#0 - July 9, 2010, 7:39 p.m.
Personally I think it shows how shallow and pathetic the people who play this game are, a few right minded and sane people knew that it was an attempt at enhancing the community for the better alongside a good strategy for forging relationships between social networks and other companies in a similar field (marketing for Blizzard). A few people rightly didn't give a damn. A few welcomed the change (like myself, thinking that such a change would remove the anonymity that makes people act like spoilt 8 year olds).
Unfortunately, people knowing that their anonymity was leaving them, cried and made up false arguments about "privacy" and the lapse of such when you have someones real name. It really just goes to show either 1. How petty and pathetic the community is, how they are so scared that people know their real name that they /cast Enrage. Or 2. that they really think they are so special as a woman, or as a cultural minority, that people would go out of their way to try and make their life misreable because they have a peculiar name, or because their genitalia is different. (Yeah, you're a girl, congratulations).
I am harshly generalising the populace as I know there was a strong group of people who were silent, for the change or generally just quite undisturbed by Blizzards direction. But in all honesty this just shows how immature the community is. Such quibbels like "search the internet with my name and you can find out so much about me" .... yeah... if you put the information there yourself you ignorant ... something. A search of the internet with my own, semi-unique name, returns profiles which I have set up myself and that is all, profiles of which can be set to private if I wanted them to be. Profiles of which I decide the content of. I swear half the people responding just wanted to join in a heated debate and take a side.
TL;DR,
What this boils down to is, people don't want to lose their anonymity. Because let's face it, in real life, they are c u next tuesday's, or they are anti social biggots, or they have such low self esteem they can't handle it, or they are scared what people might think of them if they play games. (I have to say, I have never lost a job to a multitude of companies because they found out I play games, but then perhaps I actually have the attributes and skills required for the job - and don't need an employer to find any excuse not to hire me, as the only actual way you would lose a job is if you actually did something stupid or ridiculous that makes you DESERVING of losing the job).
Anyway, my hatred of most of this community aside, what are your thoughts?
