The Glade 4.0

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Wow, really? Isn't that a bit discriminatory? It's none of his/her business what I choose to do at home in my spare time. I'd sure as hell be talking to a lawyer if I found out my app was refused because I chose to play an MMO.

Can it mine the info if you have Realid disabled through parental controls?

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

I don't really blame them, when you get 200 applications for 1 position in this economy you need to somehow reduce the number, you don't have time to read 200 resumes. That means using arbitrary criteria and "MMO player" is a pretty good one, all things considered, they're not likely to have a great sleep schedule and it's well known that MMO addiction can interfere with work.

There's a BIG difference in being an "MMO player" and being addicted to an MMO. I can't remember the last time I logged in to WoW. I'm certainly not addicted, yet I still consider myself an MMO player. Not getting a job because someone hears me talking about WoW, and assumes that I'm hopelessly addicted, and won't show up to work on time is pretty stupid. Likewise, I wouldn't want to walk around on eggshells at work, or try and keep the fact that I play an MMO a secret from my boss, so he doesn't fire me. That's pretty lame, also. I'd also venture to say that, especially in a game like WoW, there are A LOT more casual players than there are true "addicts."

Yup.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Arafys:

I have RealID disabled via parental controls and in game on my primary account. I can use my second account to mine the info on my primary account.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

We have been planning this change for a very long time. During this time, we have thought ahead about the scope and impact of this change and predicted that many people would no longer wish to post in the forums after this change goes live. We are fine with that, because we want to change these forums dramatically in a positive and more constructive direction.

It's been very obvious over the last few years that the forums are an exceptionally valuable source of information both for players and for us to gather feedback. There are many threads on this forum now, and over the last few years, that people have been constructively discussing many aspects of the game. They've received new wisdom and have then been able to go back to the game and enjoy it further with the new knowledge acquired through the forums.

These threads, however, can often be lost amongst a great deal of other threads that are basically filled with trolling, name calling, flaming, off-topic conversations and that's just a small amount of some of the content that has been found in these forums over the years. We don't want that anymore, and we believe the Real ID change will bring about a lot of the improvement that we are hoping for.

There's a lot of scare-mongering going on about the change, but there seems a need to make something very clear. The forums have always been an optional extra -- something you can choose to participate in if you wish to. With our Real ID changes for the forums, this is still the case. The only difference will be, if you do choose to participate in the forums, then you will do so by using your real name. But only after you've been warned and accepted this in advance...

...Posting on the forums with your real name will be optional -- yes, in the sense that the options are simply post and show your real name, or do not post and you keep it confidential. If people are happy to post and do not feel intimidated by this, then great -- hopefully they will also post constructively (though it's fair to say, this isn't a given). It might be scary to consider posting with your real name, in which case it might be advisable simply not to post in these forums. There's a whole load of other forums across the internet where you'll be able to post in a more anonymous way, and maybe you will make a useful and constructive contribution there instead.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Arafys:

And that doesn't change the fact that the data-mining damage has already been done. As I warned earlier in the thread, the software is still running and the database links are still active. Simply by virtue of having an account, your real name and your battle.net ID (the e-mail address you use to log in) can be found ...

Still can't find any proof-of-concept code for this yet

And no, the BNIsSelf thing doesn't count.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Wow, the "official" European forum thread is up to 316 pages, the "official" US thread is up to 1213 pages.

By official, I mean the thread that blizzard is attempting to bury and locking every other thread remotely related to realID.

Good lord I hope someone at blizz has enough sense to kill this thing ASAP.