All you are doing is protecting smurfs. You can have private profiles on arcade, QP and these forums all day but when it comes to comp we need to be able to see what we are dealing with.
Dead horse.
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Nah, you donât need to see jack. Outplay the enemy, donât worry about anything else.
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It also prevents people from attacking someone for playing a hero. Or makes it so the enemy canât see who you play to counter you off the bat.
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Muting them also does that and itâs available since day 1.
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Yes but if you can prevent an attack to begin with itâs much better. When the whole team does it as well itâs disgusting. Hard to have a fun game when everyone is muted over a profile.
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I support this. Nothing is more annoying than to try and check what ppl are good at to come up with a good comp and see closed profiles left and right.
If you are a half decent player and not throwing or hacking there is no argument to why you would hide your profile.
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There is actually no argument, not a single one of why profiles should be open.
The player is comminicating? Ask what they play, build comp
The player is not communicating and instalocks? having an open profile wont make them switch
Player is a one trick and therefore does not switch? Seeing that they are a one trick on an open profile wont help.
At the end of the day, someone communicating and willing to switch will do it whether they have open profiles or not. Someone not communicating and not switching will continue to not communicate and not switch whether their profile is open or not.
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Looking at a profile is much after than asking I have 30sec to make everyone pick a hero they play, which works at the map and builds a decent team. I only have to hover it and instantly see their top 5 heroes, regardless of them being in voice or not.
I see many ppl instalock and switch if asked nicely and you propose they only switch to another one of their mains to work with the team. I cant to do that when I dont know if the play anything else. If I have to ask or type I lose time and trigger them already by asking in a way suggesting their pick is badâŚ
There is no argument to have profiles hidden aside from ppl maybe calling you out for picking mccree when you have never playing him before and you really wanna play dive or something.
If I see a player 1tick widow in my game and not do well. I click their profile If I see the guy is a widow main on +50% winrate I will assume maybe we need to make space better and the problem might not be him. If its private profile I call them out for trash and probably a bronze moria main.
All you do with that private sh*t is protect trolls, throwers, boosters, cheaters, boosted ppl ect. Which is very easy to tell by their profile.
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So you think that just asking to play a certain comp in vc or asking them what they want to play and then organizing a comp is slower than individually checking top 5 heroes of 5 different players and then assigning certain roles to them?
Again, why canât you ask nicely to switch to others? You think you have to tell them specifically what heroes to switch to? They arenât bots waiting for specific commands, we need hitscan or we need dive or we need shields or we need stronger heals isnât that hard to grasp.
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Either stop lying about your motives or think before you post.
The ONLY reason you want public profiles is so you can blame somebody/anybody for your failure to win.
Players like YOU are the reason profiles are now private by default.
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Smurfs are very obvious for a couple reasons, private profiles are most definitely not protecting them, especially since smurfing isnt against the rules officially speaking
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No thanks. I remember the days before Private Profiles. Dark times. Changing your main was a mortal sin. 1/10 would not recommend.
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The reason profiles are private is cause of special snowflakes complaining about flame in a online video game.
Yeah i flame, yeah I get flamed and lemme tell you I like it! I like to click someones profile if I feel like they are throwing and call my 5 season junk onetrick out for suddenly playing widow only with 20% winrateâŚ
I like to see if a player on my or enemy team is boosted so I can report. I like to quickly see what ppl play to make a good team comp and cooperate. Without having to tell a random to switch to a hero they most likely donât play or want to play.
Now on the other hand if you are a ok player. Why keep profile private in comp??? I mean no one here can make an actual argument for it. Meanwhile I made 10 against it.
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Cuz you just called them scummy. Like what better argument can I make than this post right here.
If he is willing to swap to zen whether you see his profile or not then why is there a need to see his profile? If I am that player and I am sick of zen and do not want to play zen then I will not swap to zen. You telling me you see I play him will not make me more inclined to pick zen. Same argument in reverse. If I am that player and I am willing to swap to help the team then I will swap to zen if you request another healer and it doesnât matter if you see that I play zen or not. Do you really think somebody that isnât willing to swap will say âOmg, the jig is up, they know my profile and activated the secret command, now I have to swapâ. What is this logic
You think saying âhey can someone fill, we need another supportâ is more pushy then singling out that McCree player and telling him âHey, I can see you play zen, swap to healerâ ? Have you communicated with humans before? I take back what I said, itâs not logic the problem, itâs lack of knowledge on how people interact.
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My rule is if someone isnât pulling their weight and/or is responsible for a loss and they have a private profile, the âGameplay Sabotageâ report option exists for a reason.
Just put in the field âHas private profile; not a team playerâ.
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Never really understood this argument.
How is it protecting smurfs?
Feels pretty ridiculous if you ask me. Not like youâre supposed to be reporting people based on their stats to begin with.
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Playing poorly is not a reportable offense.
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You speak the trough. I feel like everyone with private is either a thrower, hacker, boosted or something else bad we dont want in the game.
Cause lets be honest, if you arenât. Why put it to private??
Seems like youâre advising people to both abuse the report system and also explicitly explain in the comments that they are abusing the report system.
I dig it. We need more false reporters banned and if theyâre gonna tell on themselves then itâs even better.
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you do realize thatâs false reporting right? playing badly isnât a reportable offence and neither is having your profile set to private
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