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I'd be concerned for lots of random people that take screenshots and post them online, making public their account ids. Probably not a huge deal, but it's more
by RHSeeger 14y ago
I'd be concerned for lots of random people that take screenshots and post them online, making public their account ids. Probably not a huge deal, but it's more information that they're giving out that they don't need to be.
The people under NDAs, hackers, and griefers are going to know about this now and just turn them off. Which means the only people negatively impacted by it are the innocents.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoWell it will be interesting if they go the other way, and try to 'spoof' it which is to say get someone banned by posting a screen shot of some bad behavior that points back to them. My understanding (and it may be incorrect) that the character name and realm is embedded not the battlenet account id. so something Blizzard could turn into an identity but 'regular' users could not.
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- eswangren 14y agoBattlenet account id's are shared regularly in the community (not just WoW, but for other blizz games as well). Account id's are not account usernames either. To look at a character profile you have to have the account Id, so it's really not an issue.
- kyrra 14y agoLots of people under NDA can be pretty stupid when it comes to leaking information. I'm sure it will help blizzard catch a number of NDA breakers still.