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I don't think you are a minority.
the average gamer on a given popular game is usually going on about how fat your mom is in between rounds or on chat or whatever (it's worse than this, of course, i'm being nice).
Somehow, i don't think they are going to be up for tying that to their real identity.
There are two possibilities. This either massively improves the discourse on games like COD and the equivalent of every xbox live game ever. Or, people don't use it, because they don't want that. I"m going to go with the second.
Put another way: can you imagine the average gamer in COD wanting to tie their character "XXXAyeCarambeHarambeXXX420 to their real identity?
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I have multiple disparate 'personas' largely because I consider myself to be a fairly creative intellectual who is prone to considering and defending unpopular opinions that require nuance and maturity to understand. And I don't want some psychotic teenager thinking they're doing the world a favor by tracking me down and murdering me because they can't handle verbal disagreement appropriately.
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They are likely aware of this but know it would be too hard to get enough traction for a new brand. If they were really serious about it they would probably have to buy something with traction.
They actually already run one via Oculus.
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As a counterpoint, for the few games I do play, I far prefer to use my real Facebook identity. Words with Friends in particular is most fun when I'm playing against my real friends. I also really like QuizUp.
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Netflix's change from their own review system to FaceBook killed it for me and angered their user base (which didn't effect them of course).
Facebook definately doesn't get the idea of different social landscapes for different aspects of life.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/get-to-know-netflix-and-its-new-...
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Did they? Or do they not care?
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As long as Facebook requires a single account with real identity, it will never be anything more than for my family & acquaintances persona. Most gamers I know feel the same... maybe we're in the minority, but maybe not. Be interesting to know how many Steam accounts are linked with Facebook as an indication of how this might play out (aside from the potential for exclusive titles etc).