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Fendera Feb 5, 2020 @ 4:12am
What's up with all the Chinese players using only numbers in the Nickname?
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Originally posted by Fen:
Player tracking does not make sense to the dude saying that. Having a display name in game on dayz is 100% different than a steam id. Your steam id can be found on server logs and the hive, lol. So no, you're 100% wrong about player tracking as a steam id is unique to an account, even if 1000 accounts have the same exact name. Your 20 years of experience might have been in make-believe land, sorry to say. Either that or whomever taught you taught you completely wrong. It's also a reason why steam gave 'friend codes' instead of the old 'search by username' feature they always had. I could search a name my friend gave me and see 10 results, so they'd have to tell me their profile picture so I could add them.

When you ban someone from a server or vac ban someone.... changing your steam name doesn't avoid the ban. Hence how we can say your 'knowledge and experience of these people using numeric names to avoid tracking' is false. All changing a display name does is make it harder for the average person to find you by a search, but server hosts/owners can still view your steam id no matter your username in game.

If you guys are talking about Tencent QQ, as a user of it yes they use numbers. However, you don't get to choose the number. It gets assigned to you when you create an account. There's an app called QQ International you can get off the play store, try it if you don't believe me. I've used it for over a decade now. You can add a name and such but most of my Chinese friends on the mainland don't add their personal information. WeChat is another one that is more common internationally that is also developed by Tencent and typically people used their QQ logins to create a WeChat account which is why they have numbers there still. I haven't tried RenRen but it is more similar to facebook and I'm pretty sure that my friend said it uses your name and not numbers.n

Please know about China and their apps before posting and spreading completely false information. ^.^

The statement about cafes using numbers for their id's is probably 99% correct. When I was over there and tried it out, they had a hundred plus pc's in a larger cafe and I'd assume assigning numbers to the specific computer and having all the id's for login the same as the pc's number would be easier for management. It has nothing to do with hacking, considering you can load an aimbot or w/e hack on a usb and put it into literally any computer with a usb slot. Not all Chinese players are hackers. Not all Koreans are hackers. We should look at the whites/americans being banned for hacking/exploiting in the pro leagues because they can't keep up with their Asian competitors. That's just blatant racism to say that they hack just because they're Chinese and use numbers in their name.
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Nathan Feb 5, 2020 @ 4:14am 
Why do you think :)
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Fendera Feb 5, 2020 @ 4:15am 
Originally posted by Nate_The_Cate:
Why do you think :)

I don't know that's why I'm asking.
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HoboCop Feb 5, 2020 @ 4:30am 
Probably another wave of Chinese hacks and exploits that seem to plague a lot of games (PUBG, Ring of Elysium, DayZ etc).

In China, it seems popular for "gamer cafe's" to have exploits and cheats on their games for their customers to use.
Last edited by HoboCop; Feb 5, 2020 @ 4:31am
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GobboKirk Feb 5, 2020 @ 4:34am 
Would assume the numbers are due to lack of chinese characters in what ever applications we're using to see them.
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Nica Feb 5, 2020 @ 4:56am 
Originally posted by GobboKirk:
Would assume the numbers are due to lack of chinese characters in what ever applications we're using to see them.
Not the case. Most modern systems support chinese character-sets.
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RetroTekGuy Feb 5, 2020 @ 5:33am 
123 is a globally used game name to make it harder for each player to be tracked across servers.
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GobboKirk Feb 5, 2020 @ 5:41am 
Originally posted by Nica:
Originally posted by GobboKirk:
Would assume the numbers are due to lack of chinese characters in what ever applications we're using to see them.
Not the case. Most modern systems support chinese character-sets.
Most would be key I guess.
Ofc could be they are just weird and like numbers, but I would still lean towards technical limitations.
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Nica Feb 5, 2020 @ 5:45am 
Originally posted by GobboKirk:
Originally posted by Nica:
Not the case. Most modern systems support chinese character-sets.
Most would be key I guess.
Ofc could be they are just weird and like numbers, but I would still lean towards technical limitations.
I would say they are either cafe-accounts or qq-related stuff. Technical limitations when it comes to text is very unlikely, considering that the text they post displays just fine :lunar2019crylaughingpig:
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RetroTekGuy Feb 5, 2020 @ 5:47am 
Literally gave the answer, Both of you ignored it. Check my friends list. I know the exact reason why it's used. All of your guesses are wrong. Imagine trying to track down a player in a non steam game who has the username 123..... Case closed.
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GobboKirk Feb 5, 2020 @ 5:47am 
Originally posted by Nica:
Originally posted by GobboKirk:
Most would be key I guess.
Ofc could be they are just weird and like numbers, but I would still lean towards technical limitations.
I would say they are either cafe-accounts or qq-related stuff. Technical limitations when it comes to text is very unlikely, considering that the text they post displays just fine :lunar2019crylaughingpig:
Would be a different system than their account name and numbers show up in their text as well.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/221100/discussions/0/1749021985762934664/
Heck some games have had issues with even scandinavian letters in their windows user names.
Obviously unintended, but happens.
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GobboKirk Feb 5, 2020 @ 5:48am 
Originally posted by Dr Quin Magna™:
Literally gave the answer, Both of you ignored it. Check my friends list. I know the exact reason why it's used. All of your guesses are wrong. Imagine trying to track down a player in a non steam game who has the username 123..... Case closed.
We're not talking about 123s....
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RetroTekGuy Feb 5, 2020 @ 5:48am 
It's literally the same thing tho... It's all to do with player tracking
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GobboKirk Feb 5, 2020 @ 5:49am 
Originally posted by Dr Quin Magna™:
It's literally the same thing tho... It's all to do with player tracking
Wouldn't that only make sense if it wasn't unique numbers..?
Goes back to my "weird" though.
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RetroTekGuy Feb 5, 2020 @ 5:52am 
Anytime a username is made up of numbers or odd characters is just to make it harder to find that person. We used to use odd keyboard characters back in the day in some games to make it harder for admins to ban you. That's why most games now don't allow alt characters in names. So in an online game imagine seeing so many players with random numbers as usernames and trying to ban one. It's just to slow things down and make it harder to track.
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Nica Feb 5, 2020 @ 5:53am 
Originally posted by GobboKirk:
Originally posted by Nica:
I would say they are either cafe-accounts or qq-related stuff. Technical limitations when it comes to text is very unlikely, considering that the text they post displays just fine :lunar2019crylaughingpig:
Would be a different system than their account name and numbers show up in their text as well.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/221100/discussions/0/1749021985762934664/
Heck some games have had issues with even scandinavian letters in their windows user names.
Obviously unintended, but happens.
I see where youre coming from. In theory Steam has full range unicode support, but you never know of china. Might be their phones not being using standard unicode systems, not steam's fault
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