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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| Pandajuice wrote: |
Hot off the WoW general forum, posted 45 minutes ago, saying just what I thought they'd do:
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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.
It's important to note that we still remain committed to improving our forums. Our efforts are driven 100% by the desire to find ways to make our community areas more welcoming for players and encourage more constructive conversations about our games. 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. The upgraded World of Warcraft forums with these new features will launch close to the release of Cataclysm, and also will not require your real name. |
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Like a dog walking away with its tail between its legs.
How fucking stupid was this. Then again, any publicity is good publicity right? It got Bliz on the front page of the news again and again for a few days.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
Posts: 16136
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| I haven't played WoW in 2 years 10 months and 20 days, so I'm not worried about this impacting me.. |
you know the exact day you quit wow?
i guess it had a pretty big hold on you.
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cherries
Title: Welcome to warp zone!
Joined: Jul 08 2010
Location: Aus
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Never touched WoW, never will.
One has to wonder if Blizzard planned this all along though. Like GPFontaine said, it got them in the news. Also, fuck Blizzard.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| GPFontaine wrote: |
| I haven't played WoW in 2 years 10 months and 20 days, so I'm not worried about this impacting me.. |
you know the exact day you quit wow?
i guess it had a pretty big hold on you. |
I know approximately.
Third week of August 2007.
I had put in 127 days of game time over 2 years. Shame on me. That is too much of one's life to sacrifice. I wish I had been doing something else during that time.
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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
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weak sauce. good for the people it really impacts, but blizzard just lost my business because of half assery and wimpishness. same reason i dont own an apple anything.
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lavalarva
2011 SNES Champ
Joined: Dec 04 2006
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I don't see what's wrong with them changing their stance on this. You'd rather have them tell everyone to fuck off and force real ID anyway?
As for apple, I refuse to buy anything from them because it's double the price of what it's worth.
Same reason why I didn't buy that Sony laptop.
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
Joined: Oct 30 2008
Location: US and UK
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Yeah, it's cool they listened to the community and changed their minds so I give them +1 for that, but I'll be wary of Blizzard/Activision in the future, not because they waffled, but because they made the stupid decision in the first place without realizing what a horrible idea it was.
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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
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i would rather see them say fuck off and tell the customers to suck it up and deal. it would show that they have some nads and likely would create a mass exodus from the forums that would create a lot of other places where the gamers could gather instead. not to mention the fact it would really be a litmus test to see whether people would leave the game or not. i dont know, I find that stuff interesting. it was a terrible idea, but seeing their limpdick waffling is a turnoff to me
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Alowishus
Joined: Aug 04 2009
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| Pandajuice wrote: |
Hot off the WoW general forum, posted 45 minutes ago, saying just what I thought they'd do:
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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.
It's important to note that we still remain committed to improving our forums. Our efforts are driven 100% by the desire to find ways to make our community areas more welcoming for players and encourage more constructive conversations about our games. 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. The upgraded World of Warcraft forums with these new features will launch close to the release of Cataclysm, and also will not require your real name. |
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I'm glad they are doing this and actually listened to the fan base.
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LiteYear
2010 SNES Champion
Joined: Mar 01 2010
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I'm now wondering what conversation threading is exactly, as it sounds to me like some sort of super-strict off-topic rule. Also, it looks like the post rating bug that's going around is going to be implemented, and while I'm not necessarily against it, I've never understood the point of it at all.
But at least Blizzard still has at least some intelligence to reverse horrible decisions.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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I'm now wondering what conversation threading is exactly, as it sounds to me like some sort of super-strict off-topic rule. Also, it looks like the post rating bug that's going around is going to be implemented, and while I'm not necessarily against it, I've never understood the point of it at all.
But at least Blizzard still has at least some intelligence to reverse horrible decisions. |
My guess is that it places direct replies adjacent to the posts they relate to rather than at the bottom of the thread.
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