RealID to come to the Official Blizzard Forums

[Souca]

Blizzard is also assuring gamers that the moderating team will be more vigilant than ever when Real ID is being implemented, trying to limit all the incidents that can arise from the use of real world names on a gaming forum with a player base as big as that of World of Warcraft. Still, the potential for abuse is high and the official forums might feel much more empty in a short while.

Wait, didn't every green poster say they hated this idea and wouldn't be posting anymore? Sure, the paid blues will still be around, or fired, but when the volunteer CMs leave, you know you've pissed off some people.

Either way, I'm glad to see Blizzard taking in feedback from it's customer base and responding to peoples' concerns.

[Daeri]

Wait, didn't every green poster say they hated this idea and wouldn't be posting anymore? Sure, the paid blues will still be around, or fired, but when the volunteer CMs leave, you know you've pissed off some people.

Either way, I'm glad to see Blizzard taking in feedback from it's customer base and responding to peoples' concerns.

- Souca -

[alcattle]

This former blue says Blizzard isn't trying to act evil or do bad stuff behind our back : people are staying more and more connected all the time via all these social sites and this is the future of all online games. But he agrees Blizzard should not have brought the new system this way.

Yes BlizzTard did it wrong, and I am not on facebook and I want nothing to do with social networking other than being pleasent to others in a game. I love talking to guildies, but I tend not to talk that much. I am the same way IRL. I don't talk to people unless I know them and like them, no talking to open my mouth kind of thing.
If it was truly "opt-in" fine, but as shown it is broken, and is not worth playing in that case.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Check this out. For the stat-curious among us...

http://static.bwerp.net/~adam/2010/07/08/

Monitors stats on the RealID thread in the general official forums.

As of a few minutes ago:

Posts in Thread

* Highest post number scanned: 40,179
* Total posts: 37,173
* Deleted posts: 3,006 (7.48%)*†

* The script is currently rescanning old pages for newly-deleted posts: 1710 pages remaining. True value is >10%.
† Includes moderated posts (trolling, CAPSLOCK, spam, etc.) and self-deleted posts.
Characters in Thread

* Unique characters: 12,073
* Mean posts/character: 3.08
* Median posts/character: 3
* Top 5 characters:
1. Merisioux of Kirin Tor (251 posts)
2. Tumbles of Wyrmrest Accord (246 posts)
3. Adnan of Garona (167 posts)
4. Dalri of Cenarion Circle (101 posts)
5. Soulez of Area 52 (97 posts)