Those excited about RealID, Blizzard's plan to connect users' real names to their in-game characters, may be a little upset with a policy change to the company's official forums. Judging by the response in the forum thread announcing the changes users are ****ed off. Blizzard announced that forum posts in various official game forums will now use the RealID of the user instead of forum names or gamer names.

While this may be a good way to deter over-the-top flame wars and spam (because they'll know who everyone is by name), some users are concerned about having their gaming and forum activities out there for the world to see. Here's the official announcement from Blizzard from [URL=http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25626109041&sid=3000&pageNo=12]this forum thread[/URL] (thanks to Mendror via the GP shoutbox): [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/07/06/blizzard-forum-changes-agitate-players][B][COLOR=#8e0505]Read More[/COLOR][/B][/URL]

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