Not much later Blizzard banned me from Starcraft 2 that I paid with my own money for “account sharing” because I played at work a few times, which is just across the border in another country. They would not unban me until I changed my pseudonym to a real name and provided a copy of my passport to prove it. Fuck that. I always owned this copy. I had the original box and game code and everything. There were no other fraud indicators
I vowed to never give Blizzard money ever again and I kept that promise. I loved their games too death, it sucks
I could use fake name just fine when i register for the account back in 2008 or 2009, even now you can still have fake account but it’s harder i heard.
In 2010 battle.net forums rolled out RealID at the time it was controversial, and one of the first times that real names were used online.
Not much later Blizzard banned me from Starcraft 2 that I paid with my own money for “account sharing” because I played at work a few times, which is just across the border in another country. They would not unban me until I changed my pseudonym to a real name and provided a copy of my passport to prove it. Fuck that. I always owned this copy. I had the original box and game code and everything. There were no other fraud indicators
I vowed to never give Blizzard money ever again and I kept that promise. I loved their games too death, it sucks
Facebook started it (before 2010).
I could use fake name just fine when i register for the account back in 2008 or 2009, even now you can still have fake account but it’s harder i heard.
Contemporaneous blog post about it from 2011