EPTThis leads me to believe they have been considering the Steam method of allowing anyone to be called anything and change their name whenever they want.
One account per game - Goodbye to smurfing? - Page 5
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DeCoup
Australia1933 Posts
This leads me to believe they have been considering the Steam method of allowing anyone to be called anything and change their name whenever they want. | ||
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Highways
Australia6121 Posts
Smurfing and hacking are the two worse problems on a ladder. | ||
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HiOT
Sweden1000 Posts
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Salv
Canada3083 Posts
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Revabug
United Kingdom147 Posts
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Rotodyne
United States2263 Posts
On August 22 2009 08:06 sushiman wrote: It's just pathetic how people complain about smurfing. If you want to play someone seriously, you should always give it your all, no matter stats, names or whatever. Allowing only one name is stupid beyond belief; what if I suddenly decide my name is no good? What if I want to be part of a small clan on the side of my main account, or just play some teamgames with my friends with a common theme for our names? I can think of NO valid reason to why they'd limit it to one account per game. None whatsoever. So they can charge people $10 to change their account name. Valid reason? maybe for blizzard. | ||
Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
On August 22 2009 09:41 Highways wrote: Good Decision. Smurfing and hacking are the two worse problems on a ladder. smurfing Gaming term: Entering your regular server under a different name so u can see whats going on without being recognized. Smurfing has NOTHING to do with beating up on weaker opponents - _- | ||
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EpiK
Korea (South)5757 Posts
On August 22 2009 09:41 Highways wrote: Good Decision. Smurfing and hacking are the two worse problems on a ladder. this really good move by blizzard. I really don't see why people have a problem with this.. | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On August 22 2009 09:55 EpiK wrote: this really good move by blizzard. I really don't see why people have a problem with this.. Because the people who want to smurf can't smurf anymore and it makes them sad panda's. | ||
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RyanS
United States620 Posts
- I want to change my ID sometimes. - I want to play fun random team games doing crazy things without lowering my esteem on my main account. - Sometimes you have RL friends that annoy you to no end on the game, I need to get away. Once they see me sign on and off the messages/calls start rolling in. x.x - Winning % is important, most people want to maintain that so they are still wanted in clans/AT games/playing good opponents in a custom game. But they still want to have their fun doing silly things from time to time. | ||
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Chuiu
3470 Posts
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ManWithCheese
Canada246 Posts
On August 22 2009 10:21 ReS wrote: I'm not a huge fan of this at all. - I want to change my ID sometimes. - I want to play fun random team games doing crazy things without lowering my esteem on my main account. - Sometimes you have RL friends that annoy you to no end on the game, I need to get away. Once they see me sign on and off the messages/calls start rolling in. x.x - Winning % is important, most people want to maintain that so they are still wanted in clans/AT games/playing good opponents in a custom game. But they still want to have their fun doing silly things from time to time. Its a good thing that games can only be played on ladder and there aren't any custom games to fuck around in. | ||
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Corrupt
Bulgaria1312 Posts
On August 22 2009 10:23 Chuiu wrote: ReS, you'll still be able to change your name, it will just be linked to your account. Nice. | ||
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Archaic
United States4024 Posts
On August 22 2009 08:41 blade55555 wrote: 2. If it really bothers you buy a new account or pick a name you know you will like ^^. So your argument is to go into the future and ask yourself what username you'd like, or fork over $60 just for a damn name? I don't know about you, but not everyone is rich enough to throw $60 down for a trivial reason, for something that SHOULD be free, and I don't know many people with a time machine. EDIT: Even if you are able to change your name, it would be a hassle to change it constantly. Personally, I have two accounts on iCCup. One is for my friends, my identity. One is a relatively anonymous one for mass gaming. Losses don't matter, rank doesn't matter. It is just a gaming account. It allows me to experiment with builds, do things I wouldn't normally do without practice so that I can play on my ranked account better. Playing unranked games is a HORRIBLE idea because there is no guarantee that your opponent will play his best. You can't exclusively play friends for practice games. Sometimes you want a stranger playing his hardest so you can learn, practice, and improve. This would be really easy to solve by Blizzard. One master account, infinite usernames. I don't see a logical reason against it. | ||
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[DUF]MethodMan
Germany1716 Posts
On August 22 2009 09:35 blade55555 wrote: Its pretty bad... Once you get to the c level I heard its not bad but at the D-, D, D+ level half the players you play are smurfs. And no i'm not saying it because I lost when you see a guy join 100% win, 250+ apm and rapes you is definitely a smurf. If your C well that's why you don't think its that bad. Great move by blizzard  No its not bad, its just you being completely new to SC and not being aware of (in "our" terms) bad players (meaning D level) being just a lot better than totally new people. You cant just take the skill level of a game which is 11 fucking years old and then try to base a new environment on this. Its just not working and it wont. Seriously, fuck Blizzard. | ||
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alphafuzard
United States1610 Posts
a mistake yes, but not the end of the world it will mostly be an issue for famous players | ||
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Tyraz
New Zealand310 Posts
They said they want to make sure B.Net is good enough that its a compelling reason to stay on it. Well this is just ONE compelling reason not to stay on it ALL the time. Its not difficult to imagine a pirate server for kicks and giggles with randoms; and then it will get more sophisticated with user tracking; and before you know it, you have only pro's who wanna smirf on a pirate server and no noobie kids from B.Net! Its obviously not difficult to see where this is going. This is a really blind decision from Blizzard. Their decision is probably based on the fact they want people who start playing on B.Net to be gently played pushed into it; however I don't think they have measured the implications from the high level players perspective. However, this being said, I don't think it will be tooooo bad if they have a different rating for each race. | ||
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Motiva
United States1774 Posts
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Shade692003
Canada702 Posts
On August 22 2009 09:50 FrozenArbiter wrote: Smurfing has NOTHING to do with beating up on weaker opponents - _- Frankly, if it stops people trying to stomp noobs at the beginning of the ladder I more than welcome this change. Edit: i dont think its TOO big of a deal a mistake yes, but not the end of the world it will mostly be an issue for famous players Indeed, I think that maybe 1-2% of the SC2 install base will have a problem with this because of ''e-popularity''. And you can make private games to practice your off-races. | ||
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whyohwhy
60 Posts
On August 22 2009 08:16 Captain Peabody wrote: Actually, this won't be a problem; you can only talk to your friends, and friend requests will have to be manually approved by the person themselves. So no Jaedong-harassing... This has already been addressed. Imagine the number of approval requests flooding Jaedongs account? Either there's an "ignore all" option, or shit's going to go down yo. | ||
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