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Private profiles issue
Judging from my experience the option to hide your nickname while playing dead by daylight was a terrible idea.
I noticed that survivors who hide their profiles play so bad, sometimes even intentionally ruining and other players have no option to identify them as they have hidden their steam profiles. If i know that a certain survivor plays awful and he does not hide his steam profile, i can add him to the block list on steam, so next time he is in my lobby i can simply dodge this player, but it is impossible with private profiles.
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Given the mountain of post game abuse, death threats, physical and sexual violence threats that I no longer receive simply because I may have hooked someone twice in a row in an online game, the option to private profile isn't so bad.
Sometimes I have to play with survivors who aren't very good because I can't block them, meh it beats the alternative.
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A lot of y’all don’t know that you can still play against people that you’ve blocked.
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madre mia, is this game that toxic?
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This. The blocking feature just blocks communication, and has no effect on matchmaking.
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Apparently the game isn´t as toxic as we believe. I saw a Twitter post last week, where the most toxic game communitys got listed. DbD wasn´t even on the list. Animal Crossing was on the list.
Regarding the private profiles. Its kinda a double edged sword. Yes, it totally protect content creators and is necessary. But it also protects people that play toxic on purpose without any repercussion. It got so bad, that i started dodging lobbies, when i see only the name of the char.
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Yeah. Why is this a thing? I block toxic people so I can...yanno, not play with them or encounter em again.
I don't even read the chat so I could not care less what they say, it's how they behave in game...
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mate i get you completely, i almost always dodge no-namers
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its not that deep if they hide their name
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Because it would negatively affect matchmaking. DBD doesn’t have the playerbase to support people preventing play with one another.
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My QoL has gone up significantly with anon-mode.
No more people using my profile to lobby shop or trying to antagonize me over the contents in it. The game should have it on by default and just have the player's details change when you add them.
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Because there's plenty of people in the community who love to hop onto people's steam profiles to continue to insult and harass them over actions in a video game. Many people just don't want to deal with it.
And frankly OP you sound like the exact kind of player that causes people to use a privacy settings in the first place.
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Yeah blocking just stops messages, but I think the op was talking about lobby dodging players they recognize from their profiles.
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I blame Tom Nook...
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I sometimes turn off Anon and private profile. It's amazing the difference I am treated when I am public.
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Like any online world it can be, but 90% of games are perfectly fine and players are just people having fun. This community is not as toxic as people like to make it out to be.
I will say I've never felt genuinely threatened by any of this as lets face it, its largely nothing more than an angry emotional child venting through the safety of their keyboard. That's not to say it isn't unpleasant though and I welcome the options that prevent it from taking place.
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dud, i hop into match to have some fun right, then there is a guy who hides his profile, gets downed in 5 seconds and dces. I just want to have an option to block him and next time he is in my lobby to simply dodge it.
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If you don't want to risk playing with bad players in solo queue, find friends to play with instead.
You're always going to run into bad players in soloq with or without private profiles. You're intent on keeping track on the profile's of people you play with is what causes people to private their stuff. No one wants to be harassed over a game.
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Console does not have that option if someone insult you just have to take it so I usually play more fairly agains't them. But even that is not always enough once I tunneled someone at 1 gens left out and he spawned me 100 messages which actually affected my gameplay and he was pc player with xbox profile.
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No, it needs to be rolled out to the platforms that don't already have it (do all consoles have it by now?) and the only information that should be visible in the lobby is what survivor people pick, their outfit and what items they bring. No one is entitled to access to someone else's profile, if they're actually breaking the rules report them, otherwise it's none of anyone's business.
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Matchmaking issue
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i am not harrassing anyone, i pop into lobby, i see that one of my teammates has a steam profile that i blocked, i simply silently leave a lobby and join a new one, solo q i s already miserable at this poin
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Names and prestiges should be hidden until end game and killer ping should be shown in lobby.
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Hiding your profile name has its pros and cons.
It does reduce any form of harassment outside the game, which we all know does happen. Whether it be a private message in your inbox, a comment on your profile and anything in between. To me, thats a pro. Having a Killer or Survivor contact me after the game because I roflwhomped them in a match or embarrassed them at a pallet is unnecessary.
It does make it hard to avoid that person in the future if you don't have a name to draw back on. I have had the displeasure of being matched up with players who I didn't want matched up with again. Had a hacker for one and a Wesker simp for another, was able to recognize them on the fly and decide if I wanted to remain in the lobby or not. Harder to do without seeing names.
In my eyes, not being harassed has a bigger calling AND if someone opts to abuse it and come into a trial and sabotage it -- guess what? -- report function still works.
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