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[Blue Geezer]

not sure this is the right place but move as appropriate...

Recently, we introduced our new Real ID feature - http://www.battle.net/realid/ , a new way to stay connected with your friends on the new Battle.net. Today, we wanted to give you a heads up about our plans for Real ID on our official forums, discuss the design philosophy behind the changes we’re making, and give you a first look at some of the new features we’re adding to the forums to help improve the quality of conversations and make the forums an even more enjoyable place for players to visit.

The first and most significant change is that in the near future, 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.

The official forums have always been a great place to discuss the latest info on our games, offer ideas and suggestions, and share experiences with other players -- however, the forums have also earned a reputation as a place where flame wars, trolling, and other unpleasantness run wild. Removing the veil of anonymity typical to online dialogue will contribute to a more positive forum environment, promote constructive conversations, and connect the Blizzard community in ways they haven’t been connected before. With this change, you’ll see blue posters (i.e. Blizzard employees) posting by their real first and last names on our forums as well.

We also plan to add a number of other features designed to make reading the forums more enjoyable and to empower players with tools to improve the quality of forum discussions. Players will have the ability to rate up or rate down posts so that great topics and replies stand out from the not-so-great; low-rated posts will appear dimmer to show that the community feels that they don’t contribute effectively to the conversation, and Blizzard’s community team will be able to quickly and easily locate highly rated posts to participate in or to highlight discussions that players find worthwhile.

In addition, individual topics will be threaded by context, meaning replies to specific posts will be grouped together, making it easier for players to keep track of multiple conversations within a thread. We’re also adding a way for Blizzard posters to “broadcast” important messages forums-wide , to help communicate breaking news to the community in a clear and timely fashion. Beyond that, we’re improving our forum search function to make locating interesting topics easier and help lower the number of redundant threads, and we have more planned as well.

With the launch of the new Battle.net, it’s important to us to create a new and different kind of online gaming environment -- one that’s highly social, and which provides an ideal place for gamers to form long-lasting, meaningful relationships. All of our design decisions surrounding Real ID -- including these forum changes -- have been made with this goal in mind.

We’ve given a great deal of consideration to the design of Real ID as a company, as gamers, and as enthusiastic users of the various online-gaming, communication, and social-networking services that have become available in recent years. As these services have become more and more popular, gamers have become part of an increasingly connected and intimate global community – friendships are much more easily forged across long distances, and at conventions like PAX or our own BlizzCon, we’ve seen first-hand how gamers who may have never actually met in person have formed meaningful real-life relationships across borders and oceans. As the way gamers interact with one another continues to evolve, our goal is to ensure Battle.net is equipped to handle the ever-changing social-gaming experience for years to come.

For more info on Real ID, check out our Real ID page and FAQ located at http://www.battle.net/realid/ . We look forward to answering your questions about these upcoming forum changes in the thread below.

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25626109041&sid=3000&pageNo=1

so for or against this bold move from blizzard?

[scroggage]

WoW meets Facebook? Don't get it personally. The anonymity is there initially so that you don't make friends with bastards.

[discordance]

Yes this is contradictory with battle.net as well. On b.net you have avatar friends, and realID friends. The worse kind of person you could want knowing your name is an internet weirdo. And whats to stop trolling, fear of said asshole coming round your house and murdering you? The facebook integration of RealID is ok when your privacy is maintained (you only add people on b.net who you'd have on facebook and vice versa but publically putting it on the forum is horrendous.

[Blue Geezer]

just to clarify it is optional EXCEPT for the forums where it will always be shown.

[Nineblade]

Don't care either way. Basically I'm just as wierd as the next internet freak. Someone come's to murder me..I'll kill em and eat em

[Burnalot]

As others said previously, being anonymous is a personal choice. You should be able to choose who you share your information with, a.k.a those you have gotten to know over a period of time or those you already know, not some random nutjob.

WoW meets Facebook? Don't get it personally. The anonymity is there initially so that you don't make friends with bastards.

Good point. I'll cut all contact with you as of now!

[mode_seven]

Don't care either way. Basically I'm just as wierd as the next internet freak. Someone come's to murder me..I'll kill em and eat em

Yeah, but you're in a pretty unique position Nine, of a gamer that can actually be pretty fucking intimidating in real life. Look at me, you can't be intimidating with hair like this, it's just not possible!

[Burnalot]

Don't care either way. Basically I'm just as wierd as the next internet freak. Someone come's to murder me..I'll kill em and eat em

Yeah, but you're in a pretty unique position Nine, of a gamer that can actually be pretty fucking intimidating in real life. Look at me, you can't be intimidating with hair like this, it's just not possible!

Bah, just turn water into mace, you'll be fine.

[Lazzars]

with hair like this

you won't be able to say that for too long

i kid, i kid!!!!

[Junta]

Wow is bad.
Wow is evil.
Blizzard are evil.
Proof.
'Nuff said.

[Magathery]

I don't like the idear. I didn't come to the internet to be me. And as for Blizzard and names. Well there's a joke. You can spend ages trying name a bloody WOW charater, and now we are comanded to use our real names for their forums? F*cfk off!

Then again, no real skin of my nose. I don't think I've ever posted on a Blizzard forum. And I think it's safe to say that I won't be either any time in the future.

Me thinks that Blizzard has been atop it's mountain of Gold too long.

[discordance]

I support the RealID thing when optional it seemed like a good thing in blizzard beta, a friend who used to be far too good and SC1 added me by searching facebook for SC2 players rather than needing to ask for and type in whatever silly user name I am using. I support this integration and while I will probably deny it wall posts of achievements its nice that its there. But as I already said forced forum RealID bad

[CruelCow]

I value privacy very much, so I really don't like the idea.

However what I don't understand is how they want to enforce it. Certainly they won't be able to pay enough people to check the name of everybody.

yours truly,
John Doe

[Rct33]

The amount of people using the forums have dropped. I wonder why.

[Hzza]

yours truly,
Andrew Batman

You spelt your name wrong.

Also, even if I do drop cash on a Blizz game, I'm not going to be going anywhere near their forums anyway.