photo by Zach Klein
Larísa at The Pink Pigtail Inn wrote that The activity feed in Armory should be optional. As Gevlon posted in her comments, really this was all available before it was just much harder to get. Simply stalk the toon you want to know about, check their achievements at every opportunity and you can collect all this information in game. (There’s probably an addon out there that does that.)
What bugs me is having the equivalent of a permanent record hanging over my head. For example, when I decided to twink my rogue, I screwed up in buying the heirloom weapons. (I bought sword/dagger instead of sword/mace or at least dagger/dagger.) Not a major mistake, but if I wanted to get into raiding with him on one of the better guilds having this type of mistake in my history could get me branded as a noob.
“…if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that — either now or in the uncertain future — patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.” Bruce Schneier’s Answer to Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Privacy
It’s enough of a troublesome issue in real life, do we have to drag it into games as well?