RealID to come to the Official Blizzard Forums

[MiRai]

This thread is by no means meant to steal people away from the other thread in this forum by MuffinMan. But after quickly sifting through those pages I didn't notice that what I'm about to post was already in there. For the fact that people have said what they wanted to say in the other thread they might not see this and I believe this is a big failure on Blizzard's part.

I was linked this [only worried about the initial post]:
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread....16898792&sid=1

Which suggests we Google "RealID Gameriot" which lead me to this:
http://wowriot.gameriot.com/blogs/Am...nction?gr_i_ni

And ends here [where it all began]:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...=1&pageNo=1#16

Now the original EU forum post mentions about people finding felonies and such but the Gameriot post does not mention this. I didn't bother to read anything on that 26 page thread on the US forums except for Bashiok's blue posts so I can't tell you whether people did or did not actually post that information publicly about Bashiok. Apparently Bashiok did end up deleting his own Facebook page. I can only imagine what the population of the Blizzard gaming community and other places [like 4chan ] are going to be doing to people.

EDIT: Threads have been merged, this post kept intact.

[Souca]

This comment is just so fun:

http://wowriot.gameriot.com/permalink/comment/610830

- Souca -

[MiRai]

Now apparently the Gameriot page actually has an incorrect address. People are claiming that all blue posters are from Irvine, CA which that address shows Lakeport, CA. It could be an old address where he used to live or his family's address, I have no idea.

This shows Irvine, CA addresses:
http://www.pipl.com/search/?FirstNam...=2&Interface=1

As well as the rest of the internet articles on it:
http://www.wow.com/2010/07/06/blizza...-id-situation/
http://www.binya.org/etain/?p=1106
http://www.coffeedrunk.com/2010/07/0...hiok-harassed/
http://solean.blog.de/2010/07/07/the...ipple-8927339/

On July 7th at 3AM CST this thread is currently 870 pages long. Will Blizzard realize something is wrong?

Might just ask for this to be merged with the other thread.

EDIT: Merged

[Souca]

The meme is already spreading:

Hitler Hears About Real-ID

- Souca -

[Hivetyrant]

Now apparently the Gameriot page actually has an incorrect address. People are claiming that all blue posters are from Irvine, CA which that address shows Lakeport, CA. It could be an old address where he used to live or his family's address, I have no idea.

This shows Irvine, CA addresses:
http://www.pipl.com/search/?FirstNam...=2&Interface=1

As well as the rest of the internet articles on it:
http://www.wow.com/2010/07/06/blizza...-id-situation/
http://www.binya.org/etain/?p=1106
http://www.coffeedrunk.com/2010/07/0...hiok-harassed/
http://solean.blog.de/2010/07/07/the...ipple-8927339/

On July 7th at 3AM CST this thread is currently 870 pages long. Will Blizzard realize something is wrong?

Might just ask for this to be merged with the other thread.

EDIT: Merged

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.

[MiRai]

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.

No idea why it's making you rage either. I didn't do the searches. These are links which are already quoted from the thread(s) I linked.

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.

Did my post suggest I was angry? I'm not angry, I'm just along for the ride. I don't even post on the Blizzard forums; and for the rare occasion that I do post, I've already made a new BNet account with a fake name anyway. When G4 has their series "Behind the MMO" in 15 years and they air the episode about the downfall of Blizzard Entertainment, I can say I was there for all of it.

[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.

[kadaan]

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 agree. If people want to rage at someone at Blizzard, all the real names of the higher ups have been public in the credits for years: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...its-wrath.html