As the title says, I have a stalker who I’ve been hiding from for some years (abuse). He has spread my tag online and I keep getting friend requests. I decline them of course! …but it keeps happening and it makes me a little scared. I accepted a few some time ago and they wrote very nasty stuff to me. I reported them, of course!
I live on an extremely tight budget so I can’t get a name change. I asked Blizzard what I can do and they told me to keep declining the requests.
That is why Im here. What can I do about this? They keep adding me, they find me in HOTS and somehow joins my matches. I turned off voice, blocked them so I can’t see the chat. But they keep ruining the games because all they do is running around my hero.
Do you guys have any advice? This has gone too far… what can I do? Blizzard gavs me a copy-paste response.
Hm, it says I can’t. I suppose I could have done it already. I have had some memory issues last year si maybe it’s that.
The real question is what I can do since Blizzard wont helt me. I cant afford it (and no, im not here to beg for money). Im just looking for a way to make these people stop bothering me even if I decline their requests, they find me in wow and hots
Changing your battle.tag won’t stop people adding your characters in World of Warcraft (if they know them) as friends or if they have already added them. Sadly, this can be used to stalk people too and in addition even if you change your character’s name, it will update on the other player’s end.
Going to the extreme end, if you wish to remove yourself from someone’s friend list if they have a particular character added, a server change/faction change on that character will remove your character. Obviously this is only if somebody has your character added as a character friend.
However your alts can be easily found by WoW alt tracking websites. You can disallow this inside your battle.net profile account settings by disabling sharing your “game data”. This will halt all tracking sites from being able to see your public shared account data.
You should also note even if you change your battle.tag, if a person already has had you added (and you have blocked/removed them) there may still be ways for them to find out your battle.tag.
Your goal should probably be keeping your characters hidden via the methods listed above.
Honestly it’s on Blizzard to introduce better privacy options for in-game issues like this. The ignore function should automatically prevent someone adding you as a character friend. Character armouries should be optional and private if the player decides so aswell.
Thank you for the detailed information, I really appreciate it!
I managed to get enough to change my battletag. I hope this helps a little at least.
About my characters, like you said, they will probably still have my chars in their friend list but I can’t really do anything about it.
You’re absolutely right about Blizzard, they should care more about our privacy. I want to ask them again what I can do about ot, but I guess they would just ignore the question… I wish I could somehow “hide” my character, in a way.
About Heroes of the Storm, what can I do about that? If they find my battletag again they will just look at my game history and try to join my games when Im queueing up. They can also just /w me without saying anything because you can see what a player is doing if you do that. A little profile picture pops up and it says what Im doing. Opening chests, looking at heroes, in queue etc. It’s very detailed for some reason.
So now that is the biggest issue… Heroes of the Storm. What can I even do about this?
There is one pretty obscure setting in-game which if enabled makes tracking your characters and alts more difficult: Esc → Options → Social → Display Only Character Achievements to Others. It must be enabled on each character you want. It will not prevent people from adding you to the old WoW Friends list like you have already noticed.
edit: If you ever decide to rename your character (or server transfer and rename) make sure to enable this setting least sometime before the transfer and then keep it active long as you want to avoid getting tracked back.
It basically hides all the account wide achievements on the character making tracking it harder (almost all sites doing tracking use timestamps, earned achievements etc. from the account wide achievements). Note that it might also affect sites like Raiderio (eg. make their alt tracking impossible unless you are registered and give te data).
Account settings also has “Share Game Data” which I believe is used to for API access by t hird party sites like Raiderio etc. This would probably be the next step but it is likely this will break third party sites entirely for your account. I don’t know exactly how it affects thing as I have never tried disabling it.
Plus “Profile Visibility” which by default is public. I think this mostly affects the battlenet app itself.
even if I decline their requests, they find me in wow and hots