Main Blizzard interest is money, and gaming is just a niche they found to get money selling products and services.

Only way to vote against is with wallet.

So I cancelled my preorder of SC2
And closed my WoW account and placed “Eula/Privacy concerns” as reason while closing. And specified very well as additional comment that I don’t like RealID as in it’s present form and hate the direction is taking.

As a side note….
Many say that all this can be of great worries if you are in some catogories like:
- female
- police
- have a name that is uncommin
and so on.. I won’t put a complete list as isn’t needed…..

What I say is that privacy isn’t only objective. Can be also subjective.
With that I say that may be (and I’m quite sure that for most cases it will) that esposing a name isn’t a great matter. Nothing bad will happen.
But anyway why take the risk?
And if someone feel unconfortable esposing such information if not really needed, who I am to tell them to not worry?

And by the way, I don’t intend to espose me real name….
I know I can eventually stop writing on forums, but why I can’t write on them if I need to?

And I’m sure that Blizzard already know the real names under every character in WoW and BNet forums. You can’t write if you don’t have a valid account. Eventually they could move to an unique nickname…. But forcing to use realnames….

They’ll lose a valid customer ff they don’t change their modus operandi.

I never registered with facebook and now I have to deal with something like that for a game!?!?
I think that blizzard is crazy

Do you want to know about me? Know my realname? ask me and I’ll tell…
Having it around in the wild of internet? no thanks

http://wowriot.gameriot.com/blogs/Americans-are-bad-at-games/Real-Names-on-the-Official-Forums-New-REAL-ID-function?gr_i_ni

Also, the official feedback thread for this is growing at a rate of 10 pages every 5 minutes. Players are definately voicing their concerns.

A few other things:

1) Right now, you can actually log into the game, run a script and unlock everyone’s RealID information (unless they’ve disabled it using the parental controls). This is regardless of whether or not you actually use RealID.
2) RealID may not even be accurate. As a chick who got married after I created my WoW account, I still haven’t updated my account information despite legally changing my name (because Blizzard makes it into a huge production and I don’t have a scanner). At this point that’s probably going to work in my favor, but it’s still an issue.
3) As someone who has gotten harassed by her fair share of creepers in game, I’m really glad that said creepers can’t track me down out of game. Yet. Maybe this is hugely sexist, but I feel like these changes will disproportionately discourage female gamers from posting in the forums.

Although RealID has already shown up on Ars Technica, I’d like to see some op-eds from actual players show up on some of these big tech sites. Maybe it’s about time for us to write letters.

Lume, you make an excellent point about customer support: There won’t be an overload in the forums if no one’s willing to use their real name to try to resolve an issue.

Blizzard: Stupid idea is stupid.