Rumour: Blizzard RealID Unpopular Internally?

08 Jul 2010 at 19:00:15 by Gunnar Petzall

A rumour with a very unreliable source claims Blizzard 'big creative players' are against the new Real ID name revealing on Blizzard's forums.

Since the announcement by Blizzard that players would be forced to reveal their real full name on their forums, the Blizzard community has gone nuts making thousands of posts on the topic and litres of digital ink have been spent on various gaming sites criticising the decision; That includes IncGamers.com's reply and many others.

Now a new rumour has appeared that Blizzard employees really are quite pissed off by this decision, and it might even be completely outside of Blizzard's hands. Details are fussy, but this new forum post has been sweeping fansites and community blogs like wildfire, saying "despite attempts to keep it hushed, it has become known that the big creative players within Blizzard are pretty much as unhappy about this as we are."

These 'big creative players' would imply senior developers like Chris Metzen or Sam Didier, but of course with no names mentioned. "Everybody has been told they are not free to comment on this situation outside of specially prepared statements," the post continued.

Read more on these updates at StarCraft: IncGamers.

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