Originally Posted by altairwolf
REAL NAMES NO LONGER REQUIRED for Real ID.
This has been changed to an OPTION.
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Source please.
This is how rumor gets started. Someone reports something half correct and someone repeats it then somone else repeats it and ad infinitum.
The change is not that "REAL NAMES NO LONGER REQUIRED for Real IDs" but that we will no longer be required to use real names to post on the forums.
Real Names are still used for Real ID friends.
EDIT : You might of been talking of the last post on page 9 of the comments on the wowriot URL made by godriot
"Victory for Freedom of Speech - Real ID cancelled.
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=13816839821&sid=1"
If you follow the link you come to a page discussing the cancellation of requiring you use a Real ID real name for posting on the forums.
This is not quite the same as you have posted.
Originally Posted by altairwolf
Apparently one of the blues posted his real name and with in hours, pictures of his house, his mom's house, him, his facebook, his twitter, sisters name, brothers name, parents names were all posted to the thread.
Blizzard changed their stance after that.
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It was more then 1 blue. It was at least four - one US male GM and one male EU GM and 2 Females - two from the US side.
This all happened within hours of the news breaking.
Meanwhile for a few days they had a thread of titanic proportions growing in the General forums that they never put a thread cap on. Threads that are too large usually get a thread cap on them. Some of the time they even delete multiple threads on a subject to get people to keep in the one thread. They didn't do that either - the forums were littered with random threads on it.
Given their employees privacy was compromised within hours of the news breaking yet they let us post as much feedback as we like for several days I like to think they listened to us.
IMHO The blues got the edict from Activision about this. They probably knew full well what it meant for their privacy but they were forced to do it anyway.