In an attempt to increase security and remove a good deal of the animosity that comes with anonymity, Blizzard announced that Real ID would be coming to their Battle.net interface, which includes notable titles such as World of Warcraft and the impending StarCraft 2. Unsurprisingly, not everyone is content with these measures.
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.
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra recently suggested an interesting concept that has sparked a debate among gamers - the idea of being able to tip developers after completing a game.
If I had a 100% way to be sure that this money would go to a fund or a reserve dedicated only to the guys who develop the games, be them designers, artists, programmers and so on, I could think about it.
But we all know that this 'tip' would only end up in a publisher's CEO pocket to buy a new yacht, so, no, I ain't tipping anyone anytime soon on this industry
Exactly these companies were raising money for good causes and gamers were donation and come to find out they are keeping a good chunk of be pie
Yeah tip your developer, 5% proceeds go to developer, 95% to the publisher or whoever. Isn't tipping for staff not making minimum wage? How about they just pay their developers properly and like you know, give them fair bonuses? Too much to ask from Blizzard these days, Kotick saw to that and is now laughing all the way to the bank.
It's the t**ts at the top looking at ways to cut devs wages and get the players to tip them like waiting staff, and I'll guarantee a percentage is skimmed and kept by Activision Blizzard. This is 100% for shareholder and CEO playouts.
I have to agree with this. On the surface tipping devs sounds like a great idea, but in the end it leads to pay cuts and subsidization of pay. Tips then become an expectation or the devs “can’t make a living.” Lastly, especially in the US, tip culture has gotten out of control, and it serves as an excuse not to properly pay employees. Sounds good but doesn’t end well.
@ Popsicle
I think your right on the nose with how much tipping has become rampant. Instead of it being a relationship directly between the customer and the developer or employee, it now has a middle man ingrained in the system. DoorDash is one example. It ends up becoming a metric where the company can measure 'just how much more money you are willing to part with' before raising the price on the main product.
Uh so they’re trying triple dip or more we buy the game that they’re already withholding/cutting content for dlc we was told that season pass would help the developers thrive we felt for it.
Now on top of all that plus their sales bonus they want tips enough is enough whatever happens to you create/built a good game get a bonus for sales milestones you care about your game and community we reward you with more sales not for doing 3/4 of a game then save the other 1/4 for dlc and passes after
Very well said. If it was possible to send the money to either the developer or some organization for the betterment of gaming, sure. But we all know that will not be the case.
No, it would go to those on the top. They will still fire developers, have a bunch of microtransactions, raise prices of games and so on.
So they eventually don't pay their workers and depend on our tips to pay them like the case with waiters!
That kind of practice is only normal in the states, as far as I know anyway, what a backwards system
Ireland is literally the first stop across the pond and we don't have a tipping culture. The only establishments here that would expect a tip are the tourist haunts that Americans visit. Other than that, you might tip in a restaurant as a sign of gratitude for great service and waiting staff would be paid a full wage anyway.
Is this a joke? How about the big wigs giving up some of their pay for their hard working developers.
lets get one thing straight, the main reason people are bitching about this is NOT because of security. It's because they are the ones trolling, talking crap on the message boards, starting flame wars and generally acting like deuchebags. I no longer play the game, but I'm sure the forums are still the same, if not worse, and personally I see this as a good thing and hope that Blizzard doesn't back out of this. If they force people to use their real names then we'll see how much of an e-thug people really are when your name is Percy Miniscus or Richard Smalls and you can be looked up on Facebook for the pathetic loser that you probably really are.
Yep but security is a big deal, too.
I can get a full address from someones name, easy.
Clearly sexist comments from jack-offs at the people who are now confirmed to be female is a great reason to keep and implement this idea.
Or better yet, high profile people who like a little privacy and escape from real life should be messed with while playing a game. Completely forgetting the fact that Blizzard has always prided itself on security and discouraging people from using real names in-game for security reasons.
If Blizzard would stop screwing around and police their own forums, trolling wouldn't be as big of an issue. Start disciplining accounts and ultimately banning them for being jackasses.... None of this B.Net 1.0 crap where you can make an infinite number of accounts. You get banned from wow forums, congrats go buy another game to harass people with. Same goes for Diablo Uni and StarCraft Uni forums.
Blizzard can easily do this and keep their old mentality of not banning game accounts for actions taken on forums. They're doing it now, just like they always have been. It's just really, really rare.
This is about security I bet any amount of money that the Blues will not be using their real names.
as you can probably tell, i don't have a problem with displaying my name, but i disagree with forcing others to display their real name, it should be the user's choice.
all this guff about security, blizzard know the name the user has given, which may or may not be their real names, forcing them to be displayed on the forums is taking things a step too far.
they're going to lose a lot of players over this i bet.