EPTOn September 11 2012 05:46 HoLe wrote:
lol, I hope you realize a lot of people are cringing at you right now.
lol, I hope you realize a lot of people are cringing at you right now.
i can't imagine people with barcode names giving less of a fuck
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ThomasR
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i can't imagine people with barcode names giving less of a fuck | ||
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Areon
United States273 Posts
On August 21 2012 23:42 soon.Cloak wrote: So as I'm sure you've seen around, there are players with names completely made up of capital "i" 's and lowercase "L"'s, which results in a name looking like IIIIllll and llIIIIlll etc... The reason players do this is to, of course, be anonymous, which means that: - People can't take those replays and study them for when they play that (no longer) anonymous opponent - People who may already know that opponent's style won't be able to use that knowledge Some people seem to think this is ok, because of the strategic advantage. Others hate it, because they want to know who they are playing against/watching in a stream. (It obviously can get patched out if Blizzard actually thought it was a problem, but I have no idea if anyone there even knows about it  ) Thoughts TL?P.S. The only thing I think everyone can agree on is that if you are not a pro player, there's no reason to have it. Diamonds and plats who want to remain anonymous "so that nobody steals their strats" bother me... How the hell would Blizzard just "patch out" barcode names? I thought this had been discussed a thousand times already, what's obvious is we'd see a hundred QuanticFlo's or some other fairly commonly spammed name. And then what, Blizzard has the right to ban too many people from using the same name? Kinda sad that people don't spend time to actually think this through. I don't have a problem with barcodes because they're pretty much essential to not giving away your build orders/replays for analysis by future opponents and there really isn't anything we can do about it anyway. | ||
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Dontkillme
Korea (South)806 Posts
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LTY
United States223 Posts
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IPA
United States3206 Posts
Good thing you bar-coded, bro. Otherwise your legions of competitors would be sure to analyze your poorly orchestrated, unoptimized timing and catch you with your pants down in your GSL debut. | ||
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SCWind
United States33 Posts
On May 06 2013 11:56 IPA wrote: My favorite is when random low to mid masters scrubs use barcode names to try to appear more important than they are. Good thing you bar-coded, bro. Otherwise your legions of competitors would be sure to analyze your poorly orchestrated, unoptimized timing and catch you with your pants down in your GSL debut. It doesn't necessarily have to be construed as being a try hard, I'd imagine some people do it to help with ladder anxiety. | ||
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ElusoryX
Singapore2047 Posts
On May 06 2013 11:59 SCWind wrote: It doesn't necessarily have to be construed as being a try hard, I'd imagine some people do it to help with ladder anxiety. I totally agree with Wind. People wanna play unranked, but at the same time they wanna know what league they can be in and how much points they can get if they actually played on ladder. Giving themselves that anonymous feel will help them overcome ladder anxiety, doesn't matter if they lose, their opponent won't know who they're smack talking to. | ||
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