Fuyukai/OWAPI

Heads up: profiles will become "private by default" in a few weeks

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brakhane commented

One of the upcoming changes alongside LFG is the ability to limit profile visibililty. By default they will be private.

I don't think there is anything that can be done about it, I guess this is more of a "don't spend much time on OWAPI in the next few weeks, as it might become basically useless" warning.

Fuyukai commented

You say this like Blizzard will actually update the website

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brakhane commented

Well, it wouldn't be private if the profile would be shown on playoverwatch.com, wouldn't it ;)

I'm also convinced this new "feature" appearing right after GDPR came into effect is no coincidence.

dogancana commented

From developer update, what I understood is they will introduce 'Find a group' feature into game and profiles will be private in that feature. Do you have source for private profiles in playoverwatch.com ?

Js41637 commented

It's just logical, if they support private profiles in game then logically they would apply the same setting to the user pages on the site. Call it an educated guess.

The joke above is the Overwatch hardly ever fix/update the site as it is so they might not even do it here.

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Marilyth commented

Seems like they actually disabled player profiles at playoverwatch.com

At least I can't seem to find anybody I used to find.
e.g. https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/career/pc/Marilyth-2256
Just leads to profile not found or internal error.

jp1337 commented
Fuyukai commented

I predict it's gonna be an internal error forever now

Deleted user commented

site again functions

brakhane commented

Now that the patch is live, it's not as worse as feared, but still bad. Private profiles will hide everything except SR, Level and Endorsements