excitement about online role-playing: the names of war in World of Warcraft
Who writes a post on the official forums of World of Warcraft, must give his real name in future.
But the community defends itself in its own way
Eleven million people play according to official figures World of Warcraft (WoW). The online multiplayer role-playing game, with its complex system of experience points, guilds and missions, however, hinted at, even for regular users is difficult.
In the official WoW forums looking for players so help or exchange ideas. But there are to change. Changes that have led to an outcry of indignation.
At the beginning of the week informed the staff of the WoW-producer Activision Blizzard, that users can continue to deduct their contributions in the official game forums only with their full first and last names . WoW-name your imagination, you can only specify even further. can not escape The Klarnamenpflicht users: Activision Blizzard knows the details of the payment information, as charged for access to WoW a monthly fee.
Anti-Troll-policy ensures anger
The reason for the step is according to the company in a bad climate debate. The forum had "acquired over time the reputation of being a place to flourish in the so-called 'flame wars', Trolling and other unpleasant things," a Blizzard employee writes in the German area, "If the on-line conversations typical veil of anonymity is removed, this will lead to a better environment in the forums. "
show by this reasoning, many members of the WoW community, but little convincing, it is the rule, there to write with pseudonyms: Over hundreds of forum pages of time to see Activision Blizzard is facing severe criticism. For the English-language forum already received more than 40,000 posts on the subject.
fusion of real and virtual world
"I think the move is ridiculous, sorry," wrote a user named "Pinjan" and fears that "any idiot raussuchen my name on Telefonbuch.de and storm ring when I can."
This fear of the fusion of real and virtual world is frequently mentioned: A Google search, so the argument would now with a few mouse clicks disclose the identity of a player - and thus open identity theft and stalking out in force.
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