First, you had this, from game designer Tim Schafer about Activision boss Bobby Kotick: “His obligation is to his shareholders,” Schafer tells Eurogamer. “Well, he doesn’t have to be as much of a dick about it, does he? I think there is a way he can do it without being a total prick. It seems …
Damn. Blizzard goes and changes their corporate mind about RealID, just when I was getting my absolutely brilliant social networking campaign going. I only had a chance to send one email. It would have been so evil, and so successful. You see, I was going to get the Moms involved. Every womens and parenting site …
There has been a lot of commentary (quite obviously) on the Blizzard/Activision RealID debacle, and quite a lot of it has pointed out that Blizzard’s official response seems to be “We’re doing this, so deal with it or stop playing. What are you guilty of that you want to hide your real identity?” which is …
No, I’m not dead. There have been quite a few mornings when mortality almost seemed preferable to going into the much-hated job (the damned coin never seemed to fall the right way up!) but in the end I’m still here. I’ve been quite cheered up by the whole RealID fiasco – I haven’t seen drama …
