Big Brother Is Watching

[Sohryu]

Anyone else slightly disturbed by my.DDO.com?

Being able to look up any player and see exactly what they're wearing and what their stats are? Seems a bit stalker-ish to me

[Borror0]

Don't like it? Then, don't turn your players from anonymous. You can't hide it all.

[AldaronTavish]

Paranoid people seems to be everywhere. This SAME EXACT topic came up many times when my.lotro.com came online.

[Borror0]

Paranoid people seems to be everywhere.

Didn't you hear? The conspiracy theorist and the NBO want to make us go insane.

[Sohryu]

Paranoid people seems to be everywhere. This SAME EXACT topic came up many times when my.lotro.com came online.

Not paranoid, just don't see the need for it. I'd rather have more than 7 new quests than this. Besides it's no one's business how many HPs I have, what my saves are, what armor I'm wearing or what's in my belt slot.

[Hendrik]

Not paranoid, just don't see the need for it. I'd rather have more than 7 new quests than this. Besides it's no one's business how many HPs I have, what my saves are, what armor I'm wearing or what's in my belt slot.

Might have an argument if the Web team worked on game content.

[Ciaran]

Uh, not at all. This has been around since the days of UO.

Hell, most people don't bat an eyelash at the Yellow Gremlin AoC database, and the people who run that site aren't affiliated with Funcom.

Isn't there an option to set your profile to private? If not, there should be.

But in principle, nah doesn't bother me at all.

[lifestaker]

the fact is you should not have to ask to hide on the site, or to have you toons removed from the site/ anonymous. you should have been asked to put said information onto an open viewing for people at their leisure.

ya it would ok to show what a toon is by lvl class and guild, but not every item said person has on, and character info.

[Sohryu]

the fact is you should not have to ask to hide on the site, or to have you toons removed from the site/ anonymous. you should have been asked to put said information onto an open viewing for people at their leisure.

ya it would ok to show what a toon is by lvl class and guild, but not every item said person has on, and character info.

Exactly. People should have been able to choose to participate, in other words, my.DDO starts out blank and if you want you can go there and upload all your character info. Just automatically putting up everyone's information without their consent kinda goes too far, IMO.

[Quikster]

Why? Why should youre stuff be blank unless you decide to list it for peeps to see?

[AldaronTavish]

Technically the info is Turbine's and can do what they want with it.

What's the big deal? Not like someone can track you to your home or anything. Some people just like to compare.

Even though I haven't checked out my.ddo.com yet there should be options to turn public viewing off. Things like that were added to my.lotro.com and I think it was on by default.

Suggest going to the lotro forums and search for similar subjects, trust me it was beat to death there.

In fact just signed in to my.ddo and this is what it says when I list my characters

"Character Visibility Current Sytem Default: Anonymous - This is subject to change. If a character does not have a radio button filled in, this value will be used."

[Baltire]

WOW.....

that is all.....

No its not all.....

You actually care about this???

Like Really.....

Really Really????


I suggest a long vacation and then a nap, after that maybe another vacation, cause I think you might need to lighten up a little bit.

[Sohryu]

WOW.....

that is all.....

No its not all.....

You actually care about this???

Like Really.....

Really Really????


I suggest a long vacation and then a nap, after that maybe another vacation, cause I think you might need to lighten up a little bit.

Wow, last time I checked I was allowed to have an opinion different from yours.

[Strakeln]

When signing up for the forums, Turbine recommends that the user not use their in-game name for their forum name. While I disagree with in-game anonymity, I respect the desires of others to remain anonymous.

Turbine should have considered this before opting everything as public, IMO.

[Borror0]

Turbine should have considered this before opting everything as public, IMO.

The default setting is anonymous.

[Vallin]

When signing up for the forums, Turbine recommends that the user not use their in-game name for their forum name. .

That's interesting - I never noticed that - but it was over 3 years ago. I guess it never bothered me but I can see advantage to disconnecting forums from game names.

All that aside, I agree that they should have started with everyone anon out of consideration for those who are concerned about such things, for whatever reason.

Vallin

[Elsbet]

When signing up for the forums, Turbine recommends that the user not use their in-game name for their forum name. While I disagree with in-game anonymity, I respect the desires of others to remain anonymous.

Turbine should have considered this before opting everything as public, IMO.

Acutally, they recommend that your account name (the name you use to log in and pay your subscription) not be the same as your forum name. My forum name and in-game name are the same, but my account name is so wildly off-base, no one would ever guess it.

[7-day_Trial_Monkey]

Exactly. People should have been able to choose to participate, in other words, my.DDO starts out blank and if you want you can go there and upload all your character info. Just automatically putting up everyone's information without their consent kinda goes too far, IMO.

Read the TOS.. it's not your stuff.

The End.

[Thriand]

Read the TOS.. it's not your stuff.

The End.

Not giving a working option of disabling it is just bad business.

The End.

[Riorik]

Exactly. People should have been able to choose to participate, in other words, my.DDO starts out blank and if you want you can go there and upload all your character info. Just automatically putting up everyone's information without their consent kinda goes too far, IMO.

But you don't own the data. There's not even an implied right to privacy unless Turbine explictly grants it.