Is there a way to hide my @name?

Tavore1138

Just 'cos one gets enough annoying whispers without the game making it super easy for people to irritate....

Vangy

I can just feel all the hate tells increasing 10-fold when I teabag people in PvP =(

Seravi

Yeah I don't like having my @ name showing. If there isn't a way to hide it, please make one.

rootimus

This has been asked for since at least launch day, though usually because it reveals half of your login credentials. I don't believe there's ever been a reply from Zenimax.

WeerW3ir

yeah this is bullsh... pls hide it. this is not a good idea. just marking us personally and we just get more problem then solution.

Cinbri

It needed change. Before, people with prefix names could send you all kind of insulting whispers and you couldn't block them coz "invalid name" without proper addons, now you will see their ID and will be able to block.
On other note i tired of looking on someone and wonder who's of my friends is behind those endless twinks, with ID it will be just easier to recognize.

Tavore1138

No issue with it being optionally visible - but it's half the information someone needs to hack my account up on screen for anyone to see, not just my guildies and friends - they didn't have access to before this and so I am quite concerned from that perspective.

Having read threads on how unpopular this has been on the console platforms it doers seem especially tone deaf of ZOS to inflict the same pain on PC users instead of removing the pain from everyone.

Abeille

I don't mind people seeing my @name, since they could see it already if they block me or if they are my guild mates. I do mind seeing other people's @name, though. Right now, there is too much information whenever I look at someone. I would rather be able to see their character name only. It should be toggleable.

Detector

I want hide ny @username too.

Epona222

I'd prefer my @ name to not be immediately visible over my character. Sometimes I play in offline mode because I'm not feeling sociable and just want a quiet couple of hours fishing. Also although it's not happened often at all and 99.9% of my interactions in ESO have been totally fine, I once had someone being a bit creepy towards one of my characters - I know there are other ways to find out someone's username if you are determined,, but if it's not displayed on screen that is at least an extra step someone has to go through to find it out rather than it staring them in the face.

Daraugh

I've never understood why they want to deprive us of basic privacy like that. Why does everyone need to know and be known at all times? I really prefer being known by character names in games over @ names or account names.

tinythinker

Abeille wrote: »

I don't mind people seeing my @name, since they could see it already if they block me.

This, it's been out there for a while if people wanted to "steal" the info. Just say anything in /zone, or /yell, or /say, I click and ignore and there it is. I bet a bot could auto-farm @-names that way, putting people ignore all day. This isn't a major security breach.

olsborg

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

Just 'cos one gets enough annoying whispers without the game making it super easy for people to irritate....

Yes, I would also like the option to be in "private mode" so to speak so ppl cant see my @name

JD2013

Yeah, I don't think having your @ name displayed is a good idea either. It's half of your account information.

@ZOS_GinaBruno can we get a toggle off option at least?

Tavore1138

tinythinker wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

I don't mind people seeing my @name, since they could see it already if they block me.

This, it's been out there for a while if people wanted to "steal" the info. Just say anything in /zone, or /yell, or /say, I click and ignore and there it is. I bet a bot could auto-farm @-names that way, putting people ignore all day. This isn't a major security breach.

No it isn't a major breach but it is still a breach - and lots of minor breaches add up to coming home one day and finding that someone has taken over your account and all your stuff is gone.

In a game where people spend considerable numbers of hours building up a character and account it is irresponsible for a gaming company to do anything that increases the risk of an account being compromised - more so since the introduction of crowns and the ability for someone to effectively spend 'real' money by gaining access to an account, plus the private information held on account pages that could also be compromised.

Many major companies have opened themselves to data breaches over recent years that have cost them reputation, customers and actual money - these very often come from a progression of seemingly minor security changes that build up to allow access rather than the Hollywood super-hacker trope we see so often.

Sorry to bang on but this is part of what I have to consider in my day job so I get rather frustrated when I see this sort of stuff happening here....

Lava_Croft

This is a useless complaint since it's already trivial to find out the @account names of players, especially when using add-ons.

Epona222

Lava_Croft wrote: »

This is a useless complaint since it's already trivial to find out the @account names of players, especially when using add-ons.

Well maybe it shouldn't be trivial.

umagon

I like the change it makes blocking and identifying people who use alts in cyrodiil easier to do. Now we can easily find the trolls and spies.

Elsonso

Lava_Croft wrote: »

This is a useless complaint since it's already trivial to find out the @account names of players, especially when using add-ons.

This.

It is important on the PC/Mac because there is currently a disconnect between you and your character name. Guilds span characters, so all guild chat is using the account name. Yet, when you come across a guild mate, you see the character name, not the account name. You do not know that account name "BOB" is character "SALLY" when you run past "SALLY" in Wayrest. This fixes that problem.

