I’ll keep my profile on friends only still. If my team want to know what I main, they can ask or I will usually say it.
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They don’t like that reason around here. Hope you are ready for essays in response.
I like how many people blatantly assume, that the only reason you might want to see someone’s profile is to harass them.
That’s not possible for you to want to know what your teammates play to suggest the optimal pick. Of course, if you even dare to ask a player to switch, then it can’t be because you’re trying to win, you’re obviously just being toxic.
Honestly, some people are such crybabies.
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Let’s be honest, the overwhelming majority are toxic. 9 out of 10 times I see or hear a comment about someone’s profile ingame it’s rooted in negativity. Can you blame people for feeling this way? Blizzard themselves said as much AND then made profiles public.
If profile information is a make or break proposition for the player Blizz has offered plenty of tools to connect with like minded people. They can group up and pour over their stats all day without annoying the rest of us.
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I do not have problem with mercy playing dps or tank but at least have some time on it and not 30min total time played and with few kills.Then yes I would suggest could you maybe switch to another dps that you played a bit.
No thanks. The competitive side of the game is far more enjoyable with private profiles.
It’s really nice to be able to play a hero that I’ve logged a few hours in QP on without being accused of throwing for not playing my highest hour heroes.
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It’s annoying when you’re a flex player with other flex players. We all have our best hero’s but when you’re all waiting to see what people pick. You can end up having a whole team flexing to hero’s they aren’t as good at. Instead looking at what people want to play and building a team around that is a lot better.
*On team only
It shouldn’t be available to the enemy team unless you want it to be.
Lacks any citation.
What if you are in a situation, where you need multiple players to swap to some off roles, to satisfy the team and the players, how would one role call out etc easily handle this, “Hint, it doesn´t”.
Sure i know that, but the fact, that you remove the whole reason for the aspect, just because people abuse it, is that an argument ?
So why haven´t they removed voice chat, or chatting in general, toxicly abused even more so than stats.
Why haven´t we banned free speech, when people “abuse” it all the time with toxic behaviour. Quite easy to see, why there is a problem with this.
Well stats prove you wrong, there are certain team comps, that win far more games on average than others. 4-5-6 dps teams do not sit at a high winrate and this is just one of them.
Seriously, how are you able to twist words and just read, what you like yourself instead of actually reading the lines. I am not saying people are not capable.
There is so much diversity in this game and so many team comps and hero/role comps, that is impossible for even the highest ranked players to be aware of and think about all the possibilities completely blind of any information, in the span of the 1-2 minutes.
That is just factual. Having 6 people, with stats, will heavily increase the odds of comps not thought of, being brought up.
It is not about solutions, the problem has been made, because of a players action to not share with the team. By your logic, he doesn´t need to swap, to talk or tocommunicate and listen to his team either. So there is no guarantee, that your soution even works. Mine always allows the team and players to do the job, rather than relying on swapping information between people constantly, in a very complex game. It simply isn´t effective.
So no, your defense is clearly not objective, there is no way to argue, that actively hiding your stats from your team, is not a selfish act, whether or not, how much the player can be abused for it, we already had several mute and report functions, to avoid this problem, so there was no need for hidden profiles.
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My argument is based on pure objectivity. Going into any situation of a 6 man teamwork. Actively taking the decision to hide stats from your team, that is very helpfull and saves loads of time is selfish. Pure and simple. Nothing to do with the reasons, what it causes or other things.
It is sad, that people abused it, but that is not an excuse to remove the feature, you cannot remove VC and chat, because people are toxic and abuse it, yet by the logic you guys are throwing around you absolutely could.
Blaming people for playing bad surely helps the team to win…
having open profiles does nothing to make people swap, thats what you want.
you want people to swap from heroes they are new too back to there main. but people did the same exact things they do now, but before the private profiles were released.
removing them does nothing but increase toxicity for no reason then to do it.
Just add 3-5 slots for preferred heroes. You don’t need to see any of the stats. Comp seasons are way too short for win-rates to hold any value. You need to go digging around someone’s profile? Then you obviously don’t understand the game well enough to have a valid opinion on what’s the problem in a match. Otherwise you’d be able to make your point based on the facts and events presented withing the match
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You may not but a lot of other people do and harp on someone NOT playing their most player hero and demand that person change.
They didn’t remove it, they made them optional, just like voice and text chat are optional.
Neither are optional, they are mandatory and are turned on 100% always. With each game you have the option to mute it (only VC), in case it is to much.
Hidden profiles on the other hand was forced on everyone at the start. To of course protect the users of it even more, since they needed it apparently. Cause if you make all profiles hidden, you wouldn´t know, who would have done it themselves or the ones that were unaware of it.
I wouldn´t have been as much against limiting, what stats to show, but some of the more basic ones are necessary, like hero choices, mains, hours etc. These are basically mandatory for fluid team building.
As long as it’s an opt-in system, I’m fine with that. Ie, don’t automatically fill it with my top 5 or something like that. If I want to leave that blank, it’s ok. If I want to put a certain hero or role icon there, it’s also ok.
IMO, even the mouseover public profiles would not be as toxic if it was filtered by default on winrates instead of time played. Maybe ignoring any hero with less than 5~10 games played, so that you don’t peak on a 100% winrate as Mei because you swapped to her in one game to stall.
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the most toxic behaviour was and still is present, but you could limit it to only showcase heroes you have or play in all modes and then in comp seasons as well. That is all that is severely needed.
“I lose half the time! It must be because my teammates have no idea what character they should play and need a genius like me to micro manage and overrule their choices, but are too shy to ask for my expert opinion!”
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Have either of you “Forum experts” ever thought of subbing out “Me”, with “Team”, it is a team game after all ![:wink:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=6" ":wink:")