RealID to come to the Official Blizzard Forums

[Svpernova09]

I'm just waiting on them to announce a $9.99 / month "opt out of real ID" offer.


The whole thing is getting pretty silly.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I'm just waiting on them to announce a $9.99 / month "opt out of real ID" offer.


The whole thing is getting pretty silly.

I'm just waiting for the proverbial other shoe to drop. I predict when people find out what Blizzard/Activision are really doing with all this, it will actually be worse than it is now.

[Hivetyrant]

I'm just waiting for the proverbial other shoe to drop. I predict when people find out what Blizzard/Activision are really doing with all this, it will actually be worse than it is now.

Agreed, just like in-game advertising, dlc (the bad kind), etc, once one company does it, the rest will eventually follow.

[OzPhoenix]

The worst thing about this is the lack of control.

What if one of my accounts gets hacked and the hackers post with it?

The only way I can see myself being ok with this is:

1. I never post on the WoW Forums ever again.

2. Blizzard enables some feature that permanently and irreversably disables posting from any of my accounts.

3. Blizzard provides a system for obtaining technical support that works better than reply-bot email service, or an international phone call.

[Zub]

Thinking on it, my real name is already on many of the forums, via links to my wow-ratings website or other sig tools..
It's probably too late but i'll be removing all of them shortly.

If this REALID forum stuff does come live, i know i won't be posting on the wow forums at all.
Having a relatively unique name is a biatch.

[Slats]

This is all because of the Activision-Blizzard Facebook deal.

I do not want my non-gamer friends seeing. SLATTERS HAS GAINED A NEW LEVEL in WORLD OF WARCARFT. 40000 people like this!

Fuck that.


Like seriously.

[alcattle]

Who said this only happens to people who sign in to RealID ? Like the past change, that you must have a Battle.net account or you can't play Bullshit. It was fine before that even though I like the way the login/authenicator works now. I will never use RealID, and if they want it to be that way, I will only use pre-paid game cards. The damage might be done but I will not take any more chances. No one has the right to enable my credit card to be seen on the internet in any manner. I know the CC bureaus are too risky now but they can't be controlled as they "do a service"

[daviddoran]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l1_8wefR7c

this is whats gonna happen. Srsly.

[OzPhoenix]

Who said this only happens to people who sign in to RealID ? Like the past change, that you must have a Battle.net account or you can't play Bullshit. It was fine before that even though I like the way the login/authenicator works now. I will never use RealID, and if they want it to be that way, I will only use pre-paid game cards. The damage might be done but I will not take any more chances. No one has the right to enable my credit card to be seen on the internet in any manner. I know the CC bureaus are too risky now but they can't be controlled as they "do a service"

The problem is none of what you're suggesting will help you. Even if you now switch to game cards, if ever any of your accounts get hacked and the hacker then posts on the forums (once this system goes live) there goes your real name out onto the Web - even without you ever once having used RealID.

I, like most others here, use authenticators on my accounts, but even those aren't 100% fool-proof, besdies which, last time I logged into the forums I wasn't even asked for an authenicator code.

[alcattle]

The problem is none of what you're suggesting will help you. Even if you now switch to game cards, if ever any of your accounts get hacked and the hacker then posts on the forums (once this system goes live) there goes your real name out onto the Web - even without you ever once having used RealID.

I, like most others here, use authenticators on my accounts, but even those aren't 100% fool-proof, besdies which, last time I logged into the forums I wasn't even asked for an authenicator code.

If it goes that far, I will still be gone. If I start again, I will never use my real data, and Blizztard can suckz my Epeen. They will not 1984 me for a game!