Citan001 said:
Kinda off topic but is there a way to turn off real id? I mean to me the old b net was prefect. I actually miss the random chat rooms and what not and im not thrilled that people can see me if im playing wow or wc3 or whatever.
When I first installed, I was hoping that we’d get to be able to create multiple accounts like on WoW — whoever has us added on real ID would be able to message you no matter what account you were on, and then you could also just have a person add a particular account and they’d only see you on that one. I was annoyed to find that you can only create one. @_@ And if I’m wrong, I haven’t seen an option to create another one yet — but I suppose this would be moot anyway what with the “you have to use real ID” thing.
What’s worse is that a friend on facebook has been harassing me to add him and to use the fb feature — but I don’t want to. He’s… an okay guy… but I really don’t like how Blizzard made it so *edited*ing easy for people to add me. The thing I liked about the old bnet was the anonymity. People could add you to their friends list, but they can’t see what [private] channel you’re in unless you were mutual friends. If they kept bothering you, you could ignore them. You could create another account if you wanted to play without them.
No one on my BL on bnet was someone I knew irl (originally. That’s changed). I don’t like playing with people I know irl. They’re nubs. In like 9th grade, when I asked some guys from my HS to play, they played fastest map ever and said NR and tried to turtle. I rushed dts and killed almost everyone; the guy who got cannons first was saved and went CARRIERS. Anyway, fortunately, I made a separate account to play with them so I never had to see them (on bnet) again. I haven’t gotten on bnet or read about it yet, so I don’t know the specifics on certain things, but I speculate that people — chiefly those I don’t particularly like — now have an easier way of finding me. FB integration and real ID? wtf.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is what it looks like to me. I won’t be on any time soon either, so I can’t check it out. I actually wasn’t considering getting it yet cuz I don’t have a machine (or access to one now) that can run it well, but my boyfriend bought copies for us the morning it was released.
tl;dr: Blizzard *edited*ed me off.