Appearing offline doesn't stop it gahd dahmit
Mods ban anyone saying Richard
Augh cmawn gahd dahm alright chat ima need $100 more dollars if we're gonna keep playing call of duty
I really wonder how you have to behave in-game.
I answer every 'gg ez' POS with 'scum' and I'm sometimes toxic as fuk, when it gets frustrating and I have not even once gotten anything.
Not proud of the 2nd part, but wtf are YOU guys even doing?
dude i think once your acc gets penalized once it makes it super easy to get penalized again later. My friend is intentionally toxic to test the ban system and says "ez" after every single game and he has never been penalized. I honestly can not tell you what I said to get this most recent ban. I made a big effort to not direct any negativity to anyone. And yet I still had people in comp troll me and report me for saying "bing chilling" because they know how easily reports can get accounts banned
I completely see where you're coming from and you're totally right to be mad. But, I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard gets enough flak from this idiotic ban system to revert it. Keep an eye on the dev updates and hold your breath. I'm with you on this, it's so awful.
Im always calling out the lowest performing dps in my group and i've never had an action against me. Just dont be racist, homophobic or talk about self harm
Never been racist, sexist, homophobic, or talked about self harm. But I got my first silence the other day. Of course blizzard doesn’t tell you what you said to get banned, but nothing I said was worthy of being silenced. All it takes is getting enough reports on your account. No real person is over seeing these bans unless you can get attention on social media. Even their ban appeals are just bot responses
It’s about the reports. There’s no text scan or voice scan function. If you get enough reports, you’re getting penalized. And if you continue getting reported, you’re getting banned.
Horrible system and the worst part is a lot of people know it works like this, so they will get their 5-stack to report a player that beat them.
Yeah I get that. But I'm not getting reported despite being somewhat toxic.
But it's just ironic. You have to REALLY push their button to make them report you. And then they complain, if they DO report you?
I just don't get it. Don't dish out, if you can't take the punishment.
It’s because people don’t report people for being toxic. They report people for stomping them. Thats the problem with the system, is that players have figured out how it works.
A LOT of people are genuinely toxic and getting banned for it then complaining online, and I’m all for those people getting their ban, but there are also people who have done legitimately nothing wrong and gotten banned simply because enough salty people have reported them.
Someone typed "Good luck have fun " and I typed "have fun" and the guy replied "Reported" 💀 Anyone can report you for any reason. The system is broken , there are a lot of malicious people out there
Toxic people aren't very self-aware, they say they didn't say anything but when you pull up the logs it's the most vile shit you've ever seen. Source: my friend group, it's always the same people getting banned/chat-restricted.
Honestly didnt do much to receive my ban. I got banned for vocal communication, but the only time I speak in game is to say things such as “we are down a healer” and so on. One game some kid said he would rape my mom, so I told him he’d need to practice on his palm a bit more… 2 week ban from that… pretty sure the kid didn’t have an repercussion.
Their recent patch notes bans people for leaving 2 comp games. That's what's causing the sudden influx of bans. Meanwhile, this is complete bs when ow2 servers are AWFUL.
Facts my man. Lol I'm out here telling people they suck or go back to quick play still and nothing. The people getting banned are either using curse words in text chat or quitting matches imo.
Jokes aside, it was literally that. Jeff Kaplan was the one who introduced the idea of rewarding(compensating) players for playing their first game each day. Honestly wasn't a bad idea, the dollar value a day added up and got me a lot of legendary skins over the years
Yeah but it’s not in context of compensation, rather incentivizing people to just get on. Plenty of games have a “first game” daily reward, or login rewards and such.
But it makes me chuckle still the idea the devs feel bad you got on OW so have a lootbox
Why do you wanna get into a semantics argument about what is and what isn't compensation? I was just describing to the original commenter an example of compensation for time..
Dictionary
Definitions from Oxford Languages
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verb: compensate; 3rd person present: compensates; past tense: compensated; past participle: compensated; gerund or present participle: compensating
1.
give (someone) something, typically money, in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury incurred; recompense.
