10-31-2006, 01:10 AM
None of the things you mention make the purpose of using account numbers to find friends less meaningful. It only makes them less meaningful for uses that Blizzard never used them for in the first place. It would be nice to be able to do a /whois, and find the desired person regardless of what game they are playing. It is particularly troublesome in Diablo though, because each character has its own account. That makes it very hard to keep track of anyone. Friend list is useless if your friends are always making new characters with new names.