I already have an add-on that displays this information, for guild mates and friends, to help identify people you know in the game that might be on a character you do not recognize. Honestly, you will be surprised at how many names you recognize in the world if you are an active reader of guild chat.

On a related subject... for the "half of your account information" comments people. Please stop. Your account name is not part of your account security, and it has been that way for decades. Your account name is your identification, so that people can identify you. This is why it is so prominent on the consoles. There, the account name is bigger than the game.

Even on PC/Mac, you have never been able to "hide" behind your character's name. Any sense of privacy that you might have had by thinking that people could only get your character name was nothing more than an illusion. I used to report BOTS by account name back in April 2014. It has always been possible in this game.

The main thing that has been lost by this is "immersion", and I am already working on that.

Tavore1138

Lava_Croft wrote: »

This is a useless complaint since it's already trivial to find out the @account names of players, especially when using add-ons.

No - right now it takes some effort however small, basically I have to communicate with you or be in a guild or other grouping with you. These are optional interactions and this takes even that small effort away.

I have no idea what you do or don't know about computer security but in general an enterprise will (or should) not only protect passwords but also will take some effort to protect what seem like 'open' information like usernames or server names from causal discovery because any bit of additional easily harvested information makes the job of someone trying to get into a system that little bit easier.

So sure this is not 'sky is falling' stuff but it takes it from being something that someone had to take some level of effort to discover to being something that is on constant display. And if you have a background in this stuff at all you probably realise that making any piece of information easier to obtain is probably not a good thing.

ZOS should at least give some consideration to making your account login something different from your visible @name with this change or adding another authentication factor as other online games sometimes do.

P.S. And it does make the screen uglier....

tinythinker

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

I don't mind people seeing my @name, since they could see it already if they block me.

This, it's been out there for a while if people wanted to "steal" the info. Just say anything in /zone, or /yell, or /say, I click and ignore and there it is. I bet a bot could auto-farm @-names that way, putting people ignore all day. This isn't a major security breach.

No it isn't a major breach but it is still a breach - and lots of minor breaches add up to coming home one day and finding that someone has taken over your account and all your stuff is gone.

In a game where people spend considerable numbers of hours building up a character and account it is irresponsible for a gaming company to do anything that increases the risk of an account being compromised - more so since the introduction of crowns and the ability for someone to effectively spend 'real' money by gaining access to an account, plus the private information held on account pages that could also be compromised.

Many major companies have opened themselves to data breaches over recent years that have cost them reputation, customers and actual money - these very often come from a progression of seemingly minor security changes that build up to allow access rather than the Hollywood super-hacker trope we see so often.

Sorry to bang on but this is part of what I have to consider in my day job so I get rather frustrated when I see this sort of stuff happening here....

It isn't increasing the risk, that's the point. Anyone who wanted to steal @ - names can do so much easier with existing options. Like I said, just /ignore everyone in a busy area or zone, screenshot your ignore list, repeat. Do it manually or set up a bot script to do so, which is less likely to be caught than other bots 'cause it's just idlin' and seems all innocent.

Tavore1138

tinythinker wrote: »

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

I don't mind people seeing my @name, since they could see it already if they block me.

This, it's been out there for a while if people wanted to "steal" the info. Just say anything in /zone, or /yell, or /say, I click and ignore and there it is. I bet a bot could auto-farm @-names that way, putting people ignore all day. This isn't a major security breach.

No it isn't a major breach but it is still a breach - and lots of minor breaches add up to coming home one day and finding that someone has taken over your account and all your stuff is gone.

In a game where people spend considerable numbers of hours building up a character and account it is irresponsible for a gaming company to do anything that increases the risk of an account being compromised - more so since the introduction of crowns and the ability for someone to effectively spend 'real' money by gaining access to an account, plus the private information held on account pages that could also be compromised.

Many major companies have opened themselves to data breaches over recent years that have cost them reputation, customers and actual money - these very often come from a progression of seemingly minor security changes that build up to allow access rather than the Hollywood super-hacker trope we see so often.

Sorry to bang on but this is part of what I have to consider in my day job so I get rather frustrated when I see this sort of stuff happening here....

It isn't increasing the risk, that's the point. Anyone who wanted to steal @ - names can do so much easier with existing options.

The point is that you are mistaken because it is increasing the risk, right now unless i interact with you in the game in some way or have my forum name the same as my account name you can't do much to find it - you certainly can't get it merely by looking at me. Even if you want to use the interaction to fake report or something you at least have to make an effort and potentially act in a manner that at least would warn someone you had an unhealthy interest in them.

