This is such a horrible comparison, in your Rockstar example your best attempt to tie the criminal activity to the game is that he played it at some point before comitting the crime. In your Blizzard example the crime is a direct result of a vendetta he formed in-game and far more importantly, he used the game as a tool to…
I'm going to just assume you're being mostly sincere and say I'm glad you think I made good points in that book of a post I wrote :poly136: No one thinks they need their privacy until they're put into a position where the lack of it has created a negative social consequence, for example that blizzard employee was pretty…
posted by nyshak on the team liquid forums (starcraft related) http://www.gamona.de/games/activision-blizzard,blizzards-bashiok-ist-erstes-opfer-der-real-id:news,1769743.html Rough translation/summary: In order to defend the new Real-ID feature for BNet 2.0, community manager Bashiok posted his real name on the SC2 forums.…
Right, and I use that name with sites I'm not worried about. Too true that my information is all over the net. It's the price I had to pay to network my art and on some forums I use my actual name for my handle (Gameartisans for example.) It's something that I've been ok with when it comes to somewhat "legitimate" sites.…
I have to take issue with using a few oddball examples of people acting crazy to make a case for or against the policy. There's been crazy people acting crazy since we came down from the trees. I personally don't think 'protecting' the general public from themselves because of a few extreme examples is warranted. I do…
ok, lets get away from the activision rant for the moment since its only my opinion and it´s not the point the thing is, i dont see ANY good in this i wouldnt mind this step at all if we would live in a theoretical perfect world without hate and such. but again, then you wouldnt need this but most games are build around…