Why RealID forum changes suck

Miss Medicina has an interesting post up on the upcoming forum changes on Blizzards RealID.  I´m in a similar predicament since I don’t want my name associated with my hobby when someone googles my name.  I want my name to be associated with my professional work on the internet.

I happen to come from a rather small country in Europe ( less than 500.000 people ) and on top of that I live in Sweden.  Living in Sweden with a foreign name sticks out like a turd in a punch bowl.  If I Google my name and do a search on my name  in Sweden’s most prominent search engine when it comes down to telephone numbers and addresses, the top result is my name along with my telephone number and address.  That is one problem I have with the RealID forum changes.

Another problem is the consequences of people googling my name getting lots of WoW references. I must admit that I haven’t been that active on the WoW forums, but thats because I’m on the EU forums and don’t get a chance to weigh in on discussions the developers are reading, anyway that is a topic for a separate post.  The point is that I don’t want potential employers to get WoW references when they google me.  I want them to see my work when they google me.

I was fine with RealID until they announced the forum changes.  I will only be making realID contacts with people I  know pretty well in-game or IRL friends.  These forum changes will probably discourage me from posting anything on the forums.  Blizzard might be able to block search spiders to crawl their forums, but thats like putting a band-aid on a  gunshot wound.

Back soon!

Have been on vacation for awhile now and haven’t been able to log may hours in-game. Been river rafting in Iceland with my siblings and my wife and we had a blast. Another trip to rafting is on the books for next summer, and then we are going for the 4+ classified river!

Been looking at the Cataclysm information pouring out to the inter-webs over the course of my vacation and man do I have a lot to catch up on when I get back home.  Just this post on wow.com is getting larger by the day, and I’ll probably never be able to cover it all, but I also rely on mmo-champion.

I’ll be back home on monday next week and hopefully I’ll have some time while I travel back home to write some posts.

First post :D

Waiting on the servers to get up, so I decided to make a blog for my WoW related experiences and opinions.  I’ll be posting here when I feel the need to get some info out or even just rant about any topic I want to make my opinion heard.

I’ll have some more posts up soon and maybe play around with the layout a little.