Comments on: RealID Saga Part One: Silencing Voices

By: Weighing in on the forum Real ID issue - The Stoppable Force

Weighing in on the forum Real ID issue - The Stoppable Force — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:01:03 +0000

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By: anon

anon — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:43:24 +0000

So blizz has apparently let us win on the forum-real id thing. I would like to post something here that I’ve posted elsewhere. I don’t want people to forget about the REAL ID – IN GAME issue, as it is still much bigger even than the forum issue was!!!

It seems to me that – now that blizzard has rescinded, and ‘let us win’ the FORUM-real id fight…

It was nothing but a smokescreen. They knew there would be outcry about real ID IN GAME… so knowing media tactics, they distracted us with the announcement that they would have it in the forums… and then let us rage over that; but threw us a bone, and let us think we won.

Please, don’t give up and forget. People are so easily manipulated by the media these days, so wanting to just ‘go back in the game’ into blissful oblivion that they are likely to also let this real ID crap in game, slide.

People need to start REMEMBERIng and stop forgetting so easily, being so ADHD about issues… and stop being so gullible. This not only has ruined games for us consumers, it’s fattened the pockets of the greedy, and allowed them to attack our privacy, freedoms, and REAL LIFE rights more and more. When is this going to stop?

By: RealID is fai–Nevermind. « Lyraat's WoW Reprieve

RealID is fai–Nevermind. « Lyraat's WoW Reprieve — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:15:38 +0000

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By: Portals to Real-Rage «

Portals to Real-Rage « — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:30:08 +0000

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By: Pewter

Pewter — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:38:05 +0000

The more I learn about Activision and Bob Kotick, the more frightened I’m getting. I think Blizzard, the Cms and the Devs are in a horrible position right now, Activision’s diktat is going to kill Blizz’s reputation for “Every Voice Matters” in the name of trying to be a Gaming Facebook.

By: Logtar

Logtar — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:58:07 +0000

Trying to snipe someone with a catapult kind of kills the element of surprise. WoW is escapism and most of the people that play don’t abuse the forums or have ever visited them… however, those of us that do are having choices made for us.

I think curving trolling would better just linking all toons in an account together, but then again it brings up the same concerns that RP (or guild masters that have toons they hide on) have of people being able to link them to alts.

Better policing is an answer but not an easy to implement because any kind of tool given to the community can be abused.

As a straight male I have been stalked a couple of times in my life and it sucked, even though I was not in fear of being sexually or physically abused, it was not a good situation. As a guild leader I have been harassed by players in the past, and the ignore button has helped out… not sure if those same people would escalate it if they got a hold of my real name but it is a true possibility.

I think unless the community itself is asking for change with this real ID thing, they should stay as they are.

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:01:36 +0000

My guild is half and half – some are all WTFBLIZZ!, some just don’t care. And the opinions didn’t have anything to do with gender or anything else, fwiw. The other girl didn’t know about it, the gay guy didn’t seem disturbed, one guy said we were overreacting, and one guy was just as pissed off as me.
Jen´s last [type] ..A happy story with a noob

By: Pewter

Pewter — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:57:04 +0000

Yeah, that is my fear. There is complete rejection of the idea in my guild, and it appears to be generally unpopular on my server, but some interesting stats posted over at WoW ladies showed that high proportions of the folk objecting were from RP realms, and from Proudmoore, which makes me feel that a lot of WoW gamer haven’t even noticed yet and probably won’t notice until the change is already made

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:42 +0000

I am 100% convinced they do get it and they just don’t give a fuck. Someone posted some numbers on the US forums – less than 1% of the player base has written (on the forums) about this. That percentage was actually around 0.15%. Out of those who complained, only a percentage will cancel their subscriptions. A couple thousand people is nothing for a company like Blizzard… not when there’s a fat contract with Facebook in the middle.
Jen´s last [type] ..A happy story with a noob

By: Pewter

Pewter — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:35:05 +0000

Yes. I think there is a big difference between participating on a gender neutral website like facebook which allows you to opt out of things while still allowing you to use facebook to connect with you friends, and requiring people to provide their real names first to participate in a culture with such a bad history.

AND THEN allowing people to troll anonymously using a downrank feature.