Armory site, not an invasion of privacy

#0 - Feb. 28, 2007, 11:04 p.m.

Hi all,

I just wanted to express my concern for the new debate of this weeks scandalous edition. The new Armory site has now been created and is presently in the final testing stages before a proper release, aka BETA. Anyways... there is a growing concern with players that this is an invasion of privacy, which is a false statement in its own right. The avatar you play has no direct information relating to the player, on top of that the avatar you play can be distributed only by the owner of your avatar, not you mind you, but Blizzard.

Also you avatar doesn't at all reflect any of your account information, all the information on your character can be traced directly to you via /inspect ######. Now if you consider the ability for a player near you inspecting yoru characters gear rep and everything but your talents to be an invasion of your privacy, then log off and stop playing. Your just to stressed out and paranoid to be playing an MMO, stick to solo player games. Log your doors and get 5 extra bolt locks. Don't forget to install the Floor lock thingy to. Have your mailbox removed from your front lawn and placed at a minimum of 5 miles away, also install an X-ray device and infrared vision device so that you can check the content's of the mail before using your vaccum tube to bring the mail to your house.

I also recommend deleting all knowledge that you were born, as well as cutting off all forms of Air, water, and waste removal from your house. It just would stress you even more to know that you could be poisoned from all directions and have your waste used to incremenate you.

Please also don't think about the fact that while reading this message millions of computers can be scanning your information on your computer as well as accessing all your history files and credit transactions. Remember to relax and cut off the modem from the outside world.

I hope I've made you more at ease with the new Armory system and can rest in relax now that you have fortified your private secure lifestyle.

Have a nice day,
Burgy

Nethaera

#16 - Feb. 28, 2007, 11:25 p.m.

To point out a positive, I'm hoping that guildmates will take an interest in getting others gear that they need and this could make it easier to do so. It will also help guildmates and friends see the 'big picture' of their friend's spec and gear to know where they could improve.

It could also be used by people to see who might be reporting certain successes with their character and figure out why they may be having that success.

Most important though is that knowing these things still does not tell you how skilled someone may be. All it does is tells you the gear they are wearing and using and their spec. Their skill level and the tactics they use in PvP are not things you can look at a webpage and discern.

People can not see bags and bank inventory. They can not see all of the characters attached to your account or any other such thing.

People post on alts here all the time. It's easy enough to post on an alt on the forums so that people can't trace you to a particular realm and harass you if that is a concern of yours. Those players that have nothing to hide and feel confident about their spec and their gear will still be posting on their mains and giving advice. People choosing to take that advice is as always still a personal decision. It may end up helping people's arguments more than hindering as well. Who knows. There is a lot of positive potential for the use of the Armory. Many people are looking at the negative already and I don't think are giving it the full value it deserves.

Again, we are still taking feedback but we feel that the Armory is a positive addition that we hope will be found to be useful and fun by the community.