Playher Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Today in the Arena battle, my game character faced another character with the same name as my personal name that I signed up for my account with. I have a very unusual first name, unusual enough that it can easily be used to identify RL me personally, so I did a little digging and found multiple characters in the Tower of Fame all using my first name as their character name. Not so bad yet, so maybe someone or a few people liked my name and I should be complimented. But then I looked at the character profile. These "players" were all snapshots/copies of my character at different points in time, only now with my name attached to them. When you guys do stuff like this, it not only puts your own game at risk, it damages trust in the whole genre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotless Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 What you are saying is that they use your real name in real world ?? lol why did you put your real name if it's so unique then, i also happen to have a kinda unique name for my country and i always use fake names to keep my anonymity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playher Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 @hotless If you'll remember your account creation process, you don't enter your name. It had to be pulled from my email, which is required for age verification. Are you suggesting that to play adult games we're supposed to violate the verification process by using fake accounts with no association with real names? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_shal_ Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 (edited) I'm confused - how exactly did you manage to find multiple different players in the ToF that use the same character name? Looking up players by name only finds one of them (the one with the earliest registration date). I also don't quite understand what you mean by "my personal name that I signed up for my account with". HH doesn't ask you for any personal information beyond your email address on registration. Are you saying that you've used your own given name as your character name? Edit: I guess not, although I'm still confused as to how they're supposed to have re-used the name from your email address for a character name... Edited July 10, 2018 by _shal_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playher Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 @_shal_ Sorry to have been unclear in my first post. My name had to be pulled from my email, which is required for age verification. No, I did not use my personal name for my account name. I clicked on the name of the "player" I was facing and it brought up a profile of a player (presumably in another country, that was changed) with an item configuration I was pretty sure I recognized. I typed in my name in the Tower of Fame and found another "player" with an item configuration and player profile (outfit, girl chosen) I definitely recognized as one of my past configurations. Again, they were listed in different (now 3rd) country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_shal_ Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Are you sure it's not simply a case of your name being rare for your country but more common elsewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben9 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Honestly this sounds like coincidence to me, there aren't that many different items or outfits or girls, so its easy to think another player looks just like you did at some point. Without knowing how unusual your name is I can't really comment on how likely that is, but you could check the start date of those players and see if they were created before or after you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playher Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 (edited) Respectfully, Without pigeon holing myself, let's say my folks were very creative. I suppose my name could be popular somewhere else, and indeed it is, I checked with Mr. Google, and he said the name suddenly got popular in the generation after mine (he didn't say where), my bad. I can't possibly have certain knowledge that it isn't. Or I could have checked with Mr. Google in the first place. But all the accounts had the same creation timedate, so I'm skeptical of your alternate explanations ( I know, my bad, I should have stated so in the original post, I was miffed at the moment) I leave it to Kinkoid to verify my assertions and address the issue, and I anticipate a timely and professional response from them. Nope. I read it wrong, off by a digit on one, and I can't find the other account again. Edited July 11, 2018 by Playher punctuation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotless Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 (edited) I don't remember how the account registration happens because it's been 8 months since i became a member, anyway in the email i put the same info as everywhere, i use fake names but as for birth date i put my birthday which i don't have a problem revealing it so i put my true age in age verifications. Edited July 10, 2018 by Hotless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben9 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 1 hour ago, Playher said: Respectfully, Without pigeon holing myself, let's say my folks were very creative. I suppose my name could be popular somewhere else, I can't possibly have certain knowledge that it isn't. But all the accounts had the same creation timedate, so I'm skeptical of your alternate explanations ( I know, my bad, I should have stated so in the original post, I was miffed at the moment) I leave it to Kinkoid to verify my assertions and address the issue, and I anticipate a timely and professional response from them. That does sound strange. Its rare for Kinkoid to respond directly here on the forums, you'd have better luck catching one of them on discord or emailing them. Take screenshots to show them, if you didn't already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playher Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 @ Hotless Good to hear you're honest about your age where it comes to age verification. FYI (and if you already know, then for anyone else reading this thread), even when you put in a fake name when you get that email address for your fake account, that hardly keeps you anonymous. When gmail (etc.) sends that verification text to your phone, your cover is blown. (for example see https://veratad.com/solutions/age-verification/) I know Google knows more about me than I do, but without my explicit permission, I don't expect them to publish my name and recent purchases for public viewing. I expect spectators to watch what I do when I play Fortnite, etc., but even though I don't read the E.U.L.A.s (like everyone else) and I know they have my real name -certainly after any credit card purchase- I don't expect them to publish my RL name in association with my PvP character. It's uncool and bad for business. And that's what this issue is. What's the advantage to Kinkoid, the player community, or me, of a public linkage of my RL name to my account activity? I'm just going to assume it's either a goof by Kinkoid, or the mischief of some hacker not associated with them, and either way they'll want to address it. But yes, I concede your point, even though it's not much of a barrier to the skilled, I should probably use fake accounts to prevent the misuse of personal information. Maybe read a bunch of E.U.L.A.s and General Statutes to make sure I don't violate the any laws when I use them... Or, I could find other games to fill my Trivial Entertainment needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playher Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 @ Ben9 Thanks, but can you please tell me, exactly, what email address I should use, or how to contact them on discord? I thought this was where I should post something that they would read. I've kind of exhausted my interest in investing further effort in this issue. Heck, if you know a better way of contacting them, feel free to send them a link to this thread. Y'all have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chthugha Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 I would actually like to see the screenshot myself You say you found "someone else" in the ToF, so you can just post a screenshot of that account and a screenshot of your account in here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playher Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 Thanks Chthuga, I appreciate the sincerity of your request. I'm happy to comply. However, methinks if I post a screenshot of a character using my [real name] here in the blog under my [player name] it would constitute a public confirmation, by me, of the linkage between my player name (Playher) and my RL identity, when so far as I know, at this moment I'm the only one to have connected the dots. Can you suggest a more secure method of transferring the screenshots to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chthugha Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 On the forum... no. So if you only want to show it to certain people, then you best e-mail the devs at contact-hh@hentaiheroes.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playher Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 Done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playher Posted July 11, 2018 Author Share Posted July 11, 2018 (edited) Ok, I was wrong. Did some Internet research. My unusual spelling of an unusual name had a huge leap in popularity some 20 ish years after my birth. It wasn't on the charts until some TV show had a character by my name. The name's still quite uncommon where ever I've been, -in half a century I've run in to 4 people with the name and just one person with the same spelling) . I didn't screenshot the account that I was confident had the same creation date as mine and I can't find it again. The two I did get a screenshot of are almost the same creation date, but off by a digit. And I'm not the only one who could have played the lottery until they got a full max matching legendary outfit and selected the optimal girls for my player type. I'll just go soak my head in a bucket. @Chthugha Thanks for listening. Feel free to close or delete this thread. Edited July 11, 2018 by Playher afterthought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chthugha Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Okay, closing this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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