What's w/DBD players hiding their steam profile?

Coming from playing a bit of CS:GO, a REAL competitive game, people don't usually hide their profile.

But for some reason I'd guess a good 90% of people on steam whenever I check their profile in game, its private.

The 10% that do not have it private are usually people that have around 100 hours or so.

Comments

  • TroyXX
    TroyXX Member Posts: 69

    Either they're a dummy account or don't want people messaging them cause people are very entitled in this game. People will say stuff about your profile or leave cr*ppy comments on them.

    I'd just ignore it if I were you.

  • Mat_Sella
    Mat_Sella Member Posts: 3,556

    I could give killers more illogical reasons to dodge me, or I can play in peace. I'll play in peace, thank you.

  • Mr_K
    Mr_K Member Posts: 9,206

    There are killers that try to dodge swfs or high hours.

    Any reason why you are looking at the profiles?

  • Trickstaaaaa
    Trickstaaaaa Member Posts: 1,267

    Because I don't want random 🐔heads posting foolishness in my profile, or getting hate messages.

  • Mister_xD
    Mister_xD Member Posts: 7,669

    i had it on public for two days once.

    immediately had two or three guys sending salty hate messages to me in my profiles comments.

    never again.

    its set to "friends only" right now - dunno how much you can see with that option active (e.g. ingame hours), but you sure as hell cant comment on it.

  • Power_Guy
    Power_Guy Member Posts: 1,562

    Mine is friends only due to all the 💩 that post crap like '-rep, camped'.

    I mean, let's be honest; it really means '-rep, I lost & need an excuse for my fragile ego' but it's still annoying to delete the comments over and over again.

  • Brokenbones
    Brokenbones Member Posts: 5,169

    It's easier and more convenient than painstakingly deleting -reps

    Plus it makes people mad which I find kinda funny. "grr u won't let me see your profile"

  • blue4zion
    blue4zion Member Posts: 2,773

    Ppl are just too immature and salty.

  • RoboMojo
    RoboMojo Member Posts: 1,326

    I personally opt to keep my profile open. I love the -reps, they're hilarious.

  • brokedownpalace
    brokedownpalace Member Posts: 8,803

    Why do you care?

  • MadLordJack
    MadLordJack Member Posts: 8,814

    Toxicity and a lack of protection.

  • PsychoTron
    PsychoTron Member Posts: 348

    Ok this I can understand. Also on the survivors perspective, If someone with thousands of hours had a teammate with only a couple hundred, he might be more willing to dodge as well.

  • PsychoTron
    PsychoTron Member Posts: 348

    You could keep your profile public but disable people from making comments on your profile

  • PsychoTron
    PsychoTron Member Posts: 348

    that's unfortunate.

    I've been playing DBD for 170 hours so far and no negative comments.

    No negative comments in my 16 years of having steam and having my profile fully public since day 1.

  • Thrax
    Thrax Member Posts: 974

    Targeting either the lowest hours because they suck and want it easy with less players or targeting the higher hours to torment the less capable later on. I have 4.5 times the playtime as the person I play with and we've seen it both ways. I've removed my showcases and my profile is a husk now. Since they won't give you the choice to disable spying on people my profile looks like an empty garbage can.

  • Huge_Bush
    Huge_Bush Member Posts: 5,385

    I'm considered an old fart to many of you and my kind don't like mixing with you prepubescent hairless apes. I don't need y'all trespassing on my digital lawn, leaving hate mail and wrecking my mail box.

  • th3
    th3 Member Posts: 1,844

    Killer usually dodges when they see I have 3600 hours. Like chill dude I’m not that good.

  • GoodBoyKaru
    GoodBoyKaru Member Posts: 22,791

    I had it on for 3k hours but finally had enough after the literal 427th time someone commented a homophobic slur. I can't bring myself to make my own mental health suffer because you couldn't deal with losing at a damn video game.

    Most things are public except friends list and comments.

  • MarcoPoloYolo
    MarcoPoloYolo Member Posts: 508

    Typically it's a survivor that's in a SWF but wants to hide that they play on SWFs so that the killer doesn't dodge, or bring a sweater build/playstyle to match their own. Typically, if you see multiple private profiles, you know that's the omega sweat squad. You have the odd steam user with a private profile that's solo, but it's far less common in red ranks to have the latter. I don't have a private profile, you can see my hours , but you can't comment on my profile unless you're a friend. So salty messages isn't the reason unless people just haven't properly set up their privacy settings on steam.

  • SilentPill
    SilentPill Member Posts: 1,302

    Then you must not play killer a lot. I probably got 15 -reps this month alone.

  • PsychoTron
    PsychoTron Member Posts: 348

    I have 58 achievements on DBD; a mix of survivor and killer ones. Probably not much compared to people on this board, but like i stated i have 170 hours in the game.

    I think its how you play as a killer.

    I never face camp when the exit gates are not powered yet; even when all 5 gens are done at most I would proxy camp.

    I don't tunnel a sole survivor on purpose, hit them on hooks, or leave them on ground to bleed out. I don't even run NOED because I personally think it's cheap.

    If someone DC's early in the match, i try and give the last person the hatch, etc...

  • SilentPill
    SilentPill Member Posts: 1,302

    Yeah I don’t do any of that. I play to win, every game.

    I have played enough survivor to know they don’t need to be babied. If survivors want second chances they can equip them.

