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Post by
ThreeEdge
No.
Anyone that I would be willing to share my full, legal name and e-mail address already knows them anyways. We keep in touch using our Vent server and by phone/text/e-mail already.
The privacy issues are shockingly naive on Blizzard's part as well.
Post by
EluraE
My only friends playing WoW are in my guild.. so, no.
Post by
Perkocet
My only friends playing WoW are in my guild.. so, no.
WHATTABOUT ME D;
Post by
281419
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
EluraE
My only friends playing WoW are in my guild.. so, no.
WHATTABOUT ME D;
You're on US servers, dumdum. Or wait, does it work between US and EU?
Post by
Perkocet
Idk. With my luck, probably not.
Post by
620173
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Post by
Huludicidal
I am currently using Real ID with one person. It's nice to be able to talk when they're on a different server, but I talk to them all day on gchat anyway. So, it seems kind of pointless for me...most people who you want to talk to are on some Vent server anyway.
I can see it being useful for cross-game talking, though...so we'll see how useful it becomes once SC2 (and Diablo 3) comes out.
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
Yup. Already using it, and it's working like a charm. 14 friends at the moment, should be up to 18 when everyone finishes accepting the invites. Several are friends from college, most of whom play on different realms. Others are my friends who play on my horde realm where I don't actively play anymore. And the rest are rl friends who play on my realm.
It's great. One thing I'd like to see added in the future is an out-of-game application that let's me chat with them while their in-game.
I think part of the problem is that most of the people who are against it just don't have friends. Sure, if you've got only 1 rl friend, the whole system seems silly and irrelevant. But if you've been gaming for years like I have, and you've become part of a large family of gamers, it's nice to have this tool. And it'll be even better once SCII and D3 are out, cause I guarantee every last one of us will be getting them.
Post by
Sinespe
One of my friends is transgendered. I'd love to be friends with her in-game, but if I used Real ID, all of my friends would see her with a name which, to put it mildly, would raise questions. One of my friends has a crazy stalker. Actually, more than one. I have a friend who is the ex-wife of another friend, and his new wife plays WoW and we're friends. I would VERY much like to not have the ex-wife and the new-wife get exposed to each other in-game if I could avoid that.
I think a big part of this is that, just because of who I am and what I'm like, people tend to be a lot more open with me than they might be with other people. I know the real names of a lot of people who are, other than me, very private about who they are or what their lives are like.
Presumably all these people are, like yourself, adults. I see why you would be keen to protect themselves from each other, as you seem to be implying ... But, if they're adults, they really shouldn't need that protection. Either they're comfortable with who they are, and will thus stand up to criticism or otherwise deal with it in a mature manner, or they need to develop way more -- and WoW isn't the way to do that,
especially
where personal privacy is concerned. Again, I don't mean legal name and login e-mail address, necessarily, but consider: there has never been a way, for instance, to "Appear offline" to everyone in the game, a la MSN. Why would that be? Because it's a
multiplayer
game -- it's kinda taken as read that by playing it you
want
to talk to other people. I've never really understood the desire to play an MMO completely isolated from as much contact as possible -- isolated from real-world contact, sure, because WoW is an escape from that ... but if you want isolation from
all
human contact, a single-player game is the way to go.
Besides which, what's to stop them putting people on ignore whom they do not like, even if they are friends of friends?
Social drama happens. Hiding away from it is, frankly, cowardly; I infer from your description of the situation that you yourself aren't very comfortable with this tangle of conflicting interests you seem to have gotten yourself mixed up in. So you could always take RealID as an opportunity to
sort it out
, instead of perpetuating it. Having ten different masks for ten different people gets very tiring.
Stalkers can and should be dealt with instead of hidden from. Transgender is not something to hide because of, either -- it would raise questions? So just bloody answer those questions. The ex-wife and new-wife? the weakest example of the lot -- it's a very old, tired example -- if they can't sort out their differences without getting you involved, I'd not bother with either of them, frankly, because that's just sheer immaturity.
If there are people uncomfortable with those whom you choose to spend time befriending, then don't spend your time on the uncomfortable bunch. Sort out the wheat from the chaff. You'll be all the happier for it, instead of trying to juggle conflicting interests.
