Anyone who knows your account name can inspect all your characters on lastepochtools.com/profile/ without your approval. This is outrageous, I don’t want other players to see my builds. Please tell me how to ensure the privacy of my profile? In PoE, profile privacy is enabled in two clicks. In LE, I can’t find this setting.
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AFAIK, there is nothing you can do about it but complain.
Do you know if the developers are aware of this problem, was this issue discussed on the forum earlier?
I assume they are aware that profiles are publicly accessible.
I’m not aware of a real complaint given in its own thread here in this forum.
My advice is to start a threat in Suggestions & Feedback where people can vote in support.
Many votes, I assume, lead to recognition by the devs that some people are quite unhappy with the lack of a privacy setting (which imo should be set to private by default, and people can actively unlock it).
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While it is just a game, I do feel in some fashion that some information shouldn’t be publicly available to everyone without some type of setting allowed. Over the forums you can see people saying stuff like ‘lol’ look at your build you can’t take a hit on 100 corruption, git gud bro! Some of that stuff is uncalled for in the community where you want to help others but a few bad apples ruin it for everyone.
On the flip side if people do allow it because they want some help with builds for feedback, I would say that is fine but with no controls in place it is what it is.
It’s very rarely complained about compared to other things.
Yes & no. Almost the entirety of the “git gud” posts are in response to the other person complaining about how hard & unreasonable the game is & that it needs to change. They almost never actually say “git gud” until the other person starts acting like a passive aggressive twat (I can think of one individual in recent memory) & they always start off in the vein of “your build is very squishy & there’s lots of things you could do to improve it”. If the other player reacts in a positive way then the thread continues in a positive/advisory way. But if the other person continues to sware blind that “it’s the game’s fault not my build” then it does tend to go downhill, which ideally it wouldn’t.
Fortunately, that kind of thread/post is rare & the vast majority are of people looking for build help or that respond positively to it.
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This exact thing happened quite recently.
Yup, that’s what I was obliquely referring to. The “other party” was not as innocent in the escalation as they like to portray themselves.
If someone says that they’re having difficulties what can they do about it because it feels unfair & the inital response is of the “git gud” variety then I’d agree completely with the OP. The majority of those types of initial complaints/threads go down the build help/improvement route & everyone’s happy. But if the initial post is of the “the game’s too difficult & I know it’s not me” variety then I’m not sure it’s entirely unreasonable for the responses to eventually (not immediately) go down a different route, especially with the specifics of the other party in question which I don’t want to rehash since they’ve been gone into in detail in the other threads.
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Funnily enough, the easiest way right now is to never use these discussion forums and no sharing of your Account name. Account name on Steam is not public info, and you can choose a different display name there.
That being said, I quite enjoy the option to look at player profiles.
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Doesn’t LE use the steam account name in chat rather than the display name?
No, my Steam account name is different from my “account” name on LE, and the LE account name is what displays both in chat and on the label over my head when ppl have this turned on.
Exactly, it displays the LE account name.
Unfortunately, majority of players that joined after 1.0 release created their LE accounts by signing in through Steam, therefore their LE accounts are the same name as their Steam account names.
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