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Dakota_Fanning *
Profile Joined January 2008
Hungary2349 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-07 08:13:58
May 07 2014 07:09 GMT
#21
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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ejozl
Profile Joined October 2010
Denmark3408 Posts
May 07 2014 07:15 GMT
#22
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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Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
May 07 2014 07:50 GMT
#23
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.

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Profile Joined July 2010
United States1716 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-07 08:23:28
May 07 2014 08:22 GMT
#24
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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CutTheEnemy
Profile Joined November 2013
Canada373 Posts
May 07 2014 08:34 GMT
#25
Love it. Just need to further make it hard to deduce your identity based on ladder rank/points as well
Can we help spread the word and create pressure to get Rob Pardo to replace Browder as head of Sc2? Pardo led the team for broodwar, frozen throne, and wow/BC. We need to make this a thing before LotV development starts. Think about it.
CutTheEnemy
Profile Joined November 2013
Canada373 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-07 08:38:15
May 07 2014 08:36 GMT
#26
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.
Can we help spread the word and create pressure to get Rob Pardo to replace Browder as head of Sc2? Pardo led the team for broodwar, frozen throne, and wow/BC. We need to make this a thing before LotV development starts. Think about it.
MrMotionPicture
Profile Joined May 2010
United States4327 Posts
May 07 2014 08:37 GMT
#27
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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Eluadyl
Profile Joined May 2010
Turkey364 Posts
May 07 2014 08:40 GMT
#28
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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deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
May 07 2014 08:52 GMT
#29
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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Zealos
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United Kingdom3576 Posts
May 07 2014 08:58 GMT
#30
It's really funny how most people replying don't understand the suggestion at all...
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SatedSC2
Profile Blog Joined March 2014
England3012 Posts
May 07 2014 09:15 GMT
#31
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Faust852
Profile Joined February 2012
Luxembourg4004 Posts
May 07 2014 09:21 GMT
#32
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.
Ketch
Profile Joined October 2010
Netherlands7285 Posts
May 07 2014 09:23 GMT
#33
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
Dakota_Fanning *
Profile Joined January 2008
Hungary2349 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-07 09:24:17
May 07 2014 09:23 GMT
#34
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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FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-07 10:25:17
May 07 2014 10:24 GMT
#35
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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mechengineer123
Profile Joined March 2013
Ukraine711 Posts
May 07 2014 10:28 GMT
#36
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.
SatedSC2
Profile Blog Joined March 2014
England3012 Posts
May 07 2014 10:48 GMT
#37
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FeyFey
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany10114 Posts
May 07 2014 11:04 GMT
#38
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.
Frankenberry
Profile Joined February 2012
Denmark302 Posts
May 07 2014 11:07 GMT
#39
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.
BreakfastBurrito
Profile Joined November 2011
United States893 Posts
May 07 2014 11:09 GMT
#40
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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