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Dakota_Fanning
Hungary2335 Posts
This "Enable players to see your name" would not resolve anything. As others noted, seeing "Player" instead of "lllllllllll" is no improvements at all.
The situation would be even worse: if players could hide their names without even having to use a name change or buy a new account, you would see a lot more "Player"s than you see barcodes currently.
Blizzard should forbid names which contain barcode segments and should change the UI font displaying player names slightly so the visual appearance of the small "L" and capital "i" would look different.
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Would be great for tournaments and looking at ladder rankings. The match history option alone, might get more people to play on their main account.
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On May 07 2014 15:43 Gamegene wrote:Show nested quote +On May 07 2014 15:02 dabom88 wrote: I say make it so that everyone has a public, randomly generated, unique Serial Number attached to their account, regardless of what your account name is. That way, you can at least distinguish between which Terran/Protoss/Zerg barcode is on top of the ladder. Like, say, Terran "IIIIIIII" with Serial Number 198239874 is #1 on the ladder, while Zerg "IIIIIIIII" with serial number 857827838 is #2, Protoss "IIIIIIIII" with serial number 349857982 is #3, and Terran "IIIIII" with serial number 3287847 is #4 on the ladder. Meanwhile, Terran "Barcode Killer" with serial number 2343453546 is #5 on the ladder.
At least be able to track which account is which number. For tournament registration this would be greatly helpful to organizers. Otherwise, Barcodes are an elegant solution to being anonymous because it's extremely simple. Every player who spends 40$+ or so for an account has the right to name their ID to whatever they please. It's not a problem to those who wish to be barcodes, it's a problem to you and quite frankly you don't really have a say in what professional players and wannabes do with their accounts collectively or individually. ^^ Church
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On May 07 2014 16:09 Dakota_Fanning wrote: This "Enable players to see your name" would not resolve anything. As others noted, seeing "Player" instead of "lllllllllll" is no improvements at all.
The situation would be even worse: if players could hide their names without even having to use a name change or buy a new account, you would see a lot more "Player"s than you see barcodes currently.
Blizzard should forbid names which contain barcode segments and should change the UI font displaying player names slightly so the visual appearance of the small "L" and capital "i" would look different. So let them hide their names.... If they are a no-name, nobody cares if they hide their name... it's no different from having a barcode, which even players that aren't at the top level are using. If they want to represent something, or show off their personality, then they will show off their name/tag etc. In other words, this doesn't actually make anything worse. Nobody cares if people use barcodes. Its something that will exist and should exist.
The point here should be that people can rely on their 1 account, and that 1 account would be visible on the rankings. People would be able to tell "Pro A" has X amount of wins and is ranked 1st on the ladder, rather than just seeing that IIIIIIIIII is ranked first on the ladder. It would allow people to see cool things like that, without hurting the player's practice.
Thus, it doesn't hurt anyone, and it does benefit people.
Edit: If people worry about being able to report trolls/BM players using this function, reporting those players after the game ends would still report that players account.... So this function doesn't protect bad people, only people's practice.
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Love it. Just need to further make it hard to deduce your identity based on ladder rank/points as well
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Blizzard should forbid names which contain barcode segments and should change the UI font displaying player names slightly so the visual appearance of the small "L" and capital "i" would look different.
That's ridiculous.
Why wouldn't all the teams just get together one day and agree to use all O00OOs or "x" as a name then? You could just as easily have a ladder with 4 dozen players named x on it. The barcode is just one way to use an anonymous name, there's a million other annoying ways.
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On May 07 2014 12:36 Rickyvalle21 wrote: This is a good idea but what if you play them ingame. Like lets say I play MVPTails 5 times in a row and he cheesed me 5 times in a row. I can then tell other people hes an obnoxious cheeser and share his replays for builds orders. That can still happen now with barcodes
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I don't think anyone understands what the OP means by changing the name to 'Player' in game. It doesn't even have to be Player. It can be lllllllllllll too. The idea is just to hide your actual account name during a match.
What is suggested is not to hide the name entirely, only during a match so your opponent won't know who you are. Therefore you can use your actual account in the ladder. That way we won't see barcodes on the rankings list. The only thing this option will help is cleaning up the rankings list.
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Czech Republic12128 Posts
Do not forget about Ladder Wildcard. This setting would help pro players - they could hide their names but on the "D day" they can use their account with no problems.
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It's really funny how most people replying don't understand the suggestion at all...
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I totally understand barcode at topgm/pro level but in topM and lowGM, they make me puke. They only use barcode to cheese and use idiot strat everytime to get into GM, it's soooo annoying.
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On May 07 2014 17:40 Eluadyl wrote: I don't think anyone understands what the OP means by changing the name to 'Player' in game. It doesn't even have to be Player. It can be lllllllllllll too. The idea is just to hide your actual account name during a match.
What is suggested is not to hide the name entirely, only during a match so your opponent won't know who you are. Therefore you can use your actual account in the ladder. That way we won't see barcodes on the rankings list. The only thing this option will help is cleaning up the rankings list.
Yes, this is the point:
Have a checkbox to allow you to "hide" YOUR name during a game Still show the real name on the ladder ranking
Plus Hide match history so that people cannot see that via the ladder
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Dakota_Fanning
Hungary2335 Posts
On May 07 2014 18:15 SatedSC2 wrote: Can I suggest two additional checkboxes..?
- Don't match me with people who are hiding their identity/are using a barcode account. - Don't allow people who are hiding their identity/are using a barcode account to message me. With these 2 additional options it would be ok. I'm not hiding my identity, and I want to play vs someone who doesn't either. I don't care if someone hides his/her identity, but I don't want to play vs them.
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The only thing i would love more is to have an alternate name.
Say you keep your barcode and ladder name. But while playing in tournament, enable your Real name.
SO on ladder you have : |||||||||||| And in Tournament [EG]Jeadong
Or : TossImba on ladder and : [Acer]Scarlett in tournaments
Could be something the ref enable, so it would ONLY be in tournaments.
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Why are people so bothered by barcodes. Most of you are gold or whatever so you rarely see them in your ladder games anyway, and the people who actually are high ranked are people who aren't bothered by insignificant things and either want to use barcodes or don't care about them at all. Maybe you should reflect on your egocentricity if you think your irrational desire to see a random name rather than a few stripes is so important.
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I like the Barcodes actually, because there were these Pro Player Alt hunters, that posted here every week about their findings, which got mildly annoying.
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I don't think Blizzard should address this at all. In my opinion it is not a problem, and they should not waste ressources addressing it.
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Everyone saying "player" in game is no different from barcode need to re-read the thread... maybe try reading all of it from top to bottom and looking at the pictures... seriously, the the lack of understanding is nothing short of flabbergasting...
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