BLIZZARD LISTEN UP!
Your management staff is completely fucking stupid thinking RealID was a GREAT IDEA! Allowing players to talk cross-fraction, cross-realm, even across game was an EXCELLENT idea. Forcing users to reveal their real names? BAD! It goes against the entire game’s creation (role playing, lore, etc..) and can/will cause large amount of revenue losses, not to mention possible lawsuits.
Another reason why it is bad? Friends of Friends feature, which can’t be turned off. Hell, even fucking Facebook allows you to do that if you wish.
July 27th, 2010 – You can save this date in your history books as the downfall of Activision-Blizzard Entertainment. From this day forth, you will see large amount of revenue losses for shareholders and many people turning away from purchasing new games because of their RealID system.
If they don’t see the problems with this, wait until the wrongful death lawsuits that end up on their doorstep when someone on a PvP server decides to have fun, and gank a player.
Think this isn’t real? Go look up “WoW Nerd Rage” on youtube right now. People going psycho over a game is very likely to spill out of the internet should this come to light.
I personally was going to buy a collectors edition of Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 upon release, however with this retarded RealID system getting forced upon forum users, I refuse to provide revenue to a company who is not customer service oriented.
The only way these fuckheads are going to get the message is the number of subscription losses they get from people who are smart, and value their privacy.
Before you retards try to flame on about me being one of the ‘trolls’ and such, I for one am not a troll, nor do I post very often on the forums. However I still find it very disturbing that a company is thinking of doing this.
What are they, owned by Facebook now?
July 27th, 2010 – Disable your subscriptions, delete your characters, find a new game, fuck this company in the revenue ass.
UPDATE: 07/11/2010 – Blizzard has caved! Looks like they have some smarts after all!