WoW Forum Policy Creates Gnome Anger
Gnomes everywhere are raging this afternoon over Blizzard’s plans to put World of Warcraft users’ real names on their official forum posts. The developer has revealed that, if you post on the version of its forum that will launch with the new StarCraft, your real name, rather than your username, will be shown.
It seems like Blizzard’s looking to turn Battle.net into more of a social network than a competitive matchmaking service, as it says itself:
“It’s important to us to create a new and different kind of online gaming environment – one that’s highly social, and which provides an ideal place for gamers to form long-lasting, meaningful relationships. All of our design decisions surrounding Real ID – including these forum changes – have been made with this goal in mind.”
Essentially this means even the tech support forums will use your real name. And the roleplaying forums. As one angry gnome lover put it: “I don’t want all the world to know my real name. More social it might be but it’s very intrusive to my privacy… In this day and age when most social websites are being pushed for more privacy functions they decide to open it up in one of the worst possible way.”
We don’t… really.. care.
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A Blizzard CM who decided to try and support the new changes just found out exactly why it’s a bad thing. To alleviate people’s concerns, Bashiok decided to say his real name on the forums, his real name is Micah Whipple
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25712374892&sid=1&pageNo=1 Post #16
Within a few minutes, the forums also displayed the following:
Address:
473 Avenue B
Lakeport, CA 95453-6032
Phone Number:
(707) 263-0190
Age:
28
Family:
Kimberly K Whipple, age: 54
Jason Stephen Whipple, age 34
It looks like he’s staying in the same house as his mother =[
http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname=Micah&name=Whipple&where=Lakeport%2C+CA
http://www.peoplelookup.com/search-summary-out.php?trackit=&ReportType=1&qf=Micah&qmi=&qn=Whipple&qs=CA&searchform=name&focusfirst=1
Oh btw, here is his facebook too:
http://www.facebook.com/micah.whipple
There are now pictures of him, his family, and his house all over the internet, his family have stopped answering the phone due to the constant calls from outraged Warcraft fans, and he’s deleted his Facebook account.
OOPS!
Too funny! How could they not see this coming?
Excellent.
And what a stupid idea.
Tee Hee.