AVATARS : the new way

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MC_Crash
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Re: AVATARS : the new way

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Wow this was handled really badly. I have spend the last hour or so checking everything and changing around passwords because of your change thinking someone had my login data. How about having a prompt / popup ( similar to how you have the popup when finishing an arena game) explaining that kind of change? You guys don't know how angry i am right now having spend that time paranoidly changing passwords everywhere because of that.
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MC_Crash
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Re: AVATARS : the new way

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Also after doing some reverse image search on google i am seriously questioning if you guys thought your change through to the end. Not only do you have a multitude of pictures depicting different media and pop culture, where i am 99% sure that you did not ask the original creator for permission to use the images (leaving the free images aside), no you also have multiple depictions of real live people and celebrity's , like Olivia Wilde (picture called default-0837) and Bonnie Wright (default-0782) . Not gonna lie but that can get you into some really big trouble
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Serilo
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Re: AVATARS : the new way

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MC_Crash wrote: 16 August 2020, 01:04 Also after doing some reverse image search on google i am seriously questioning if you guys thought your change through to the end. Not only do you have a multitude of pictures depicting different media and pop culture, where i am 99% sure that you did not ask the original creator for permission to use the images (leaving the free images aside), no you also have multiple depictions of real live people and celebrity's , like Olivia Wilde (picture called default-0837) and Bonnie Wright (default-0782) . Not gonna lie but that can get you into some really big trouble
Revert (most of) these changes ASAP:
Use the previous default avatar.
People can change that avatar after 20 games played.
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Joseph2302
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Re: AVATARS : the new way

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Why would auto assigning people random images that they don't want a good idea? Default it to nothing, or to a simplified set of non-objectionable icons. But giving them some random image found off the Internet is downright stupid
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DrClick
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Re: AVATARS : the new way

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Hello,
We got your message but please get that it's a temporary fix.
Thx
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tradfer
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Re: AVATARS : the new way

Post by tradfer »

That was a surprise! I thought my account was hacked. As to the goals, I concur. But why not just assign a default avatar, one that is simple, generic, non sex, and ... boring, like the Blank Avatar that was replaced?
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Sad_man
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Re: AVATARS : the new way

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Vaya cagada eso de cambiar el avatar sin pedir permiso a los implicados, solo obtendrás quejas de los jugadores activos, evidentemente los propietarios de las cuentas inactivas no se van a quejar, por la simple razón de que no se van a enterar.
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RicardoRix
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Re: AVATARS : the new way

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Today my forum Avatar is missing.
I always had an Avatar. It's stll in myaccount, and it's there if I join I game... just missing in the forum pages.
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Xom
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Personally I'd prefer that any avatar I see is an expression by my opponent, never a random assignation.
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yoyoyo2020
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Re: AVATARS : the new way

Post by yoyoyo2020 »

DrClick wrote: 14 August 2020, 13:37 ....

There it is :
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Regards
Why not just put this one to the selection list instead of having peeps download & upload?
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