Why is the video game industry so autistic about usernames? >Steam won't let you change your username, ever >Minecraft keeps a history of every username and user, and makes it publicly queryable, even though you really only need the UUID part of the user ID for administrative purposes >None of them disclose they're doing this until you're already in the public database or $200 spent into the platform
The basic arguments against letting names be changed are: >You would only use it for ban evasion Sure but every account has a UUID and that's more essential to banning someone than a basic username. >Nobody cares about your cringey name from when you're 12 It's one thing to have a name that's cringeworthy and quite another for it to be something offensive or revealing of your private/personal life in ways you aren't/are no longer comfortable with. >People won't know who you are anymore What if I'm known by another name on every other platform except X?
Why are video game companies so annoying about usernames? Why do they have to act like because they're "fun" companies they don't have to respect other peoples' privacy? Why are they so against letting people manage their own online identities? Why do they always return to their bogus "ban evasion" excuse as a cover for their laziness?
>Steam won't let you change your username, ever What? You mean your login?
Ryan Gray
I love trolling traffic like that
John Peterson
Not him, but yes. Shits fucking retarded and triggers my autism as well. I'd much rather see my email name or nothing at all instead of it. Luckily it wasn't as bad as my PSN name, but still annoys me.
Andrew Cook
It's publicly facing, you can see it in the URL if you look at your profile on steamcommunity.com.
Nathan Howard
For context, I'm pissed because I found out my minecraft account name history connects my private/personal use username and my more publicly used username, the sort of username an employer might come into contact with. Now if someone becomes sufficiently pissed at me in either context they can dox me. It's stupid that I have no recourse. Other companies do this as well.
Agree 100%. I made my steam account while in a very, strange, phase of my life and to this day I have to suffer the consequences of that username.
Aaron Cook
That's the point. They want you to be easily tracked.
Nolan Thompson
What about passwords? So many sites, companies, and services have absolutely retarded password restrictions. Forbidding certain symbols is stupid. And my favorite: character limit! What is the point? Why can't they just let me make a password as long as I want? I have a password manager and can make 64 character long passwords, but no, cute little sites like Paypal don't think I should be allowed to do that. Their limit is like, 14 characters or something. Seems like it's the big name companies and financial institutions that have the most restrictions on passwords. Random small sites you won't visit more than once let you do what you want.
Adam Walker
You can change your profile URL retard, thus making your username private.
Nolan Reyes
requiring an uppercase/number/symbol is also annoying phrases are way easier to remember than a mishmash of characters i.e. jannies_do_it_for_free vs p@s5w0rd!23
Easton Turner
I hate how some companies force you to changer your password every so often on their schedule. Pretty sure most people just use their exact same password but with an extra number on it, or an @ symbol tacked on. It's annoying and I doubt it helps protect me much.
Jason Brown
Same here.
Alexander Russell
why the hell did i get banned from psn for using IsisRecruiter
Michael Jackson
Sounds based and Redpilled to me
Benjamin Morris
Use a password manager and these problems go away, plus you're more secure.
Logan Allen
Except I don't want to because I don't care about security since my credentials were never leaked. I want to use the same easy password on every damn site.
Robert Reyes
>If a future employer types my first initial and last name into the right text box they can find the account linked to my porn browsing history and there's nothing I can do about it
the steam login thing is annoying but it's not a real problem. you can change your display name and profile url as much as you want to anything you want, you just can't change what you login as, so you're the only one that sees it.
the only reason i even have a slight problem with it is because i signed up early enough that an email was required for your login name and i haven't had access to that email for like 10 years. but i'm still stuck typing it in for eternity now i guess.
I can't wait to see how fucked up it will be playing Halo on steam.
Jordan Brooks
I do use a password manager. This doesn't stop companies from forcing me to use weak passwords of 14 characters or less with only letters and numbers. This doesn't stop companies from forcing me to change my password every month.
Jaxson Perez
I'm not in Europe but it's basic common sense to not fuck over someone because "they might be a MINECRAFT HACKER" when there are already superior protections in place and the released information could be a significant detriment to them.
