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M.R. McThundercrotch
Profile Joined June 2012
United States265 Posts
September 04 2012 05:46 GMT
#161
On September 04 2012 12:52 Liquid`NonY wrote:
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On August 21 2012 23:55 ROOTT1 wrote:
love it, its the only way we can smurf. i wish everyone would have a barcode id on na =/

we could smurf by all taking the same id. the barcode id's are ugly as hell. i wish we had collectively agreed on a cooler id. but yeah at this point now it's been decided and it's the only way to smurf


Man, you all should have been "Papa Smurf". That would have been rad.
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nkr
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Sweden5451 Posts
September 04 2012 05:50 GMT
#162
lol, the things people get annoyed by; ur funny
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NexCa
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany954 Posts
September 04 2012 05:52 GMT
#163
like.... why would anyone care about the name at all, it only matter's in tournaments or LAN events.
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Aveng3r
Profile Joined February 2012
United States2411 Posts
September 04 2012 05:56 GMT
#164
If pro players do it I can totally see why, like if idra doesnt wanna get cheesed (sorry for the reference but I feel like its a good example) than it makes perfect sense.. but ive run into some diamond/low master league barcode names which strikes me as odd.. you rarely run into the same people if at all in the lower leagues. seems like a case of wanting to be like the pros or something idk
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skatblast
Profile Joined September 2011
United States784 Posts
September 04 2012 07:43 GMT
#165
its the plays choice. Theres nothing wrong with it
[]Phase[]
Profile Joined September 2010
Belgium927 Posts
September 04 2012 07:50 GMT
#166
I think its great that pros have it, for obvious reasons. Some random guy having it? Totally useless, like anyone would care about your crappy builds.
Apolo
Profile Joined May 2010
Portugal1259 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-04 08:07:37
September 04 2012 08:06 GMT
#167
Blame Blizzard for not allowing ranked anonymous ladder. But i guess they're happy with this. Imagine the number of extra money they made from people needing to buy another account just to smurf.
Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12246 Posts
September 04 2012 08:15 GMT
#168
It makes sense for progamers, but when you run into random 1k master players that aren't even that good but have a barcode id, you do wonder what's the point.
ModeratorProtoss all-ins are like a wok. You can throw whatever you want in there and it will turn out alright.
MHT
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden1026 Posts
September 04 2012 08:21 GMT
#169
Understand why they do it, only sad thing is that streams become alot more boring when every pro they meet is just some random guy.
Dismay
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1180 Posts
September 04 2012 08:24 GMT
#170
When I played WoW back in vanilla, my GM's name was similar and we just called him Barcode. I always wax nostalgic when I hit a barcode player in SC2 so I'm fine with it.
In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same.
BoggieMan
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
520 Posts
September 04 2012 08:30 GMT
#171
it has only helped the pros that want to remain anonymous that alot of people started using it, so i kinda think its ok.
FirstGear
Profile Joined June 2011
Australia185 Posts
September 04 2012 08:31 GMT
#172
I hate it. Looking at grandmaster and seeing a huge number of barcode names doesnt help when following e-sports, it hurts it.
iTzSnypah
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1738 Posts
September 04 2012 08:32 GMT
#173
I'll take the same stance I saw Nony take in one of his replays. Its fucking ugly and should die.
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FeyFey
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany10114 Posts
September 04 2012 08:37 GMT
#174
On September 04 2012 11:51 Forikorder wrote:
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On September 04 2012 11:42 Xapti wrote:
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.

how does 150 people all using a barcode name make it more original then picking a random word?


they could use someonething like GLHF or Anonymous but unless everyone uses that name its pointless because people will figure out who you are eventually by playstyle and rank "oh look theres one guy named Anonymous in the top 8 GM ladder and last time i played him he used X strat and other guys said he used same strat, and we know that Y palyer always uses X strat so now we know Anonymous = Y player" but with everyone using barcode then you cant tell which barcode is who so you dont know if the barcode your playing is the same one or different its impossible to figure out whos who without an insane amount of work

barcode is just the way most people chose to hide there name it could have been anonymous or something else but with barcode you dont actually know if the name is llllllllll or if its IIIIIIIIII or if its IIIIIlllll those 3 names were all spelled differently but you cant tell it apart at all


LLLLLLLLLL / iiiiiiiiii / iiiiiLLLLL . Its not better then any random name for your smurf, because someone who wants to know the combination knows it. Though its a bit more tricky in sc2.
The real thing it achieved is that no random bothers anymore trying to figure out who is that smurf, if you remember back when every week there were expose the smurf threads, that was more annoying. Though i think seeing your favorite player stream and only fight against barcoders is less exciting as if you would know he fights against mvp or so. So i can understand anyone who is annoyed by it.
On the other hand someone streaming and just telling you the opponents l combination and real nick would draw alot of viewers. (based on true research or trolling would probably be unimportant)
lukasdesign
Profile Joined April 2011
Switzerland93 Posts
September 04 2012 15:23 GMT
#175
it's just childish...like a couple of other things around the so called pro-scene.

Honestly I think the real pros don't use it, as they need to be seen on streams etc. take the GM barcoders on EU server, they are mainly cheesers (i followed forGG/freakhill and each time he plays against one of those childish barcoders they try to cheese him...and normally get owned :-)
Lorch
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany3674 Posts
September 04 2012 15:27 GMT
#176
On September 05 2012 00:23 lukasdesign wrote:
it's just childish...like a couple of other things around the so called pro-scene.

Honestly I think the real pros don't use it, as they need to be seen on streams etc. take the GM barcoders on EU server, they are mainly cheesers (i followed forGG/freakhill and each time he plays against one of those childish barcoders they try to cheese him...and normally get owned :-)


Every single top korean pro has a bardcode at this point. Given how important knowing each other builds and mindgames are in both gsl and osl it's the only way they can actually use ladder for practice without revealing builds to their potential next opponent. It's not childish and smurfing has been going on in pretty much every esport I ever followed, llllll is just the easiest way to stay anonymous as usually atleast pros figure out which smurf is which player.
Greenei
Profile Joined November 2011
Germany1754 Posts
September 04 2012 17:01 GMT
#177
i think it's retarded and pretentious when lowleague players do it. i sometimes get my hopes up, that im playing a decent player, who is smurfing but then it's just another trashy noob :/
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Asolmanx
Profile Joined April 2011
Italy141 Posts
September 04 2012 17:11 GMT
#178
Starcraft is a game about strategy and tactics. Usually, they work better when your opponent isn't expecting them.
Some people make money playing this game, and it is a big deal for them if their strategy and tactics get shared all over the internet by some guy they met on ladder.
matiK23
Profile Joined May 2011
United States963 Posts
September 04 2012 17:11 GMT
#179
Who cares if people have a barcode as a name. You'll live to see another day people.
Without a paddle up shit creek.
TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28085 Posts
September 04 2012 17:12 GMT
#180
I don't mind barcode names at all. In fact, all of my accounts are barcoded. I didn't do it because I wanted to look like a pro, but because it looked super cool imo.
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