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.
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.
Okay i will be interested if they become old Blizzard but might as well be dead.
Shame most of the people that made Blizzard what they were, have already left a while ago.
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.
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
So they eventually don't pay their workers and depend on our tips to pay them like the case with waiters!
Is this a joke? How about the big wigs giving up some of their pay for their hard working developers.
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.