This change is completely crazy. I don't understand the people who think that this is a good idea and I couldn't care less about the "gamer stigma" others are

This change is completely crazy. I don't understand the people who think that this is a good idea and I couldn't care less about the "gamer stigma" others are mentioning. People in my real life know I'm an avid gamer and so do (obviously) the people I play with. I'm typically a Blizzard apologist but in this case I just can't see the logic in this. You can find anything about someone with their name and a little bit of time, especially when that name can be associated with a character name that could be that person's online handle on other sites. Take this response in the official thread (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25712374700&sid=1&pageNo=1 http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=257123...) for example: "Lol. This doesn't really effect me, as I know you simply can't track someone down by name alone. Enjoy your tin foil hats everyone. - <REAL NAME HERE>" Just as an exercise I spent 10 minutes searching knowing just this guy's online handle that he posted as and his real name that he willfully posted in his response. Within that time I now have his real full name, age, home address and i know his dad's high school and graduation year. Pretty scary. I don't mind this RealID change in-game where I can give out my details to friends I trust but requiring that I post on my real name for any random person browsing the forums to see? Nuh uh. There have also been responses saying "Oh, just don't post on the forums any more". This is not a good solution because A) I pay for forum access as part of my subscription fee (otherwise you wouldn't have to be a subscriber to post) and B) I'm an officer in a guild and doing recruitment would require me to post on the forums to recruit people, thus putting my real name out there. If they want to cut down on forum trolls they should allow people to set a Battle.net account nickname and use that instead. It would still be a semi-anonymous name but would cut down on the trolling because people wouldn't be able to create a random character on any random server and use that to post on. Everything they say would be associated with that handle and through that with their online reputation in the community. This may not cut down on ALL the forum trolls (really, using real names won't cut down on 100% of it either) but at least it won't kill the community that's there.