Give me an option to hide my @name

AdmiralSam

I don't like people knowing it. I see no reason why that should be public. It is half of my log-in info, after all. It's bad enough that guildmates can see it, but now everyone?

dtm_samuraib16_ESO

Well too bad, it is what it is, brother.
We all have it.

Wollust

What does it matter?
No one can do something with your @name. Your account is as secure as before the change.

AdmiralSam

Which is my issue precisely. I don't want to know others' either. Why can't this be a toggle...

AdmiralSam

Wollust wrote: »

What does it matter?
No one can do something with your @name. Your account is as secure as before the change.

They can whisper me even after I change characters? The @name should be a personal thing, as it was before.

Wollust

I still don't understand your issue. If you feel embarrassed because of your @name you might as well ask the support to change it for you. Other than that I don't see a reason why you would even care if someone knows or not. It is kinda to be expected in an MMO that your account name will be visible in some form.

Runs

AdmiralSam wrote: »

I don't like people knowing it. I see no reason why that should be public. It is half of my log-in info, after all. It's bad enough that guildmates can see it, but now everyone?

Half of your log in doesn't matter even if they had the full thing, they would also need to know your email address, and the password for that. Or be using your computer.

AdmiralSam

When I heard nameplates were a thing, I thought I could customize what showed up above people's heads when I targeted

Wollust wrote: »

I still don't understand your issue. If you feel embarrassed because of your @name you might as well ask the support to change it for you. Other than that I don't see a reason why you would even care if someone knows or not. It is kinda to be expected in an MMO that your account name will be visible in some form.

No, it is expected that your character name will be visible. I'm not ashamed of my @name, I just don't want people to know. It's a privacy issue.

When I heard nameplates were a thing, I thought people could customize what showed up above their heads when others targeted them. Like CP, title, guild etc... BUT NOOOOOO. That's not what name-plates are at all

Wollust

AdmiralSam wrote: »

Wollust wrote: »

What does it matter?
No one can do something with your @name. Your account is as secure as before the change.

They can whisper me even after I change characters? The @name should be a personal thing, as it was before.

The @name was never personal. You can see everyone's @name if you put them on ignore anyway. And if someone bothers you, you can still put them on ignore or go in offline mode.

Psychotius

Unless your email credentials are extremely similar (and obvious) to your @ username, security won't be an issue. If troll whispers persist beyond switching toons, then an ignore would be in order I'd think.

Rohamad_Ali

Is there an option to adjust our UI not to see these names ? I don't care that mines showing if people want to see it cool . I just don't want to read all that myself . Meh immersion gets rekt .

AdmiralSam

I don't mind having the OPTION of displaying my @name. If people want to do that that is fine by me. But forcing everyone's @names to be visible.. too much.

And I don't want to put people on ignore lists just for whispering me. I just don't want that to happen.

AdmiralSam

Roehamad_Ali wrote: »

Is there an option to adjust our UI not to see these names ? I don't care that mines showing if people want to see it cool . I just don't want to read all that myself . Meh immersion gets rekt .

If only....

Tandor

I agree with the OP. I neither wish to have my account name on display nor to see anyone else's. It may be something people are used to on consoles but it isn't expected on PC titles, nor is it remotely necessary.

Tonnopesce

Your @name was always visible tru add ons and even with the gamepad mode so nothing changed really.

AdmiralSam

Also, let's talk about the design of the thing, too. Why is the title next to the @name? Last time I checked, titles do not carry over from one character to the other.

MissBizz

Roehamad_Ali wrote: »

Is there an option to adjust our UI not to see these names ? I don't care that mines showing if people want to see it cool . I just don't want to read all that myself . Meh immersion gets rekt .

@Roehamad_Ali I'm pretty sure that's what the "prefer character name or prefer account name" setting is for, so you set it on what you prefer to see. Should be under nameplates settings.

AdmiralSam

MissBizz wrote: »

Roehamad_Ali wrote: »

Is there an option to adjust our UI not to see these names ? I don't care that mines showing if people want to see it cool . I just don't want to read all that myself . Meh immersion gets rekt .

@Roehamad_Ali I'm pretty sure that's what the "prefer character name or prefer account name" setting is for, so you set it on what you prefer to see. Should be under nameplates settings.

The nameplate system is entirely different! In order to change that toggle, you need to enable the whole nameplate system. Which adds odd-looking, floaty blue text over everyone's heads. That this doesn't look right to begin with. But even with it disabled... you see other people's @names

MissBizz

AdmiralSam wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

Roehamad_Ali wrote: »

Is there an option to adjust our UI not to see these names ? I don't care that mines showing if people want to see it cool . I just don't want to read all that myself . Meh immersion gets rekt .

Roehamad_Ali I'm pretty sure that's what the "prefer character name or prefer account name" setting is for, so you set it on what you prefer to see. Should be under nameplates settings.

