RealID to come to the Official Blizzard Forums

[Mercurio]

Between this and RealID in game, I'm betting we are going to see all sorts of newspaper stories about WoW RL violence.

Ever wanted to kick some jerk's butt in RL when they camp you over and over for hours? Now you will probably be able to figure out their address with a combo of their real name and Google. Then camp out at thier front door and beat the tar out of them when they head to the mini-mart.

I've only felt like I would physically punch another player if I could on a couple of occasions but there are all sorts of unstable people out there playing this game who would probably do it daily if it were convenient (and others who would drive/fly cross-country to satisfy their nerdrage).

This really is crazy.

[suicidesspyder]

Hey if any of you want to add me send me a message with ur email it would be great to keep in touch with all of you while playing too. This way if i need a help on a certain boss i can just ask right then and there lol. I think this is a great way to keep in touch.

[ebony]

next ingame REALID change

"CharName" & "Tite"
"RealID"
"GUILD"

come on they taking this way to far they might as well just rename your toons ingame your RealLife ID.

Then you can really kill someone in RealLife!

[Velassra]

With all the complaints about RealID over the weeknd in several threads, and the fact alot of people were saying Blizzard was silent on the matter of privacy concerns......shoulda seen this coming.

I have too much to lose, personally and professionally w/ my name being plastered all over a game forum for some butthurt forum Troll to turn around Google my name and call my employer or local regulatory board with some bullshit story or complaint. This doesn't even take into account someone showing up at my Home because of a forum post. I have a small child at home.

Don't say it would never happen....how many of us multibox just to escape the douchebaggery that goes on in WoW?

I don't see how Blizzard thought this was a good idea.

[kadaan]

I've supported them in their other less-than-popular announcements like the paid character services, pet store, and Real ID friends, but this is just too far. Even though I rarely post and never troll/flame on the official forums, I don't want someone (such as a potential future employer) to google my name and see all my gaming habits.

I also play games to have fun, not build a social network. If some of my friends play, great! I simply don't care to see a whole network of friends-of-friends nor have any desire to connect with them.

The whole anti-trolling argument is pretty lame as well. So what if John Smith is trolling instead of Trolololo. I still don't know who in-game that is, and any hardcore 4chan-style troll wouldn't have registered their Battle.net account with their real name anyway. Without any way to opt-out of displaying your real name, it's just going to encourage people to create Battle.net accounts with fake names.

[jinkobi]

Sounds too damn intrusive to me... I don't put my real name out there for anyone except where I have to make a payment.

Wonder what they're going to do when the first person gets hunted down for revenge. You could really ruin someone's real life. Would you want some WOW forum crackhead calling up your boss and that's just a mild case scenario.

Very strange how this came about right now. For 3 years I have posted on an alt on the Shadowsong:US forums under the name Porkie. Giving out clues to my identity over the years and finally someone won my 3 year game. Literally just gave them their 5k gold prize an hour ago.

I was never malicious but I would have a lot of fun at others expense. The people bragging about their gearscore or how awesome they were would rub me the wrong way and I'd tear them down. Really Porkie became a bit of an icon. Needless to say those with the over inflated ego's I targeted made many threats including threatening to get at me in real life.

Looks like I concluded my game at just the right time...

I know why they're doing this but c'mon now... They could just leave it as listing all your toons and leave your real name out of everything.

[ElectronDF]

I will never post on the new forums. They just lost my support. I don't really want to quit playing, but if I do, REALID will be 100% of my reason when I stop. Maybe Star Wars, probably SC2, maybe D3. I don't hate the games, just don't like the company.

[Iceorbz]

Wow -- simply put.. F'ing stupid. I will never ever post my name out for the 1000's of forum trolls to get. And the person on the first page hit the nail on the head. HR reps in many companies are being trained to search for their interviewees, and those who come up with "LOL I LIKE WOWZ" and the like have been, and could continue to be put on the bottom of the pile. There was some bad sampling that had went out saying that "video gamers" were less productive and more distracted at work, if there was internet connectivity. Basically they tried to say we do jack and shit but look at forums all day. Sad thing is, people believe that stuff.

There is just to much bad stuff about this, and I think that they should just make one account name ie: "Iceorbz" and anyone that friends you, any forum you post on, ect ect will only have that one character or account. They could have an option similar to ours where you click on the name and see all the other characters if you wanted.

[Iceorbz]

next ingame REALID change

"CharName" & "Tite"
"RealID"
"GUILD"

come on they taking this way to far they might as well just rename your toons ingame your RealLife ID.

Then you can really kill someone in RealLife!

This shit happens in korea... people have died over everquest and lineage 1 and 2. That's all we need is some crazy person going nuts and hunting you down because you map hacked his tournament game and beat him. People waste countless hours on pointless shit, like spamming us in game with foul language and the like. Just because they got gibbed at a quest turn in by 4 shaman... or they got spanked in arena or BG.

Can you imagine, with real names available, what they could do lol?

[Fat Tire]

I've supported them in their other less-than-popular announcements like the paid character services, pet store, and Real ID friends, but this is just too far. Even though I rarely post and never troll/flame on the official forums, I don't want someone (such as a potential future employer) to google my name and see all my gaming habits.

I also play games to have fun, not build a social network. If some of my friends play, great! I simply don't care to see a whole network of friends-of-friends nor have any desire to connect with them.

The whole anti-trolling argument is pretty lame as well. So what if John Smith is trolling instead of Trolololo. I still don't know who in-game that is, and any hardcore 4chan-style troll wouldn't have registered their Battle.net account with their real name anyway. Without any way to opt-out of displaying your real name, it's just going to encourage people to create Battle.net accounts with fake names.

Worse comes to worst blizz'll let us change our names irl for $25