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Actually ... Nate Send a noteboard - 08/07/2010 04:51:50 PM
Facebook provides the means, but WoW could provide the motivation. If I go on Facebook right now, I can look up a hundred million people with mostly open profile information. What would I do, though? Why would I want to harass someone? Even if I did, who would I go after? Enter WoW. I steal an item, intentionally wipe a raid, whatever, and, I have a lot of angry people who want retribution. All of a sudden, there's a reason to go to Facebook, and a target to search for.


If you did those things and an angry person tried to find you, they could only do so if a) you post on the official forums, b) you turn on the option that displays your main character's name beside your real name in the forums, and c) you were playing on your main character when you did the foul deeds. I imagine most people would choose not to display their main character's name alongside their real name; that way there's no association between your name and your character.

If someone's going to get angry and track you down, it'll have to be over something you said on the official forums, not anything you do in-game.

EDIT - Also, there are a lot of people with the same character names across servers. Depending on whether your server is also shown alongside your character name in the forum, it might still be impossible to accurately find the person who screwed up your raid.
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Blizzard demand that people use their real names when posting on their forums (WoW, SC2). - 08/07/2010 12:20:07 AM 1078 Views
I don't know how much to blame Blizzard - 08/07/2010 12:43:08 AM 697 Views
It's not 100% that this is the reason. - 08/07/2010 12:58:20 AM 900 Views
or, honestly... - 08/07/2010 02:18:24 AM 742 Views
Yeah, that'll work. I hope Blizzard enjoys lawsuits. *NM* - 08/07/2010 01:08:58 AM 343 Views
Why should there be lawsuits? - 08/07/2010 03:46:11 AM 694 Views
Depends on how they implement it. - 08/07/2010 08:54:31 PM 693 Views
Isn't that also much easier when they know which county he lives in? - 08/07/2010 02:30:06 AM 730 Views
It depends. - 08/07/2010 03:52:17 AM 702 Views
I wonder how this works with prepaid time cards? - 08/07/2010 02:48:17 AM 829 Views
Hmm. - 08/07/2010 04:03:59 AM 776 Views
Yup, looks like you're right. - 08/07/2010 05:12:36 AM 731 Views
I'm sure if I used the forums I'd be more concerned... - 08/07/2010 02:59:48 AM 732 Views
I can understand why they're doing it. - 08/07/2010 11:08:52 AM 729 Views
Exactly. As if this were a bigger identity threat than Facebook... *NM* - 08/07/2010 02:46:18 PM 325 Views
In some ways, it is. - 08/07/2010 04:40:22 PM 645 Views
Actually ... - 08/07/2010 04:51:50 PM 704 Views
And *gasp* what if you did something to make someone mad on the "real life" server? - 08/07/2010 05:13:57 PM 672 Views
I think you meant Aemon's reply - 08/07/2010 05:19:55 PM 713 Views
Yeah, you're right. Aemon's. *NM* - 08/07/2010 11:09:29 PM 337 Views
Re: Blizzard demand that people use their real names when posting on their forums (WoW, SC2). - 08/07/2010 02:47:02 PM 684 Views
mmo-champion might be a good place to look? *NM* - 08/07/2010 03:07:51 PM 350 Views
Re: mmo-champion might be a good place to look? - 09/07/2010 05:23:43 PM 756 Views
then just read and don't post. *NM* - 09/07/2010 09:27:36 PM 319 Views
I'll be cancelling my subscription if this goes ahead on 27th *NM* - 08/07/2010 09:24:29 PM 352 Views
Wouldn't it be easier to just not post on the forum? - 09/07/2010 05:13:46 AM 628 Views
Also: I'm pretty sure that this is related to Blizz's social networking/facebok integration push - 09/07/2010 01:26:36 PM 760 Views
oO why don't they just let themselves be a game. - 09/07/2010 01:43:40 PM 690 Views
Oh come on, you know the answer to that. - 09/07/2010 02:57:24 PM 738 Views
The plan has now been scrapped. - 09/07/2010 07:03:52 PM 752 Views
Beat me to it! *NM* - 09/07/2010 08:11:38 PM 340 Views
Me too. Nate's quick as lightning. - 09/07/2010 08:34:21 PM 664 Views
Not surprising. That quickly and violently blew up in their faces. *NM* - 10/07/2010 12:01:32 AM 380 Views
straight from the horse's mouth *NM* - 10/07/2010 03:12:53 PM 420 Views

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