Edit your profile and privacy settings

How to change your display name, images and “About me”, make your profile public or private and choose who may follow and message you.

Published 4 Nov 2026, 13:01

You edit your profile under Edit profile. Who sees which parts of it, and who may follow and message you, is set under Privacy.

Editing your profile

Display name: this is how you appear in comments, lists and on your profile. It can be 1 to 40 characters long.
About me: a few sentences about you, your platform or your play style. Plain text only, up to 500 characters.
Profile picture and profile banner: JPG, PNG, WebP or AVIF up to 10 MB. A wide image in 3:1 format works well for the banner, for example 1500 × 500 pixels. Image metadata is removed.

Save your changes and use View public profile to check how others see your profile. On the same page you also choose your Aligator's style.

Username and display name

Your username, also called your handle, appears as @name and is your permanent address on WANTED SIX. It can't be changed at the moment. You can change your display name at any time.

Public or private

Public: everyone can see your profile with the details you allow. This is how your profile is set up unless you change it.
Private: others only see your name and your handle. You don't appear in other people's follower lists.

For a public profile, you choose individually what's visible: “About me”, gaming accounts, followers, your crew and your equipped rewards with your Aligator. You always see everything yourself. You'll find these choices under Edit profile and under Privacy.

Following and messages

Under Privacy you also decide:

Who may follow you: all signed-in members or nobody. Existing followers stay.
Who may message you: only members you follow who also follow you (the default), everyone by message request, or nobody.

That's also where you manage your follow lists and the list of profiles you've blocked.

Good to know

You can see your email address in your account settings. Other members never see it, and it never appears on your profile. You can't change it there at the moment.
If your profile is private, your choice of visible details applies as soon as you make it public again.
While your account is restricted or a deletion request is pending, you can't change your profile.

To manage gaming accounts, see Gaming accounts and connections. If a profile bothers you, you can report it. How to delete your account entirely is explained in Delete your account.

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Editing your profile

Display name: this is how you appear in comments, lists and on your profile. It can be 1 to 40 characters long.

About me: a few sentences about you, your platform or your play style. Plain text only, up to 500 characters.

Profile picture and profile banner: JPG, PNG, WebP or AVIF up to 10 MB. A wide image in 3:1 format works well for the banner, for example 1500 × 500 pixels. Image metadata is removed.

Save your changes and use View public profile to check how others see your profile. On the same page you also choose your Aligator's style.

Public or private

Public: everyone can see your profile with the details you allow. This is how your profile is set up unless you change it.

Private: others only see your name and your handle. You don't appear in other people's follower lists.

Following and messages

Under Privacy you also decide:

Who may follow you: all signed-in members or nobody. Existing followers stay.

Who may message you: only members you follow who also follow you (the default), everyone by message request, or nobody.

That's also where you manage your follow lists and the list of profiles you've blocked.

Good to know

You can see your email address in your account settings. Other members never see it, and it never appears on your profile. You can't change it there at the moment.

If your profile is private, your choice of visible details applies as soon as you make it public again.

While your account is restricted or a deletion request is pending, you can't change your profile.

To manage gaming accounts, see Gaming accounts and connections. If a profile bothers you, you can report it. How to delete your account entirely is explained in Delete your account.