Comments on: On Privacy, Real ID’s and Roleplay http://toomanyannas.com/feature/on-privacy-real-ids-and-roleplay/ Because Raiding and Roleplay are not Mutually Exclusive Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:59:50 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Falochu http://toomanyannas.com/feature/on-privacy-real-ids-and-roleplay/comment-page-1/#comment-19680 Falochu Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:43:01 +0000 http://toomanyannas.com/?p=3225#comment-19680 @Nina I would just like to take a moment to respond to your fears: Go right-click on a RealID friend in game at some point, and you'll see that yes, you can remove a Real ID friend. I'm not sure where you got your information implying that you can't. A simple right click also reveals options to report that person for spam or abuse, which is the perfect outlet in the event that this hypothetical person continues to try to harrass you even after you've blocked them. At that point, blizzard will intervene and block them from contacting you again on the Battle.net account level. So, worst case scenario, they have to open a new subscription to wow every single time they wish to give you the minor inconvenience of denying a new RealID friend request, and that's it. That's all they can do. I would further caution that if our example person indeed met you in face to face, I would be far, far more concerned about their potential ability to stalk you or harass you in the real world! @Nina

I would just like to take a moment to respond to your fears:

Go right-click on a RealID friend in game at some point, and you’ll see that yes, you can remove a Real ID friend. I’m not sure where you got your information implying that you can’t. A simple right click also reveals options to report that person for spam or abuse, which is the perfect outlet in the event that this hypothetical person continues to try to harrass you even after you’ve blocked them. At that point, blizzard will intervene and block them from contacting you again on the Battle.net account level. So, worst case scenario, they have to open a new subscription to wow every single time they wish to give you the minor inconvenience of denying a new RealID friend request, and that’s it. That’s all they can do.

I would further caution that if our example person indeed met you in face to face, I would be far, far more concerned about their potential ability to stalk you or harass you in the real world!

]]> By: Yangli http://toomanyannas.com/feature/on-privacy-real-ids-and-roleplay/comment-page-1/#comment-19678 Yangli Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:23:14 +0000 http://toomanyannas.com/?p=3225#comment-19678 I think you should consider that this system is all fresh and new. It almost certain won't stay as it is for long. Blizzard is going to update and improve it, and might add features that improve privacy. I believe that sooner or later they're gonna make it possible to have chars not displayed to your friends. At least, that's what they must do if they want the majority of people to use the system. Me? I'm going to add my boyfriend, since we live together anyways so no use in hiding characters from him. :D There are two other friends I'll probably add, both of which don't play on my realm, so we will enjoy to chat ingame and not having to use a messenger or log in on the other realm. As long as friends see all my characters, that's it. I think you should consider that this system is all fresh and new. It almost certain won’t stay as it is for long. Blizzard is going to update and improve it, and might add features that improve privacy. I believe that sooner or later they’re gonna make it possible to have chars not displayed to your friends. At least, that’s what they must do if they want the majority of people to use the system.

Me? I’m going to add my boyfriend, since we live together anyways so no use in hiding characters from him. :D There are two other friends I’ll probably add, both of which don’t play on my realm, so we will enjoy to chat ingame and not having to use a messenger or log in on the other realm.
As long as friends see all my characters, that’s it.

]]> By: Itanya Blade http://toomanyannas.com/feature/on-privacy-real-ids-and-roleplay/comment-page-1/#comment-19677 Itanya Blade Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:22:29 +0000 http://toomanyannas.com/?p=3225#comment-19677 There are people out there who have wow toons that they use to get away. I am not one of these people. Real ID works pretty well for me. Would I like to have Falconnese's and Anna's Real ID? Of course I would. I <3 them. What I am not going to do is browbeat them to try and get what I want. that's just stupid. There are people out there who have wow toons that they use to get away. I am not one of these people. Real ID works pretty well for me. Would I like to have Falconnese’s and Anna’s Real ID? Of course I would. I <3 them.

What I am not going to do is browbeat them to try and get what I want. that's just stupid.

]]> By: Nina http://toomanyannas.com/feature/on-privacy-real-ids-and-roleplay/comment-page-1/#comment-19676 Nina Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:17:22 +0000 http://toomanyannas.com/?p=3225#comment-19676 Say I meet my soul mate through WoW; I've read of this happening. Say it doesn't work out when we meet F2F, turns out he's a control freak with a violent temper, and I dump him. I can't unfriend him in RealID, can I? I could try to faction transfer, name change, server change, and he'd still be able to follow me and harass me through my friendslist. Or my friends. Or the friends of my friends. Blizzard says to share your RealID only with those you love, but love can turn to hate quite easily. But that could never happen. People who play WoW would never be control freaks, or deliberately set out to grief people because of a temper tantrum. Of course not. Say I meet my soul mate through WoW; I’ve read of this happening. Say it doesn’t work out when we meet F2F, turns out he’s a control freak with a violent temper, and I dump him. I can’t unfriend him in RealID, can I? I could try to faction transfer, name change, server change, and he’d still be able to follow me and harass me through my friendslist. Or my friends. Or the friends of my friends.

Blizzard says to share your RealID only with those you love, but love can turn to hate quite easily.

But that could never happen. People who play WoW would never be control freaks, or deliberately set out to grief people because of a temper tantrum. Of course not.

]]> By: Falochu http://toomanyannas.com/feature/on-privacy-real-ids-and-roleplay/comment-page-1/#comment-19675 Falochu Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:07:56 +0000 http://toomanyannas.com/?p=3225#comment-19675 @Anna I feel obligated to apologize for the parts of my post that devolve into childish name-calling, please know that my original comment was motivated only by concern for other readers of your blog. As for the post over on WTT: RP - thanks for the link! I agree for the most part with what Falconesse has said there, although for me personally, there is more than one person who I don't mind sharing all my alts' names with. As such, I am already using RealID to connect with several people, and so far am pleased with the results. To those out there such as Falconesse: I can only hope that the system will evolve in the future to allow the kind of control over accessibility that you're looking for. @Anna

I feel obligated to apologize for the parts of my post that devolve into childish name-calling, please know that my original comment was motivated only by concern for other readers of your blog.

As for the post over on WTT: RP – thanks for the link! I agree for the most part with what Falconesse has said there, although for me personally, there is more than one person who I don’t mind sharing all my alts’ names with. As such, I am already using RealID to connect with several people, and so far am pleased with the results. To those out there such as Falconesse: I can only hope that the system will evolve in the future to allow the kind of control over accessibility that you’re looking for.

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