They'll only be mandatory in games where the host wants every account to be anonymous. It's not going to be imposed on every game, and certainly not if the game host doesn't want such a rule imposed.

They are for flavor and to try something new. I do doubt that there will be a mixing of anonymous accounts and normal accounts in a game, so if there are anonymous accounts in a game, probably everyone will have to use them.

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