Recently Blizzard decided that as part of there big update to their forums and battle.net accounts that everyone would have there real name showing to anyone when they posted. This sparked up a massive amount of complaints and moaning from the community who would obviously like to troll without there names being known. As such Blizzard has now backed down on their idea and released a statement saying:
I’d like to take some time to speak with all of you regarding our desire to make the Blizzard forums a better place for players to discuss our games. We’ve been constantly monitoring the feedback you’ve given us, as well as internally discussing your concerns about the use of real names on our forums. As a result of those discussions, we’ve decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums.
We will still move forward with new forum features such as conversation threading, the ability to rate posts up or down, improved search functionality, and more. However, when we launch the new StarCraft II forums that include these new features, you will be posting by your StarCraft II Battle.net character name + character code, not your real name.
Now I don’t know what you think but personally I would have liked them to stick to there guns because the amount of trolling on the WoW forum would drop massively if we knew that for example, PolyTicks was called Alexis as he’d feel less inclined to annoy turn based fans (yes I brought up our EIC’s “love of turn-based”). I’d also have liked the system to start being used elsewhere but it appears the internet is still afraid of us knowing there names and as such they had to back down. Oh well, maybe in a few years we can have less trolls on forums. What do you think? Did you like or hate the idea of real names being shown? Please tell us in the comments.
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