[Air-L] Blizzard Forums will soon display real name

live human.factor.one at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 08:59:23 PDT 2010


For those who are researching interactions within gaming environment,  
or even just internet social anonymity or gender anonymity, this is a  
big deal.
http://kotaku.com/5580585/blizzard-forums-will-soon-display-your-real-name

Privacy issues arise, as do gender interaction issues. Would you let  
in a female player in to your guild in WoW? What if they were a  
'female' playing with a male avatar?
What about a 'male' name playing with a female avatar? These games are  
built on guilds and social formations - what impact might this new  
change have?

I must curtail my thoughts and come back later to explore this, but I  
thought I'd share the Kotaku post.


-SharonG




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