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Remove anonymous mode
Increasingly lately anonymous mode is used primarily by griefers who will bring a luck offering and "go next" on first hook if the match doesn't pan out the way they want to. Otherwise I've had people grief by trolling at the start of the match, or it's used by killers to be exceeding toxic in a match in the safety that people won't know who they are and they won't face any repercussions to their actions. It's frustrating that you CAN'T avoid these people, a bunch of other games have a feature where you can avoid a people by putting them on a list, isn't it high time DBD did this? Why are we forced to play with griefers?
You could say it's for streamers but it's so easy to snipe in this game, it happens all the time, so what's even the point? All it does is foster toxicity and it protects the toxic people.
On a separate note how useless is the block function? Or even reporting people, I RARELY get feedback reports when people are blatantly cheating. Including certain notorious bots that are livestreamed on youtube. It's pretty disheartening.
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Anonymous mode is one of the few good things BHVR has added to the game. I do not need salty players harassing me outside of the game.
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Nah, I'll pass on angry killers and survivors giving me ######### through Steam, thanks. Anonymous is great!
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With the side effect some of the most insulting players ive interacted with have it on because its i guess a shield against accountability. (Ik bhvr can punish them anyway but depends how severe they take insulting i guess)
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How do people give you ######### through Steam lmao? This is just giving you have a tendency to be toxic and have people upset towards you. My steam profile is public, I don't allow comments. Simple as that.
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Before anonymous, if I'd done anything that wasn't in either rule book, I'd sometimes get messages telling me to go do things to myself. You can laugh about it, that's fine, but I don't want those types of messages.
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Again, where are these messages being sent? You can hide the end-game chat in the pre-match lobby by clicking on the "-" sign. If you're receiving messages on your steam profile, why is your profile allowing that? On top of that, you have the option to deny friend requests so people won't be messaging you.
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Exactly. This is primarily a shield for awful behaviour. There's no way to track or avoid the people because they are anonymous. Reporting is extremely inconsistent as mentioned before. If BHVR wants to improve the reporting feature so that it actually does something, or incorporate an "avoid teammate" feature like in Marvel Rivals or Overwatch then great, keep anon mode for those who want to use it and allow the rest of us to distance ourselves from griefers and toxic people.
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Some people like having their steam profiles viewable to others. If the game gives them an option to prevent them from toxic people in the game and they prefer that over closing their profile, then it is frankly none of your business.
Report anon players if they are cheating or being toxic in egc. You do not need to know who they are to do that.
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I think it's important that we do not blame the victims of this negative behavior; it is punishable by our Game Rules if you are abusive through the chat, regardless if they have the chat minimized or not. No one is "asking" for harassment by having a public profile.
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You can still have your profile viewable to others while blocking comments. You seem to be misunderstanding the whole reason of this post. I'm explicitly advocating for the removal of this feature for the toxicity it brings in game. If you read the post it's also mentioned how reporting does nothing :).
Why are you suggesting that we don't need to know who they are? That is shielding griefers or people with toxic behaviour. Again, why are we forced to potentially play with these people again and have repeats of negative experiences. Open any DBD stream or ask someone and I guarantee they will tell you that they've had someone grief them and that that person was anonymous.
I don't care to know who they are to harass them, I want to avoid encountering them again, to the best of my ability. That's impossible with anonymous mode.
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That wasn't what I said in the quoted post though. I'm presenting alternatives, not suggesting that a public profile is an invitation to being harassed.
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Anon mode isn't the source of toxicity. If it were removed, you would still see the same toxicity at the same rate.
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Anonymous mode fosters the toxicity. If the blocking feature would allow you to avoid that person in future matches (I know that that is a whole can of worms in and of itself) then that would be a different story. I don't particularly care to know who the person is, I just don't want to encounter them again. If there's a way to do that while preserving anon mode, then all the better.
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You are in this thread questioning users why they are receiving these messages. I respect that this is your opinion related to anonymous mode, but it is not the fault of players being harassed and their point raised that they shouldn't have to take alternative methods to avoid that type of behavior is valid.