Owen Cook
am i banned
Brayden Collins
don't call people retards if you don't know what you're talking about. custom URL =/= community ID
this URL will always link to tom's profile regardless of if his custom url is "id/tom"
Cooper Cox
Are you actually this dumb? There are completely reasonable explanations for this stuff. Symbols are often reserved by database systems, and usernames/passwords with the correct syntax can actually break/hack entire systems. As far as character limits go, databases enforce strict limits to how big the data can be, and allowing limitless sizes for data is an awful design practice that can break all kinds of shit. Another issue with endless passwords is that data costs money. The bigger the password the more data is required to store it. It may not seem like much, but for huge companies with millions of users, the data adds up.
Blake Phillips
>user name has part of your real name >people can easily look up your name and can easily find your accounts and cringy forum posts >you cant change or delete your accounts/posts
I just use username generators for shit like this. Some look like this EpTOrOVERBONCesP and passwords look like this 5oeZDULADI1H6HXd7D26t3swQBgtZ8W6
Aiden Clark
>Symbols are often reserved by database systems, and usernames/passwords with the correct syntax can actually break/hack entire systems. There are plenty of ways to sanitize user input. It is much safer than not sanitizing strings at all and simply trying to exclude the characters that make you feel the most icky. Hence why most websites can accept an arbitrary character set.
>As far as character limits go, databases enforce strict limits to how big the data can be, and allowing limitless sizes for data is an awful design practice that can break all kinds of shit. Good thing nobody explicitly requested an "infinite length" password. He requested 64 character passwords. Most password managers and newer sites just subscribe to the NIST guidelines, unlike (ironically) many government sites.
>Another issue with endless passwords is that data costs money. The bigger the password the more data is required to store it. It may not seem like much, but for huge companies with millions of users, the data adds up. 64 characters * 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) users = 64 GB uncompressed. That's .... not very much.
No one fucking stores a plain text password, holy fuck.
Eli Harris
>On PSN you can have "AssAssAssAssAss" as an ID, or even "ILoveBigAsses" >But you can't have the word Horse in your ID
Christian Walker
Passwords are getting more and more complex by force. Last site I registered to demanded that I use 8 characters, one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, one number, and one symbol
Jaxon Reyes
>Still cant decide on a good username on any platform, keep changing my steam profile name every six months Meanwhile my friend uses the same name in every multiplayer game and it's literally perfect.
>quite another for it to be something offensive or revealing of your private/personal life in ways you aren't/are no longer comfortable with. That's your problem retard and not an excuse for a ID change. Pretty sure a lot of sites, even your parents or your anti-virus should have tell you to never expose yourself on the internet. A lot of sites if not all sites warn you about offensive nametags, it's your fault for believing every site is Yea Forums
Luis Foster
I played minecraft with my IRL friends and my Yea Forums friends and I understandably did not want to go by the same name for doing both. Yet now, as I find out, it's possible to link the two identities. So yeah I'm not too happy about that.
Brandon Brooks
typically unless the username is some 12 yearold xXx__xXx94 shit or some random string of consonants and vowels that sounds like a fantasy name then the name is fine and what makes it stand out is the accomplishments achieved under it. No one really cares about usernames unless the can connect it to something impressive.
Asher Campbell
>tfw signed up for Steam a long time ago >asked something about needing my name >do so >it was set as my first public profile name >now anyone with my old Steam account ID can find my full name Shit's retarded, I checked for myself. Needless to say I flat-out don't use that account anymore outside of family sharing the handful of games I bought on that account to my current account.
>Be a dumb teen when I make my steam account >Cringe every time I have to type in my username >Cant change it
Luke Nguyen
Yeah, I didn't expect that from Minecraft of all games.
Connor Cruz
>spend weeks thinking of a good username to change to >every time someone says my username I start cringing, even though there's nothing really cringe about it >end up changing my username a month later and the cycle repeats
Parker Roberts
Because many sites and programs use that as a unique permanent identifier for you. Such an identifier is always necessary, and while it isn't necessary that such an identifier be your "username", it's the most logical, striaghtforward and intuitive choice to make, and, once made, it's almost always going to be a giant pain in the ass to change the system to, especially the lager the system is. It really has nothing to do with privacy or identity.
