SearchBattle.net forums are not to feature Real ID
Posted by Radoslav "nydra" Kolev 1 year ago
Due to the tempestuous feedback that came from the Battle.net forum community about the introduction of RealID to the boards, Blizzard CEO and co-founder Mark Morhaime came forth with a statement that announces that this feature is removed for the time being.Hello everyone,
I'd like to take some time to speak with all of you regarding our desire to make the Blizzard forums a better place for players to discuss our games. We've been constantly monitoring the feedback you've given us, as well as internally discussing your concerns about the use of real names on our forums. As a result of those discussions, we've decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums.
It's important to note that we still remain committed to improving our forums. Our efforts are driven 100% by the desire to find ways to make our community areas more welcoming for players and encourage more constructive conversations about our games. We will still move forward with new forum features such as conversation threading, the ability to rate posts up or down, improved search functionality, and more. However, when we launch the new StarCraft II forums that include these new features, you will be posting by your StarCraft II Battle.net character name + character code, not your real name. The upgraded World of Warcraft forums with these new features will launch close to the release of Cataclysm, and also will not require your real name.
I want to make sure it's clear that our plans for the forums are completely separate from our plans for the optional in-game Real ID system now live with World of Warcraft and launching soon with StarCraft II. We believe that the powerful communications functionality enabled by Real ID, such as cross-game and cross-realm chat, make Battle.net a great place for players to stay connected to real-life friends and family while playing Blizzard games. And of course, you'll still be able to keep your relationships at the anonymous, character level if you so choose when you communicate with other players in game. Over time, we will continue to evolve Real ID on Battle.net to add new and exciting functionality within our games for players who decide to use the feature.
In closing, I want to point out that our connection with our community has always been and will always be extremely important to us. We strongly believe that Every Voice Matters, ( http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/mission.html ) and we feel fortunate to have a community that cares so passionately about our games. We will always appreciate the feedback and support of our players, which has been a key to Blizzard's success from the beginning.
Mike Morhaime
CEO & Cofounder
Blizzard Entertainment
I'd like to take some time to speak with all of you regarding our desire to make the Blizzard forums a better place for players to discuss our games. We've been constantly monitoring the feedback you've given us, as well as internally discussing your concerns about the use of real names on our forums. As a result of those discussions, we've decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums.
It's important to note that we still remain committed to improving our forums. Our efforts are driven 100% by the desire to find ways to make our community areas more welcoming for players and encourage more constructive conversations about our games. We will still move forward with new forum features such as conversation threading, the ability to rate posts up or down, improved search functionality, and more. However, when we launch the new StarCraft II forums that include these new features, you will be posting by your StarCraft II Battle.net character name + character code, not your real name. The upgraded World of Warcraft forums with these new features will launch close to the release of Cataclysm, and also will not require your real name.
I want to make sure it's clear that our plans for the forums are completely separate from our plans for the optional in-game Real ID system now live with World of Warcraft and launching soon with StarCraft II. We believe that the powerful communications functionality enabled by Real ID, such as cross-game and cross-realm chat, make Battle.net a great place for players to stay connected to real-life friends and family while playing Blizzard games. And of course, you'll still be able to keep your relationships at the anonymous, character level if you so choose when you communicate with other players in game. Over time, we will continue to evolve Real ID on Battle.net to add new and exciting functionality within our games for players who decide to use the feature.
In closing, I want to point out that our connection with our community has always been and will always be extremely important to us. We strongly believe that Every Voice Matters, ( http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/mission.html ) and we feel fortunate to have a community that cares so passionately about our games. We will always appreciate the feedback and support of our players, which has been a key to Blizzard's success from the beginning.
