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Roggay
Profile Joined April 2010
Switzerland6320 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-21 22:05:00
August 21 2012 22:04 GMT
#121
Im completely fine with it and its a very good thing imo. In BW, you could create multiple accounts to train and remain anonymous, well this is just the replacement and its fine. And for lower level leaguers... who cares? It would make no difference whatsoever if they were named differently anyway. They can't even be "wannabe", because no one can recognize them anyway.
v3chr0
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States856 Posts
August 21 2012 22:06 GMT
#122
On August 22 2012 06:57 paddyz wrote:
Funnily enough im somewhere between perfectly fine with it and hate it.


On August 22 2012 07:01 Incomplet wrote:
I'm sorry, but protecting the pro's strategies that they may potentially use in tournaments is a lot more important than anyone's feelings or opinions here. Suck it up.



These two sum it up for me. It's annoying because I don't know who I'm playing, but on the flip side it's completely respectable because there is no other way to go anonymous.
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Fencar
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States2694 Posts
August 21 2012 22:07 GMT
#123
Fine with it, because you can be completely anonymous which believe it or not is something people like to do for shits&giggles now and again.
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CloudySC
Profile Joined September 2012
United States3 Posts
September 04 2012 00:29 GMT
#124
On August 22 2012 00:09 xrapture wrote:
I don't play starcraft to make friends. I play to practice and improve. I like complete anonymity.


It's obviously not a game. But anyways, I think it's pretty cool. I fail to understand why people are so against it
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Blazinghand *
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States25553 Posts
September 04 2012 00:35 GMT
#125
On August 21 2012 23:42 soon.Cloak wrote:
(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 )


Well, not quite. Everyone could just use one name together, like "john" or something, and it'd have the same effect, as long as they all used the same name, right?
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elliminist
Profile Joined November 2010
Japan121 Posts
September 04 2012 00:50 GMT
#126
It's funny how the point of barcodes is meant to give you privacy but you end up playing those douches who think its their god given right to slander insult and harrass another innocent human being.

It's a very primeval response from the neanderthals which cannot understand the concept of respect for fellow people.

Everyone likes to talk shit but no one likes to apologise. They act it's impossible that their opponent is a real pro or what not and flame the fuck out of them. What if they were a pro? There's just no respect at all for your fellow opponent. Heck I remember the day Stephano destroyed the NA ladder and all his opponents simply went 'you WISH you were the real stephano noob'

And you wonder why people WANT to be anonymous in this game.
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forsooth
Profile Joined February 2011
United States3648 Posts
September 04 2012 00:51 GMT
#127
I don't care, and I don't know why anyone else would. Plus it can give pros much needed anonymity when they ladder.
Chronos.
Profile Joined February 2012
United States805 Posts
September 04 2012 01:00 GMT
#128
I like to know who the other guy is when I'm watching a pro player stream and they go up against a bar code, otherwise it doesn't effect me. I don't know who the people I play on ladder are anyway, so whether they have a barcode or a random name doesn't really matter.

I'm glad there is that option for players though. They should be able to remain anonymous if they so choose to help with their practice.
shizaep
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada2920 Posts
September 04 2012 01:00 GMT
#129
It started out when the KeSPA players started laddering. KeSPA teams are really secret about their replays and builds and everything so "barcode" accounts allow them to remain anonymous. Then it became somewhat fashionable and caught on, with other Korean teams following suit and, inevitably, with various noobs and scrubs trying to "be cool".

It's completely understandable why people use it. As someone who isn't a pro, I personally give the lowest amount of fuck humanly possible what account names pro players are using to ladder with.
You mean I just write stuff here and other people can see it?
acrimoneyius
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States983 Posts
September 04 2012 01:08 GMT
#130
Regardless of the anonymity, this is a great way to show Blizzard how stupid it is to not have truly unique ID's. Everyone should be a bar code...YEAH!...
SilSol
Profile Joined April 2012
Sweden2744 Posts
September 04 2012 01:09 GMT
#131
yeah i'm fine with it also! gogo!
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NovemberstOrm
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Canada16217 Posts
September 04 2012 01:12 GMT
#132
Unless you're a pro player your opinion doesn't matter. Pro players want to hide their strategies and that's what they should be able to do.
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WillS
Profile Joined September 2011
61 Posts
September 04 2012 01:18 GMT
#133
Isn't it funny that these things seem to have come around when the kespa players joined the scene? All that time that the pro players were wondering about this problem and it only comes into fruition then. I really hope that this isnt the case.
Denzil
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom4193 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-04 01:22:46
September 04 2012 01:19 GMT
#134
indifferent

only thing that pisses me off is when i see these diamond leaguer or low master leaguers i play against and they have it

it's like what the fuck man

why just why

On September 04 2012 10:18 WillS wrote:
Isn't it funny that these things seem to have come around when the kespa players joined the scene? All that time that the pro players were wondering about this problem and it only comes into fruition then. I really hope that this isnt the case.


are you talking about kespa players being smart enough to come up with this idea to hide their builds?

not the case, doing something like this would require ~60+ people all at once to do it otherwise if there's 5-8 terrans who have a barcode you just look at their keybindings and figure out who's who if its done en masse well good luck, coincidently thats a number Kespa teams can easily manage all in one go.
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Sankanyo
Profile Joined August 2011
United States140 Posts
September 04 2012 01:21 GMT
#135
I can understand the pros having it. But dia and under.. thats kinda annoying lol
rice_devOurer
Profile Joined July 2012
United States773 Posts
September 04 2012 02:32 GMT
#136
i got sick of it as soon as i saw this: http://kr.battle.net/sc2/ko/ladder/grandmaster
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Forikorder
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada8840 Posts
September 04 2012 02:37 GMT
#137
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...


i dont get this, its a gamer tag people use names they like theres no reason for them to use a barcode but theres no reason for them not to either
peawok
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States71 Posts
September 04 2012 02:38 GMT
#138
On September 04 2012 11:32 rice_devOurer wrote:
i got sick of it as soon as i saw this: http://kr.battle.net/sc2/ko/ladder/grandmaster


That's absolutely ridiculous... how about a way to hide who you are until the end of the game or something?
Xapti
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada2473 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-04 02:47:14
September 04 2012 02:42 GMT
#139
I don't understand why people bother with using combination i/l names. It simply makes the name more unique and easily identifiable than if they chose/had-chosen the most common name on battle.net (possibly of similar league as well, not that it changes much I would think).

You can have multiple accounts/users with the same name in SC2, so there's no reason to have different combinations of 'i's and 'l's. At the least they should lean towards a standardized name like "AAAAAAAAAAA", "GLHF", "Anonymous", "llllllllll", (or an existing one like "ESPORTS", "Zerg") or something else, which will offer optimum privacy.

Actually, to make things easier, maybe Blizzard should just add a privacy option for battle.net to to which if you enable it, your name becomes something like "Anonymous"

On September 04 2012 10:08 acrimoneyius wrote:
Regardless of the anonymity, this is a great way to show Blizzard how stupid it is to not have truly unique ID's. Everyone should be a bar code...YEAH!...

Not at all. The whole origin of barcode names is from when unique names did/do exist, hence people had to come up with various IDs which would look the same, even though they were different.
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Dodgin
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada39254 Posts
September 04 2012 02:44 GMT
#140
I don't get why it bothers people what the ID of their opponent is, it has no effect on the game itself. If they want to be anonymous let them do it. I have two accounts, one with a barcode and one without. Nothing wrong with wanting to be able to play anonymously once in a while.
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