The RealID a-bomb dropped on everyone a few days ago and caused a mass hysteria without proportions in the gaming community (aka not only among WoW players). Basically Blizzard wants to use RealID on their public forums for their games to get rid of forum trolls that hide behind anonymity, which means that everyone will be posting with their real names. That´s it. I am really caught by surprise by the outcry and drama against this for a couple of reasons. 

✔ It´s optional!

If you to stay anonymous and hide behind a nickname, please do so. Nobody is forcing you to use RealID in-game and no one will be forcing you to post on the forums. 

✔ It´s like Facebook for f**k sake.

Over 400 million users already post stuff about their personal life, which is fully searchable by search engines, with their real names. And i am pretty sure that the vast majority of the gaming community got a Facebook-account. If you really are concerned about your having your real name out there on the scary web of internet - just pull the plug!

So, stop the mass hysteria (but please, still use Hysteria on your best DPS in-game!!). The world (of warcraft) is not going to end with real names on the forum and i hope that Blizzard stand strong in the storm of shit that are hitting them now. 

By the way: the gaming site Kotaku sums it up pretty well over here. 

July 09, 2010, 6:02am | Leave a comment: Comments