According to the website Gamona, Blizzard community manager Bashiok posted his real name on the official World of Warcraft Forums, in an attempt to defend the controversial Real ID. Within minutes, forum users revealed all the important stages of his life, his phone number, address, age, preferences...even the name of his wife and the school of his children. This obviously shows that the Real ID is quite questionable.
Blizzard writes: "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years."
How about you not hold Blizzcon anymore period. You fucking POS company. I really hope Blizzard would just die.
Microsoft has 'let Blizzard be Blizzard' following the acquisition of the veteran developer according to World of Warcraft's executive producer.
Diablo 4 storefront being a cash grabbing shitshow does unironically attest to that, kudos.
Microsoft needs to be guiding Blizzard to be what it USED to be, not allowing it to continue to be the greedy bastardization of itself that it has become.
Okay i will be interested if they become old Blizzard but might as well be dead.
They will never be old blizzard. Most of all the OG's left from developers to those on the top (even some decision making folks left).
Shame most of the people that made Blizzard what they were, have already left a while ago.
I was about to say this. How can they be blizzard when they're no longer blizzard from yesteryear?
Exactly. Blizzard hasn’t been Blizzard for a long time.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Were you expecting Microsoft to hire everyone that had left Blizzard long before they purchased the company...
Microsoft has let the Blizzard company they purchased continue to be the Blizzard company they purchased.
Wow, PassNextquestion,
You fully understand what that saying means, unlike some people on here who just have to say negative garbage talk.
When someone says, "Just let *blank* be *blank*, "they are just letting them operate how they operate.
It's pretty much how Sony "let Bungie be Bungie."
This comment section is full of outright haters, but you have to "let N4G be N4G"
I don't think people commenting are necessarily blaming MS for anything here, this is just collective longing for what Blizzard/Vivendi was before Activision's meddling.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced the opening of beta registrations for “World of Warcraft: The War Within,” inviting players to explore new subterranean worlds beneath Azeroth.
Quite hilarious if you ask me. Yes, maybe digging in as deep as children isn't quite right, but..... whose to say the people that did this weren't straight up good folk just trying to prove a point? If they can do it, any "freak" can do it too.
Blizzard could be sued for this...or their user agreement might save them.
haha,owned!
you don't have to use real id if you don't want to. its a choice, I mean if you wanna share the id with people you can other wise you can still use the ingame name system. I don't really have a big deal with. Hey look at this way at least now you can check to see if its a really chick your giving all that gold to haha. I kid I kid
That's pretty scary. There are a lot of creepers on the internet. & there are a lot of creepers on WoW. How many stories have we heard of teenage girls or boys running off with some old effin creeper on WoW? Lots.
At least on those occasions, they had to volunteer the information / tell people their real name & stuff. Now, Blizzard / Activision are taking away that crucial step. Now the creepers can just FIND the information, since the real names are everywhere.
GG. RealID should be only used in the game if you choose to, because xserver chat really is pretty nice, but not anywhere on the forums that everyone has easy access to.