To say that there's been a lot of talk about Blizzard's Real ID feature in the past month is pretty much an understatement. The decision, and quick reversal, of Blizzard's plans to use its new social networking system as a requirement to use the developers' forums has been the talk of the interwebs ever since. Now Blizzard has decided to put more info on Real ID and how the company plans to use it in a new FAQ on the Battle.net forums.

The FAQ gives answers to a number of topics such as how Real ID will integrate with Facebook accounts, preventing third party add-ons from using Real ID and more. One interesting change is how players can choose not to use Real ID (i.e. their real first and last name) on StarCraft II friends list. Blizzard states, " ... we plan to include an option that will allow players to opt out of appearing on their Real ID friends' "friends of friends" lists. We're anticipating this feature to be available for StarCraft II shortly after release of the game, and World of Warcraft at around the same time -- we'll have more information for you in the coming weeks."