  • gendoss
    gendoss Member Posts: 2,270

    I read through all of these replies and honestly none of them seem like good answers. You can specifically turn comments off and make just your friends list private so you can hide your SWF. There would be no reason to turn your entire profile private. I'm actually curious as to why people do it too because it seems like you're distancing yourself from the community when you turn it on private.

    I'm assuming it's just because people want privacy and not show off their games.

  • LylakLavender
    LylakLavender Member Posts: 339

    On the PS4 I have my profile to friends only messages because when I first started playing DBD I would get the nastiest hatemail ever.

  • mrhityourshot
    mrhityourshot Member Posts: 18

    the fact that killers can look at survivors name/profiles and survivors cant look at killers names/profiles is a way to for BHVR to pander to killers

    making your profile private helps survivors combat that slightly

  • ThiccBudhha
    ThiccBudhha Member Posts: 6,987

    Wait, Steam let's you dodge SWF? Wow... Need to get this game on Steam. /s

  • MrBuffalo
    MrBuffalo Member Posts: 312

    Cause I get stuff like this when I beat a killer or survivor?

    I honestly prefer when they add me as a friend that way I can stream it to my friends while we watch them sling death threats at me!

  • MrBuffalo
    MrBuffalo Member Posts: 312

    Same. Im coming up to 3k hours now and I still run Mettle of Man as part of my meta build!

  • SnakeSound222
    SnakeSound222 Member Posts: 4,467

    I’ve never seen so many private profiles or even games on PlayStation before. On PS4 you can’t even see hours played, so what’s the point in hiding them?

    Something that always gets my attention is when someone hides DBD and only DBD but leaves the rest of their games public and they aren’t brand new. Like why do you need to hide this one game when it’s obvious you aren’t new? That just makes you look more suspicious.

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  • FearlessHunter
    FearlessHunter Member Posts: 530

    I always had my profile set to private before I even started playing dbd. I just don't like random people being able to see what I'm doing unless they are a friend.

  • Power_Guy
    Power_Guy Member Posts: 1,562

    Last week, I posted proof that Legend of Mana remake is not being screwed due to Denuvo (Denuvo only works badly if the devs implement it badly), complete with proof that I don't have stutter on my 5 year old PC.

    Today, I woke up to 'Denuvo Shill' posted repeatedly on my steam profile. 😂


    People will be people, in and out of DBD.

  • sulaiman
    sulaiman Member Posts: 3,219

    I set my profile to private after someone that was upset about losing to me started to try ruin other games i play. He just took my steamname, searched for my matches, joined and started sabotaging me...

    Yeah, thats definitly enough.

  • JHondo
    JHondo Member Posts: 1,174

    It's easier on steam to click a button to turn your profile private than it is to go into your privacy settings and pick and choose what you want people to see/ access. Me personally, I had mine private for a while cause it's literally like two clicks, but after I started playing around with my page and adding showcases and whatnot I decided to figure out how to change it so people just can't comment or see my friends list unless we're friends.

  • Famicx
    Famicx Member Posts: 55

    people don't need to have a private profile, you can make your friends list private while you keep the rest visible.


    Personally I have mine private because I don't need people in afterchat that insult/judge me by the hours I've played, this happens in dbd but also in other games, like csgo. Plus in dbd killers tend to check profiles (for whatever reason) so if they see I have many hours they tryhard against me or tunnel while I just want to chill, I'm not even that good. so I just get my peace by hiding my friends & games

  • ReikoMori
    ReikoMori Member Posts: 3,333

    After a while you get tired of people bombarding you with hate for every action you take. DBD has a reputation for having a toxic fanbase for a reason. Also DBD has a lot of people who stream snipe and cheat which necessitates keeping your profile private to avoid getting caught. Then there are the dedicated SWF players who only exist to try and wreck your day. They don't want to get stuck in lobby simulator by folks dodging.

    Also, dbd isn't really meant to be a competitive game and there is little to be super proud of showing off when you play this game long term when you think about how your profile could turn into a cesspool of racist or phobic comments. It sucks cause this is the sort of game you could make friends over if not for the fact people take it too damn seriously.

  • oxygen
    oxygen Member Posts: 3,320

    My profile isn't private, but I'd imagine people would consider it so as my friends list and profile comments (+ inventory, but not really relevant for DBD) are set to friends only.

    When I first started playing, my profile was as private as that as well because I used to deal with a lot of scammers going after some valuable game items I own. I know I could just block them, but I couldn't be bothered - hiding my profile from automated profile/inventory crawlers they used helped a lot too.

    But later on I completely unprivated my profile. But after getting Mad Online comments in my profile comments and also having some angry person I had already blocked on Steam for spamming edgy trash in my comments... started doing the same in the comments of a few of my friends, with an attempt to make them tell me to unblock this angry person included. Friends that don't even own DBD even. Hell, I even set my screenshot comments to friends only because some megamind dug up a screenshot from 2013 to madpost.

    So that's why. I'm not gonna let people leave their madposting in my comments as 99% of the time it isn't even funny and I have no interest in """collecting salt""", and I won't help them find my friends to do the same to them if they're that desperate. I've had no reason to hide my game details (hour count, achievements and so on) though so that's public for everyone to see.

    Ultimately it doesn't really matter if people have some sort of reason. It's their profile, no one else is entitled to a single piece of information that can be gained from any profile setting set to public.