Livejournal, MySpace? I never had to publicize my REAL name or other information. In fact, I’ve been so good at keeping my real name off of the internet… there are no results when you search my name that are actually ME.

People aren’t ‘shocked’ about the idea of female gamers, but most female gamers do NOT want the attention that their gender brings with it.

Have you ever been stalked by someone from a video game, or an online forum? If you haven’t, then you have no idea what some of these people are talking about.

The fact is – I signed up to play an video game wherein I’m actually a roleplayer. My real life identity has NO place as part of it. Period.

I think something that everyone is missing is that we, as a community, have created a culture where our “outcry” isn’t going to have the impact we are looking for. Every change, even minor ones, within the game anymore are met with outrage. We’ve lost perspective as to what is really important and how much or how intensely we complain. Now that we’ve got an issue that is a make or break proposition for some of us, we’re out of luck because Blizzard has become numb to the “noise” that our constant complaining has become.

I personally almost never post on the forums and will not do so at all now. I’ll continue to play WoW for now until something better comes along. The big thing is that I will not be playing any game that REQUIRES me to link my real-life info to my character.

Vyll