Updating RealID for the Better

#0 - June 23, 2010, 5:42 p.m.
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I have read through many of the threads on general about people with concerns about the RealID system. While I found most of the complaints were frivolous, I did find one persistent issue with the program that I tend to agree with AND that I think could easily be fixed by Blizzard. I was curious of the opinion you had on this.

Change the functionality on RealID so that when you want to add someone as a RealID friend, there is a confirmation box with the following optional information added:

[Checkbox] Friends of Friends Feature: This feature allows all the RealID friends of your RealID friends to have your RealID information. This information includes your full name and the ability to whisper you regardless of which character/Blizzard game you are logged on(the ones with the RealID functionality).

This would seem to alleviate the headache many people have with RealID. Not all of the real life friends of my best friend are my friend as well. I can see how this would be an issue for people in game. Most of the concerns I have seen with RealID revolve around this issue. Simply making the Friends of Friends feature a clickable option would swing a lot of people over to using this feature without any concern.

How many people would use the RealID feature if a functionality like this existed?
#5 - June 23, 2010, 6:20 p.m.
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I'm replying here only so that more people who wish to discuss Real ID are aware of the sticky thread above. We'd appreciate everyone trying to consolidate their constructive feedback to as few threads as possible so that we can better monitor this. Please feel free to share what you like in that thread as well.

Here is the thread -

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25559986363&sid=1

Thanks!