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On May 09 2012 15:01 Ichabod wrote:
If this is what it takes for pros to have privacy on the ladder, I prefer it to smurfing and having to buy a new account if you're revealed.
Come to think of it, I wonder why it hasn't been done more in the past. I guess being the first 'barcoder' would make it obvious, but it should only become more wide-spread now that it's started.
Funnily enough, the first time I saw one of these barcode accounts was during one of the MLGs last year when they used them to throw off disruptive people who were trying to distract players by PM'ing them during big games.
But I don't know the first ladder usage of them.
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I dont bite it , most of progamers know each other and are added by real ids, like I cant believe for example that nestea hasnt helped flash at all in the transition So that statement regarding colaboration makes no sense for me.
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It makes it a little less fun when you don't know who you're watching stream is playing against but I can understand the desire to be anonymous. Interesting to hear that the BW players feel so much pressure to catch up. Everyone seems to expect that they'll instantly dominate but looks like it won't be as easy as some people thought.
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I used to think it was all the one person (this was before there were literally hundreds and hundreds of them). I used to see it coming up on every stream I watched and thinking, damn this guy plays a LOT!
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I believe the first people I saw doing this on NA were Scarlett and Illusion (Vile now QxG illusion). Now they are multiplying out of control xD
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On May 09 2012 14:40 OmniscientSC2 wrote:
These player names may look like barcodes to you, but all I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead, jaedong, flash.
This is such win!
I wonder what the advantage of not having a name would be over having a traditional smurf.
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Baneling Mom comes into mind.
>:D
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I and l is pretty old, but still Fun. Especially in MMOs with GvG and the leader having special skills x3 . But since you can easily fish out the name out of sc2 and check out what the Ls and what the is are, they could just use a normal smurf account with a nice name, since they are as easy to reveal as with a smurf account. On the other hand your normal who's that smurf hunter seems to give up on "barcodes".
But I guess for a pro making the effort to scout everything out, its a huge advantage on intel for tournaments, while the barcodelers feel save muahaha.
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Pretty stupid considering some of these players could get thousands of viewers and the ad revenue that comes with it.
Maybe their contracts actually demand that they cannot play under their real nick, to make the product(player) more special when they actually do play under KESPAs reign. This way players will be less likely to stray to foreign teams because the players brand was never actually build outside of Korea.
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hmm i never thought about the fact that maphackers could also use these barcode names to hide their identity.. but i guess if enough people still report the hacker blizzard will take its steps. with the character codes every Barcode should still be unique, i guess.
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On May 09 2012 15:27 icydergosu wrote:
Pretty stupid considering some of these players could get thousands of viewers and the ad revenue that comes with it.
Maybe their contracts actually demand that they cannot play under their real nick, to make the product(player) more special when they actually do play under KESPAs reign. This way players will be less likely to stray to foreign teams because the players brand was never actually build outside of Korea.
These players don't need the shitty ad revenue. They are making more than enough playing BW atm and are simply trying to learn SC2 while they are still anonymous.
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On May 09 2012 15:27 icydergosu wrote:
Pretty stupid considering some of these players could get thousands of viewers and the ad revenue that comes with it.
Maybe their contracts actually demand that they cannot play under their real nick, to make the product(player) more special when they actually do play under KESPAs reign. This way players will be less likely to stray to foreign teams because the players brand was never actually build outside of Korea.
a-teamers actually get paid a salary, it's more important that they hide strategies from other teams. sc2 teams don't have the luxury of doing that.
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I actually think this will become more common after the destiny incident too its a way for people to ladder and if you do BM there will be little consequences its.
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Barcoding is going to become obsolete once someone figures out the hotkey patterns of these players.
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I still fail to see why they don't just pick random names. A barcode automatically states that you're a good player who's probably well known and wants to keep things secret, so a studious player will keep all those replays and study them. A random name can more likely be taken to be "some random player" who's good. There are plenty of legit GM players who no one knows because they're just not tournament level but still quite solid.
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Hahahaha, #6 on that list is 바코드도살자, translates to Barcode slaughterer
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On May 09 2012 15:39 frequency wrote:
Hahahaha, #6 on that list is 바코드도살자, translates to Barcode slaughterer
If this barcode trend spreads to the other servers than just Korea then I would not be surprised if players with nicknames like "barcode hunter" or "slayer of the barcodes" started to show up on the ladder as well. 
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oh my god! No GG! Head to the bunkers!
Flash practicing for 10 days straight? Can't wait!
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On May 09 2012 14:59 eviltomahawk wrote:Show nested quote +On May 09 2012 14:55 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:gsl scrub by day, ladder bonjwa by night! The double lives of sc2 pros? Who knows :o! naw, all accounts are just MKP, Byun, Seal, Coca, and all the other usual ladder whores  Don't forget ForGG and his horde of smurf accounts.
ForGG doesn't hide behind barcodes.
Although, I don't really have a problem with players using barcodes, just another reason why Blizzard needs to get rid of match history, or make it less-detailed.
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