The nameplate system is entirely different! In order to change that toggle, you need to enable the whole nameplate system. Which adds odd-looking, floaty blue text over everyone's heads. That this doesn't look right to begin with. But even with it disabled... you see other people's @names

Oh AdmiralSam you are right! Sorry! I remembering fiddling on PTS with it and seeing that option. I guess I just assumed it would switch everything, obviously not the case.

GreenSoup2HoT

I feel sorry for the console player's with really stupid player name's.

Sasyk

I'm not sure what the fuss is about. Everyone in any guild you're in can see your @ name in the guild roster 0_o

Infact quite a few people call me by my account name cause they don't know me very well other than being an account name in guild chat.

AdmiralSam

MissBizz wrote: »

AdmiralSam wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

Roehamad_Ali wrote: »

Is there an option to adjust our UI not to see these names ? I don't care that mines showing if people want to see it cool . I just don't want to read all that myself . Meh immersion gets rekt .

Roehamad_Ali I'm pretty sure that's what the "prefer character name or prefer account name" setting is for, so you set it on what you prefer to see. Should be under nameplates settings.

The nameplate system is entirely different! In order to change that toggle, you need to enable the whole nameplate system. Which adds odd-looking, floaty blue text over everyone's heads. That this doesn't look right to begin with. But even with it disabled... you see other people's @names

Oh AdmiralSam you are right! Sorry! I remembering fiddling on PTS with it and seeing that option. I guess I just assumed it would switch everything, obviously not the case.

I (incorrectly) assumed that nameplates would let you customize what others see about you. Not what you can see of others... This is upsetting. I wanted to wear my guild tabard proudly, but there is no point since 90% of the people will never "opt into" the nameplate system I feel cheated

AdmiralSam

Sasyk wrote: »

I'm not sure what the fuss is about. Everyone in any guild you're in can see your @ name in the guild roster 0_o

Infact quite a few people call me by my account name cause they don't know me very well other than being an account name in guild chat.

Yes; that's your guildies. You are "expected" to be closer to them than with strangers.

Hempyre

The OP is correct.

I have never played an MMO that used a system like this. Not only is it half my login info which is a security issue. It's confusing as there's no way to know the character name of the people in chat untill they are friended.

Why not just use character names in chat? There is no change in how the chat, economy or forums work and an increase in both account security and ease of player to player identification/interaction.

I see no justifiable reason for other players to know my login user name. It serves no in game purpose in that isnt covered better by use of character names. Even if a character used in some scandalous fashion is deleted, there is still a log of the character/account action.

Thornen

My problem with it is my @name is garbage, if I had known that everyone under the *** sun would be able to see it I would have picked something better.

Sasyk

AdmiralSam wrote: »

Sasyk wrote: »

I'm not sure what the fuss is about. Everyone in any guild you're in can see your @ name in the guild roster 0_o

Infact quite a few people call me by my account name cause they don't know me very well other than being an account name in guild chat.

Yes; that's your guildies. You are "expected" to be closer to them than with strangers.

Except I'm in a 500 member trade guild, 98% of the people in it are strangers to me some of which I've had heated discussion with at one time or another. I'm still not worried about anyone seeing my account name.

AdmiralSam

Sasyk wrote: »

AdmiralSam wrote: »

Sasyk wrote: »

I'm not sure what the fuss is about. Everyone in any guild you're in can see your @ name in the guild roster 0_o

Infact quite a few people call me by my account name cause they don't know me very well other than being an account name in guild chat.

Yes; that's your guildies. You are "expected" to be closer to them than with strangers.

Except I'm in a 500 member trade guild, 98% of the people in it are strangers to me some of which I've had heated discussion with at one time or another. I'm still not worried about anyone seeing my account name.

That's fine. My point is not that you shouldn't be able to display your @name if you wanted to. I'd just like it if there was an option to hide it if you didn't. Is that hard to understand?

vamp_emily

I don't think I have problem with it but I think it is kind of stupid if you ask me. Why the change?

My name will now show as:
[@vamp.emily]Vamp Emily

why not just Vamp Emily it looks cleaner/better that way. But then again I like to know who I am playing with in PvP, some people create new characters and I can never tell if it was someone I used to play with before. So the change maybe good for me.

ИВАН_ВОДКА

AdmiralSam wrote: »

I don't like people knowing it. I see no reason why that should be public. It is half of my log-in info, after all. It's bad enough that guildmates can see it, but now everyone?

everyone can see it either way
if you tell smthing in chat, and i will put you to ignore list, i will see your @id

ThePonzzz

I don't like that my @ name is shown in any of the instances where it is. But it is what it is. Only a few people have reached out to me from other venues to talk to me.

AdmiralSam

ИВАН_ВОДКА wrote: »

AdmiralSam wrote: »

I don't like people knowing it. I see no reason why that should be public. It is half of my log-in info, after all. It's bad enough that guildmates can see it, but now everyone?

everyone can see it either way
if you tell smthing in chat, and i will put you to ignore list, i will see your @id

That, again, is "meh". That would still require some effort from you to find out. Now it's out there in the open. It bothers me and others.