Didn't he leave soon after his details which were already in the public domain become widespread and his family started to become harrased?
The moment I heard that I could turn this information off I logged into battle.net and did just that.
I still use my account for Starcraft 2 regardless that I used to play WoW. (I quit partly in response to Blizzard's announcement of their forum and other plans involving RealID.). I am starting to wonder if it was because of legal action being taken, I remember reading on guild forums that one member who quit around the time of the RealID fiasco had spoken to his lawyer and was preparing a case. I don't know.. it was a bad idea wrapped in retarded wrapping paper and shipped in a stupid box in the first place really.
REALID was blown out of all proportion mostly by WoW haters, REALID never was a privacy issue.
Honestly Gruug, how in this day and age have you not gone to their Battle.net site and logged in at least once...? You do know what Bnet is right? And haven't you at least have been interested in the cata beta? Oh well, I can't expect everyone not to live in a cave.
my toughts , someone into mmo gaming dont know battlenet is quite relic
Didn't he leave soon after his details which were already in the public domain become widespread and his family started to become harrased?
The moment I heard that I could turn this information off I logged into battle.net and did just that.
I still use my account for Starcraft 2 regardless that I used to play WoW. (I quit partly in response to Blizzard's announcement of their forum and other plans involving RealID.). I am starting to wonder if it was because of legal action being taken, I remember reading on guild forums that one member who quit around the time of the RealID fiasco had spoken to his lawyer and was preparing a case. I don't know.. it was a bad idea wrapped in retarded wrapping paper and shipped in a stupid box in the first place really.
REALID was blown out of all proportion mostly by WoW haters, REALID never was a privacy issue.
Your right, it was blown out of proportion. But by WoW haters? I remember the WoW forums alight with furious nerd rage from actual WoW PLAYERS shouting their concerns and anger. Your half right, I'm just not prepared to accept that near 1 million people on the forums were "WoW haters" when they were paying for AND playing the game.
Edit, I forgot to add that journalists and civil rights groups were also highlighting the negative points of why RealID's implementation was a bad idea.
You mean the 'Your account has been haxxored, goto battlenet.virus-r-us.com and login' messages? No I get those and don't even have a battlenet account.
You know, now I have to wonder if someone got my address from a friend who both has me on Facebook and plays WoW? I started getting tons of those recently. And I have never played WoW, nor do I have a battlenet account.
You mean the 'Your account has been haxxored, goto battlenet.virus-r-us.com and login' messages? No I get those and don't even have a battlenet account.
You know, now I have to wonder if someone got my address from a friend who both has me on Facebook and plays WoW? I started getting tons of those recently. And I have never played WoW, nor do I have a battlenet account.
go play on private servers.. its the same, and there you dont have to worry on paying for a game or getting hacked
Hopefully this will help with the BS emails I keep getting
Don't hold your breath on that; once RealID went live I setup parental controls so that RealID wouldn't work for my account, but I still received them anyway.
"Oh my, how horrible, someone is criticizing a MMO. Oh yeah, that is what a forum is about, looking at both sides. You rather have to be critical of anything in this genre as of late because the track record of these major studios has just been appalling." -Ozmodan
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REALID was blown out of all proportion mostly by WoW haters, REALID never was a privacy issue.
my toughts , someone into mmo gaming dont know battlenet is quite relic
Your right, it was blown out of proportion. But by WoW haters? I remember the WoW forums alight with furious nerd rage from actual WoW PLAYERS shouting their concerns and anger. Your half right, I'm just not prepared to accept that near 1 million people on the forums were "WoW haters" when they were paying for AND playing the game.
Edit, I forgot to add that journalists and civil rights groups were also highlighting the negative points of why RealID's implementation was a bad idea.
It was turned ON by default for me and i never changed something into the settings
So the default could be different.
Me: One hour ago, Germany
You know, now I have to wonder if someone got my address from a friend who both has me on Facebook and plays WoW? I started getting tons of those recently. And I have never played WoW, nor do I have a battlenet account.
go play on private servers.. its the same, and there you dont have to worry on paying for a game or getting hacked
^^
Don't hold your breath on that; once RealID went live I setup parental controls so that RealID wouldn't work for my account, but I still received them anyway.
"Oh my, how horrible, someone is criticizing a MMO. Oh yeah, that is what a forum is about, looking at both sides. You rather have to be critical of anything in this genre as of late because the track record of these major studios has just been appalling." -Ozmodan