And I realise this is all unwanted advice, but if I were not to click "Submit" after writing it all out, I'd be a complete hypocrite.
Post by
CaoimheX
Presumably all these people are, like yourself, adults. I see why you would be keen to protect themselves from each other, as you seem to be implying ... But, if they're adults, they really shouldn't need that protection.There have been many threads on these very fora about kids and adults in-game, how mature kids can behave and how childish adults can be. Equating adults and maturity is as naïve in real life as it is in game. GrumblyStuff provides an excellent example with "Ex-wife vs new wife?". No matter how mature I'd like to believe myself to be, I will guarantee its loss if I ever find myself in the same room as my ex-husband's new wife. Adults can still hold onto racism, religious intolerance, intense personality clashes and various other bigotted indulgences, to believe any different is naïve.
Social drama happens. Hiding away from it is, frankly, cowardly; ...Snake bites happen. Not pulling the snake's tail is, frankly, cowardly. See, there's a difference between 'cowardly' and 'prudent', 'foolish' and 'wise'. Is it not far better to prevent the social drama than to instigate? I know that not all of the people I know will mix amicably, it would be downright foolish of me to invite them all to a big dinner party and expect love, peace and happiness.
Pardon my bluntness, Sinespe, but you are being as naïve as Blizzard are.
Post by
Onijitsu
My only friends playing WoW are in my guild.. so, no.
I have friends outside my guild. However, most of my friends are also on my vent server all the time anyway. And I'm certainly not giving out my email addy -- my WoW login! -- to people. (EDIT: I set up an e-mail account, to ONLY be the login for my WoW account... and it doesn't match the name of ANY of my characters, specifically in order to prevent people from trying to hack (or lock -- with repeated false passwords, it's not hard) my account.
This implementation of the Real ID system is fundamentally flawed. Blizzard already expends a great deal of resources (money, man-hours, etc.) in fixing hacked and screwed up accounts. Maybe they'll figure out that this is a problem, after a few people who're using this feature get burned.
Post by
RyokoLam
Plan only to use it with 2 ppl I know in RL, to see how it goes! Though adding people as friends via email puts me off with the implications of account name using the same name....they might have to make 2 lists for RL and online friends?
Post by
383613
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Post by
xaratherus
Not unless they adopt a sensible system that doesn't require me to give away my WoW account name in order to use it, and that allows you to hide your online status.
Post by
Rilgon
Not unless they adopt a sensible system that doesn't require me to give away my WoW account name in order to use it
And what, pray tell, do you suggest they use instead?
Post by
xaratherus
Not unless they adopt a sensible system that doesn't require me to give away my WoW account name in order to use it
And what, pray tell, do you suggest they use instead?
An alias selected by the account holder - as I (and others) have suggested in several previous threads in which you've participated. It's the system used by several other MMOs.
Post by
Rilgon
Not unless they adopt a sensible system that doesn't require me to give away my WoW account name in order to use it
And what, pray tell, do you suggest they use instead?
An alias selected by the account holder - as I (and others) have suggested in several previous threads in which you've participated. It's the system used by several other MMOs.
Okay, someone now registers xaratherus before you do.
Your friends all you know as xaratherus
They add xaratherus, but get someone that's not you
uh oh...
Post by
Patty
I personally won't. My real-life friends don't play as far as I am aware, and I do agree that using the battle.net login as a requirement is a rather weak move. I would imagine that this will be abused by guild masters, quite extensively.
Post by
KittyKat77
Not unless they adopt a sensible system that doesn't require me to give away my WoW account name in order to use it
And what, pray tell, do you suggest they use instead?
An alias selected by the account holder - as I (and others) have suggested in several previous threads in which you've participated. It's the system used by several other MMOs.
Okay, someone now registers xaratherus before you do.
Your friends all you know as xaratherus
They add xaratherus, but get someone that's not you
uh oh...
Well in that case, you tell your friends what alias you did register. Wow, that was hard...
In your example, no harm has been done, no one's personally identifying information has been revealed, only one person who registered an alias got a few friend requests from people who mistook him for someone else. A minor inconvenience at worst.
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