I don't really care.
No, I don't want to show my real name to anybody interested. No, I don't give a crap about the official forum. I almost never use friends-list. RealID can be turned off only through parental control, which is ridiculous and too demanding. Blizzard does what they gotta do, and I play all the way on the other side. If they screw up, well, Guild Wars 2 is upon us, that Star Wars thingie is upon us.
I am emotionally invested in my characters, I have hopes and dreams for them, bright future lying ahead... but these investments are rather diversified as I have ~20 toons already. Eventually I found out that my best experience was during leveling, each character being a campaign of a single RPG with occasional company. So these 20 toons are like 20 saves in Dragon Age. Do I care about them? Yes. Do I feel like deleting them would be end of the world? No. I grasped the “casual” — it's not that you play less, because hardcore raider may play less, but you play however you like.
Hardcore means setting up rules over rules over rules, and the one who wins while not breaking the most rules is the king. Casual means playing by some rules that are most convenient or most enjoyable or most unusual, but casual will never stack many obstacles just for their number.
Unfortunately, Cataclysm is going to meet the casual and nourish it. So Blizzard really should not push that RealID thing, because I want to see how this meeting goes.
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