If you are a gamer you already know how bad sore losers are. Some losers go bad that if they lose a game they will try their best (and succeed) to force you go off-line by locating your IP and launch a DDoS attack which will overload your router and force it to restart or even force it to render it from connecting at all.
Finding a user's IP is not that hard unless they use some security measures to hide their IP like a firewall to block external connections to their computer or use a VPN; which is very unlikely as that would affect a gamer's pings and latency which could cause lag or delay issues in-game.
The most common method of finding a users' IP is by targeting their Skype username, which is not a very difficult task.
This might not affect a casual gamer but a gamer who plays a lot especially the streaming ones who play to compete and make their living from it by broadcasting live game feeds on Twitch or other game streaming platforms, this affects their livelihood. To tackle that problem and secure the gaming community, Microsoft has found an elegant solution.
Starting with the latest update, Skype will hide your IP address and will keep it hidden from other Skype users. There had been various ways to do so but nothing had been easy or effective enough to save pro gamers from this problem.
This helps a lot more than you can imagine, especially now that Skype will help connect everyone with the recent update of live voice-translation which connects everyone on the planet Earth which earlier was kept aloft because of the language barrier.
If you weren't aware of Skype being a gamer's companion, this post might shed some light on how effective Skype had been with helping gamers and the gaming community use Skype as their go to tool for voice communication.
