid]

This truly is the stupidest thing Blizzard has ever done.