or for it to be accessible on my forum page. This is not convenient and I do not want to post my battlenet id every single time I do a trade or I need to team up with someone. These forums are integrated into battlenet. Why can’t I always display my battlenet tag or whatever it is?
Why cant i change my name to feature that battlenet tag? WHY NOT? I do not care if I get random invites. I choose to have it.
I AM SO ANGRY. WHY IS THIS NOT A FEATURE?
I feel so anti social. I literally haven’t met one person yet to play this game with. Every single person has been a butt hole
There are ways to find people. That is not the issue itself. The issue is that for some I have no clue in my 1000 life times why, you u cannot choose to automatically show ur battletag?
Why why not?
Lol nvm I was just joking around about being anti social while you actually have a legitimate concern.
Maybe they didn’t done new code for it. Overwatch has it, but I can’t record if D3 has.
There’s a privacy setting in overwatch’s case.
Maybe in future they do it, but right now most likely isn’t their priority.
I mean, most of the issues right now are heritage from the old code. Is a feature that most likely should be doable, but would require some changes for sure. My advice would suggest it on feedback section
it has nothing to do with old code. There is battlenet launcher. And there are forums. These 2 need to be connected. Launcher oversees all games
In theory it does. But because other motives. To retrieve data from the d3 forum section.
If you check your profile you see some group tags, that previously were related to other stuff, prior to the “migration” of d3 forums.
The d2 forums, most likely, is a separate entity from your actual account. At least the last time I checked isn’t exactly bounded properly.
D3 profile page, you could check your data in about 1 hour basis, while overwatch you have somewhat similar interval. D2 there’s no such feature. Most likely is just a simple switch that checks if that user id on forums has the desired license, being a replicate branch connected to the older d3 forums. You could see posts of d2r forums on d3 forums up sep23, by example but couldn’t post on it because couldn’t validate if you had license or not, that section gone to a limbo and in the first days of migration that same section couldn’t identify your license, but also any post done after sep23 were imported here and removed from there, while prior to that date all posts were maintained. The feature is probably incomplete due several problems emerging since launch and made them to stop the whole “verification” process around it.
At least was that way in the first days after the migration of the servers.
About the old code, is about they prioritizing solving issues that emerged from legacy code and most likely the same legacy code didn’t had implementation to link that data on to forum. The social aspect on d2r is really poorly implemented which lacks several features that are present on other games, but also is a pattern that were present on other remasters/remakes from the company. Most likely due minimal work put in there, which is a bit of sad.
Add the fact of collecting data like, current account status which are proven to be not much updated. Because we can see folks posting about their refunds. In theory if they received refunds their license were revoked and they wouldn’t be able to post it in here, still most of them still posts it, either they’re lying or the forum isn’t linked to your real account in a direct way.
See where I’m going? The system isn’t entirely connected, at least not right now, or at least the last time I checked. I would bet that the process of migrating isn’t entirely complete or done by using your battlenet id.
ok i would just like to be able to post on my profile page any text i want. I would put my id there. But I can’t.
The old forums (the ones they were using when D3 was launched) had that functionality.
You could even look at your characters back then.
But then they decided to dumb the forums down, leaving us with what we have now.
Public btags were be abused by spammers. Btags are intentionally private.
In theory, you shouldn’t need that, because is the “default” way of both d3 and ow if I remember correctly, you could see the battle tag but not further details if their profile were private . That’s why I suggested to use the feedback section, maybe they aren’t aware of this or just prioritizing other stuff.
They aren’t truly private though. All you have to do is look at a user’s account activity and their battle-tag is part of the http address.
Wow, didn’t know that. Thank you.
You can also go into your own account, go to “Preferences” > “Users,” and if you click on
“+ Add” (to your Ignore list), you can start typing a user name, and it will either autofill (including battle-tag), if it’s a unique name, or if it’s a common name, it will give you a list of matching names, along with their battle-tags.
Now, i wish everyone just knew that
You’re Aimies#2944
I see it in a popup on the bottom left when I hover over your portrait. Or if I go to your profile, it’s in the address bar (just uses a - instead of #). But those are both very inconvenient ways to see it.
pop up. Ha! I can hardly call that a popup xD. It took me a minute to understand what you meant by that.
usernames and battlenet names are such a catastrophe on battlenet. i know that unique only usernames is a very antiquated system but this whole you-get-to-pick-whatever-name-you-want-without-it-being-taken-but-we-add-arbitrary-numbers-to-the-end-and-they’re-hidden-and-also-behind-character-names-which-also-have-hiden-numbers system is such a bad, bad implementation. i’d rather there be a bunch of “diabloplayerxxxXxX420s” than “Diablo” with a 4 digit hidden pin number that you have to right click in some secret menu and then exit the game to use the game launcher to find out which person this is and then cross reference their char names which aren’t visible on the friends list and do research and find out which “Diablo” this is because there can be 9999 diablos and it’s sort of just a useless pseudonym.
there are people i play with daily and /friends messaging them is a f***ing nightmare because their name is Oblivion but it has a 4 digit number i’m never going to remember and i mostly know them by their char names but the char names have a hidden 4 digit number and i also have two people with “oblivion” pseudonyms on my friends list… it’s such a bad, bad system.
some fresh out ofelite college graduate new hire designed this system in 2009 when blizzard was trying to be fancy pants and shed their humble beginnings when they were designing the ultimate battle net 2.0
your battlenet id is always displayed on the forums just look at the account name in the url/ browser tab of a profile or start to quote any part of a post it tells you the users full id right in the quote heading
example: quote=“Aimies-2944, post:1, topic:43393”
is from what i quoted from your post