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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

In 2010 battle.net forums rolled out RealID at the time it was controversial, and one of the first times that real names were used online.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not much later Blizzard banned me from Starcraft 2 that I paid with my own money for "account sharing" because I played at work a few times, which is just across the border in another country. They would not unban me until I changed my pseudonym to a real name and provided a copy of my passport to prove it. Fuck that. I always owned this copy. I had the original box and game code and everything. There were no other fraud indicators

I vowed to never give Blizzard money ever again and I kept that promise. I loved their games too death, it sucks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Facebook started it (before 2010).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I could use fake name just fine when i register for the account back in 2008 or 2009, even now you can still have fake account but it's harder i heard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Contemporaneous blog post about it from 2011