To prove that this new policy was harmless, one of the Blizzard customer service employees posted his real name. Within minutes, people had tracked down numero

To prove that this new policy was harmless, one of the Blizzard customer service employees posted his real name. Within minutes, people had tracked down numerous private details about him, including his home address, mother and father's name, the fact that he still lives with his mother, Facebook profile, pictures of him out drinking with friends, a Google street view picture of the front of his house, his home phone number, and tons more information. The thread is over 5 pages long and continuing to grow. http://wowriot.gameriot.com/blogs/Americans-are-bad-at-games/Real-Names-on-the-Official-Forums-New-REAL-ID-function?gr_i_ni http://wowriot.gameriot.com/blogs/Americans-are-bad-at-games... What boggles the mind is that the employees are going to be using their real names to post. I have seen the hate and rage that can be spewed on the forums when a class gets nerfed in a patch, and let me tell you, some crazed teenager is going to go postal on a Blizzard employee because of this. After spending thousands of hours "ganking noobs" in Stranglethorn Vale, when little Jimmy gets nerfed, he might decide to take out his rage in the real world. This move proved to me that Activision/Blizzard cares more about profit motives than the safety and privacy of their customers. This is really all about becoming the next Facebook for gamers. They want to create a social graph across all of their servers, and all of their gaming franchises so that they can map people to their contacts and data mine it for advertising. They've already announced that targeted ads will be displayed in loading screens on Starcraft II and World of Warcraft's expansion. This is the next step. Unfortunately, Bobby Kotick and Activision have begun to destroy Blizzard. It is a sad day indeed.