Don't let players hide their current competitive stats

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With the new feature of private profiles, competitive will be affected by this.
It would be harder to trust strangers and harder to spot smurfs.

My suggestion is to always leave the current competitive season stats public, so everyone can see them, but for the past seasons only leave the SR public.

So if someone got a private profile and they had 2730 sr in season 6 and they are a genji main in this season, I would be able to see that. But when the next season starts I wouldn’t be able to see that he played genji in season 10.

Pls jeff don’t hide the throwing people

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Only thing they should change is that profiles should be public on default with the ability to switch it to private and not vice versa.

Smurfing is not bannable anyways so what kind of advantage you have knowing guy XY might be a smurf?

Also in general its a good idea to hide it because if Im a tank main who wants to play dps and I get bad talked because my profile says I can only play tank is not right. I should be able to play any role I want and with all these stalkers out there, their moral drops to 0 once they see a reinhardt playing dps. This new feature is fine.

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Yesterday for example, I met a 3 stack where 2 of the players were level 40 and had 70%+ winrate on every dps hero. Because we knew that they were smurfs, we managed to build a comp that countered them. If we didn’t know that, we would probably go some vanilla comp and get wrecked by some GM genji on a diamond account.

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You don’t need to look at profiles to see that someone is doing good or bad on something.
You need to get a feel for it from his gameplay not his stats.

And lefts face it its not like people aren’t going to point a finger at you for having your account info hidden so concealing it isn’t going to help you that much either . It might even make it worse on you.

Lets just see how it plays out first.

And in the future maybe they can add a real scoreboard that shows K/A/D, damage and healing done and etc. You know like every shooter or moba game has.

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Agreed, you should be able to make out a smurf by his gameplay and not his profile.

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So for you to spot potential smurfs, in one out of every ten games or so, everybody should be forced to reveal their profile? Nah, pass.

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And what would it change if it were visible, if you are still stuck in the current match? The information is mostly used to insult people in the first place. No matter what you do, you have to play with them in the current match and get penalized if you leave an ongoing comp match.

I still don’t think there are any actual positives in this change though. Why would you hide the profile, unless theres something to hide in there? If not all profiles are equal, why have them visible in the first place?

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I am viewing my teammates profiles to view their stats, not to flame them since I want to win.

All this function is doing is making it harder to solo or duo queue. If someone is toxic, just mute them so the rest doesn’t have to suffer

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If blizzard wanted us to have more info we will have a scoreboard in the game by now. But since overwatch is full of kids it can’t even be trusted to show basic information.

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“Unless there’s something to hide?” Well, people have different ideas on what is worth hiding. If I have decided to switch main role after a hundreds of hours on the previous one, perhaps I don’t want people to see that? Or If for any reason I’ve had a bad streak and therefore a sucky win percentage, far below my usual one?

There is no reason for strangers to be able to look up my stats when we only play for one match and will never meet again. They can judge me on my performance that match, if they need to judge at all.

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This is kind of true. But like I said before: why have these stats in the first place? Having some people hide it and some people show it will just take away what little benefit there used to be to these stats. Either all are equal, or theres no point.

I have received a non-trivial amount of insulting “lol, you have gold border and are still gold” posts this season. But those people are just dicks. I don’t need to hide this information. I don’t need this change.

But you are actually in minority.

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No, of course not, and noone is forcing you to hide it. But the ones who are self-conscious, or feel it would add to team irritation, can chose to.

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You SHOULD get bad talked for not playing your role, unless your talking about qp and the like, I’d much rather have people that actually have experience on their current roles on my team, especially when you pair this feature with the LFG Role Select system, why should i get paired with a team that could be FORCED to play the role they selected, but I actually have no way of knowing whether they have any experience on those roles or not, this seems to directly nullify the original intent of what the LFG role select system was intended to do in the first place, the player can actually have control over the team that they’re playing with. Given that this is a team game, and 83.3% of our performance lies in their hands.

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If a player chose to make their profile private, does it mean it’s also private on the forums? Otherwise it’s just bound for an exploit :smiley:

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yeah none of the information from someones profile is actually your business and is hardly used other than for mocking someone about his hero pick or being a smurf.

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u should read my post on this exact issue, I address all of that.

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Maybe its to counter false reports?.. Now people check and see someone is one tricking a hero like symmetra, and instant report him for throwing… Now you will have to look at his gameplay to do it…

With almost 900 hours on Lucio I get many stupid comments, and welcome this change…

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Having a public profile did more damage to certain players. Like a mercy main wouldn’t be able to play anything else, because she would get her team on voice asking her to switch. At least now, people have the choice to privatize the profile or not.

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Lets see. The biggest mobas and fps games.
LoL: shows k/d/a and cs. Not damage. Not healing. Not etc.
Dota: shows k/d/a and gold as “etc.”. Not healing. Not damage.
CS: shows k/d/a and money + score + mvp as “etc”. Not damage. Not Healing.

Its like you just say things and you dont think first. Or you assume. Idk. Yeah sure K/D/A is shown in pretty much every game. But rest are just bs.

And anyways I would argue people would be even more toxic if there was score board. Some game first attack I get unlucky or make 1 mistake and I have bad stats for first fight. We lose first fight. Wow lets blame that one guy with low stats. Even the fact that end of the game I have normally done as expected depeding on the role Im playing. I mean one game I played tracer blinked over a gap and got hooked by hog who was trying to hook someone else mid blink. I got called trash and whined that I should switch. Later that game the guy who whined was fortunately smart enough to see that I was doing some work and apologized. But its rare af that people who start flaming will realize that they shouldnt have.

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LoL does show the damage done / healing recieved at the end of the game.