Mike Morhaime
CEO & Cofounder
Blizzard Entertainment
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| Blizzard seems to follow the wind a bit too much while the release is soon. Hope they won't change everything after everyone will have buy the game... |
| Thank you blizzard! |
| Gotta give Blizzard credit. As stupid as that idea was in the first place, at least they somewhat care what the community thinks to take it out. With company's like Dice and Bioware starting to shrug off their communities this is kind of a welcome change. Although we need those chat channels Blizz... |
| #2 I'll second that! |
| What a relief :) |
| turn on BETA and stop talking sh... |
| yea, glad they listened to all the feedback and rectified their decision! |
| #6 +111111111111111111 AND ADD CHATS,CHATS,CHATS,CHATS -_- |
| Conspiracy theory (more or less) Blizzard said they will force you to use realID for forums so after people complain they can say they will listen to community and you don't have to. This way people get what they want and Blizzard looks good :) Just kidding ofc. Good move by Blizz. |
| I know one guy that will be very sad about this :( :( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NgAkWxcPBE< /b> |
| #10 Hah, that was quite funny. :) |
| lol |
| cool ? yeah |
| this was actually on the bbc news so no wonder Blizzard shat a brick at the impact this would have. |
| Smart move by Mark Morhaime to speak now after all the problems that have happened and the trust issues that are spreading between ActivisionBlizzard and the community. He sends a message, this is still the blizzard company you have always loved. You may not like our decisions but we always take them with your best interests at hearth and we are trying to listen to you guys as much as we can. Let's just hope this follows some serious discussion they might have had in Blizzard HQ and is the signal for a switch in their strategy. I welcome this message regardless with one exception though, the "for now" line. |
| so their conspiracy plans did not work =P goodie |
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| Ok this is funny; I understand why blizzard did this. But I can't understand why everyone is so upset about this. Everyone here has a facebook, twitter or what ever account, everyone here has photos, are members of groups, have pictures of you posted by your friends doing what ever, and you show what you support. So people already know who you are, what you do and similar things. Here someone will show only your real name (how real it is a question it is not as if they will get a finger print) on a forum and people are upset because of this. They are upset about not being able to insult, whine and do all sorts of stupid things on forums. Don't get me wrong I respect privacy. So I believe that blizzard should for the time being have an option for a real name. So I have a question for the 17 posters before me how many of you have some sort of a facebook, twitter type of profile. And think about this, What are you complaining about if you have a facebook account, and why do you care if you haven't revealed your personal info on the net. So if you do not want people to know about you do not post that type of information anywhere on the net. |
| it doesn't matter if they have facebook - they simply think that virtual and physical worlds are not to be merged for a myriad of legitimate reasons. |
| 50bucks that he didn'T write that text himself |
| #18 Some people have facebook to keep in contact with ppl we can't keep contact with some other way. Having FB doesn't mean I want everyone in sc community to know my name, email adress and such. I admit, nobody is interested in my informations anyway, but there are those who will be "under constant watch". Friends on FB are one thing, random ppl on b.net forums are other. |
| #20 if you made a bet about me please read this. If you didn't, I guess I replied in vain. Everyone else I apologize for posting an answer totally unrelated to the topic. Ha-ha number 20# I have a degree in English translation, English language and literature and have been working for an American company in Dubai for the past three years. I am planning on getting a master's degree in 2011. So yes, I wrote it alone and further more you owe me 50 bucks And I would like to apologize for some of the orthographic errors in my other posts as I was typing in a hurry and was too lazy to correct them. Come to think of it, if I were using my real name I couldn't afford to be lazy and would have to correct my typing in all of my posts. |
| Now, let's get back to the topic. # 19 and #21 Thank you for the wonderful input and to a large extent I agree with both of you. # 19 You are right about the legal consequences but my argument is that people have already merged those worlds. On facebook you can see if someone is playing "Farmville" and what ever game is there. I think that you will agree with me on this one. The only reason I approve of the real ID thing is that it will stop all the stupid threads, racial remarks, insults and all types of stupid shit. This will not completely stop people, I know that, but I see it as a step towards the solution of the problem. The only reason why I posted here is that people complain about putting information on the internet and yet they willingly provide ten times more personal information on a different site. I agree with #21 your friends seeing the information and anyone seeing is not the same. I know this really well. My girlfriend got angry with me because an ex-girlfriend posted my pictures long time after we had stopped dating. Now try proving to your girlfriend that the picture was taken a year ago ha-ha. BTW I have nothing against facebook I only used it as an example because that is the only social site that I am familiar with. |
