REMOVE private profiles

Private profiles have no place in a game like this, I can’t understand the reasoning behind adding them. Do people make their profiles private so they can’t get reported? What’s there to hide, we all should have access to the same items, no?

It also isn’t productive that there’s no way to inspect skill trees, paragons, and the rest of the player’s account like other characters and achievements like in Diablo 3. I am continuously amazed how a game from 14 years ago continues to have more features than the next installment.

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I don’t really know what you can and cannot see with a private profile though.

What I do know is that I often mask my gear with beginner’s skins so no one knows how OP I actually am all the time from my rmt efforts.

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You really care that much about not being able to see someone else’s gear? As far as reporting, I don’t see how private profile prevents you from reporting a player.

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everyones personal preference. You can leave your profile open if you chose to.

other question, why do you want to sniff around in other peoples builds? Why should people that compete with you, give you information on their setup? Makes no sense at all.

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Let’s go one further: Make users profiles available from this forum like it is on the Diablo 3 forum. There are a lot of smack talkers on this forum who clearly suck at the game. Adding profiles to the forum would let people know who has crediability and who is talking out their a$$…

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thats indeed something that would have me intrigued :smiley:

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I’ll upvote that. People like to talk smack but their profile would validate how good they are or they’re talking out the you know what.

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There’s only one credible reason to open everyone’s character profile:

So we have something to do while we’re all standing around waiting for the world boss to arrive.

:smile:

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This is already in the game. . . Not that I should tell people that.

Why stop there, let’s open up remote viewing 24/7 of all profiles in game and on forum when active in game, including view access to system monitors on the system running the profiles. Processes can be hidden so raw memory access would be needed to.

Unless you know the person well, nothing short of this will give the answers people seek.

Alternatively, there is the status quo.

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I hide my profile because it’s my business. If I don’t want people to see what I have on, then that’s My reason.

Now if somebody wants to see my gear, they’ll have to ask and I don’t mind, other then that

covers myself

NO PEEKING

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The game doesn’t even have a damage meter to try to obfuscate the likely wild difference in damage contribution from groups/nearby players.

There’s no real point in you being able to see another person’s profile other than being nosey/judgmental. If they don’t want you to see their build you don’t get to see it. Oh well.

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Oh dear, you can’t see my build, oh well, sad for you, but really, none of your business :).

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im unclear how the gear someone is wearing in d4 has any correlation to skill

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I’m not paranoid, nor do I have anything to hide, so you can view my profile ‘till your hearts content.

Agreed.

Doesn’t bother me if it’s private, I don’t care what others profiles or paragon boards look like.

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My profile is public but the argumenttion of OP is ridiculous.

”It is not productive…?”
What the hell?

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Hmm this sounds like it’s for another reason, and not a good one.

It’s feels like the need to see K/D ratios in fps games. Just seems like there’s a sinister motive behind this. I mean don’t we have maxroll site for checking on gear no need to look at others.

Agh feeling like diablo immortal where people were complaining that you can;t see players win rates anymore.

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I’m guessing mine is still private going back to S0. I changed it after the second know it all in a few hours started telling me what I needed to change on my character.

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If it’s like D3, as someone suggested, you can see how many characters, builds, and paragon levels they’ve played, so knowing all that, you can judge whether they actually play the game, know the game, or just talk.