07-09-2010, 06:28 AM
(07-07-2010, 09:42 PM)Ruvanal Wrote: Some of us do not connect much of our real lives to the gaming tags that we regularly use. Try doing that search yourself on 'Ruvanal' and see if you can get very far.
I agree entirely --- I certainly hope the same thing is true of 'Thecla' and I'm pretty sure that 'Sorceror' of old would've felt the same way (even if Eugene and TheMan aka 'Charlie' might not).
As far as posting on the Blizzard forums go, it's not such a big deal (though if you needed to post in the support forum it might be different) but the claim that the use of real names is to control trolls strikes me as completely bogus.
Without trying to sound too much like a conspiracy theorist, it's pretty hard to avoid the suspicion that this is directly connected with the battle.net/facebook merger and activision/blizzard's determination to parlay their massive success with WoW into social networking gold, one way or the other, whatever players might want.