Potential Barcode Solution - Page 4

On May 07 2014 21:48 Cascade wrote:

Yes, that is how I understood it as well, and I am equally confused by what most of the other posters are talking about.

And I think it is a neat little idea that could turn the top GM from "|||||||||||||||||, ||||||||||||||||||, ||||||||||||||||||||||, smurfLULZ, ||||||||||||||||||, otherSmurf" into "EG.jaedong, Liquid'Snute, SLK_Cascade, ...".* The top names will there with the highest ranking, but no one will recognise the accounts in game, and there is no history to be analysed.

*Some IDs may be more realistic than others.

On May 07 2014 19:28 mechengineer123 wrote:
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.

On May 08 2014 00:44 Stabley wrote:



It's not an issue, it is something that can be improved upon . I fail to see why bringing up the discussion of something is problematic.

On May 07 2014 19:28 mechengineer123 wrote:
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.

On May 08 2014 01:59 Wombat_NI wrote:
Plenty of people have shed some light, you're just being obtuse. Indeed in your post you're acknowledging what others see as the issue, you don't happen to share it but don't act like it's some mystery that nobody has filled you in on.

On May 08 2014 01:43 Amazonic wrote:


You say that it's something that can be improved upon, which means that it's not good right now, which means it's an issue somehow. I just cannot fathom why anybody would not want people to barcode, I just don't understand the thinking behind it.

I feel it's an absurd thing to make a thread about yet people somehow think it's something worth talking about, it's a complete non-issue to my mind and I was hoping someone could shed some light on why people care.



Because people are curious as to who the top 200 players are in each region... why is that difficult to grasp?

Imo that's none of your damn business. You see who the best players are at tournaments, the ladder is strictly a practice environment. However I wanna be clear with the fact that this is just my opinion, I'm uneducated in the matter and I don't understand the opposing side.

On May 08 2014 02:21 Amazonic wrote:


So the whole issue is you're not given information you have no right to in the first place?

On May 08 2014 02:57 Wombat_NI wrote:

No my issue is you acting as if people are demanding something with no rationale out forward, when it's clearly in many posts in the thread.

I don't particularly care either way, it's not breaking my experience of the game but the OP does outline some decent ideas

On May 08 2014 02:57 Wombat_NI wrote:

No my issue is you acting as if people are demanding something with no rationale out forward, when it's clearly in many posts in the thread.

I don't particularly care either way, it's not breaking my experience of the game but the OP does outline some decent ideas

On May 08 2014 03:19 Butterednuts wrote:
Besides any technical aspect this may bring up, this sounds like an excellent idea! I suspect they would have to show the name after the game so any kind of contact/reporting can be still be effective.

On May 08 2014 03:41 korona wrote:
Both ideas suggested in the original post are bad ideas. Ladder system is only legit if match histories are available & players can be tracked. Hiding player names and / or match history would only be beneficial for abusers. It would be harder to be caught from hacking, cheating, MMR abusing, etc when the opponents could not track player's data / match history to verify the abuse & report him.

Hiding match history regarding ladder matches is not a solution (I would be pleased to see more information on match history of current web profiles). At the moment players already can hide their custom games from the match history if they want. One thing that could be considered is to have a privacy setting to hide build order tables from the match history, but not the match itself.


The current ladder system makes it also hard to deduce player MMRs. The visible ladder points & division ranks often do not reflect the MMR. At the moment there are ways to calculate close estimates of the MMR (see for example implementation of the MMR tool), but if ladder histories & player names would be hidden, it would not be possible in many cases.

On May 08 2014 03:59 Capped wrote:
Explain why the hell it matters what their name is and why you care?

You don't know them anyway. Rename everyone poopfeast420, same situation.

On May 08 2014 04:01 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
Keep them as barcodes if you want, just show their real names on ladder.

On May 08 2014 02:30 Stabley wrote:
It might be of your opinion that this is non issue, and that the GM rankings mean nothing, but for myself including many other players, the gm positions are kind of a spot of desire, and seeing barcodes in it is disheartening.