If it wasn't for Google & the below image, I would have thought that it's a girl's private part / butt / tits.

The problem is, not everyone is comfortable with sharing information online, as you'll never know who will be looking at those information, especially female gamers which seem to be extremely rare. It could be your employee, your wife to some psychopath looking at those information.

It could be ok for you to put your real name online, i, for one, im not comfortable with it,even on my own Facebook, as Mark Zuckerberg is quite infamous for leaking out private information to anyone or doesnt care about your privacy on Facebook. Internet isnt a place to store private information, IMO. I rather keep them on a piece of paper than on the net.

As it was shown, anyone could easily dig up tonnes of information easily, not just about you, also about your friends and family. I dont want to see my family involved in something unpleasant due to some of my posts arguing about some epic loot in the new Battlenet forums. The way Blizzard is doing seems pretty much asking some murder over some loot to happen.

Maybe just first name, but hide the surname, or maybe some other could work. Or maybe give us an option to hide the name, and only show the Battlenet nick name. Showing Battlenet nick name isnt as bad as compulsory to show your first and last name on every single post you make on the forums. What happens if Blizzard extent it to the rest of the Battlenet, as it seems like a good idea to Blizzard.

To be honest, what Blizzard is doing now, with all these Real ID thing, doesnt seem like a well thought out decision. It also resembles a lot with MW2's no dedicated server issue, as the reasoning Blizzard is putting, doesnt make any sense and it looks like, they just dont care. As they just gonna lose some, and gain much more. Just like MW2, "whiny" "dedicated server lovers" hardcores are either staying in CoD4 or move on to other games like BFBC2. This could happen again.

Could be a good opportunity for the new Star Wars MMO or Warhammer 40k MMO. Also, 10000+ post in less than 24 hours, wow, they are pissed.

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Added on July 8, 2010, 2:39 amhttp://kotaku.com/5581209/blizzards-real-name-forum-policy-has-fans-in-an-uproar

Something from Kotaku.

The reasoning behind the real id is decent: To make you think before you post, but the problem is, is it at the expense of your privacy?

Hello everyone,

I'd like to take some time to speak with all of you regarding our desire to make the Blizzard forums a better place for players to discuss our games. 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.

I want to make sure it's clear that our plans for the forums are completely separate from our plans for the optional in-game Real ID system now live with World of Warcraft and launching soon with StarCraft II. We believe that the powerful communications functionality enabled by Real ID, such as cross-game and cross-realm chat, make Battle.net a great place for players to stay connected to real-life friends and family while playing Blizzard games. And of course, you'll still be able to keep your relationships at the anonymous, character level if you so choose when you communicate with other players in game. Over time, we will continue to evolve Real ID on Battle.net to add new and exciting functionality within our games for players who decide to use the feature.

In closing, I want to point out that our connection with our community has always been and will always be extremely important to us. We strongly believe that Every Voice Matters, ( http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/mission.html ) and we feel fortunate to have a community that cares so passionately about our games. We will always appreciate the feedback and support of our players, which has been a key to Blizzard's success from the beginning.

Mike Morhaime
CEO & Cofounder
Blizzard Entertainment

do say blizz doesnt listen to any1 except activision

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Added on July 10, 2010, 2:10 amwould u see sc2 putting easter eggs?
like recently in cata: http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images...westfall_22.jpg

Some Patch 16 undocumented changes we did not know ... WTF Terran got nerf and Protoss got nerf