I play games for these reasons:

To act like a kid and escape from tough times and relieve stress by killing bosses.

To just relax when I have free time.

To avoid people in RL when I dont wanna be bugged.

Reasons like this, the general thing is an escape from real life.



Why is it that game companies, and not just blizzard, are grouping up in this "facebook army". Almost everything you look at, even pandora which is online radio, have links to share this with facebook and twitter.

Why does gaming, the one thing thats always been apart from the stereotypical type of social networking, have to merge with that group? It doesnt make sense.

Yes, I guess it could be nice for some. But it should all be OPTIONAL. I'm all for it being there, I have my characters linked to my facebook just because its a nerdy thing to do. I just dont like how its slowly trying to become a forced thing, and the norm. Why does it have to be a requirement for our human identities and our elf identities to be merged? I like that whole "super hero" style thing where by day I'm Mike, the guy who socializes and works, helps out the family, etc.

By night, I like being a level 80 blood elf DK who kills bosses. Why is it that everyone must know that the two are the same person? Its a neat feature, I'm all for it existing. But it should be an option to have it there, or not have it. Choices are what people like. People like anonymity. Why do we not have the option to keep those things?

Sure, we can not post, not play, whatever. But why does it have to be that extreme? Why cant we just have a "Secret Identity" like batman, spiderman, all of our childhood heroes?

MMOs are the closest thing to that which life can offer, unless we dress up irl and risk being considered a child molestor unless its at a convention.

But this is an honest claim, not a QQ post about me not liking it. I dont mind it, its a great feature for some, but everyone shouldnt be forced to use it.


I'm a giant nerd, I like my dual identities. Why do I not get to keep them while being part of the community?


It's been shown today that blizzards modding community can clean up the forums very nicely. Why be so drastic with a "solution"? At the very least, let us use an alias if we are forced to have a single identity across everything.