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World of warcraft is finally going to die.
noegusis
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Might be last minute news because I don't check mmorpg.com often but to those of you who play WoW and have checked the forums...the realID thread is probably the fastest growing thread on the internet I have ever seen.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.html?forumId=10001&sid=1
I tried canceling my account yesterday and it took 16 tries to refresh the data because server was busy. And they ban 2 of my other accounts just because I said bad things about the whole topic for 1 week each. It just goes to show you, Blizzard is the WoW killer.
Don't let me down guild wars,ff14,swtor...
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Eh, they probably will lose a few million if they leave their naming policy in. The fact that they're that stupid tells you how Blizzard is doing currently.. not that good.
Blizzard in general is failing in my opinion. Starcraft 2 is nothing but an action-spam fest, the beta was very disappointing.
Somehow I don't think the small number of people who both
a) use the forum and
b) don't want their name being displayed
are going to kill the game if they quit over it.
"If all you can say is... "It's awful, it's not innovative, it's ugly, it's blah.." Then you're an unimaginative and unpolished excuse for human life" -eburn
I doubt it's going to have a serious impact on the number of subscribers they have.
Eleanor Rigby.
Blizzard said that they have huge plans for realID So forums and in game chat is just the beginning. They will use it for other things in game like armory,guild, possibly for the channel chats and connection to facebook. Updated also on EU general.
That's only a day and over 19,000 people have posted, still, I don't believe this will kill WoW.
The majority of players probably don't even know what a forum is... I know my brother doesn't and he plays religiously.
I'm free on Friday.
you guys have an interesting idea about how most mmo players are. This isnt that big a deal, hell I dont even play wow right now, but if I did, this would be the last thing to make me leave. I left because it was getting old, when Cataclysm comes out I might pick it up again for a little bit. Do I care about this naming policy? not a bit, the impact will be like a raindrop in an ocean.
That may be, but there's probably going to be a choice whatever they use it for.
You choose whether you want someone to be a RealID friend. You choose whether you want to post on the forum or not knowing your name is displayed.
I don't "like" the whole RealID thing either, but neither do I see the need for such an uproar (yet). Just don't use the forum.
"If all you can say is... "It's awful, it's not innovative, it's ugly, it's blah.." Then you're an unimaginative and unpolished excuse for human life" -eburn
No, most WOW players don't bother posting on their forums, so it will have no impact to them.
It might put a real damper on forum participation as people who do enjoy them move to other sites to discuss the game.
Besides, they'll probably add a cash shop item and charge you 3.99 per month to mask your name on their forums.
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imagine if you had to use your real name everywhere on the internet
Well shave my back and call me an elf! -- Oghren
20.000 posts and a big part of the US isn't even awake / online yet.
And these are just the NA forums, there's similar threads on the EU forums, just as big.
So if you have a concern about game mechanics, or want to recruit for your guild, or want to ask which is the best build, or want to <insert any number of topics> then you simply shouldn't use the forums if you don't like Real_ID? How is that an answer?
Oh, so 21019(as of 9:46AM EST) people is a small number? Compared to 10-12 million it is but remember the post has only been up for 24 hours and 36 minutes. In the time it took me to log in to MMORPG.com and quote your reply, 3 new pages sprouted.
My problem with this is that Activision Blizzard will simply dismiss these people that don't want the change, not listening to them and going along with their plan anyway.
They've made a deal with Facebook - resources have been committed on the assumption that the player base can eventually be arm-twisted to come along. At this stage, execs have probably staked their reputations on this path and can't turn away, no matter what the protests.
I have to admit though that the backlash has a surprising amount of momentum to it - although it will need to build into a million+ accounts lost before it really impacts them - and that's an enormous number compared to the small numbers expressing themselves so far.
Will RealID be Blizzard's NGE?
Quite a few people are posting over and over again.
Eleanor Rigby.
I would never use realID. I have zero desire to reveal my real name to fellow gamers. Skipping the forums would be easy for me. I tend to do everything in the game, not in forums. I like to post on forums like this about general MMORPG gaming topics, but when I'm playing an MMORPG, I don't spend time on a particular forum discussing the game, I play it.
If I want a walk through for something, or a character build, I can go somewhere like Ten Ton Hammer, and they have no "realID".
Non issue for me, since I would never even consider using the official Blizzard forums for anything.
http://www.tentonhammer.com/
Yes, they will dismiss it, because that 20000 people, heck doublt it to 40000 is LESS than 1 percent of thier playerbase, the reaction would have to be FAR larger to provoke a policy shift. As much as many people might argue AGAINST this, an MMO is very much like a democracy, majority does rule, andf in this case its a very VERY small minority thus far that dislikes this.....
Blizzard was a fine company before the merger with Activision. This Real ID system sounds like something money hungry Robert Kotick would devise, to maximise profits and tap into the potential marketing goldmine that was waiting.
Blizzard's Wow and loyal fanbase actually kept Activision in the green when it could have gone the other way. And now a managerial executive decision by activision-blizzard is going to sink the gold laden ship that was wow, just to please the shareholders.
Blizzard won't kill wow. Activision will.
Interesting, but nevertheless it won't change a thing. Number of people using forums is very very small compared to playing playerbase. If Blizzard want's something done, they willl do it.
Out of curiosity I've asked my brother yesterday what he thinks about it (since he's playing WoW everyday) and he just replied
'Yeah they're doing that, and?' ... and nothing, those that want to play will still play, those that are bored are drama queens that look for opportunity to quit - and that's good for them since browsing forums is an addiction!
Anyway I still can't get it why so many people play WoW, there's so many games out there to try... guess I like change, a lot.
Hence why I said "Compared to 10-12 million it is." I don't agree with Blizzard punishing the minority. I understand that this Real ID is "optional" but such a phrase can be distorted and vague.
Since I don't play WoW, I really have no place to talk or contribute, but as an MMO player I side with the minority that prefers to keep the gaming life separate and only revealing information to certain people I meet online.
They will make up for any losses will the sale of the next generation authenticator. Blizzard, keeping your personal information safe since 2004.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
if anything, this will be the death of the wow-forums, nothing else. And tbh - who needs a forum. as i think of it, i guess the world would be sunny again if internet forums would die!
99% of parents have NO clue what thier kids are doing online, and of the less than 1% kids of THE LESS THAN 1% of overall players that would have a problem with this chances are STILL quite low that this issue will even make it onta a testers napkin in the blizzard lunch room. All the points about the realID system are valid here, but saying its going to have a huge, big, killer impact on wow or actiblizzard is hogwash.
Nah, a big part of the population uses forums. You can check by armory and posts and plenty of people have posts.
If all of those people would cancel their account, Blizzard would be over and done with.
This...I agree with this.
so 10 million people are posted on that post?? with wows subscriber base thats what they would need to lose to go belly up, they could lose 9.7 million and still be better off than any mmo out there right now. Reality check people, wow.....isnt.....going.....anywhere. As I said, I dont even play it, but im sane enough to know that simple fact to be true...