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PauseBreak
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States270 Posts
August 21 2012 17:10 GMT
#81
I know on my level, when I play a barcoder, I just laugh. Some kid thinking he's good and then gets his faced crushed because of it.

Juliet:
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet."


Either you have the skill or you don't. And most of these copycraps don't.
sevia
Profile Joined May 2010
United States954 Posts
August 21 2012 17:14 GMT
#82
Anonymous play is always a good thing.

If top-tier players couldn't publicly practice without having their play studied and build orders analyzed, it would just go back to like in BW where they played in-house games exclusively, and you only got to see two or three games of a new build that they might have been preparing for weeks. Now, you can at least see the strategies, you just don't know who's doing them.

Random, anonymous ladder play helps the metagame progress faster, I think. More games against more players helps pros quickly solve what works and what doesn't.
최지성 Bomber || 김동환 viOLet || 고병재 GuMiho
FlukyS
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Ireland485 Posts
August 21 2012 17:14 GMT
#83
Im perfectly fine with it if you are a GM player but if you are in plat or diamond or bronze....etc why the hell would you bother? Like are you hiding builds for when you go pro some day? I can see why a GM player would do it because you play the same players every day so you don't want them to go ok here is the map pack of games against X player and ill just meta game the hell out of him. So barcode names help against that.
Stiluz
Profile Joined October 2010
Norway688 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-21 17:16:23
August 21 2012 17:15 GMT
#84
Why do people care about it anyway? The silver player with a barcode name knows he's not a pro, he's just having fun with it, or it helps him with ladder anxiety (I think making the account less "personal" with a barcode would make you less attached to it maybe?).
NeMeSiS3
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Canada2972 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-21 17:17:55
August 21 2012 17:17 GMT
#85
The issue shouldn't be with "barcode" names but with the fact Blizzard is forcing no anonymity so players can't practice in private (unless of course you purchase a full 60 dollar game + the expansion pack coming out)... I mean you don't draw up a playbook so your opponent can read between the lines so they have to barcode.

FoTG fighting!
sixfour
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
England11062 Posts
August 21 2012 17:17 GMT
#86
I think I might use my namechange to become IIIlllIlIIIlll to annoy the OP
p: stats, horang2, free, jangbi z: soulkey, zero, shine, hydra t: leta, hiya, sea
NeMeSiS3
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Canada2972 Posts
August 21 2012 17:18 GMT
#87
On August 22 2012 02:17 sixfour wrote:
I think I might use my namechange to become IIIlllIlIIIlll to annoy the OP


I thought you meant on TL, that'd be funny^^ but I noticed you are wayy past 500 posts lol.
FoTG fighting!
Nagano
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States1157 Posts
August 21 2012 17:19 GMT
#88
If the pros do it, it's ok, but if some diamond warrior wants to do it, it's lame or unnecessary and pointless? Who are you to make that call, and why should it be any of your business? Why do you care so much for others' names? It's none of your business.
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
FatBat
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany326 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-21 17:22:05
August 21 2012 17:21 GMT
#89
I dont care if someone's name is IIllIIll or NOOBKILLER. I even read on TL some persons dont have ladder fear if they have a Barcode as a name because noone will remember them.
"This game went full retard"- Totalbiscuit
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
August 21 2012 17:22 GMT
#90
I think it's very important for pros to be able to stay anonymous. It sucks for viewers but its necessary.
Semipro Terran player | Pokebunny#1710 | twitter.com/Pokebunny | twitch.tv/Pokebunny | facebook.com/PokebunnySC
DashedHopes
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Canada414 Posts
August 21 2012 17:25 GMT
#91
It's funny, cause on Na server gm there is a guy named "BARCODE"
bokchoi
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Korea (South)9498 Posts
August 21 2012 17:26 GMT
#92
I blame Blizzard and Battle.Net more than I blame barcodes.
blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
August 21 2012 17:34 GMT
#93
It's fine for progamers, I will never understand why noobs do it though.
When I think of something else, something will go here
kranten
Profile Joined January 2012
Netherlands236 Posts
August 21 2012 17:35 GMT
#94
On August 22 2012 02:15 Stiluz wrote:
Why do people care about it anyway? The silver player with a barcode name knows he's not a pro, he's just having fun with it, or it helps him with ladder anxiety (I think making the account less "personal" with a barcode would make you less attached to it maybe?).


Yeah, I guess for some people it helps against ladder anxiety.
PauseBreak
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States270 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-21 17:38:21
August 21 2012 17:37 GMT
#95
On August 22 2012 02:21 FatBat wrote:
I dont care if someone's name is IIllIIll or NOOBKILLER. I even read on TL some persons dont have ladder fear if they have a Barcode as a name because noone will remember them.


Are people THAT scared of ladder that they have to hide themselves?

People don't remember games and how one has played so much as how someone acted and whether they were polite or completely an in-game jackass. If one is proper and upright about their games, they shouldn't ever be ashamed on how they play the game.
Vandrad
Profile Joined November 2011
Germany951 Posts
August 21 2012 17:39 GMT
#96
On August 21 2012 23:52 soon.Cloak wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 21 2012 23:45 stew_ wrote:
even if you ban the combination of i's and l's, people will use different letters to remain anonymous. i'm fine with it however.


But even if you have player "zuvgoagbsb", there will only be one of him. It's different than having 30 players that are IIIIII.


but hen one could name himself GladHeAteHer like machine and axslav I think and then everyone would have that name if they want to be anonymous (just and example)

there is no reason in banning names
And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low?
Anta
Profile Joined April 2012
Germany434 Posts
August 21 2012 17:43 GMT
#97
i'm fine with it... pros (esp kors need to be anonymous sometimes) except stephano.. he don't cares and kicks asss anyway


it's just ridiculous stupid/funny when i see those barcodes in my diamond league... i always rofl and make fun of them
"In short: stop bitching, change your tampons and up your game." mad respect to CloudNineLabs.com http://i.imgur.com/g5KGz.jpg ! I love Dreamhack!
InVerno
Profile Joined May 2011
258 Posts
August 21 2012 17:47 GMT
#98
It's just retarded, people abuse that while progaming needs that. If blizzard put an option "anonymus" that display "Player1" instead of ||||||||||||, i bet no-one will use it in the retarded way of. This will prove "how much is needed for ladder fear" and bullshit like that, some people have the mentality of a 10years old there's no need to otherthink the issue.
Apolo
Profile Joined May 2010
Portugal1259 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-21 17:48:40
August 21 2012 17:47 GMT
#99
The existance of Barcode names isn't a problem. It's a solution (though not the best one) at trying to play anonymously. If Blizzard would implement a kind of "undercover" way to play, where no one can see the identity of the player they played aggainst, this wouldn't be an issue.
Daimai
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Sweden762 Posts
August 21 2012 17:48 GMT
#100
It's ok and even a necessity for progamers I'd say, but I cringe whenever I see a guy in diamond or master with a barcode name, like he was sitting there deciding a nick and thought "man, I'm so god damn famous and so many people want to stalk me that I should have a barcode name + it makes me look like a skilled korean!".
Same shit with random nonames on ladder who wont accept messages from people not on their friendslist, "Im so famous guise!".
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