Comments on: Pro Real ID http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/pro-real-id/ Inductive Game Design Research Thu, 17 May 2012 18:29:27 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Radek http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/pro-real-id/comment-page-1/#comment-4039 Radek Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:12:05 +0000 http://gamedesignreviews.com/?p=2195#comment-4039 I tend to agree. Everyone's focusing on the (mostly anticipated, not factual) negative fallout of using one's real name, but I don't buy it. There are some legitimate privacy issues, but people still have the option of simply not using the official forums. Plus, would it really be that hard to get a duplicate Facebook/Real ID account? As for StarCraft, it's a rather splintered community and the official message boards aren't as active as the unofficial ones, so I'm not sure how much impact it will have on potential E-Sports stars. It's also interesting that other communities have taken a similar stance in the past (for example, http://www.clockworkstorybook.net/forum/), and the results were not the doomsday being predicted for Blizzard. Granted the CWSB forums weren't as big as WoW and were pretty civil to begin with, but I don't think the real-name policy increased racist comments or had other negative results being theorized right now. I tend to agree. Everyone’s focusing on the (mostly anticipated, not factual) negative fallout of using one’s real name, but I don’t buy it. There are some legitimate privacy issues, but people still have the option of simply not using the official forums. Plus, would it really be that hard to get a duplicate Facebook/Real ID account?

As for StarCraft, it’s a rather splintered community and the official message boards aren’t as active as the unofficial ones, so I’m not sure how much impact it will have on potential E-Sports stars.

It’s also interesting that other communities have taken a similar stance in the past (for example, http://www.clockworkstorybook.net/forum/), and the results were not the doomsday being predicted for Blizzard. Granted the CWSB forums weren’t as big as WoW and were pretty civil to begin with, but I don’t think the real-name policy increased racist comments or had other negative results being theorized right now.

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