Well, this is a bit of an old news, considering that the blue post was out about a week ago. With my posting “schedule”, a week here or there will not stop me from linking it anyway. So, here you go.
Answers to Common Community Questions About Real ID
What’s in it? Well, apparently Blizzard reads the feedback we provide (however unprobable it may sound), so they’re going to make it possible to opt-out of the ingame friends of friends feature. Personally I’m not really bothered about it, but I’ve seen a lot of people that do. Well, you folks just won! Or will win when it will be done. Whatever. Good for you, anyway, right?
There’s also a bunch of stuff about Starcraft’s “integration” with Facebook, (which I don’t care about), explanation of the character code used on SC2 forums, and unfortunately, a mention of why they don’t want to use nicknames with RealID. Oh well, maybe sometime in the future.
What really bugs me with this is not the blue post itself, though. It’s the reaction from all the people that were so bloody serious when Blizzard announced their plans the forum change. Different kind of reactions for that one quickly spread all over the web, on every news site and blog – mine included. This? This got almost nothing – one mention on wow.com, some mentions on all the fansites that copy all the blue posts as their news material, one post on Tankspot (with a whole 4 comments – compare that to 348 that the Ciderhelm’s earlier post has)… and the blog posts? I’ve found a whole ONE, and I’ve spent a good half an hour looking. Seriously.
And even that one post is still full of “yeah they say that here but I don’t believe them anyway” type of crap. Even the one good announcement about FoF opt-out is deemed irrelevant there, because RealID will still use names, not nicknames.
Sigh.
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