I find it weird that hero profiles are set to private by default. I feel it just helps hide information that could be used in forming teams. Also it’s really easy to be toxic while keeping your ranks and stat’s hidden. Career profiles should be public with the option to make them private. Not the other way around.
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Agree but also there is no point of private profiles anyway because people will be toxic regardless.
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imo, private profiles by default are the 3rd best addition ever made to the game, right after maps and heroes
I find the players that want access to profile information are generally (but not always) using it to fuel toxic statements and/or assess blame. I prefer to deny whatever I can to such players
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Also true! It’s just weird that OW2 moved towards providing less info for its players compared to OW1
I disagree, if all the profiles are made public, toxicity will increase exponentially to a point where they have to revert the change.
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Okay but in return chat with the enemy team is permanently gone with no way to turn it on except for custom games deal?
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I can see where you are going but at the same time if someone is going to going to flame you is really easy to put that fire out when you can throw that back in their face. Ever since free to play the game has become vastly more toxic. People are going to be toxic no matter what. So having your stats to back your toxic statement should be required.
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I don’t. It’s none of your business.
The only information you need is what I am playing now.
Irrelevant and unconnected.
No.
Disagree.
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Unnecessary info you don’t require.
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Ok so like you said if it’s that big of a deal you can turn it off. And also what you’re playing at that point in time does not represent your skill as a whole. Just that second. So yes it is relative in the big picture.
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Because your privacy is important and blizzard abide to several countries legislations that states your data should be handled by your permission.
If you want it to be public, you should set it public. Otherwise your data shouldn’t be a matter for anybody. What you like, what you did and how you played is irrelevant for any 3rd party. What you do and will do should be what define you to begin with.
If you want to know, you just need to ask. There’s comms for it. If a player is within similar MMR as yours that player are on equivalent range as yours.
While their Matchmaking is in bad state right now. Decide what you should do would be irrelevant. Due most data you will get in the first teamfight to begin with.
Profiles should be set to private as default, unless they’re on your friendlist. Even on those cases you should have a option to set to private also.
Your data is yours, which is why you can request to be erased at your own discretion. There’s laws about it also.
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I understand but what if the player is really bad? The matchmaking is bad and making the profiles public increases toxicity. Matchmaking won’t be fixed as Blizzard wants people to spend more time on the game.
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Rare Lara W.
Yep.
Private Profiles are 100% cope and mostly useless because of that and the fact that Private Profiles users can see Public ones, so they basically create an “uneven” and unfair information ground to promote Toxicity.
Funny 
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Yes and no. It’s a double edged sword. If you have a toxic player and you can see stats then it’s even easier to brush that off/discredit them. The same is true for a toxic player. If they want to say things to a person that is learning something new. I have been mailing brig this season and have a 70% win rate. Even with my profile public people still accuse me of throwing. If plays can see that info I feel it would help get rid of stigmas around certain heroes
Ironically I feel like the ppl who trash talk most about other ppls stats, have theirs hidden.
Imo only open profile players should be able to see other ppls profiles.
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The only relevant data, should be the current match stats. Which they are showing with some “decent” amount of data if you compare with ow1.
Everything else is irrelevant. Due not play any effect on the current match to begin with. If a player had bad stats and are playing amazingly well on the match you will biased towards him. If the player had amazing stats and are performing poorly on the match you will be also biased towards him.
Your performance in the current match is more important than any other data or stat to begin with.
Knowing if somebody were top500 or bronze is irrelevant if they’re playing at same match as yours. Knowing what hero they like to play is irrelevant due, again, the match metric is the reflection of what your teammate are doing.
Mostly, after the first teamfight you already know what to expect. You don’t need any other data aside that.
Which means, your history is irrelevant. Similarly to others. What should matter is what you do in the match.
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I agree with you completely in the your info your choice. But as you also stated you should be able to hide you info from your friends. That being said. The information collected is collected from a public game on a 3rd party service. The career profile contains no NPI on it. (Can’t confirm if the same is true on PC) but not a lot of people know this but some info you think is private is really not. I have spent years in banking and there is information you authorize to be given away. With the exception of a few things. I’m sure if you read the terms and conditions that you skipped when you created the account there is likely a clear clause about data sharing.
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Wouldn’t matter even if you could see everyone’s profiles. Stats are borked for a lot people since OW2 launched and its still not fixed. You’d be looking at inaccurate or out of date info anyway.
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Completely agree. If that was the case I would be fine with it.
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From a private company. Not a public. Your career profile actually shows a ton of data. More than you realize.
Most your data is private, but are handled by blizzard. Blizzard deserves the right to hold your data and use your data annonimously. While you have the right of be forgotten and can enforce it anytime.
Your account is on a private plataform which are authorized by you to be handled announimously. That’s why your profile should be private, while on friends they can consider that your friends are trustworthy. They should give the ability to the user decide that.
Data share and annonimously data share are 2 distinct things. While legislation on places varies, several countries your data are handled annonimously until they need to interact in some kind of transation, they would request a data provider for a confirmation of that info.
So, they only “label” your data as you, the moment you actually interact as active party for it.
There are some few exceptions, but even those exceptions are legally binded and often done in favor of the user.
Your info can be sold, your identity can’t. Unless you explicitly authorize it. That’s the kind of legislation that are vigent in several countries.