This is actually incredibly new (a year or so ago) and was highly controversial. A lot of preformers and others who go by stage names or alternative names lost their names. Or had to change their names for privacy reasons. Yet FC didn’t give a crap.
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No, it’s not. It’s been like this for quite a while. It was actually in the original rules, but they didn’t heavily enforce it. It was around 2014 when they started terminating fake name accounts and people made a big fuss about it.
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Bingo, and this is exactly why unless it’s a company that I do business with like Blizzard (and which for the most part I trust outside their baffling ideas of class balance); I always err on the side of caution with my information as an extra security measure so as to keep a tiny internet footprint.
Despite what the authoritarians may claim or say (and whom for some baffling reason keep striving to emulate a fellow some of my family left Germany in the 1940s over) it’s not because I do anything I’m ashamed of. Rather it is because prudence is the better part of valor, and sometimes trusting people less, rather than more; is the wiser course.
Due to the familial upbringing I have, and the corruption I’ve seen in the Court systems of my home-town, I have a very low trust of agencies that say “We need to know who you are!”, and I immediately cease contact with them when and where I can; unless they are essential governmental services.
I promise you this. The day Blizzard implements authoritarian concepts like what OP and his likely alt describe, that are designed to allow the vocal minority to punish anyone who dares to speaks out of turn; that is the day I reluctantly cease doing business with the company they created.
I then take any and all legal steps I must to force the company to delete all of my personal information permanently. It may seem old fashioned, or not a big deal to younger people; but on the day you lose that freedom it will be a very big deal. Time is a river and history usually repeats. The truth is, I simply cannot and will not trust any man that I have not seen in real life to be anything less than a monster.
I will trust Blizzard to enforce the rules in an unbiased fashion, but the day they cede that to a pack of glorified internet thugs who want to know who you are, so that they can divest where you live (And the need for that knowledge is likely so they can engage in terror or silencing tactics; such as breaking the windows of your home or place of business).
…Well. That is the day I end my relationship with that company.
That’s really what it’s about for people that call for such reforms ultimately. Power, and they are addicted to it. These people want to be Blizzard, because they can’t trust Blizzard to handle things internally. Thus they claim insane things like what the OP and his likely alt keep stating. Frankly, I hope this thread gets locked. It does nothing good for these forums and is full of rubbish.
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Fixed that for you:
~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_real-name_policy_controversy
Yes, this started being an issue in 2014. The rule had always been there though, they just chose to start enforcing it around then. You’re welcome… Made me spend 25 seconds googling and skim reading that for you.
This seems to be something op is ignorant about.
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yeah…no…if proper ID isn’t required to vote for a higher office or to make laws (which it should be), why should it be required to play a video game?
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RealID would spread as many behavior problems into real life as it would prevent online.
I would rather be the recipient of nerd rage than have my home swatted.
The people you play the game with have access to almost all of your personal information. We work at the DMV, in schools, cellphone carrier, healthcare, insurance, cable companies, law enforcement, banks and credit, childcare, shipping, and so on. This information and power could be used against you in ways that could cause anything from minor inconveniences to dangerous situations. No thanks, let’s just click ignore and be done with the rude people.
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OP think about all the women in this game who go to great lengths to hide that they are women by not using voice chat or even sometimes going as far as to use voice changers to sound like men just because they’ve dealt with creeps and being stalked before. Now imagine telling those women, okay now your real name will be attached to your account to your character so everyone will know you’re a woman and you can’t hide it. Do you really think that’s a good idea? Do you think women in this game would be cool with that? I don’t even think men in this game would be cool with that, but I’m using women here to make a point. Especially because I’m a woman and it would be my #1 concern. I’ve been creeped on/stalked in this game before and I really don’t want to deal with that again because of Real ID, I just wanna play video games in peace.
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I do think this would be hilarious to watch during the first day in ERPG communities.
No argument on that.
The problem is, a lot of the moderation that does exist here doesn’t feel like they’re trying to clean things up but to play politics. I see a lot of the feeling of “this should be a safe space” and not enough of “throwing out the genuine garbage so that it doesn’t stink.”
Real names however make it easier for problems on a social media platform or any forum to spill out to other forums or heaven forbid, into real life.
I only have some (facebook) due to the fact its the smoothest way to reach certain relatives. But, even if you looked at my facebook … there’s not a lot about me you’d learn.
I like animals, specifically cats.
I’m pro-net neutrality.
I have a family.
I have a weird sense of humor.
Where I graduated.
I don’t put up any info on FB that anyone couldn’t acquire in some other fashion with some digging.
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Are you saying you want people that play this game to know who you are in real life without you knowing? I sure as hell don’t.
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So you want to be able to know who a person is so they can suffer repercussions for whatever you feel they need to suffer for…
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I was on the forums during the real-id fiasco. Real ID was a mistake. You’re wrong if you think giving random creeps access to your real name is a good idea.
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I still think it would have been hilarious.
That theres a lot of fancy words but.
This thing works both ways. So. Not only do you risk running into some crazy people (and trust me there are some real wackadoos out there), they can also run into you should you decide to start crusading against people’s actual lives. Lets be honest, you don’t really need to see people’s real life ID and I definitely don’t need to see yours.
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My battle tag wouldn’t matter anyway . I’ll still be called Tiger . You people wouldn’t know who I am .
I would say "NO " to the Real ID .
How exactly would this clean up people being jerks? Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, have huge swaths of people that are the most vile trash. Its why I don’t have any social media accounts.
I feel, as a 26 year old, that social media is one of the worst inventions. Get so many entitled people who think the can swing their non-existent weight around to get anything they don’t agree with banned, silenced, or even businesses closed down. All without even checking facts. outrage culture is pure cancer.
But let’s put that into WoW because accountability will surely be the net outcome.
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