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Battle.net Real ID System - Call To Arms
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Post by
Rilgon
I simply can't understand why anybody would be against blizzard adding a few extra privacy controls.
Not against it.
I'm against people freaking out about the way the system works, which is basically directly in line with the intended design of the system.
The intent of the system is to enable friends to be more active with other friends in blizzard's games, not for my friend's friends whom I don't necessarily know to easily access my full name. The only part I strongly disagree with is friends-of-friends... it just needs to be removed. It serves no purpose.
It is an integral part of a social network - networking.
If you're friends with X, and Y is friends with X, there's at least a decent chance that you'd like Y, too.
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613981
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Post by
Rilgon
The FoF feature is a joke and should be removed, or be made optional.
Then I take it you aren't on
any
social networking sites?
Post by
Sentrios
I agree to most of these problems :P
I currently have one IRL friend who plays wow and I know him well enough to know some of his friends and family members. So he's going to be the one and only person to get my RealID. Ok, that's fine. Also, He's my roommate so I see him IRL every day almost every time I would be playing Blizzard's games. Yeah lol, why use RealID when I can just turn around and talk to him. My other WoW IRL friends... well... I know them but since I have no idea of their other friends I won't be giving them my RealID. I can contact them by phone, skype, etc. if I wan't to play with them.
So, really nice system with much potential, but no actual use.
Post by
Rilgon
So, really nice system with much potential, but no actual use for me.
Fixt.
Post by
Kibbles
Aargh! Did you have this system before? Were you content with not having this system? Then why complain?
Post by
Sentrios
So, really nice system with much potential, but no actual use for me.
Fixt.
Yep, thanks, that's basically what I tried to say. With a few improvements/options I would certainly use it more,
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Post by
Wondroustremor
I decided that I am not going to use Real ID, because no matter how well I know my friends, there are days when I feel social, and days when I want to be left alone. Having said that, I've already had several emails from one person asking for my email address- basically pushing me to add him. He's been a friend of mine since we were eight years old. I'm now thirty-six. We're good friends.
But when I've had a long day, and he's on his alt, trying to level, I don't always want him to know I'm on, because he can get chatty. If I'm in an irritable mood, I want tranquility and solitude, not someone (even a close friend) linking loot that he wants, or asking questions about pointers on his alt, or asking to join him for chain heroics, etc., etc.
The solution is not as simple as some people have made it out to be. Now that it's available, people expect to be added to friends' Real ID lists. I've already had someone get offended when I've told them that I have no intention of using it for anyone, because there are times that I want my privacy. Since Blizzard has stated that there is no "invisible" option, I am not going to use it. For people who always want to be accessible, fine. Don't assume that everyone should lose all expectation of privacy.
The biggest problem that I see already is that friends are demanding that you add them. It's something that I don't like the idea of, especially when you know that once you do, you'll always be visible to them. The concept of Real ID was good - but not adding an option to either turn it off or go invisible is a serious flaw.
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Post by
sememon
I've only read the first 3 pages of this thread so far, but just thought I would add my 2 cents.
From what I've seen of RealID so far, it looks like a great concept with a terrible implementation. I'm a Software Engineer myself and just cant comprehend how this managed to go live without some one saying "Hey, what about privacy settings?"
Actually scratch that last comment, chances are the VP of marketing came a long and told them to scrap privacy settings and just throw it out there, worry about privacy later on.
As thing stand I wont be using the RealID.
p.s. All the comments by people along the lines off "If you dont like it, just dont use it" are just ridiculous, thats not a solution.
Post by
Onijitsu
If the Real ID system allowed me to use a specific user name -- or, if it even created a unique one for me -- then I would probably use it. However, requiring me to give away a significant portion of my critical login information, in order to take advantage of this ability?
Bad Blizzard!
BAD!
I specifically chose an e-mail which would never, ever match the name of any of my characters, and make it much harder for anyone to guess my login. Perhaps Blizzard's response to this issue will be, "Get an authenticator!" But my response is that authenticators are an added level of security... I do not want to eliminate one basic form of security in favor of another; I want them
stacking
with one another.
Let's face it. It's a cool idea to be able to communicate with friends, even cross-faction and cross-server. But friendships occasionally have fallings out. And friend-of-friend features? If I am nervous about giving this kind of information to people I might consider to be friends, then why would I want anyone else getting any special benefit from such a setup? (I admittedly don't know if Friends-of-Friends gain access to the same e-mail account information... but I don't plan on them coming anywhere near that info)
When the new communication system went into effect, it grandfathered my old friends list. Which, is a very good thing for me. This, because I had several of my prime competitors from the Auction House on my friends list, and would often tweak my pricing after they had all logged off. If any my my "real" friends were to interact with those individuals, and those individuals had some desire to do something nasty to them...?
Post by
Rilgon
I specifically chose an e-mail which would never, ever match the name of any of my characters, and make it much harder for anyone to guess my login. Perhaps Blizzard's response to this issue will be, "Get an authenticator!" But my response is that authenticators are an added level of security... I do not want to eliminate one basic form of security in favor of another; I want them
stacking
with one another.
So what you're saying is that you don't trust any of your real life friends.
Edit: And aside from the one time that the email is given to them,
they never see it again.
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Post by
Rilgon
I specifically chose an e-mail which would never, ever match the name of any of my characters, and make it much harder for anyone to guess my login. Perhaps Blizzard's response to this issue will be, "Get an authenticator!" But my response is that authenticators are an added level of security... I do not want to eliminate one basic form of security in favor of another; I want them
stacking
with one another.
So what you're saying is that you don't trust any of your real life friends.
It may not be a matter of trusting "real life friends" but trusting every single friend or online acquaintance *of those friends.*
Good thing they can never see your email.
I don't know about you, but not all my "gaming buddies" on WoW are people that my 8yo little girl needs to be chatting with. What if one of those gaming buddies has had a few too many, sees 8yo girl's toon name listed next to "Dad's" name and starts whispering her about his might on the town, thinking she is his buddy? Yikes.
What happens if "Friend of Friend" sees "Dad's" name and sends a friend request while 8yo is playing, and she accepts not knowing that the guy is in fact "Pervy Ex-College roommate" that "Dad" has no desire to ever be in contact with again?
Too much potential for problems, not enough methods to prevent them.
That's a parenting fail, not a Real ID fail. Why is a 8-year-old playing unsupervised? For that matter, why aren't they on their own account, so that parental controls can be enacted?
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