Star Wars: The Old Republic Loses some Staff
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Blizzard's upcoming policy of using forum posters' real names in their posts is controversial at best, and people are in an uproar about it. Are they doing the right thing, though? Community management is an elegant art, and one that it seems Blizzard is not interested in managing. An Icrontic op/ed.
Blizzard is sitting on the world’s most lucrative video game. They are making absolute piles of money, hand over fist. If they have a problem with forum trolls, spammers, and general rowdiness, they need to step up and hire more community managers and forum staff to deal with the problem.
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Forum trolls are just a part of life. I don't think people using their real names will really affect a whole lot - people gonna hate.
Even if it is some sort of a deterrent, what's the point if it's going to expose the majority of gamers who don't use the forums or who are legit? Tying to real names causes a breech of privacy, in my mind. I don't need some kid knowing my real name, looking me up on Facebook, and harassing me. People use screen-names for a reason: to be one step withdrawn from their real name, offering a little shield of privacy against the rest of the mad, mad world.
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