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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 1334 Views
I don't know how much to blame Blizzard - 08/07/2010 12:43:08 AM 875 Views
It's not 100% that this is the reason. - 08/07/2010 12:58:20 AM 1080 Views
or, honestly... - 08/07/2010 02:18:24 AM 931 Views
Yeah, that'll work. I hope Blizzard enjoys lawsuits. *NM* - 08/07/2010 01:08:58 AM 426 Views
Why should there be lawsuits? - 08/07/2010 03:46:11 AM 880 Views
Depends on how they implement it. - 08/07/2010 08:54:31 PM 876 Views
Isn't that also much easier when they know which county he lives in? - 08/07/2010 02:30:06 AM 911 Views
It depends. - 08/07/2010 03:52:17 AM 873 Views
I wonder how this works with prepaid time cards? - 08/07/2010 02:48:17 AM 1007 Views
Hmm. - 08/07/2010 04:03:59 AM 957 Views
Yup, looks like you're right. - 08/07/2010 05:12:36 AM 905 Views
I'm sure if I used the forums I'd be more concerned... - 08/07/2010 02:59:48 AM 900 Views
I can understand why they're doing it. - 08/07/2010 11:08:52 AM 903 Views
Exactly. As if this were a bigger identity threat than Facebook... *NM* - 08/07/2010 02:46:18 PM 410 Views
In some ways, it is. - 08/07/2010 04:40:22 PM 829 Views
Actually ... - 08/07/2010 04:51:50 PM 881 Views
And *gasp* what if you did something to make someone mad on the "real life" server? - 08/07/2010 05:13:57 PM 834 Views
I think you meant Aemon's reply - 08/07/2010 05:19:55 PM 894 Views
Yeah, you're right. Aemon's. *NM* - 08/07/2010 11:09:29 PM 423 Views
Re: Blizzard demand that people use their real names when posting on their forums (WoW, SC2). - 08/07/2010 02:47:02 PM 847 Views
mmo-champion might be a good place to look? *NM* - 08/07/2010 03:07:51 PM 452 Views
Re: mmo-champion might be a good place to look? - 09/07/2010 05:23:43 PM 946 Views
then just read and don't post. *NM* - 09/07/2010 09:27:36 PM 410 Views
I'll be cancelling my subscription if this goes ahead on 27th *NM* - 08/07/2010 09:24:29 PM 449 Views
Wouldn't it be easier to just not post on the forum? - 09/07/2010 05:13:46 AM 801 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 982 Views
oO why don't they just let themselves be a game. - 09/07/2010 01:43:40 PM 876 Views
Oh come on, you know the answer to that. - 09/07/2010 02:57:24 PM 911 Views
The plan has now been scrapped. - 09/07/2010 07:03:52 PM 944 Views
Beat me to it! *NM* - 09/07/2010 08:11:38 PM 457 Views
Me too. Nate's quick as lightning. - 09/07/2010 08:34:21 PM 834 Views
Not surprising. That quickly and violently blew up in their faces. *NM* - 10/07/2010 12:01:32 AM 474 Views
straight from the horse's mouth *NM* - 10/07/2010 03:12:53 PM 518 Views

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