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I mean, if you play the game a certain amount of time you will see what kinds of behaviours are exhibited by players and why. Suggesting that the users in this thread might have a reason to have received those kinds of messages is out of line, but it's not a mystery why something like that could happen. That is the bottom line here. Once again if there are alternative ways presented by BHVR to avoid these kinds of behaviours then that's great. But at the moment it's kind of a big problem and that's why I created this thread, so we might discuss it?
I will once again mention that the in-game reporting feature is severely lacking.
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they should remove anonymous players ability to speak in post game chat
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To piggyback on this, I'm not sure what measures (if any) are taken if someone is found to be overly toxic/hateful/harassing etc. But I'm pretty sure I've never heard of a player being chat restricted or having received any kind of suspension for their behaviour. Something that's pretty common in pretty much all other video games.
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Ah yeah I had forgotten about the weird censoring. That's a fair point, and agreed.
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I use anon because i don't want my name on someone's stream/videos. All it took was a few run-ins with momo to make it a permanent thing for me. It's bad enough to get smashed for an audience I never agreed to perform for. I don't need my handle out there with it.
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If it stops people getting stream sniped and receiving abusive messages then it should absolutely stay in the game. You do get some players on anonymous mode who will play very toxicly but they are still reportable. You just can't send them salty messages, which you shouldn't do anyway, it feeds the trolls.
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It sadly absolutely does not prevent people from getting stream sniped, people are most definitely able to stream snipe and they just have to look in the stream to verify if they're in the right lobby. If BHVR came out and demonstrated that the reporting feature actually worked then that'd be great, but at the moment we have very little evidence of that. Even reporting blatant cheaters is hit and miss, I receive feedback report on cheaters 1/5 times? The teleporting, instant healing, instant gen popping kind of cheaters.
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So basically you want anonymous mode removed so we can witch hunt players for a plethora of ridiculous reasons.
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The question is what exactly does the anon mode prevent you from doing?
You can still report them, what else could you want?
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Prevents me from avoiding them in the future.
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Anonymous users can still be reported via the in-game reporting system.
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Well it does stop stream sniping. Maybe not totally. But the chance of someone ending up in a lobby with a streamer they are actively trying to snipe is very low.
However it totally stops opportunistic stream sniping where a random player sees a ttv in their lobby, looks them up on twitch and uses the stream to gain an advantage.
And whether reporting works or not isn't the issue. You can still do it. You just can't harass the player you think is cheating with messages. Which you shouldn't be doing whether they are or aren't cheating.
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I agree. I never play with anon players.
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how are you gonna do that anyway?
are you writing down every players username? that would only work for non steam players since they cant change their names tho.
every steam player can change ttheir name all the time withoutt a problem and you cant see the killers name in he first place
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the point is to protect us, because some elements in the dbd community will get back at you at any cost if you beat them, this include posting ######### on your steam. I always play in anon, and i dont cheat or play toxic, but i like the layer of privacy protection it gives me.
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as someone who's always had anonymous on . I will settle for disabling our ability to interact with endgame chat since i never do anyways . However anonymous needs to stay to keep out the weidos in the community in check.
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I can't agree with this anonymous is there to protect sure some people use it to be toxic but we can't remove just cause of that I really don't wanna be the target of streamers and content creators.
Like on Twitter if you play wrong or you do something they don't just like. They will make a twitter cancellation witchhunt on you and find your twitter to harass you or like YouTube to be put in those dbd videos or compilations with your name there.
I do not want to be a victim of any of this which is why I never turn off anon mode but I'm sorry it has to stay.
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I’m genuinely curious about the downvotes here. In my experience, players who hide their profiles often turn out to be toxic, cheating, or just performing poorly.
I always believe there must be a reason they choose to HIDE themselves.
While I don't mind the existence of the mode itself, I think it’s fair for other players to want to avoid those who choose to stay anonymous.
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Then surely it is up to BHVR to take a bigger stance on this issue than they already have. If streamers are exhibiting this kind of toxic behaviour then they can't feign ignorance. Through reading a lot of the comments I understand the necessity of anonymous mode for some players to avoid being attacked, however it doesn't address the underlying issue and it sucks. The only comments we've had from a BHVR moderator in this post haven't made me feel any better about it either.
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