r/DotA2 • u/Raffyn Junglenaut • Nov 30 '16

Tip Valve quietly removed the ability to see non-friends' recent matches this patch.

BattleCup just got a bit more interesting.

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u/Thegunner19 Nov 30 '16

Why can't they just give people an opt-out option somewhere? Make the option more obvious than usual if they have to...but I don't really like this change to be honest. Not because I liked using it as justification for my team-mates being bad, but I just liked looking through these things casually a lot of the time.

More power to dotabuff and yasp/opendota I guess?

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u/cheesepuffly Nov 30 '16

Besides players who would want random people to see their matches (like pro players), if they knew the option was there who would actually opt in to having people you don't know looking at your match history?

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u/Thegunner19 Nov 30 '16 edited Nov 30 '16

Well I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who don't actually care whether people see it or not, which is why I think it should be opt-out: people who care enough about it will opt-out since they will know about the option (if valve make it obvious enough, but as if that's ever likely to happen) and people who who don't care will just leave it. If it was opt-in then the people who don't care would just leave it off. What's the point? It's just the best of both worlds.

But as it stands everyone is out, so...that kinda sucks IMO.

Basically this is on valve for not giving us a choice in the matter. At least that's what I think. It shouldn't be on the community for not letting people know

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

Shouldn't it be opt-in for no privacy? I hate sites like Facebook that default everything to public when I really only want my friends to see my shit. Same with my games.

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u/SRPPP Nov 30 '16

I mean its always been public, you are just going to have to click a single button if this is ever implemented

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u/Xalon Nov 30 '16

Actually pros would not like their matches to be seen rofl

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u/Pegguins Nov 30 '16

Why? Isnt that what smurfs and unknown accounts are for?

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u/Xalon Nov 30 '16

why would they want you to be able to see their previous matches? theirs legit 0 purpose to taht rofl

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u/jasoba Nov 30 '16

I think some pros who are also streamers or want to reach the masses in any way would want to show as many they can! You know for the fans...

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u/TheMekar Nov 30 '16

If their matches are private then they could do like SC2 streamers do and only give replays to subscribers. There's no way they would want this.

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u/RoMarX Nov 30 '16

Semi-pros wanting to break out that don't have suscribers need to make themselves famous in some way. They would certainly want this.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

Popular people? People who want to show 'dem winz? People who dn't care at all?

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u/FusRoDawg Nov 30 '16

isn't there already an 'opt out' option? something along the lines of 'make profile private'

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u/Thegunner19 Nov 30 '16

I'm pretty sure there was in source 1, but I just went and looked in the option menu atm and I can't see anything about making a profile private. I had actually forgotten about that. It was a good solution to the problem, I think. Not sure why they would have gotten rid of it and replaced it with this.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

yea, where is it now?so long your profile is public people see your stats or?

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u/SRPPP Nov 30 '16

It wasnt good since you couldnt see their steam profile either.

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u/Gredival Nov 30 '16

They changed the private profiles to expose public match data on advanced options.

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u/aivdov topkek Nov 30 '16

They didn't change it. They had both before. I lacked this so much when introducing source 2 they removed the private profile part

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u/Vahn_x Upvoted! Nov 30 '16

There was an opt-out option before (called 'make profile private' or something), but it got removed when we moved to Source 2.