[Infowarrior] - REAL ID ... no, not that one...

[Richard Forno]

You'd think Activision would have come up with a better name than REAL ID...... just like how NSA calls their latest project "Perfect Citizen."      -rick

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A few years back, Activision purchased Blizzard Entertainment (The developers of the online games World of Warcraft and Starcraft) the latter which has a sequel upcoming. On July 27th, they plan to change the way that their 12,000,000 customers public profiles work. Currently, when someone posts, it is entirely anonymous. They use their character name, which is simply an alias (much like an email).

This upcoming change, known as REAL ID will make the entire community forum display the entire full names of EVERYONE and this 'feature' cannot be turned off or disabled.

As you are well aware, this is going to cause massive problems and sets a terrible precedent for the gaming industry when it comes to anonymity. The official thread for feedback has females, minorities, gay and trans sexual individuals all posting out of fear asking the company not to implement these changes but they are doing so anyway.

The feedback thread is located here:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25712374700&sid=1&pageNo=1

Taken from: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25626109041