What to do about Real ID

#0 - July 6, 2010, 9:57 p.m.
Blizzard Post
After literally THOUSANDS of complaints by players, Blizzard has proven beyond all doubt of their incompetence and complete disregard for the desires and security of their player base. Since Blizzard has demonstrated they will not listen to us, perhaps they will listen if a bigger fish gets into the picture.

Please follow the link below to file a complaint with the ESRB.

https://www.esrb.org/privacy/contact.jsp

If you want to save time in describing the problem, feel free to copy/paste the paragraph below.

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Blizzard/Activision (ESRB.org needs to update its list, these companies have merged) has recently come out with a "Real ID" feature. What this does is allow one player to see another player’s real name from within Blizzard's online games. At present this is an optional feature from within ‘World of Warcraft’ and 'Star Craft II' when it is released in the near future. However, this company intends to use Real ID in order to attach players’ real names to all forum posts on their community forums in the near future, with no option to disable it. It has been only a few hours since Blizzard/Activision has made this announcement and literally thousands of players are protesting on their forums. Blizzard has not stated whether or not real names with be attached to forum posts made prior to this change. I strongly feel this is a violation of my privacy and I request that the ESRB investigate this matter, thank you.

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To the Blue's: You already unjustly suspended me from the forums for speaking out against Real ID a couple weeks ago. If you wish to ban me, then go ahead... I have no intention of using these forums with Real ID in the picture anyway. But, for the record, this post is NOT spam, and it is NOT trolling.
#2 - July 6, 2010, 9:59 p.m.
Blizzard Post
Please keep Real ID conversations to one thread: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25712374700&sid=1