I've seen some hints that it could be sort of forced on them by new laws in South Korea requiring people to use their real names when posting to massive forums, and China requiring people to game under their real name.
But, yeah, if they thought they could write code aimed at those markets and then turn around and present it to Americans as some great new thing and be well-loved for it, they missed the mark.
Where A-B messed up on this is that we know, we *know*, this whole thing about using real names to discourage forum trolls is a total red herring. If they won't be upfront about the reasons why they're doing this, how can we trust that other currently-optional aspects of RealID will always remain optional?
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I've seen some hints that it could be sort of forced on them by new laws in South Korea requiring people to use their real names when posting to massive forums, and China requiring people to game under their real name.
But, yeah, if they thought they could write code aimed at those markets and then turn around and present it to Americans as some great new thing and be well-loved for it, they missed the mark.
Where A-B messed up on this is that we know, we *know*, this whole thing about using real names to discourage forum trolls is a total red herring. If they won't be upfront about the reasons why they're doing this, how can we trust that other currently-optional aspects of RealID will always remain optional?