No doubt.

Activision Blizzard games are all like that now,started with MW2.

There will be region lock, at least for the first few months.

Thats why when i saw IAH Games, again, i was like:

These idiots can never manage something well.

Probably end up changing to to US edition in the end.

If incompetent IAH cant even get the "lobby" working, i doubt we can even play the game.

I remembered back then in Hellgate, we get updates 2-3 days later than rest of the world.

Nice logic, Blizzard.

Knowing other people's real name does not mean that you'll build better gaming community or stop trolls.

Gawd knows what crack has Blizzard been smoking recently.

If you say Blizzard is still the same as before, i'll LOL. Activision definitely have an influence on Blizzard.

Blizzard is definitely not as good as before. Thanks to ASSivision.

People use nicknames for a reason, to hide your real name from the strangers/stalkers on the internet.

I pity those female gamers. They will get harassed even more.

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Jul 7 2010, 04:10 PM

Due to Blizzard's rather controversial Real ID crap, angry fans have been digging up Blizzard employee's facebook. Not gonna post them here but full of lol.

Didnt know Dustin Browder likes TF2 and The Dark Knight too. I should add him as friends too.

You got it all wrong, now, Blizzard gonna reveal your real name on their forums, as a "solution" to all the trolling and flaming.There is no way to hide your real name on their forum, unless you dont post there.

Stop sucking up with all the shit that Blizzard is putting.

The problem with this real name implementation is, even with just your full name, people can easily find out other private information that is not suppose to be seen. Just imagine that person who is looking at it is your future employee that doesnt like gamers.

Someone actually posted his real name on one of the Blizzard fansite, SC Legacy. 5 minutes later, someone found his facebook. 6 minutes later, someone found his sister's facebook,and the exact district,state and country of where he lives. Then, 30 minutes later, someone dig up loads of information about him like a video of his mum vacuuming the house, his interest and so on.

If someone is determine enough, they can dig up a lot of information about you, easily. I even saw someone put up a link where you pay a site to stalk people online. Im not comfortable with this, as the name alone, i dont really care, but the other stuff that they could easily google them, im not ok with it.

Maybe First Name will do, as it isnt that bad. Last Name would make things a lot easier for stalkers,especially those with rather unique names. Not everyone's name is John Smith.

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?

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Jul 8 2010, 03:17 AM

Real ID on the forums is not optional.

I wouldnt want to put the official forum out of the list when im having some technical issue.

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Jul 8 2010, 11:08 AM

I can create game now, but co-op isnt working.

The beta seems quite unstable. :/

So, this means one should not post if they have technical inquiries, bugs reporting and so on on the official forums, if they are not happy with showing their full real names. Yeah, the forums are optional, but most of the time, official forums are the best place to go, compared to fansites.

On the other hand, they should go to TL, SC Legacy and so on to post their questions to be anonymous on the internet.

Great decision Blizzard. Another "i dont give a crap" attitude from Activision Blizzard.

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Added on July 9, 2010, 12:26 amYeah, it's optional, but it's pretty much saying, if you dont like showing your full name on the forums, dont come to the official forums. Then, whats the use of the official forums?

Real ID is nothing, as it can be done with Steam, X-Fire and so on. And they do it much better than Blizzard's system. I prefer an overlay than a couple of boxes stacking around on my screen.

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Jul 9 2010, 12:26 AM

I still like overlays at the end of the day as i hate seeing those transparent boxes floating around in the middle of a ranked match.

Overlays arent as intrusive as those chatbox, as they practically take no screen space when you are playing.

It gets damn messy when you are talking to a few friends at the same time.

Not as smooth as before, but Medium sure looks better.

Probably due to the new stuff added.

If it lag as hell or late patches,probably due to useless IAH Games.

Just hope Blizzard will keep full control of the servers and patching.

Depends, if you want to sink in a lot of time in the game.

It just allow you to play on different region's server, like if you own the SEA copy, you only can play on the SEA server that is located at SG, run by IAH Games. You cant change region, as it's region locked, at least for the first few months.

Other than that, the game is pretty much the same.

Good gawd, i do hope IAH is not managing the servers.