Brandon Howard
im sorry dark_kitsuneX
Adrian Collins
Can we all appreciate how that truck managed to swerve to a complete stop without toppling over?
This shit is the fucking dumbest thing. Let me use my damn "unsecure" password if I want or just require 2 step authorization or some shit
Cooper Carter
>I want to use the same easy password on every damn site. I seriously hope you guys don't do this.
Cameron Hill
I don't understand/never heard of this minecraft thing
Dylan James
Most inflexibility regarding usernames and passwords can be laid at a lack of foresight when initially designing the database for them. By the time the service in question is generating enough complaints about it, the database is so big that fuck you are they gonna try to rework it.
Levi Ward
>mfw I have always never mixed friend pools or games and irl
If it bothers you that much, don't choose a stupid username retard
Ryan Myers
In the EU you can demand for them to delete all the data they have on you by law.
Connor Nguyen
No, it isn't. That's one of the reasons my account has been so secure. You can't get into my account even if you know my password, because you need to know what it's actually fucking called first.
Hudson Gonzalez
>been using the same username on almost every site for the past 12 years >it's stolen from some dead account on a long-dead forum
Christian Edwards
The size of the database is irrelevant. The schema is the schema and you are probably going to already have an automated unique identifier and not rely on something like the username internally anyway for performance reasons. The problem is almost certainly going to be with the front end or a handful of functions on the front end or maybe some third party component that doesn't handle the changes well, e.g. the gog store site had no issue handling my changing of the username but the companion support site, which I think is zendesk, hated it.
Christian Cook
Most of those places ban you for racism, so just say inconvenient facts and problem solved.
Jackson Morris
>unique permanent identifier >nothing do with privacy or identity which one now?
Landon Flores
I have never heard of this minecraft username linking thing. Please explain.
Aaron Stewart
Enjoy getting banned for being mistaken for a spambot.
>fuck up when making steam profile in 2010 and accidentaly use real name as first steam name >it's on vacbanned and steamid Do I just keep spamming them with e-mails for now?
David Young
Yea but you just proved the other guy right since you can't see what their login/username is called. You just see a string of numbers in the url.
Lincoln Evans
tell that to your 12yo self
Luis Jones
LOL Chad car vs beta lorries
David Wilson
They won't change it. They'll just tell you to use the public player name function.
Ryder Rivera
Yeah but the first name is still recorded there. I live in the EU, can I invoke any of those privacy rights or something.
Brayden Davis
You don't store the password retard.
John Adams
>hey user, I see you like milk enemas. Why not come into my office and talk about a rise?
Bentley Fisher
I'm sorry nigga, my 12 yo self wasn't as autistic as you
Julian Scott
You put all the user id stuff behind service that it source of truth then you migrate it behind the scenes.
Lincoln Hill
If you were in a semi and saw this in front of you and you resisted the urge to swerve and killed that person instead would you be held liable
David Martin
I think as far as the EU is concerned your only option is the "right to be forgotten" which means deleting the account. I don't think you actually have the right to be anonymous in a public space or that people are required to facilitate that. They are just going to tell you to make a new account and rebuy everything.
Hunter Collins
You have to live with the choices you make, xXx_Sephiroth_Sasuke_xXx.
Tyler Cox
I hope the 'tard driver was caught and forced to pay damages
Logan Brooks
don't worry, it's in china the driver probably already died in an escalator
Robert Cox
Nah, the car is being a total retard and is totally at fault. The truck would have to make an attempt to begin to brake but wouldn't have to swerve because he'd lose control - as illustrated in the gif.
Jonathan Cook
>Changing your PSN name breaks everything because instead of having some sort of number or ID linked to your account, the name itself IS your ID Classic Sony
It would probably depend on whoever gets to decide, but you'd probably endanger less people by braking than by swerving on a fucking highway (?)
Logan Jenkins
>Nah, the car is being a total retard and is totally at fault. We only know this because there's a surveillance camera which neither driver would necessarily be aware of. In rear end collisions it's generally presumed the driver behind is at fault. You kind of need to prove otherwise.
