Limit Steam\Steamworks User Name change to once a Day\Hour\30min

[Buster]

This needs to be done, people abuse this in games like Ultra Street Fighter IV and other P2P matchmaking games that use steamworks.
They will literally change it every other match to troll\stalk a person without even leaving the game via the overlay.
Please make it so they can't do this.

I can see the need for a person to change their name, but they do not need to be able to do so to troll and harass others. Limiting it to once a Day\Hourly\30min should be more then enough for a normal person that is not trying to abuse the system.

[|★DreViL★|]

+1

[ KARR™]

Umm... no.

There may be many reasons why someone needs to change their name. Add on clan tags or team tags when playing in matches, etc. Just because they want to...

If someone is trolling them or annoying them, they can get their steamid and this never changes, so they can identify them, regardless of their actual name showing on screen.

[aaronfranke]

It is true that some people need to change their name for clans, so why not simply limit it to say, 5 per month? That way trollers and harrassers are extremely limited and the legitimate users can change their clan multiple times.

[Fox]

Originally posted by Tek_Lynx:

This needs to be done, people abuse this in games like Ultra Street Fighter IV and other P2P matchmaking games that use steamworks.
They will literally change it every other match to troll\stalk a person without even leaving the game via the overlay.
Please make it so they can't do this.

I can see the need for a person to change their name, but they do not need to be able to do so to troll and harass others. Limiting it to once a month\week\day should be more then enough for a normal person that is not trying to abuse the system.

No thanks. Blocking a person allows you to see through their stalking and react accordingly. I don't know if reporting shall thwart them, but it's sad that blocking griefers makes them still able to join your games.

And you also penalize people who change names for status purposes : there are regularly people who ask for custom status and use the nick as a workaround. It won't be long before they complain and ask for a changeback.

We also have some traders who display in their nick items they wish to trade. They will pester too, especially if they catch the limit while displaying an unavailable trade. They already are up in arms because they can't see profiles through the market.

Bringing this restriction would therefore be a very bad idea, and hindering griefers for steamworks games ought to have a better solution that do not harm the community.

[GhostedMemory]

ima say this in my oppinion people dont need to keep changing their name to troll or stalk a person it just happens theirs just people who are just compleat idiots and im just saying i like the ability to keep changing names because it make things fun if your going to play in a game with a group then once your done change it back oh and another thing what if you change your name to something you think is funny but it ends up embarasing you and you cant change it back till a week or a month later

[Random Reference #98]

I don't believe an hour long cooldown between name changes is unreasonable. The few sad individuals that change their name every ten minutes to let people know the exact details of everything they are doing will live.

[GhostedMemory]

Originally posted by Random Reference #98:

I don't believe an hour long cooldown between name changes is unreasonable. The few sad individuals that change their name every ten minutes to let people know the exact details of everything they are doing will live.

ok i agree on hour long cool down between name changes because thats resionable and smart

[GhostedMemory]

Originally posted by Tek_Lynx:

30min delay would probably even be enough.
Just enough to stop these people, from getting their instant kicks from harrasing someone.

true

[Space Coward]

30 minute lock would be enough. It would fix the hacking problems in games that use your steam names, since their name wouldn't be changing every two seconds.

[Dangerous Beans]

You don't drive a nail with a nuke.

If there's a problem in Street Fighter then talk to Capcom instead of asking to punish everyone on Steam for the actions of a small group of idiots.

[Space Coward]

Originally posted by Tek_Lynx:

Originally posted by Dangerous Beans:

You don't drive a nail with a nuke.

If there's a problem in Street Fighter then talk to Capcom instead of asking to punish everyone on Steam for the actions of a small group of idiots.

Its not a problem with SF its every steamwork game that does 1v1 matchmaking in the same style. And there will be many more that use it, so this needs to be fixed.
Theres no legit reason to change your name every minute, on any service I've ever used.
1hour or 30min limit on it isn't gonna hinder you.

...especially compared to other services, where you PAY to change your name. <cough>xbox live

[A-WOL-OWL]

one name for life of the account.

separate clan tag function with max 5 characters.

[Space Coward]

Originally posted by (Tuxy)Twoony:

one name for life of the account.

separate clan tag function with max 5 characters.

Not really sure about the 1 name business.

Clan tag... YES.

[Space Coward]

♥♥♥♥ no. If you want to see that, see Xbox Live. That's just plain greed, and not only is it genuinely greedy but the backlash would be overwhelming.

Clan tag gets an addition, make an undocumented change to the name system where you can only change it every 30 minutes. Hackers are going to ♥♥♥♥♥ about it, then the phishers, then the really weird RP'ers, but other than that the change would be a perfect solution.

[Space Coward]

Originally posted by Tek_Lynx:

I do agree you should be able to change your base name there can be legit reasons to do so rarely but... with a timer: 30 min, 1 hour, 1day, 1 month, whatever.

Adding clan tags not on a timer would be a bonus to offset the change. The base name after all would not change, and you can still RP with that or whatever you want off the tag.

Some servers would probably take advantage of it and make it so that you can use extra characters in the clan tag, or only show clan tags (like it does randomly picked names in Murder for GMod).