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I've canceled my StarCraft 2 pre-order. It makes me sad Blizzard is take ing this stance on crushing trolls.
I've changed my pre-order over to FFXIV instead. Any other FF Shacker fanboi out there going to join me?
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It is an opt-in community. That's true. But it's no reason they should not give thought to the privacy of their users especially when there is already such a high incidence of accounts for their games being hacked into. Blizzard makes technical support available through their forums. So the forums are not an entirely separate entity from the games.
I understand that you see the issue as no big deal. That's fine. I'm not asking you to rally against Blizzard. What I don't understand is why you seek to deride those who DO see this as a big deal. Because you don't value your privacy doesn't mean that other feel the same way.
Also consider that because Blizzard is such a big name, that people who don't the technical savvy that you do may go on the forums or exchange RealIDs without realizing their import.
My son gave away my WoW account information to someone who wanted to 'try out' my druid. He thought they were just trading accounts and playing each other's characters for a while.
I fear this decision by Blizzard will have unintended consequences and I think they need to look at this issue very closely and carefully before they make a final decision.
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