too expensive for a game...guess diablo 3 will be the same or not?   

The only problem is that I've already completed most of the THQ games you listed by borrowing them from friends (one of my friends bought the DoW set from popular while the other bought the super cheap CoH series from another book store, I also own an ori copy of titan quest+expansion), I've never really played SOTSE and Civ though as I would really prefer to play something much much faster due to the bad bad influence of Starcraft cause I always play at 150-200 apm and playing an slow RTS just feels really really odd to me, I have a copy of tropico though.

borrowing ori copies is not wrong, rightttttt    (you can't do that in SC2 lol)

What made you try RTS then? Just Curious..
I find the requirements for GPU quite high my 8800GT cant set to all ultra.     

whats the price for the SEA market now?

Rm248 is the price for CE or SD?

can't wait for it to be release. !!

Bnet forums to request for REAL names

"Big news for Battle.net users, and possible important implications for net privacy as a whole, via this posting from Blizzard:

Anyone posting or replying to a post on official Blizzard forums will be doing so using their Real ID — that is, their real-life first and last name — with the option to also display the name of their primary in-game character alongside it. These changes will go into effect on all StarCraft II forums with the launch of the new community site prior to the July 27 release of the game, with the World of Warcraft site and forums following suit near the launch of Cataclysm. Certain classic forums, including the classic Battle.net forums, will remain unchanged. "

Except that if it's like Wow, if you ever need to restore your account that got hacked.... good luck if you provided fake name/address/details....

They usually ask for proof of ownership and co before restoring

This will be how they will make people put their real info.

I am not really fond of the overall move really, it's an attack on privacy on Internet.

Raise issues with kids having their parents pay for their accounts too, you put which name in the profile?
Parents? They might not want their name to be linkable to their kids trolling on forums or behavior in the game
Kids? Kids are not legally responsible for anything they might do...

No offence really, what happened is that usually people provide fake stuff and forget them, especially in the case of secret question or crap like this.

You also need to remember that for Wow you usually have a credit card linked to the sub (even if you pay with time card I think, I always paid with CC but I remember you need to enter CC info before you can open account) and I doubt pretty much you have given bogus info to your bank right? ^^

I never had to contact Blizz support myself while playing Wow but some of my guildies had a lot of troubles to prove they were the original owner of the account after being hacked if the info they had inside the account was not 100% correct and valid.
I know at least one guy who couldnt get back his account at all since it was originally an account given to him by someone else and he didnt change some of the details. Byebye 3 years of wow gaming and multiple high level characters. Was a bit of the guy's fault really but still quite painful.

They might ask for pictures of the key cd receipt put together with an IC or something showing your name for example.
To prove that this cd belongs to this person in real life.

I think that if you have a perfect fake ID you can remember it might work, but then it does become an hassle for what is after all only a video game in my opinion.

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.

Yar, the more I think of this RealID stuff, the less I like it.

People can go stupid or mental about video game, ESPECIALLY blizzard games like Wow or SC2.

I can totally expect some people to get beaten up (or worse...) in real life if they beat someone else, win some loot over someone else or whatever in a video game...

I don't find anything wrong with it. This might not be a good example, but take it like you're entering a foreign country. You either provide them your passport with your full name & photo in it or you risk GTFO.

It's the same on the forum & it's for the same reason. People are hiding behind their anonymity to perform all kinds of mischief, trolling & con. Of course, you can choose not to post in the forum, hence saving you all this trouble but again, how many times did you shout "it's privacy invasion" when you're at the immigration?

Of course, I really do doubt the EFFECTIVENESS of such move but what I don't get is the commotion you guys are having. As mentioned by Blue, you have the option not to link your IGN ID so it's not really like a passport where your name have to match your photo. Did you provide your full name when you register at local bank or local mobile service provider? Well, guess what? They do share your info around & I didn't see anyone going FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU or doing anything about it other than ranting about it in /k/. Let's face it, your real life name is not a good identifier in the first place. Take a good look in our local telephone directory. Why did no one shout the same since the address & phone# is inside as well?

Label me as sucking up to Blizz or whatever (even if I say I'm not, you guys are still gonna say I am anyway), but you're basically arguing over something that most of you never use as well. How many of you have ever touched Bnet forum? Hands up.

It has come to the situation where I seriously think BW v2 is really what Blizz should have come up with to end all these rantings.

I've to agree that it's not really an accurate comparison but what I'm trying to highlight here is the apparent phobia of identity crisis among some of us here.

I also have to agree that from the look of it, I sincerely think that this is not an effective method but we've yet to see how it goes so I'll reserve my opinion about it. The reason I'm using the entering-foreign-country example is due to what I believe to be Blizz's attempt at policing the forum to prevent as much undesirable element / content as possible, which kinda fit the metaphor that I provided earlier.

But again, most of the hoo-haa here is not about the effectiveness. It's about the fear of revealing too much of yourself in the Bnet forum. Maybe I should put these up in point form for easier comprehension.

1. For your realID to be displayed in the open in the first place, you need to post something. But how many of us has posted something in the troll-infested Bnet forum in the past?

2. Fine, you may not have posted before but you might do so in future. But allow me to ask, what exactly do you fear when all you're going to reveal is your first & last name? That someone might implicate you of wrongdoings in the forum? Does that mean that you're seriously planning to troll / con in the new Bnet forum?

3. Again, if you're saying that revealing your first & last name will somehow allow some strangers to look for you IRL, what is the chance of that happening? I would like to refer to the inappropriate (I still think it's a related example) telephone directory where you can clearly see almost all applicants' address & telephone#. Let's say you've lost contact with an old friend of yours who have moved to Kedah but you're not sure which area he's staying at. You open up the book & search for his name, only to see 245 applicants with the same name. What?! You're gonna have to call each & every single one of them just to look for your friend but what is the chance of someone doing so in the first place? It's quite a hassle & troublesome, no? What I'm trying to show here is that having just the first & last name as a search criteria is not very sufficient to pinpoint the right person.

I repeat again, I'm not trying to prove that realID is a good solution to the trollings (if this is indeed what Blizz is trying to eliminate) but it's the rantings among us about having the realID revealed in forum.

Peace out.

again its not an invasion of privacy since u would have to agree to blizzard's privacy policy in the first place...

kinda true lol...

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.

yup gotta wait >.<
i did reveal my name from my bnet account screenshot of cata beta =p
and i did not bother to censored it...