The earlier point about game tags doesn't stand either because whole your gamer tag may be open your login username will most often me something else like your email.

As I keep emphasizing this is not an end of the world type breach but it changes this information from being something you had to make some effort to get into being something that is freely displayed for all to see - in the security business that is generally deemed to be a bad thing.

MissBizz

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

I don't mind people seeing my @name, since they could see it already if they block me.

This, it's been out there for a while if people wanted to "steal" the info. Just say anything in /zone, or /yell, or /say, I click and ignore and there it is. I bet a bot could auto-farm @-names that way, putting people ignore all day. This isn't a major security breach.

No it isn't a major breach but it is still a breach - and lots of minor breaches add up to coming home one day and finding that someone has taken over your account and all your stuff is gone.

In a game where people spend considerable numbers of hours building up a character and account it is irresponsible for a gaming company to do anything that increases the risk of an account being compromised - more so since the introduction of crowns and the ability for someone to effectively spend 'real' money by gaining access to an account, plus the private information held on account pages that could also be compromised.

Many major companies have opened themselves to data breaches over recent years that have cost them reputation, customers and actual money - these very often come from a progression of seemingly minor security changes that build up to allow access rather than the Hollywood super-hacker trope we see so often.

Sorry to bang on but this is part of what I have to consider in my day job so I get rather frustrated when I see this sort of stuff happening here....

It isn't increasing the risk, that's the point. Anyone who wanted to steal @ - names can do so much easier with existing options.

The point is that you are mistaken because it is increasing the risk, right now unless i interact with you in the game in some way or have my forum name the same as my account name you can't do much to find it - you certainly can't get it merely by looking at me. Even if you want to use the interaction to fake report or something you at least have to make an effort and potentially act in a manner that at least would warn someone you had an unhealthy interest in them.

The earlier point about game tags doesn't stand either because whole your gamer tag may be open your login username will most often me something else like your email.

As I keep emphasizing this is not an end of the world type breach but it changes this information from being something you had to make some effort to get into being something that is freely displayed for all to see - in the security business that is generally deemed to be a bad thing.

@SuraklinPrime Actually in gamepad mode you can get it by just looking at you. Since gamepad mode is just a port of console - it would should account name rather than gamertag.

Tavore1138

MissBizz wrote: »

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

I don't mind people seeing my @name, since they could see it already if they block me.

This, it's been out there for a while if people wanted to "steal" the info. Just say anything in /zone, or /yell, or /say, I click and ignore and there it is. I bet a bot could auto-farm @-names that way, putting people ignore all day. This isn't a major security breach.

No it isn't a major breach but it is still a breach - and lots of minor breaches add up to coming home one day and finding that someone has taken over your account and all your stuff is gone.

In a game where people spend considerable numbers of hours building up a character and account it is irresponsible for a gaming company to do anything that increases the risk of an account being compromised - more so since the introduction of crowns and the ability for someone to effectively spend 'real' money by gaining access to an account, plus the private information held on account pages that could also be compromised.

Many major companies have opened themselves to data breaches over recent years that have cost them reputation, customers and actual money - these very often come from a progression of seemingly minor security changes that build up to allow access rather than the Hollywood super-hacker trope we see so often.

Sorry to bang on but this is part of what I have to consider in my day job so I get rather frustrated when I see this sort of stuff happening here....

It isn't increasing the risk, that's the point. Anyone who wanted to steal @ - names can do so much easier with existing options.

The point is that you are mistaken because it is increasing the risk, right now unless i interact with you in the game in some way or have my forum name the same as my account name you can't do much to find it - you certainly can't get it merely by looking at me. Even if you want to use the interaction to fake report or something you at least have to make an effort and potentially act in a manner that at least would warn someone you had an unhealthy interest in them.

The earlier point about game tags doesn't stand either because whole your gamer tag may be open your login username will most often me something else like your email.

As I keep emphasizing this is not an end of the world type breach but it changes this information from being something you had to make some effort to get into being something that is freely displayed for all to see - in the security business that is generally deemed to be a bad thing.

@SuraklinPrime Actually in gamepad mode you can get it by just looking at you. Since gamepad mode is just a port of console - it would should account name rather than gamertag.

I know, and people seemed to dislike that quite a lot too

k9mouse

ZOS, Please do not show player's @name! It is a BAD Idea!

Weng

I wonder why character names are still in game then.

And many @login names are really crappy, because people didn't know that they would be displayed all over the place.

Luigi_Vampa

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

I don't mind people seeing my @name, since they could see it already if they block me.

