RealID to come to the Official Blizzard Forums

[Maxion]

Most likely you will still be able to read the forums without your name being shown to anyone else anywhere, it will only show up if you make a post.
And they are not linking armory to realid, everything realid is still going to be an opt-in thing where if you don't want your real name shown anywhere, it won't be. Just don't opt in.

[luxlunae]

What's really terrifying is that this has warped into a "lets cross reference the forums with sex offender databases" thread that someone posted sarcastically... and then some parents got on board and are discussing it seriously.

[luxlunae]

Basically then anyone who doesn't want to be publicly linked to world of warcraft has to just not participate in the feedback systems for the game developers? That hardly seems fair. And while many of the forums are crap, some of them remain useful (I like the addon forum, personally).

[Souca]

Perhaps what bothers me the most is the seeming lack of concern from Blizzard about the paying subscribers that don't like these features. I can ignore the trolls and people that legitimately don't understand my concern or don't share it, but the company line seems to be very much "Deal with it."

- Souca -

[Kicksome]

This is good way to make people who want to remain anonymous, but post on the forums, pay another $15/month. You'd have to create a new bnet account, buy the game, and pay the subscription fee (via time card). And make sure you use a bogus name.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!