Fascinating stuff.ĭisappointingly, though, the punch line boiled down to "We discovered a tactic that is functionally unbeatable if you have superhuman micro and aren't handicapped by starcraft's(sorry fans) frankly shitty interface". The AI article was quite interesting, on all the various techniques that they had to use to avoid hardcoding exploitable behaviors and use heuristics to obtain desireable emergent behaviors. Now, no one I know who has any kind of security or law background, or even a basic IT background, plays. I used to know at least a dozen people who played WoW. Very, very, slick relationship management, there. Went from 3 active subscriptions to no chance of ever buying from them again. Net result, I went ahead and wrote to and told them to delete all my personal information, because I no longer feel I have justified confidence that they will not, at some unspecified future date, decide to show real names to anyone and everyone. All of this directly contradicts statements Blizzard had made about privacy or security prior to the merger. They still use your login name as your key for inviting people, making it much easier to crack accounts than it used to be.ĥ. They still (last I heard) haven't added any capacity for aliases or handles to the "Real ID" thing.Ĥ. Plain text over the open internet? That's real smart.ģ. Just your name, not anyone else's (yet), but.
In fact, the new forums did display your real name on the screen when you logged in.
In English, "won't X for the time being" means "will X, but not yet".Ģ. They said in an interview shortly later that they weren't doing that "for the time being". After that, they started doing stupid things about privacy and security on a pretty epic scale see, for instance, the "Real ID" fiasco.Īnd before everyone jumps in with "they backed down!".ġ.
I was a WoW player for about 5 years, and they were great about dealing with the community and addressing concerns until a couple of months after the merger.
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