Gryphonheart wrote:What I'm far more concerned about is that the Real ID friends of your Real ID friends will be able to see your real name. That's a much bigger privacy concern for me, since I like to control how much of my real info I spread around the internet. Unless Blizzard allows an opt-out for this, I'm probably not going to use Real ID.
What information about me will other players see when I use Real ID?
If you are using Real ID, your mutual Real ID friends, as well as their Real ID friends, will be able to see your first and last name (the name registered to the Battle.net account). You will also be able to see the first and last name of your Real ID friends and their Real ID friends. Your Battle.net account name (your email address) is not displayed to other players through the Real ID friends list. In addition, players with Real ID relationships will be able to view each other's online status, Rich Presence information, and Broadcast messages, and will be able to see which character and game their Real ID friends are playing across supported Blizzard games.
I haven't been following this well, but this is the part that worries me most.
As many of you know, my real name isn't Anna. I have a Facebook account under my real name - but it has absolutely no information on it other than my name and the date of my birthday, and I use it to keep in touch with a few assorted family members, and that's it. (And that may go away here shortly, I've been considering completely deleting Facebook for awhile.)
As a "Big fish in a little pond" blogger, I really have no desire for my actual name to be known to the greater internet. People I vaguely know through blogging will want to RealID friend with me - and because of that, I will probably not be using RealID, or I will use it under a fake name (Anna). The other issue, since my account was given to me after my friend's brother was in a 4-wheeler accident and could no longer game, is that my name isn't the one associated with my WoW account at all, though it is associated with my battlenet account. I use a separate, private email for battlenet - and the ONLY thing that email is for is battlenet. So I'm very wary of the whole thing.
Also - 5 people sounds kind of limited, as far as chatting goes.