GamersFirst promoting anonymity in response to Blizzard's Real ID system

It's also optional not to sub to their game.

Right but since we know you won't do that, just don't post on their forums.

And sorry...your evidence to support that claim is what, Lethality?

As I thought...you don't. And not to embarrass you further but your assumption is incorrect.

Sorry. I wasn't hanging around a blog comments section hanging to see if anyone replied... better things to do, etc.

What evidence are you looking for? You're not making sense.

And as I better things to do then to entertain trolls that don't get it. /shrug

Technical issues can be handlied via phone or email, nothing is forcing you to use the forums. If you don't want your name revealed, don't post. Simple as that.

They actually tell you to phone in when you post on the forums. Even when you email them you get told to phone them.

Just letting you know, Juelz.

After a recent technical issues and spending an hour on the line with "Phone" support. I was told to post on the issue on the forums...

So yeah, it's totally optional.

BTW, when you pay a subscription, it's to keep the game you're playing rolling, receive more content and receive support, support that is given on the forums.

Have you ever tried filling a bug report? I have, several times, each time I am told to report it on the bug report forums. So what should I do next time? Keep the bug to myself and exploit it and risk the chance of getting banned? (See: Lich King first kill controversy).

Then you have suggestions, which much also be posted on the forums.

Then you have the problem of the exodus that will happen to third-party forums. Going on third-party forums is a pretty big security breach, since you leave yourself open to website corruption and potential password database upload (That is, if you used the same password, they can still get the e-mail and your forum account name, which is enough to start spamming you.).

The forums would be optional if no announcement were made there, if there were only discussion between players.

Where did they announce the new RealID system? Where did they announce the new revamp to talent trees?

We (GamersFirst) decided not to be so rude. We have a firm feeling that what is happening is not right and we want to let players who may not know us, know how we feel.

I'm not gonna lie, as soon as that was announced people were screaming (and laughing) in our office. It just strikes us as something that isn't condusive to building and managing a community. There are millions of other ways to make people behave on forums that do not include forcing them to reveal their identity.

Just making it so when you post every character you have can be revealed would be more than enough to have the exact same effect. This change by them seems to be: "Play nice or you may get assaulted". That to us, is not in the best interest of our gamers or our company and we think people should know that.

By the way, that code is actually live on our site right now ;).

Jon-Enee "Neume" Merriex

O.O

...why thank you for sharing that Jon Merriex. That is appreciated. And I couldn't agree with you more. :)

I'll check out what you guys have instore then. Thanks again. :)