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[WoW] Have you been posting? I'm sorry but I'll have to see some [RealID]!
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I mean... I hate WoW. Yeah. That's what I said.
Then I very much doubt it was an addon. Unless she installed one between now and when RealID was first introduced.
There's not much information people can get about your character without you deliberately sending it to them.
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
I am a freaking nerd.
We already had adds in the old bnet as long as they aren't retardedly intrusive I don't mind. Just keep them out of the ui once I'm actually playing the game and not going through menus
Fuck yeah! Good job Blizzard.
I'm surprised it took this long, it should've taken half the time for them to go, "Oh holy fuck, what did we just do?"
Oh please. "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."
It's part of the damn mission statement and they followed through BEFORE implementing any kind of change.
It's a victory for the players because it means they know 100% that when shit like this happens there will be an uproar. Thus if they want to do anything like it, they have to be more careful.
Which also drives home the ball to Kotick and Activision, hopefully.
I'm always open to the possibility that I'm wrong, but I am almost 100% confident on this one. Maybe you could ask this fellow for the script he used? If this is indeed possible, I can post it to the UI forums in the developers thread right away so it can be fixed.
Hahaha, this is awesome.
This.
It was announced, what, Tuesday? I think it has been a reasonable turnaround. A day to go "oh shit", a second day to make sure people don't change their minds / discuss alternatives, and another day to come to a decision on an alternative. I don't quite like the tone used in the announcement (too PR-crafted) but whatever.
Conspiracy Theory: Maybe RealID was just a scam to get us to accept a shitty threaded forum style.
Still, my trust in Blizzard's been pretty badly shaken, and I doubt I'll be able to work up any frothing demand for their games any more.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
You missed something there. Yeah they squelched concern about the forums, but not about the facebook integration which is where the real "oh shit" might come from. However if it's opt-in, and not "well, opt-in, but, if you don't, half the game won't work for you like being able to group with real-id friends xserver, or whatever," then, that's great news.
I will still be skeptical, and you will still have a huge chip on your shoulder because of it.
This comment on Lum's blog stuck out to me.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
It has to be. Because regardless of if they'll force you to connect to a facebook, just make a new informationless one.
But yes, I'd assume it'd be optional entirely.
The only thing that's changed is that they're going to be more careful and subtle about it.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Now if they would just remove the real name stuff from the friend system. If it could all just be done off a permanent alias, I would be as happy as could be.
That's not an appropriate analogy. That's more, "Bully tries to take your candy, you get indignant at the bully and yell at him till he says fine you can keep your candy, geez" and leaves.
"when no one is looking" is rather disingenuous.
Or you could just turn it off and let those of us that want to use it (Like me) enjoy it.
Not to rain on the victory parade, but this is not going away. The persons responsible for Real ID have only backed off on the most controversial aspect, in the face of overwhelming opposition at a critical date. This was a huge PR diverson from the upcoming Starcraft II launch. Depending on future customer reaction, they could very well try to re-implement at a later date.
You still cannot opt out of friends of friends or hide your real name in-game, and the coming integration with Facebook should at the very least make one cautious.
The main thing we can be happy about is their executives are not entirely tone deaf to the community.
There's a switch! FLIP THE SWITCH.
If I could be Tomanta instead of <real name> I would almost certainly use it. I wouldn't link it to facebook because fuck, no one there cares if I just escaped from Arthas in HHoR for the 50th time.
Using a real name as an identifier is still a hazardous privacy/security concern, this is just the difference between a slow balloon leak and the Hindenburg.
And if, if, there is a way to get someone's real name in-game via a script, it's right back to Hindenburg levels. Or worse, really, since there'd be no opt-out and people wouldn't even know someone was looking.
This is kinda how I feel. It's like cheering and rewarding somebody for not killing somebody today.
Glad they're not doing it. But common sense would have told anybody not to do it in the first place.
IF you want to use RealID though in the first place you not only need to trust your friends but also their friends with your real name.
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It's not a script. If you install an addon that has certain code, your realID can be looked at by non-friends. Still a problem, but at least it's something you can control yourself.
Given this is what they're doing with forum posts, its the next logic step to just roll this out to everything Real ID related. Time will tell of course, and Blizzard isn't often logical.