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World of Warcraft forums are "where flame wars, trolling, and other unpleasantness run wild", says Blizzard, the publisher of the mega-online game. And it thinks it knows how to get everyone to behave more nicely. With the next iteration of its Battle.net forum, the company is to publish users' real names in full on official …

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  1. gnufreex
    Joke

    Bart calls Moe

    I bet names is going to be like this from now on:

    http://www.snpp.com/guides/moe_calls.html

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  2. Clockworkseer

    Somewhat unsurprisingly...

    Blizzard back down.

    http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=13816839821&sid=1

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  3. Stephen Clifford

    And, that'll be the backtrack

    Yep - they've now changed their mind and realised that this would probably be breaking a whole host of data protection/privacy laws and opening them up to various law suits.

    So, yesterday Blizzard announced that they're dropping this idea.

    A quote from the CEO of Blizzard:

    "Hello everyone,

    I'd like to take some time to speak with all of you regarding our desire to make the Blizzard forums a better place for players to discuss our games. We've been constantly monitoring the feedback you've given us, as well as internally discussing your concerns about the use of real names on our forums. As a result of those discussions, we've decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums."

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