I was thinking why we cannot protect our self and our character from biases. Players can just look you up on the armory or inspect you in-game and accept/deny you based on what they find there. Everyone deserves an equal chance in the game and biases, often negative, are in the way of that.
So having the possibility of setting your armory and in-game character profile to private so people can’t inspect your character without asking can solve that issue.
Here was i was thinking:
For the Armory you would have 4 privacy tiers to choose from: Note: each next tier got everything from the previous tier as well.
Fully Private - Your armory profile can only be viewed by you (you need to be logged into Battle.net for that). Your profile won’t show up in the search.
Visible for friends - Your armory profile can be be viewed by you and your Battle.net friends (they need to be logged into Battle.net for that). Your profile won’t show up in the everyone’s search, but does show up in your friends search.
Visible for everyone with the share-link - You would be able the make a share-link for your character profile. Everyone with the link can view your armory page, but your profile won’t show up in the search.
Visible for everyone - The way it is now.
For the in-game profile you would have 5 privacy tiers to choose from:
Fully Private - Players cannot inspect you in-game. However, if they press inspect you get prompted if player may inspect you or not. If this prompt is unwanted, there would be an option to block inspect requests (just like you can block invites/trades/etc…).
Inspect for friends - Your in-game character profile can be viewed by your Battle.net friends and other ingame friends.
Inspect for friends and Guild - Same as 2, but also your Guild can inspect you.
Nearby inspection - Players can only inspect you if they are nearby in the game world. You cannot be inspected through chat, party window, etc… if they are not close by.
Also this would integrate into stuff like Raider io. essentially if you want this implemented, you wont get into dungeons when your main has a high score*
(a large base of complaints beings people with alts not getting into groups
Sometimes people needed to be outed on their trolling. It’s one thing giving feedback on how to improve or make something more accessible, and another to try and derail a thread or cause strife on the forums based on anecdotal evidence.
Someone who posts about stuff that happen in M+ but have 0 M+ runs should be outed.
Someone who posts about stuff that happen in rated PvP but has 0 rating should be outed.
Someone who claims that there is nothing to do in the game and yet they have only 10k achievement points should be outed.
Is this a joke? Its a game where you team up with others so ofcourse gear is going to be important if you are going to try to do harder difficulties. Do you think people are going to be less elitist or minmaxing if you hide your gear. No, they will just not invite people with their profile hidden because they are not willing to show their gear, and likely have a reason why they are hiding it from the group.
Even from an immersion point of view its just weird. Can you imagine irl if someone said “No, you can’t look at what i am wearing because i am terrified of being judged for wearing these fake brand clothes”
If you are going to hide your profile while actively doing group content people are going to judge your behaviour of hiding it instead of you being undergeared
The problem is that people don’t believe each other’s word anymore. They want concrete proof. This distrust ruins the game. If I say that I have experience in the dungeon and that everything will be fine, why does it have to be checked first? It disgusts me. So yeah, i would like to block off me profile and let just game for fun again. Some people are running they characters and guilds as businesses and min-max everything. The fun is long gone there.
Its more simple than that: people wanting to hide it, got something to hide.
Even if you say you have experience, you still might be a terrible player or absolutely way to undergeared on that character. Even LFR and heroic dungeons have an ilvl requirement before you can queue up. So its not that weird that for manually made groups you also are expected to have some sort of gear requirement to get trough the content of whatever level of difficulty it is