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SlyGamer79
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i just heard about this recently and i'm curious about this does it give your real name and thats it or is it more then that and why would bliz wanna give out personal info in game for everyone to see anyway ?
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They give out your name, you mother maiden name, your familys name, where you live, where you work, which side you sleep on, when your dinner time is and last but not least your credit card numbers.
SSN is coming in the next patch as well, along with blood type and what you ate for breakfast.
Methinks this is just an elaborate ruse made by the black market organ specialists to get your info so that you can be harvested in your sleep. If you wake up in a bath tub full of ice, just know that "WoW did it".
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ok so people they play wow should worry about those they piss off and get nerdrage they might show up at they're house and kill em over loot ROFL.
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The real ID wouldn't change that much while playing WoW, but it's a double edges sword.
You are not forced to tell others your real ID (theroretically, but maybe you want to join a raiding guild and they require your real ID). You can add your friends to your friend list and your friends' friends can see you too (similar to facebook).You may see which games your friends currently play. You may get more personalized advertising, though.
It could hamper software piracy for titles such a Starcraft 2 or Diablo 3. The Game key/software key might be dongled to your account, which is required to be able for "network play" (battlenet).
Just one possible scenario: You are tired of doing a raid today and instead play Starcraft 2. One of your friends sees you skipping the scheduled raid and instead playing another game. Even if you told the raid leader in advance that you couldn't participate (without explicit reasons or wrong reasons, to not loose your raid spot in the future) that could lead to drama if the raid is currently lacking vital classes.
Just be sure to read the EULA to know what you have to expect. It seems Blizzard found a mighty club to hit several problems a publisher faces. But other publishers are experimenting in that field too (e.g. UBISoft and to be forced to be online in an offline game).
I just wanted to comment in here since I was a longtime WoW player (4 years) who quit over RealID, and will not be re-subbing even though they've boxed it "for now"... because I get slightly annoyed when people dismiss these concerns with the paranoia card.
I was a very prolific poster within the class community there. I participated in class-specific theorycrafting discussions, I also helped out in the technical forums on a regular basis, and as an Officer I was involved in recruitment/administration of the guild website. I was involved in beta testing. Forums were a huge part of my community involvement.
For professional reasons, my (relatively unique) name is plastered across several department pages on my company's website, for which I have no control or say on since I'm dept head. If you google me, you can find out legally where I live due to government voting records which I ticked the "don't put info online" option but which they errored on. I don't have social networking accounts, but I have been tagged in a couple of photos where my face appears from friends accounts - in one, I'm holding my son at his aunt's birthday party.
Because of this, you can get a LOT of detail about me (I'm female, which office address I work at, what I look like) just through my name. Keeping those two identities (my WoW self and professional/personal self) is of the utmost importance to me.
I'm involved in hiring others for a 1000+ person company, and I do NOT want two types of people finding out every bit about my life: people who I'm on the hiring panel for who link my online gaming to the person they meet during interviews, and secondly, as a female I have had random stalkers get weird when I chatted on Vent with a female voice. It's one reason I have a "listen, no speaking" rule in my new guild during raids. I didn't even have to piss anyone off to endure that behaviour.
I practice safe online activity - I don't post info linking my priviate details together, I don't take part in anything that might (social websites). Colleagues don't know their 52-yr old female boss is a MMO player, and I'm not going to pay Blizzard to reveal that for me. I'm certainly not going to say to my son that it's ok to post his name online - it goes against everything I've taught him about net safety, and I do worry about HIS boss' googling of his name in future, should he ever make a mistake. We've fired people, or not hired them, after distasteful online googling results were verified, at my company.
So.... just wanting to put that info out there to anyone who's going to continue mentioning the 'tin foil hat' thing.
Yeah screw that.
I play with some pretty women sometimes and even though people do not even know what they look like IRL they may get all sorts of harrassment from tells or in vent . .. I would not feel safe knowing that people could find out who I really am when I never told them just because we have played the same video game and definitely wouldn't want my sister or GFs info up there for anyone to see.
That is really messed up.
Of course it is a lot different for us though because we play Darkfall . .. kind of different than WoW. There is no way in hell anyone in their right mind would ever think of posting who Darkfall players really are.
Honestly, what the hell were they thinking??
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that's why I will never like the RealID thing and have taken Blizzard games off of my might play or want to play lists. Don't blame you at all for taking your stand, as someone with a unique name I totally understand it. It doesn't kill the game if the guy I'm grouped with doesn't know my real name, where I live, where I work, how many kids I have, what car I drive, what my dog's name is, what I ate for lunch, and other nonsense. I just hope this isn't the start of a trend. If so any game with realID gets crossed off the list.
We want better games developers, not some online game/facebook social network hybrid!!!
i quit wow before last xmas i just got tired of it. been wow free for almost a year now :-P
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raptr-slygamer1979
Real name ID is a total bull****! When you signed up in the game they say in the TOA that your info is confidential then now they'll give away your info?
I don't like it because it pretty much eliminates that totally anonymous element to the world of online gaming. I like being known as Icegoten online and don't need people to know my real name or any other personal information about me. As far as everyone knows my first name is Ice and my last name is Goten. Let's keep it that way!