This, it's been out there for a while if people wanted to "steal" the info. Just say anything in /zone, or /yell, or /say, I click and ignore and there it is. I bet a bot could auto-farm @-names that way, putting people ignore all day. This isn't a major security breach.

No it isn't a major breach but it is still a breach - and lots of minor breaches add up to coming home one day and finding that someone has taken over your account and all your stuff is gone.

In a game where people spend considerable numbers of hours building up a character and account it is irresponsible for a gaming company to do anything that increases the risk of an account being compromised - more so since the introduction of crowns and the ability for someone to effectively spend 'real' money by gaining access to an account, plus the private information held on account pages that could also be compromised.

Many major companies have opened themselves to data breaches over recent years that have cost them reputation, customers and actual money - these very often come from a progression of seemingly minor security changes that build up to allow access rather than the Hollywood super-hacker trope we see so often.

Sorry to bang on but this is part of what I have to consider in my day job so I get rather frustrated when I see this sort of stuff happening here....

It isn't increasing the risk, that's the point. Anyone who wanted to steal @ - names can do so much easier with existing options.

The point is that you are mistaken because it is increasing the risk, right now unless i interact with you in the game in some way or have my forum name the same as my account name you can't do much to find it - you certainly can't get it merely by looking at me. Even if you want to use the interaction to fake report or something you at least have to make an effort and potentially act in a manner that at least would warn someone you had an unhealthy interest in them.

The earlier point about game tags doesn't stand either because whole your gamer tag may be open your login username will most often me something else like your email.

As I keep emphasizing this is not an end of the world type breach but it changes this information from being something you had to make some effort to get into being something that is freely displayed for all to see - in the security business that is generally deemed to be a bad thing.

@SuraklinPrime Actually in gamepad mode you can get it by just looking at you. Since gamepad mode is just a port of console - it would should account name rather than gamertag.

I know, and people seemed to dislike that quite a lot too

If you already knew this why did you keep saying that you were a little bit protected if you just didn't interact with people? So, adding @names doesn't actually increase the risk at all, like so many people here are saying.

Reverb

I want full control over what gets displayed on my nameplate.

Shader_Shibes

Why do we need to see this? Option to turn it off is essential, I personally don't want mine visible.

GeertKarel

Hahaha I bet most of you guys have a @ name that you dont like.
I rather see @ names then k now 8-12 different names from 1 @ name

Tavore1138

Typhoios wrote: »

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

SuraklinPrime wrote: »

tinythinker wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

I don't mind people seeing my @name, since they could see it already if they block me.

This, it's been out there for a while if people wanted to "steal" the info. Just say anything in /zone, or /yell, or /say, I click and ignore and there it is. I bet a bot could auto-farm @-names that way, putting people ignore all day. This isn't a major security breach.

No it isn't a major breach but it is still a breach - and lots of minor breaches add up to coming home one day and finding that someone has taken over your account and all your stuff is gone.

In a game where people spend considerable numbers of hours building up a character and account it is irresponsible for a gaming company to do anything that increases the risk of an account being compromised - more so since the introduction of crowns and the ability for someone to effectively spend 'real' money by gaining access to an account, plus the private information held on account pages that could also be compromised.

Many major companies have opened themselves to data breaches over recent years that have cost them reputation, customers and actual money - these very often come from a progression of seemingly minor security changes that build up to allow access rather than the Hollywood super-hacker trope we see so often.

Sorry to bang on but this is part of what I have to consider in my day job so I get rather frustrated when I see this sort of stuff happening here....

It isn't increasing the risk, that's the point. Anyone who wanted to steal @ - names can do so much easier with existing options.

The point is that you are mistaken because it is increasing the risk, right now unless i interact with you in the game in some way or have my forum name the same as my account name you can't do much to find it - you certainly can't get it merely by looking at me. Even if you want to use the interaction to fake report or something you at least have to make an effort and potentially act in a manner that at least would warn someone you had an unhealthy interest in them.

The earlier point about game tags doesn't stand either because whole your gamer tag may be open your login username will most often me something else like your email.

As I keep emphasizing this is not an end of the world type breach but it changes this information from being something you had to make some effort to get into being something that is freely displayed for all to see - in the security business that is generally deemed to be a bad thing.

@SuraklinPrime Actually in gamepad mode you can get it by just looking at you. Since gamepad mode is just a port of console - it would should account name rather than gamertag.

I know, and people seemed to dislike that quite a lot too

If you already knew this why did you keep saying that you were a little bit protected if you just didn't interact with people? So, adding @names doesn't actually increase the risk at all, like so many people here are saying.

Sheesh, because this applied to a subset of players who used that method not to the whole game population. Just because a few people had access to that info before doesn't make it good that now everyone will.