Blizzard Retracts RealID Forum Changes

After massive outcry Blizzard will not be posting real names on forums. Blizzard's CEO himself wrote an apology and retraction following what could only be characterized as the biggest PR storm in WoW history.Additionally,we are still have WoW Gold for sale.

It's important to note that they still remain committed to improving our forums. They efforts are driven 100% by the desire to find ways to make our community areas more welcoming for players and encourage more constructive conversations about our games. They will still move forward with new forum features such as the ability to rate posts up or down, post highlighting based on rating, improved search functionality, and more.The upgraded World of Warcraft forums with these new features will launch close to the release of Cataclysm, and also will not require your real name.

For those living under a rock for the past few days: Blizzard had proposed that in order to end or hinder anonymous forum trolling on the official forums they would implement a system where players' real names would appear on the forums alongside their posts. This was immediately met with an intense backlash from the community who were opposed to their real names being easily identified with WoW characters.The thread announcing the change quickly spiraled out of control and reached 2,500 pages with 45,000 responding posts (which were devastatingly negative about the change).

There's no word on what will be done instead to curb forum trolling, if anything at all. This marks an important landmark in the evolution of the RealID system though. It has become obvious lately that there is a concerted effort to try to exploit the Blizzard gaming community and turn it into some sort of social network like Facebook. Players have accused Activision of being behind this push because it has not had the usual savvy of a Blizzard operation.