Olen Maiju Goviral yrityksestä. Olemme erikoistuneet online-videomainosten jakeluun.

Olisimme erittäin kiinnostunut yhteistyöstä internet-sivustonne kanssa. Meillä olisi esimerkiksi Playstation kampanja, joka sopisi erinomaisesti sivuillenne ja antaisi teille mahdollisuuden tienata lisärahaa.

Pyytäisimme teitä ilmoittamaan pian, mikäli olette kiinnostuneita yhteistyöstä.

Ystävällisin terveisin,
Maiju Hämäläinen

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forum ID – I am personally going to be one of those good discussions that they miss, and I will not be using the forums untill this passes. and if it dosnt, it might be i am not playing in catalysm after all. I’ve played since vanilla, and all content cleared, with most heroic modes too, so I am one of those loyal and dedicated players. But this is just silly. I’ve exsperienced online stalking, I’m girl gamer and I dont want my identity and intrest to be 100% googlable. I’ve worked in profession where my gaming hobby is fine and where it is not, so I dont want it to be a choise someone else makes it for me. Iam baffeled and surprised of this change, and what I fear most is that the grey casual masses wont understand the risks of this approach any more than they do see why FB privaly controls have been problematic.

My own suspicions go the same way as this blog. A quote I found, apparently via the US forums:

[quote]Got in touch with my ex-flatmate, whose sister works as a GM for Blizzard, to see what the internal buzz on this was. Apparently, at the moment the employees are largely as pissed as the players, and she stated that despite attempts to keep it hushed, it has become known that the big creative players within Blizzard are pretty much as unhappy about this as we are. Everybody has been told they are not free to comment on this situation outside of specially prepared statements.

It’s still going ahead, however (and here’s where in-house rumours and hearsay really start coming into play): from what they’ve picked up, the Blizzard leads have been told in no uncertain terms that the non-gameplay-related direction of the game is working to a different blueprint now. GC and company are free to play with shiny new talent trees all they like, for example, but for the first time the decisions regarding Battle.net implementation, Real ID, and plans for the general acquisition of new players for the business are no longer in Blizzard’s own hands, and that’s not going down too well.[/quote]

… which confirms this idea.

I disabled my RealID (via parental controls) and see how much longer I can simply play the game.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/zeroday/2010/07/07/is-korean-law-driving-policy-at-blizzard/

I do not wish to be open with my real life plain and simple. So with this change, I will simply leave, if not the game, atleast the forums.

However, I suspect that the problem does not lie in the people’s attitude to the roleplay alone. I don’t doubt that it is the largest issue, as it certainly helps explain most of the uninteresting characters out there, but I believe that some people do not succeed in producing interesting characters simply because they do not have the skill for it.

I myself have often felt completely inadequate next to other roleplayers. My emotes are bland and repetitive and I sometimes find myself unable to keep up because I find my characters in complex situations in which I do not know how to make them react, or having to fake a skill that I do not really understand myself.
And then there is the issue of character building methods, and simply understanding how people think. Whatever my methods are they must be terrible. I often end up being very vague about my character’s backgrounds, even in my head, and unsure as to how they were actually formed by their background. Over time, after a lot of thinking, the characters end up crystalizing in to complete beings, but they never have the elegant structure of character that I see from far more advanced roleplayers.

I am still to figure out the greatest mystery of all. How have I managed to fake enough competence to be able to play with the masters themselves.

Anyway, I think this is a point to consider. The people behind Bioware are extremely capable at producing good characters. But we have to remember this; they are professionals.