I don't know how you motherfuckers have been doing this for decades, and yet you don't know the primary demographic - nerds.

Nerds are people who are dedicated to a non-social pursuit. The QL system of prohibited aliasing, keeping stats on everything, a friends list, and a skill-matching apparatus, achieve one singular goal: to force nerds into being social.

I don't know how you motherfuckers have been doing this for decades, and yet you don't know why nerds are against being social.

Regardless of id software's absolute failings to bring in, with all of the aforementioned system apparatuses, absolutely 0 new players, they should ensure that no person is forced to be social.

There is a simple solution: make a special kind of account, in which the player is allowed to be completely non-social. That means: they can use as many aliases as they want, no stats are kept or shown publicly (with the possible exclusion of official-match stats), and the friends and skill-matching systems are disabled. It would be easy to arrange that kind of thing... you just put ?'s in place of the usual things. If you played a game with this type of player, and then you go into your profile and check out the match details, instead of a name, it would just be one or more ?'s. If you look at their account, you will only find ?'s. It would also be impossible to add the player to your friends list; and if you attempted to see their elo or skill-rating, you would again, only find ?'s.

Temporarily excusing the massive invasion of privacy that is the QL system, there is no sound argument for creating an environment in which nerds are uncomfortable. Guess what? I don't want to be your friend. I don't want to get to know you. I don't want to say, "Hi dude, it's great to see you.", every time we end up on the same server. And do you know why? It's because i'm a nerd, and I therefore have no interest in social pursuits.

Being a professional esport does not mean everyone has to become a stereotypical jock asshole. Video-games have always been the domain of nerds, and that is one thing that should always be respected.