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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.
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Because its annoying to get hatemails for everything you do.
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Why do you want to check their profiles?
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People get real salty when they lose... I don't want that negativity in my life, so I made my profile private
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Nobody should see all the dirty games I am playing.
But eh, I dont really want people to dodge just because I play SWF with 1 (ONE) other person or because I have a few thousand hours. I dont even get why Killers dont play instead of checking Steam Profiles the whole time just to get an easy game. And I dont really want to support it.
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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.
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It's people who play SWF, they don't want killers dodging unbalanced matches.
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DbD for whatever reason attracts a lot of players who expect you to play by their rules. If you don't, you'll either get a mean comment left on your profile or on rare occasion even harassed. Most people that private their profiles because of DbD do it because they're the type of person that gets attacked a lot, or they're the type of person that attacks others a lot.
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I could give killers more illogical reasons to dodge me, or I can play in peace. I'll play in peace, thank you.
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There are killers that try to dodge swfs or high hours.
Any reason why you are looking at the profiles?
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Because I don't want random 🐔heads posting foolishness in my profile, or getting hate messages.
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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.
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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.
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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"
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Not everyone is comfortable with getting crap plastered all over their profile page, which is reasonable.
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I got tired of '-Rep Tunnel Baby Killer' comments.
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Because no one likes to read hate from 14 year old cry babies.
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Ppl are just too immature and salty.
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I personally opt to keep my profile open. I love the -reps, they're hilarious.
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Why do you care?
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Toxicity and a lack of protection.
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no one needs a reason to want to keep their profile private.
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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.
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You could keep your profile public but disable people from making comments on your profile
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Because i don't want to see my inbox turn green every 10 minutes only to find out someone goes "-rep", or the usual slurs.
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Killer usually dodges when they see I have 3600 hours. Like chill dude I’m not that good.
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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.
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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.
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Then you must not play killer a lot. I probably got 15 -reps this month alone.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Wait, Steam let's you dodge SWF? Wow... Need to get this game on Steam. /s
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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!
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Same. Im coming up to 3k hours now and I still run Mettle of Man as part of my meta build!
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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