| it doesn't make it any more right. People in general are clueless and broadcast every single bit of their pathetic lives to the world. Nobody forces you to play games on facebook, you can use it to stay in touch with RL people and nothing of value is lost. When you pay 60 bucks for a game to play the game, why is it right to bundle the crap you don't want? You can skip Farmville on facebook, you should be able to skip RealID without being a citizen of 2nd category, forced to stay away from features you pretty much paid for. The only reason I approve of the real ID thing is that it will stop all the stupid threads, racial remarks, insults and all types of stupid shit. This will not completely stop people, I know that, but I see it as a step towards the solution of the problem. RealID in form of a global handle would be more than enough, mods doing their fucking job is also not that crazy idea. Let's get real, long time gamers developed their online personalities and they are tied with their unique nicknames. People tend to value their online reputation. These nicknames would be enough to provide accountablility if only it wouldn't be so easy to create alts for trolling. That's the fix. Blizzard reasoning is flawed, their solution is as if the forums stayed the same, but in reality the whole ecosystem is to be drastically changed and in this new scope throwing real names around would be an overkill, like purging roaches from your house using a nuke. That of course if you buy into the whole war on trolling and not think that is the smoke and mirrors to sneak in the monetization of customers' personal data with 3rd parties, which is the true reason. Forums are saved for now (notice 'at this time' in Morhaime's message) but the data is still to be sold to the highest bidder as planned. Real id on forums fiasco is just a bump on the road for them. It is so easy for them to do whatever they want, blizzard fanboys have a heavy confirmation bias (i know, i was one of them) and any bad news is totally forgotten as soon as is followed with not so bad news, ie endless 'thank you blizzard' in official forums. People revering Blizzard get a cognitive dissonance in such situations, conflict between their idealized image of the company and the company's questionable actions. Instead of accepting simple explanation that Blizz are a company like any other and they don't hesitate to screw the customer in the name of the almighty dollar, people wait for the slightest sign of good will, even forced, and are really thankful that they can rebuild the idealized image and kill the dissonance and carry on. Yeah, i see how you would thank your anal rapist that he used the lube, because after all he could rape you without. |
| walls of text!! |
| Who cares about this, if you don't want to show your name you can just enter fake name for your "RealID." I didn't think anyone used their real name on any form unless they had to enter a credit card number. Apparently I was wrong. |
| No, you can't just use a fake name. Ok, you can.. but if your account gets hijacked and you'd like to get it back? Forget it. Blizzard will ask you for a document proving your identity. Maybe in case of SC2 an incentive to hack is small but WoW or D3 where real money can be made? Hijack some poor bastard's account and sell all his stuff for all its worth, as a bonus use that compromised account to spam on forums and in game. WoW players are already attacked, D3 will be the same. |
| Ok people, this is kinda funny. Some of the people, that objected to posting under their real name, provided names (on this site) that look real to me. Don't worry I didn't google your name. This proves my point that most people (not all) provide the information willingly but if you ask them they get angry. Now for your information, the name I provided on this site is my real name. I do not have a twitter or a facebook account in case you try to google my name ha-ha. One more thing I am not saying people are stupid, I am not laughing at anybody for putting their real name on a forum. This idea is not as bad as some people make it to be. I agree with Vaphhell that there may be some issues but we already talked about that. A lot of times people take sides in an argument without thinking things thoroughly. We are all human after all and we are not perfect. |
| Ok I confess. I did google one of the names + gosugamer. Don't hate me please. Read my post before you send a hitman to kill me. I googled - my own name - and the GosuGamer page did come up. I am not that guy on Facebook, I am definitely not that guy on jerk.com haha At least I like to think (Pretend would be the better word) I am not. I am that guy on Anime News Network that is me guilty as charged. |
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