So, excuses, excuses. It doesn’t take three hours to ask who plays what. If someone picks something, they’re going to play that hero.
It takes more time to go through their profile than to just ask.
Use team chat if they aren’t in voice. If they have their hero selected, then as I said before, they’re going to play that hero.
There is no reason to see someones profile other than an attempt to control them based on prejudiced assumptions.
If a Tracer is shredding you as a Support, and your DPS don’t have any significant McCree playtime, you’re going to benefit greatly from knowing that beforehand and just rolling with Bridget.
Instead of, you know, losing three team fights because it takes that long to suss out that your DPS don’t have the skillset to deal with that particular threat and getting taken out the first time wasn’t just a fluke.
The only arguments against public profiles have always been relegated to being deathly afraid of toxicity, or some romanticized notion of what the GDPR actually protects. Neither is terribly convincing.
If you spend three team fights relying on your DPS, then that’s on you. I would switch after I die twice, or even once when I can tell the Tracer is going to be a problem.
Then your tanks die because they’re not getting enough healing. Support changes can cascade hard so you generally don’t want to do that unless you know your DPS won’t be able to handle the problem. That’s not always obvious from a single Tracer.
my question: what is the purpose of private profiles?
i dont see why someone would want to hide their profile, but that might just be me
i personally think that their hero stats should be shown because their have been fishy people [maybe hackers] where i want to see stats and their hidden giving me more suspicion but i still don’t report because i could be wrong. one experience was a hanzo who never really missed a headshot and some weird flicks that got me a flying junkrat killed. wanted to see stats but nope
They do, they literally hide everything besides your name and level.
But then again, this game ofuscates data and hides things a lot, so disappointing but not surprising.
We had replays 3 years after release and we will never get scoreboards do dont hold your breath on that.
PS: Funny that dudes with Private Profiles still can see ingame (not by using a browser and peeking etc) other people’s profiles. Talking about contradictions.
Your tanks will die one way of another if your DPS can’t play the hero you want them to play.
At some point you need to be able to trust your team to win. If you know your DPS won’t be able to peel for you, then the team can adapt and play to their other strengths. And if you want to have any idea what those strengths are other than the single character they picked in the spawn room, profile information is kind of important.
Shotgun switching almost always loses you games, because people generally can’t carry as hard as they think they can. Teams can adapt, but that requires knowing who can adapt and in what way. And in a game with matches as short as Overwatch, having as much information as possible to facilitate that is really important.
That’s easy; you base it on who they’re playing.
The point was to hide rank from rank shaming
To this day even on forum from time to time there is topic about “how someone playing for so long can be so low ranked”, imagine how that look like in game where people actually do look at profiles of their teammates and enemies to remind themself that they can make fun of others.
If you’re playing comp, you can already see teammate rank without having to snoop profile.
And i feel like you should at least be paying attention to the match instead of trying to find a reason to look at someone else’s profile trying to get their resume and find any reason that you can blame them on. There’s a reason why I and other people hide our profiles. Most people who do try to find reasons to complain when even just one small slip up happens in the game.
This made me laugh. It gave me the mental image of going to a job interview, only, you’re applying to play DPS. If your resume doesn’t have x hero on it, you don’t get the job.
I don’t waste my time to see who has a private profile. This game is littered with smurfs so their stats can be very wonky and at the end of the day. I am the only player I can control.
I am fine with private profiles if it shows hours on top 3 most played heroes
also can we add a profile setting that hides it for the enemy team?
you can literally see what the enemies run with a public profile.
While I do think if you play comp you should set your profile to public
If you don’t then that’s fine but if you play comp you should have a public profile.
Could you strive to see the point - people’s comfort level with their data is the question.
Profile data is not information that anyone needs to have, and thankfully, the private profile protects it
also - A player should play as well as they can regardless of who they are teamed with
In the word of the immortal and eternally wise Aerocrypt, private profiles were the third best thing ever added to the game, just behind maps and heroes
The point has always been the reverse: Why do you need to hide things?
Also, realise you are asking to ask someone that HIDES THINGS … to tell you about those things that he/she hides on purpose … do you see a flaw there mate?
People can lie, an open profile does not lie. Ever.