World of Warcraft - Forum users will need to use real names

[peteyt]

I'm often visiting the BBC news section on their site, especially for news to use on my radio station.

I came across an interesting thing that world of warcraft forum users will now have to use their first and last name, real name, as their username.

This is to try and stop spam, trolls and other stuff, but sounds like it will cause more problems.

What I really don't get is how they wont know if their "real" names are fake. I could call myself anything from Joe Blogs to Tom Baker and people could think thats my real name.

The article also states that an employee showd this was a good idea by changing his forum name to his real name and then ended up getting users finding information online such as phone numbers and photograhps.

You can read the full article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10543100.stm

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[Swearwolf]

it's kinda crap. i won't be using the forums anymore.

[peteyt]

Someone can close this - didn't see the area dedicated to WOW sorry

[Bailey]

Mica Whipple, you'd just use a fake alias.

[Flisker]

I hardly use the forums anyway so it wouldn't really bother me. RealID is very unreliable at the moment anyway, for example, every single day I will get the message "Battle.net is unavailable" and I would have to close and reopen the game to get it to work again after a certain amount of time.

[Colossus]

That'd be .. creepy. Imagine getting loads of FR's on Facebook saying 'WoW'.