Anonymity is overrated...

[A Black Falcon]

There's something to be said for this being the age of the internet where removing user's freedoms will be labelled as "adding value".

Doublethink at its finest!

While the article is rather "doom and gloom", there's some interesting points. Didn't read that you can't customize your maps however you like though. Did they specifically say you can't still trade maps the old fashioned way, via a custom game? I do like the cloud uploading option, so long as it's an option. Didn't like that their terms were the same as Sony's ill begotten terms with Mod Racers and LittleBigPlanet (Mod Racers is awesome by the way).

If there is actually a normal custom game option, there won't be a problem. The issue is that it doesn't sound like there will be any such thing.

You used the word not at "Activision" in general but aimed just at the map thing. Honestly I preserve the word for, say, gutting kittens on live television, but that's just me. The movie "Despicable Me" probably wouldn't be as effectively titled if people thought something like not using a coaster justified using the word. Never mind, it's just one of those personal language pet peeves I guess.

I meant it for the whole of the new BNet, with all of the stuff mentioned in that article and with what they just backed down on. I absolutely think it's well deserved... the only question is, as I suggested, whether it was Blizzard or Activision that implemented this stuff. (Activision's probably the #1 most hated studio right now, and for some good reasons too, so it sure would be easy to blame them for it... :))