World of Warcraft/Battle.Net sigh

[cericonversion]

There's some more preview info up about the new stuff coming for Battle.Net, and...I'll quote.

Battle.net's social networking and communication capabilities will be some of the service's biggest new features. This new social backbone for the entire service will seamlessly integrate friends lists, matchmaking, messaging, and more. Text and voice

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[cericonversion]

That may be viable too. I am leery of the push for such things - it's not just trans people who have genuinely good reasons for not wishing so much linkage, and I am very far convinced that Battle.Net designers have gotten any clue about that.

Also, if I'd realized, I would have set up a separate e-mail for battle.net login. I now very deeply regret using one of my standard ones and there seems no obvious way to change it.

[lisaquestions]

Yeah, I'm really grateful I had that paranoia attack just before Wrath and moved my e-mail address to something I use for nothing else...but I really regret having any portion of my real name on that e-mail address. I would've used something different if I'd known how battle.net was going to evolve.

Of course, I'm the person who quit WoW for a year because I didn't like the required/automatic opt-in for the Armory.

[cericonversion]

I'm wondering how to most usefully try to tell any of this to Blizzard.

[ex_voz_lati]

yanno, I'm pretty sure that Fred Q Public and Jane S Anybody don't go onto games like WoW to be Fred and Jane, respectively, so I am seriously missing the point of Real ID.

Don't even get me started on naming a fucking game thing after an oppressive US government program full of fail.

Srsly, call me when they make enrolling your mount in NAIS mandatory.

[cericonversion]

Well, that's an interesting thing. I didn't really grasp it until seeing it advocated by folks in guilds I've belonged to, but there really are people for whom being Fred and Jane everywhere is a big deal. They don't play for the sense of a different persona, but purely for the same old selves in every context.

I find that strange. But it really does exist - there's an enthusiastic audience for the idea of being reachable under their legal names everywhere.

[ex_voz_lati]

wooow. You learn something new every day.

The name of the thing is pure fail, tho.

[cericonversion]

Agreed on both parts.