RealID to come to the Official Blizzard Forums

[Fat Tire]

Get as angry as you want about the RealID crap, but leave the employee's alone, they didn't make the decision, and are doing their best to stay neutral in this fiasco.

I hope all of you that find this funny get to have your families details and photo's put on the internet so nerds can prank call and harass them for months when they had nothing to do with it.

Not sure why this is making me rage, I just don't think it's fair that non-decision makers, just simple employees get picked on.

Unless you won the lottery, I assume most of you have jobs (otherwise you couldn't afford to multibox) so just imagine for a second that your employer made a bad PR decision and some disgruntled customer descides to find out where one of their employee's lives, smashes up your car, and runs.

Yep, you get to deal with the crap and there is little chance you can do anything about it.

Anyways, I know the people that find this funny won't listen to what I said or understand anyways, but I think it's sad.

This is the kind of internet justice that should stay reserved for the people it started with, pedo's, thieves and animal bashers.

I am a jaded and cynical person, but I saw the thread where that blizzard employee was basically taunting the RealID bashers and he got what he got.

While it took 5 mins to pull up some old or incorrect info they were pretty close. It was when people got his facebook and he had to shut it down due to harassment this guy had second thoughts and locked everything.

Really a person just has to piss off the wrong person and this whole thing goes up in flames. The very least it does is kill the forums and that is the part that is most disappointing because alot of good feedback/info is shared there.

[Khatovar]

Gone are the days of "LAWLZ@ ur Armory NEWB!" Now it'll be "LAWLZ i will b raiding ur wife in an hour MR. Jake Johnson of 1313 Mockingbird Lane"

[OzPhoenix]

I am having something of a hard time believing that Blizzard will really go through with this. It must surely be the dumbest decision I've seen a gaming company make since NGE.

[zenga]

lol @ khavtovar

Also it has been stated that jenna jameson is playing wow. That's the only good reason i can think to have real iD

Gonna been fun if you happen to have the same name as any celebrity ...

[alcattle]

enough is more then enough

WoW accounts x 5 Canceled July 7th, 2010

reason: Personal Issues

Added Text : I refuse to play if you allow real names to be released in any manner

Good bye Blizzard

[Svpernova09]

http://www.gamona.de/games/activisio...s,1769743.html


For English speakers, Google Translate that.

[Fat Tire]

Thanks for that SN.

This thing has really started to go viral.

[Aenar]

I will be disabling my accounts after work today. I will not log ever agian unless this mess is corrected (not just the script bug: RealID needs to be completely dropped or reformatted). Damn it, was looking forward to the expansion.

[alcattle]

Gonna been fun if you happen to have the same name as any celebrity ...

Actually, I was named after a celebrity. Good news is he is on Google, or would that be bad news? He's dead so I guess it does not matter. Real good news is I do not come up in Google or do I have Twitter, facebook or myspace. My Handle is all over Google, has been for many years it seems for different forums I have posted on.
Anyway, I will miss playing WoW someday and will buy Cata but the rest will have to wait until BlizzTard fixes this mess

[Tonuss]

so the general wow forums will have about 5 posts a day, hehe

If they manually removed all of the stupid shit, there would probably be five posts left anyway.

I'm ambivalent about this. It's not as if people can't find my name and info pretty easily anyway, so I'm not scared of it. That said, I doubt that I'll post in the forums, at least at first. What really irks me is the amount of misinformation being thrown around. It doesn't surprise me (this is the General WOW forum, after all, and stupidity is the rule of the day) but it's aggravating because it doesn't allow for a reasonable discussion.

On the other hand, a few of the people who are posting "my name is John Smith, do your worst" have wound up regretting it, which is funny. But all this crap about legal issues and privacy rights is being posted by people who either do not understand what Blizzard is doing or do not understand privacy rights. It's painful to read. And that's not even counting the people warning that this will lead to mass blood-letting from deranged e-stalkers.