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On this episode of our Dead by Daylight commentary series, we’re talking about the game’s anonymous mode and how despite its best efforts to prevent harassment, it may have actually led to more!
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I use it because I don’t wanna get harassed. How is it a mistake?
This is a bit off topic,but I like how you opened the locker,and found I think was yui. You stabbed her with the tail to get her out of the locker,and she made no expression, or even scream. So realistic yeah?
i dont feel comfortable with players hiding their gamertag, if i see 1 in my lobby i leave asap
anon settings have been way more beneficial to protecting cheaters from reports because you can't access their profile to get their steam id. Yes you can report at the tally screen but that isn't enough as you need to make a website ticket to get anything done about it…
Just make it so if they are on Anon mode they can't talk in the end game chat.
The thing about this community though is that pretty much any time you play a match you can run into a whiny psycho who thinks normal gameplay is toxic and disgusting and they want to check your profile and try to harass you outside of game for it. Not to mention the possibility of some toxic streamer opening your profile on stream to mock you in front of their viewers. I just use anonymous mode so the psychos that crawl around this community can’t harass me because I played some killer they don’t like or whatever
I don't use anon mode, I mean I'm glad it's there for the few people who don't want their profiles flooded with hate and toxicity. I play on pc my steam profile is set to friends only. But I'm sure some people still peek at it. One look at my pfp and they probably bail when they see I'm a furry 😂 like bruh just trying to game. I don't get any toxicity i. The lobby at least 90% of who I get are console players since I have cross play on.
They could make it so that you could only use anonymous mode if you have linked DBD to your Twitch or other platforms and it is only activated while streaming. Isn't that a good idea?
Imo just make it so while using anonymous mode, disable the ability to view the name and profile of any players in game and prevent messaging in endgame chat. If you want to advertise your stream then take the chance and disable anonymous in endgame and whatever happens… happens, any mention of limiting a feature like this to streamers exclusively doesn't solve the problem entirely since not only streamers get random hate/threatening messages from people who take the game too personally/seriously
Honestly, I’d keep anon mode as is, but make it so they’re still reportable by other players. Either that and/or make them unable to use EGC while in anon mode (which honestly sounds great given how vile EGC can be sometimes)
in my opinion, anonymous mode should just be removed entirely. because it's honestly just a shield for people who wanna be more toxic & not get discovered, as well as cheating without being caught knowing who they are so they can just end up doing it again & again. if you're gonna be playing an online game. then you're gonna have to go with the flow that people will know who you are & vice versa. i get the idea of what they were trying to do, but it's failed and honestly useless
As a non-content creator who plays a lot of games with Twitch streamers who have open lobbies, I always use anon mode, and I rarely see it abused. I just don't want salty losers harassing me over a video game. I don't know where all these supposed people abusing anon mode are, because I see just as much hatred in chat from non-anon players as I do anon players.
Anonymous Mode didn't fail anymore than the Visual Heartbeat did — by which I mean, it was something added to the game to help a certain group of players, that was then adopted and used by people for different reasons.
Is that a stretch? Yes, yes it is, but it's the only thing I can think of right now. Before Anonymous Mode was released, I dreaded playing as Killer because I would be told to kill myself at least 3/5 games by the other side. If not that, it would just be constant streams of harassment; telling me how bad I am at the game regardless of whether I win or lose, bitching about how I played, at one point getting several hate messages a day from one particularly salty Survivor for about a week straight.
I'm not someone who enjoys getting salty messages, and after a while I ended up blocking messages and friend requests, still got shit in groups though because apparently PlayStation didn't/doesn't allow you to block getting forced into group chats.
Since Anonymous Mode came out, I haven't gotten a single message from the other side. I can play the damn game without worrying about my messages exploding because I DARED to hook someone. There are definitely people who abuse the feature, but you JUST released a video talking about the inherent political nature of DBD, the tribalism, and the hatred both sides have for the other. Removing Anonymous Mode will just force the people who don't want to deal with that part of the fandom to HAVE to deal with it, while the toxic people who hide behind it will still be toxic assholes regardless of whether they can be anonymous or not.
It should just be an all or nothing feature, if it’s on your name isn’t displayed and you can’t see anyone else’s name, you also cannot see or participate in pre and post game chats
It wasn't a mistake, Im there to play a game I enjoy, I'm not there to provide entertainment for a streamer and their audience.
Most of the interactions I've seen and had were negative, both from the streamer and their audience.
Pure toxic behaviour, making fun of people, claiming cheats or blatantly pouring their frustrations into 1 poor soul who is just trying to enjoy a match of DBD.
For me it's simple, without anon mode…. if I see TTV, I would leave.
i've never used anon mode and don't think it's needed for the regular player such as myself. i have my steam profile set to friends only as strangers have no business knowing everything in my library, my hours and progress
It's a stupid feature. It's a gamertag, not a social security number. This is an anti-consequence feature. Now you can cheat or fuck over your team and can't be reported in any substantive way. I just started playing again about 2 weeks ago, after a several year hiatus. I've never had to deal with more scumbags – anonymous bastards I can see with bond pointing me out to the killer, or fucking with me on the hook.
And for those supposed innocent victims that just want to be left alone, grow a brain or some gonads. If you don't want messages from strangers you can change your settings appropriately on whichever platform you're playing on. Outside of friends I haven't gotten a message on Steam, PSN, or Xbox in years. Can't streamers just set a delay on their broadcast to try to dodge stream snipers? I don't know shit about streaming, so Idk the implications of this. This change was totally unnecessary imo.
I use anonymous all the time. As long as it is possible for me to have a bad game and for some dilated colon to stream my bad moment to others as their own highlight reel, I'll stay anonymous. Some of us just want privacy. Also, I like how in the description of this, it's never the streamers who are toxic, right? It's the regular people who just want to learn the game without being put on blast that are the problem. Get a job.
It was absolutely a mistake. You have every right to see your opponent's name and profile. This is a game, not a NASA top-secret profile, and you guys are not important or god-tier gamers. Most people are terrible at video games, and the average Joe in real life. Let’s face it. Even the private profile function on Steam was a mistake, but okay, I get it, that's a bigger thing. But hiding everything in the actual game? No such thing existed back in the day.
The ones who disagree with you are the source of the problem. They want to disconnect and sacrifice themselves for free, cheaters, and they don’t want comments on their profile. Guess what? YOU CAN TURN IT OFF, DUMMIES. You have zero reason to be anonymous in a game. If you want to hide, you have bad intentions. This is the ONLY reason. DC, toxicity, BM, Cheater, etc. Even if you’re streaming, you can dodge this.
Huge mistake. More room for sadistic, cowardly, vicious people. In some Asian countries, you can’t play without an ID. And if you’re banned, goodbye. Cheater problem solved, toxic problem solved. I wish we would evolve to that level ASAP, because gaming is dying because of these people, and anonymous mode is just another thick layer of protection for them… And you guys want to hide in anonym mode instead 😀 yes, very logical and good idea.
I never cared about anonymous mode, all the negative comments mean nothing to me and shouldn't bother anyone either
The biggest problem with anon mod is that cheaters use it too, and you can't say that it is cheater or not before the game starts.
those kinds of people will harass with or without it and reasons ttvs get targeted is cuz a good % of them are assholes with their SWFs who will harass you if you dont play how they want you to play thats why i dodge ttvs
The fact cant really report people using this is a massive problem. Yes, you can do it in game, but that has a very small chance of being seen by the devs. Ive seen too many cheaters and disgusting people hide behind anonymous mode because theres not much the playerbase can do.