In an attempt to increase security and remove a good deal of the animosity that comes with anonymity, Blizzard announced that Real ID would be coming to their Battle.net interface, which includes notable titles such as World of Warcraft and the impending StarCraft 2. Unsurprisingly, not everyone is content with these measures.
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lets get one thing straight, the main reason people are bitching about this is NOT because of security. It's because they are the ones trolling, talking crap on the message boards, starting flame wars and generally acting like deuchebags. I no longer play the game, but I'm sure the forums are still the same, if not worse, and personally I see this as a good thing and hope that Blizzard doesn't back out of this. If they force people to use their real names then we'll see how much of an e-thug people really are when your name is Percy Miniscus or Richard Smalls and you can be looked up on Facebook for the pathetic loser that you probably really are.
Yep but security is a big deal, too.
I can get a full address from someones name, easy.
Clearly sexist comments from jack-offs at the people who are now confirmed to be female is a great reason to keep and implement this idea.
Or better yet, high profile people who like a little privacy and escape from real life should be messed with while playing a game. Completely forgetting the fact that Blizzard has always prided itself on security and discouraging people from using real names in-game for security reasons.
If Blizzard would stop screwing around and police their own forums, trolling wouldn't be as big of an issue. Start disciplining accounts and ultimately banning them for being jackasses.... None of this B.Net 1.0 crap where you can make an infinite number of accounts. You get banned from wow forums, congrats go buy another game to harass people with. Same goes for Diablo Uni and StarCraft Uni forums.
Blizzard can easily do this and keep their old mentality of not banning game accounts for actions taken on forums. They're doing it now, just like they always have been. It's just really, really rare.
This is about security I bet any amount of money that the Blues will not be using their real names.
as you can probably tell, i don't have a problem with displaying my name, but i disagree with forcing others to display their real name, it should be the user's choice.
all this guff about security, blizzard know the name the user has given, which may or may not be their real names, forcing them to be displayed on the forums is taking things a step too far.
they're going to lose a lot of players over this i bet.