A recap. ActivisionBlizzard announces an end to cowardly name-calling and flame-wars provided by the Internet’s mask of anonymity, with the news that, if you want to post on their Battle.net forums that is, you will have to use your real name. Cue the Internet and its clandestine minions erupting in an outcry of prodigious proportions.
In response to the inherent dangers of fantasy rivalries spilling over into real life, a select few industrious types decide to highlight the new policy’s failings by doing some (less than covert it seems) sleuthing using the real names of Blizzard employees and other more recognisable figures such as Activision boss Bobby Kotick. When personal (and creepy) details about Kotick’s kids and what their favourite cereals are appear online (all in the name of science, apparently), Blizzard back down and scupper the RealID requirement if you want to call someone – or more likely their mother – a douchnozzle online . . . for now.
Now, and what must be viewed as a bizarre twist of fate, it would appear that the email addresses of those who registered a complaint regarding the policy change have been accidentally released by the ESRB.
The lesson here? Never complain. Or, if you do, never use your real name when doing so.
Source: Joystiq
bunimomike
You can almost taste the irony! Although, it’s good to see the masses kicking up enough of a fuss where even the mighty spActard have to listen.
cc_star
Now that is funny.
BrendanCalls
I to the R to the O to the N to the Y.
tinman9
Using real names would cause a lot of trouble..
Danza Di Fuoco
murder? oh god….
theDAZBOMEGATRON
Kotick has kids? ARRgh Devil Spawn! Favourite serial Fresh babies served in goats blood.
bajere
thats the main point i took away from this article…some poor tortured and imprisoned woman has to sleep with that thing!! Get the TSA ‘Bear priest’ to utter a short prayer for her