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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-09-16 03:23 pm

[ SECRET POST #2084 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2084 ⌋

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ariakas: (isamushu)

[personal profile] ariakas 2012-09-17 11:17 am (UTC)(link)
Naw, but you don't have to be online for other people to see your achievements/trophies. They're available to view by anybody who has your ID at any time. They auto-sync to the server, and they're permanent. You can't lose them. Or fake them.

I just think keeping up the pretense that you've played a game you haven't would be a very elaborate ruse to keep up these days - a lot harder than it would have been in the past. Refusing to give out your ID to literally anyone in your entire fandom, even just for messaging, would be... pretty suspect. I guess you could do it by saying you're anti-social and afraid of harassment, or never play online and don't want to chat online with anyone ever either not even your friends, but... ...huh that would be weird and harder to maintain than in the old days.

I mean for sure I have plenty of friends who game but don't like the multiplayer - they still give out their IDs to friends so we can chat and compare score. There's a huge difference between "I don't like to play the online mode" and "I refuse to give you my ID for... ...reasons".

(Anonymous) 2012-09-17 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't generally chat over online gaming systems either though. It's not that I refuse to give my id, like if someone is really determined I can give them my id, but I just don't take use of the online systems at all so I usually just don't give friends my information anymore. I have friends that do use the online chats, but as I said not all my friends are gamers and even with those that are I just tend to tell them that I'm too busy to really keep up with the online aspects of games (which I usually am) and they can respect that.

I'm also an introvert and for me games are sometimes a way to get away from people, so even though I talk to people about the games I like the social aspect usually doesn't come until after I've beaten the game. I don't like comparing scores or the competitive aspect of gaming either, for me gaming is a stress relief and getting competitive about it would just make my stress worse.

I just wouldn't automatically suspect people of not playing games just because they don't want to be overly involved with the online fandom.
ariakas: (Default)

[personal profile] ariakas 2012-09-17 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Lol I'm not saying anyone would "suspect" them, I'm saying that eventually somebody's going to see your trophy/achievements list unless you refuse to give out your ID, ever, and if you're super active in a given game fandom but have no data or trophies/achievement's for that game the cat's out of the bag.

Which was very different from how it used to be, was my point. Not that I "suspect" people are non-players or anything (in my experience it's usually pretty obvious anyway - though most people are polite enough not to say so - so if you did play but just didn't want to give out your ID, I doubt anyone would "suspect" anything at all).