Big Brother Is Watching

[Borror0]

To replicate do a search for your charcter name. Maybe your bug report will be heeded.

Weird. Yesterday it used to tell me it was anonymous. And, yeah, bug reported.

no it doesn't work for you either. Your fighter with two pally has an odd number dex con and int.

Ya, currently swappinhg gear around so it looks a bit odd.

[FluffyCalico]

Weird. Yesterday it used to tell me it was anonymous. And, yeah, bug reported.

Currently what it does is sepaerate your toon names from your form name.

[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.

[Kerrn_Siff]

so I hope now people who use that will choose to be impressed that I do so much with so little as opposed to kicking my toons from their groups for being sub-par lol

[Missing_Minds]

Does not work, all my characters are still visible.

The only privacy setting I see other than this is something about being found on search engines.

I'd rather just have a box I can check to disable this feature altogether, to effectively "not exist" on my.ddo.com.

Well I hope you can see your own characters. Duh.

[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.

[Hendrik]

Where did anyone in this thread say it was because "people would only use this to exclude others"

Sure this might be used for screening pugs but I think the main point here is that Turbine should give their customers the right to choose whether or not to have their characters information public.

Well, people do that now with anon players in game don't they?

[Shmuel]

I dont like this. I want the option to hide my toons' info.

[bellack]

I posted it because
1) Turbine runs both DDO & LotRO
2) Same system
3) all your concerns have been posted there so maybe read those threads before bringing it up here as Turbine is already aware of most of the concerns.

Personally I don't see the big deal about it all. It's not like anything links to real life info, big deal if someone knows details of your character.

Um he should not have to go to the LOTRO forums when he only plays DDO. So if this issue is posted over there then Gooddie Twoshoes for them but this has nothing to do with DDO unless they post it here as well. Oh and by the way the two games are very different I should know I have a Life Time in LOTRO and I play DDO.

[Kalari]

Read all of this found out about the site last night. The problem I have with it is it looks slapped together too quickly. Many guilds already have sites set up with member rosters that are way neater and organized then that one. And the ability to see a full guild list while it may seem convenient for new players also can be used for griefing as others have mentioned.

Personally I dont care if people see what I have though I can imagine there maybe issues with people getting tells in game over silly things like items they have or unwarranted build advice. And before nay sayers try to say it wont happen trust me it does before this site came out and will only continue to do so now that people have picture proof of so called gimpiness. And I had my stuff set to anon but it does not stop a person from searching out character names and finding everything and it has a detailed list of mules I have while omitting girls ive gotten nearly to level 20. So hopefully they will overhaul it. I mean if your gonna put an effort into something like this why not make it look neater and be accurate?

thats my rant on it hopefully the site wont be a burden to people, I think thats a main worry for many who dont want their character info made so public.

[Baltire]

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

Wrong.....This is the internet and the only opinion that matters here is mine.....

[akiraproject24]

I dont care a bit if peeps see what im packin....dont even sweat it

[Kuroyume]

meh... it's just like the WoW Armory.

in WoW at least, while it has lead to people checking out other before grouping with them, and to Cookie Cutter builds, it has also turned into a great tool, thanks to an API that allows developers to parse the data.

It also allows people to ask questions and link to their characters, and in return get answers tailored to their personal situation.

[Vizzini]

You know I don't really like the fact that I'm forced to use RED THEME for My.DDO isn't there someway I could be a Progressive BLUE ish color.

All the pessimism over Privacy issues and junk reminds me of something else more important taking place in the news atm.. (Not making the link, you can do that yourself)

[idbi]

You know I don't really like the fact that I'm forced to use RED THEME for My.DDO isn't there someway I could be a Progressive BLUE ish color.

All the pessimism over Privacy issues and junk reminds me of something else more important taking place in the news atm..

Yeah, but this isn't the place to discuss things that you consider more important taking place in the news ... it's a thread in an area of an internet messageboard specifically dedicated to the general discussion of my.ddo.com

(Not making the link, you can do that yourself)

No, I will not make the link, you make it for me or it's not happening.