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So as I'm sure you've seen around, there are players with names completely made up of capital "i" 's and lowercase "L"'s, which results in a name looking like IIIIllll and llIIIIlll etc...
The reason players do this is to, of course, be anonymous, which means that:
- People can't take those replays and study them for when they play that (no longer) anonymous opponent
- People who may already know that opponent's style won't be able to use that knowledge
Some people seem to think this is ok, because of the strategic advantage. Others hate it, because they want to know who they are playing against/watching in a stream. (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  ) Thoughts TL?
Poll: Thoughts on the Barcode NamePerfectly fine with it (838) 65% Hate it (461) 35% 1299 total votes Your vote: Thoughts on the Barcode Name (Vote): Perfectly fine with it
(Vote): Hate it
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...
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It's annoying when I play someone really good on ladder with a barcode that won't accept messages after a game. I want practice partners. 
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It's retarded. You see people with barcode names in Bronze and it just makes you cringe.
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even if you ban the combination of i's and l's, people will use different letters to remain anonymous. i'm fine with it however.
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i wonder when this became a common thing
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Well, theres a guy on the masters EU ladder which litarly only 6 pools and he bms no matter what so i hate it^^
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I would obviously prefer to know who is playing, but I completely understand that at the prolevel this can be the difference between winning or losing.
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I don't give a crap about the nickname people want to have. If that helps them with their "ladder anxiety" well, go for it. Who cares. I don't understand why people think it should be a only Pro thing.
And no, i don't use barcodes.
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dont see an issue with it
if people want to be anonymous its their choice
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Meh, was worse in BW when you couldn't check your opponents stats before the game because of it. Don't see much of a problem with it in SC2 tbh.
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There's basically no solution to this problem. ID's are no longer unique, everybody can just choose the same ID and we'd go into the same problem again. Unless blizzard wants to remove duplicate ID now.... but it's probably too late and waaaaayyy too complicated.
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I could care less. I just fail to see the point of it for anything under GM league. Its just trying to be trendy, because as the OP said, aint no one trying to steal their diamond level builds.
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It definitely gives an advantage to the person with the barcode name. Dunno why there aren't unique names on bnet like in wc3.
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On August 21 2012 23:45 stew_ wrote:
even if you ban the combination of i's and l's, people will use different letters to remain anonymous. i'm fine with it however.
But even if you have player "zuvgoagbsb", there will only be one of him. It's different than having 30 players that are IIIIII.
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i dont really care
its just kinda annoying playing in lower leagues against llllllll wannabes
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its good like that, the only problem is when you re watching someone ladder in kr and theres never a known opponent, ends up being boring
On August 21 2012 23:52 soon.Cloak wrote:Show nested quote +On August 21 2012 23:45 stew_ wrote:
even if you ban the combination of i's and l's, people will use different letters to remain anonymous. i'm fine with it however. But even if you have player "zuvgoagbsb", there will only be one of him. It's different than having 30 players that are IIIIII.
actually no, there could be "sssssssss", the problem is not being unique IDs
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On August 21 2012 23:50 eScaper-tsunami wrote:
There's basically no solution to this problem. ID's are no longer unique, everybody can just choose the same ID and we'd go into the same problem again. Unless blizzard wants to remove duplicate ID now.... but it's probably too late and waaaaayyy too complicated.
if they were gonna use unique ID, they woulda done it when 5000 people named themselves ESPORTS in beta...
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On August 21 2012 23:42 soon.Cloak wrote:
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...
No. If people want to stay anonymous then that's their right. It shouldn't matter what their skill level is or what league they're in.
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I understand Pros having it. But whenever I meet a Dia or Plat with barcodes I always get that poser feeling and get annoyed 
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I have a few accounts, one of them is a barcode one, just for shits and giggles.
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EPT
