Blizzard?s Unreal Real ID

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Blackbird71 said:
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Also, how is:

Friends will also be able to see what you're playing and even where you are in the game, so don't bother telling your Starcraft-playing friends you're spending the evening delivering baskets of chocolate-covered kittens to orphaned grandmothers if you're just going to be leveling an alt in the Outlands, because your feeble duplicity will be laid bare by Real ID and your friends really hate it when you lie to them like that, jerk
That different from what Steam does? Just a quick search on the steam community tells me you were last online 5h20m ago and played Resident Evil 5 34.3h in the past 2 weeks.
Steam seriously does this? Wow, one more reason for me to be glad I haven't given in and installed anything requiring Steam! I don't care if it's not using a real name, what and how much I play is no ones' business but my own, and there is no valid reason for that information to be openly available to anyone.
You can set your Steam profile on private which hides all that information.
 

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Blackbird71 said:
Xocrates said:
Also, how is:

Friends will also be able to see what you're playing and even where you are in the game, so don't bother telling your Starcraft-playing friends you're spending the evening delivering baskets of chocolate-covered kittens to orphaned grandmothers if you're just going to be leveling an alt in the Outlands, because your feeble duplicity will be laid bare by Real ID and your friends really hate it when you lie to them like that, jerk
That different from what Steam does? Just a quick search on the steam community tells me you were last online 5h20m ago and played Resident Evil 5 34.3h in the past 2 weeks.
Steam seriously does this? Wow, one more reason for me to be glad I haven't given in and installed anything requiring Steam! I don't care if it's not using a real name, what and how much I play is no ones' business but my own, and there is no valid reason for that information to be openly available to anyone.
You can set your profile to private if you don't want people to see that.

EDIT: Ninja'd.
 

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Starke said:
Xocrates said:
That different from what Steam does? Just a quick search on the steam community tells me you were last online 5h20m ago and played Resident Evil 5 34.3h in the past 2 weeks.


That said, I enjoy that Blizzard decided to back out on this.
Well, Steam doesn't say who I am. So that guy from these forums that randomly got confused into cyberstalking me for about 8 minutes and got to my Steam account through my forum account only knew that I'd play Star Trek Online way too much. Not my given name (I think).
True, but I wasn't referring to that side of the issue, but the way friends lists work. As far as I know RealID friends (which is unrelated to the forums, and is still going to happen) wouldn't know more than if you were playing the game on Steam.
 

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Chimaera said:
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Well it's good to see that someone on the escapist staff isn't for this. Nice read as always.
I wouldn't put us all in the same bucket with this topic.

Excellent read, Shamus!
Ah i didn't mean to have it sound like that, though I could have worded it better. I just meant to say that I have seen that the more vocal staff members are for it.

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[HEADING=2]Shamus Young versus John Funk[/HEADING]



Come on John, you said you had written a whole column in defence, we all want to hear it now. Shamus has thrown down the gauntlet.
I am totally in support of this, also is Shamus Raiden, because that would be awesome!
 

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Oh man and the pornstars who play WoW would be getting all KINDS of crazy spam!
lol.
 

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To be fair to the realid system, its all opt-in, you still have the regular wow friends list thats all anonymous, and realid is just another layer on top of that, its not like it emails your boss automatically that you played wow for 18 hours yesterday and slept it off in the backoffice. The furore was really about the fact it would show your real name on the forums, which blizzard thought was an insta cure for smacktards. Of course the forgot about all the obvious downsides.
 

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A good read. I really have nothing to hide (hell, my username is my initials and my Facebook account is linked to this), but I can see why other people would want this shot down. Fortunately, it was.

And I may not follow you on Twitter, but I'm still a fan!
 

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Shamus Young said:
Blizzard?s Unreal Real ID

Shamus is 2000 times less famous than Felicia Day, yet he still thinks Real ID is a bad idea.

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Your daughter could be scarred for life when she sees that you actually missed her piano recital because you were raiding instead of because her playing is horrendous.
That was mean, Shamus. XD

Anyway, I completely agree with you and I actually thought of famous people regarding this topic as well. Celebrities deserve some privacy too, including gaming. Fortunately, they have reversed their decision.

Anyway, I hope Funk changes his article so that he speaks of privacy in gaming/internet in general. I feel like in this craze of "social networking services", the privacy aspect is being increasingly neglected....and it leaves me with a great feeling of unease.
 

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I love you Shamus. ^_^

And I have to say I'm on your side in this... I just can't imagine this RealID scheme turning out well. I'm not sure what will actually happen, but it gives the same feeling as Ubisoft's DRM scheme, that they have simply given up trying to compromise.

And even if this ends up as a disaster (I certainly won't let them put up my name, no matter how little I have to hide), they have probably invested too much money into this now to just give up on it.
 

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Shamus Young said:
Yes. I wrote this last night. And then two hours before the column went up Blizzard changed its mind.

They did this not because of public outcry, but because they wanted to annoy me.
You are absolutely right :p pity they didnt change their mind cuz of you ^_^ it was a great article :D
 

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There may be 0 Shamus Young desktops out there, but I am willing to bet that there an far more Shamus Young made Screen Savers than Felica Day made Screen Savers. That Procedural City screen saver is my favorite one ever.
 

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The post also notes that the Real ID system used in-game to help players communicate with one another will remain in place, and this decision will not affect plans in that area.

It bears noting that Morhaime's message does say "at this time," which is language echoed in a statement given us by Blizzard PR on the matter. Could the issue rear it's ugly head again?
Quote from- http://kotaku.com/5583405/blizzard-scraps-plans-to-display-real-names-in-forums

Color me not convinced. Blizzard has lost my trust 'at this time'.

Not to mention this fun 'feature':

http://www.wow.com/2010/07/06/security-flaw-allows-addons-to-expose-full-real-life-names-witho/
 

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They've cancelled the forum thing and the friend thing you list in your article Shamus is not entirely telling the truth, sensationalising, the internet news sites become more like fox everyday, you can still add people as normal in-game friends in WoW, you can also choose to add them to your Battle.net friends via Real ID and then see whatever there doing on Battle.net.
 

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Nice lol
Is it wrong if I enjoy seeing something screw up for someone else?
It might be wrong but is it like super wrong?
On a scale of 1 to 10 is it like naughty or just so so?

The whole concept of having people's real names on a forum just seems like ten tons of suspended "oh no" waiting to happen.


I've been curious if Shamus is still playing Champions Online. I ran into him twice in there, funny toons. My favorite was "Allison Chains"
 

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I really LOL'd at the Felicia Day paragraph and I'm at work.

This article is totally relevant, despite Blizzard taking it back, just because an otherwise sensible corporation was even thinking of doing that. I can only blame the Activision part of this equation.

I recall clear as day a previous quote on these forums that if somebody on the Internet wants to know your identity, that is probably a good reason not to give it to them. Anyway the whole thing is a thinly veiled invasion of privacy issue so thanks for, as usual, taking the right side in this. I'd add you as a friend on Twitter and Facebook but I'm too paranoid to have accounts in them.
 

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I'm sorry Shamus I love your articles but Felica Day was in "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog." I don't think you can win.
 

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Baron Khaine said:
They've cancelled the forum thing and the friend thing you list in your article Shamus is not entirely telling the truth, sensationalising, the internet news sites become more like fox everyday, you can still add people as normal in-game friends in WoW, you can also choose to add them to your Battle.net friends via Real ID and then see whatever there doing on Battle.net.
Fox...?