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Jul

Blizzard backs down on real names, now what?

Posted by Amber  Published in Forums, gaming, internet

So this past week, WoW players threw a fit when Blizzard announced that upon release of Starcraft II they would be forcing players to use their real names in the online forums. This news came on the heels of some really innovative things Blizzard has been doing with Battle.net. Similar to Steam‘s model but just [...]

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Tags: blizzard, complaints, discussion, Forums, moderation, real name, spam, starcraft, trolls, world of warcraft

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