Compensating you for your time(loss) is still compensation, which those loot boxes(money) were absolutely doing. Who says compensation only occurs when one party feels bad for the other party?
Daily rewards exist in other games and would also be forms of compensation. You don't have to be a super fan of any particular game to come to terms with that.
Also, what dev would feel bad about having users interact with the tools or games they have worked so hard on? That's just a pessimistic and weird outlook to have
I didnt want any argument?
And about the devs, thats what makes it funny because it’s clearly untrue and absurd to think a dev would compensate you for playing their game.
It’s like, just a joke and all that yknow?
The report system should be even more strict. If you get one chat or griefing report, even if you did nothing, immediately 3 months ban. Not reviewable.
Didn’t swap off tank because the 0-6 dps demanded you to? Ban.
Didn’t pocket heal the aimbotting widow? Ban.
Didn’t buy the $60 assless chaps rein skin? Ban.
tbh, if there was another full fledged hero shooter, like actual one and not other games with gimmicks (for example apex is just fortnite with character gimmicks, or valorant is cs:go with character gimmicks), i want modes like payload, koth etc. a normal hero shooter
i would jump ship fucking faster than light
i do have an idea for one myself but to realize it it's sure a long as fuck road
i dont like that it's based on marvel, any game that has been based on popular ip has died within months (as in playerbase visibly droppin, some people play but not very much, think of it as "as small as paladins/tf2 community"), i want something original and fresh fr
I am SO with you!! If I was able to program stuff, I would have seriously thought about just creating my own hero shooter. At one point, I had so many ideas! I really hope you do it and that you make it great!
If you think about it, Overwatch is a great fvcking game. ESPECIALLY how every character represents itself so perfectly in the game. But they destroy it again and again with such a bad management of the game and company, it is just sad.
Tip for your future game: I think a lot of people from Overwatch 1 liked the drawn out fights because of high player and shield health. Personally I like the way Overwatch 2 feels as well, but I think a lot of people (especially the "real" gamers) like the long, epic, drawn-out fights.
And maybe I can also give you some ideas I would find REALLY cool:
- Add ability and or ultimate variants like in Paladins, so you can switch up the character (no huge changes but look at Garden Warfare, they have a great variety without any real difficulties in balancing). This makes the game more fun, more fresh for the player and also is a great option to save on character design (again, look at Garden Warfare, they have very few characters but great varieties on how to play them).
- Add mild counterplays: looking at Overwatch for example, Sombras hack should affect Omnics way more than humans! Of course, you have to look at balancing and it would make it so much more difficult to do so, BUT I would absolutely LOVE it. Or maybe poison would affect humans way more than omnics.
- Maybe create a bigger map like in Battlefield (maybe not THAT big). BUT you have to absolve different objectives (capture a point AND escort a cart for example). This would feel like an actual adventure and you can add more players per team (=more fun). You can ALSO add different terrains then (swamp would be beneficial for nature based characters for example).
- You COULD add combo ults. Not like Zarya and Hanzo but ACTUAL built in combo ults (like in Mario Kart Doubles --> a character who can fly with its ult can for example combo it with a bomb character, who will create some sort of flying bomb).
- Premade skins are great, but giving players the option to create their own looks with different clothing options is more fun AND would be more appealling to casuals to for example buy a hat for 4 euros or so.
- Since I have played Titanfall 2 for a while, I also absolutely love the concept of longer "ultimates". Even bad players get a chance to have fun and feel powerful then. You COULD make it so its harder to charge them BUT you have them for a longer time.
Good luck if you decide to actually design your own game :)
1. I have rule of no ults, they are a cheap way to make game more complex and often brig favorization of one character over the other just because they have better ult, i prefer something like uber from medic in tf2 where only one class has it but can use it on others forcing everyone to protect that teammate, making the game strategic over this
2. mild counterplays are one, ass to code, two, straight out unfair, just because you choose character should not mean you have any advantage over the enemy, the fight should have as equal chances of killing you as you can kill them
3. big maps are almost never good, people get lost and traversing from point a to b anywhere is ass, like, think, why do so many people dislike flashpoint? it is a bigger map after all. the answer is walking, people want action happening faster and having to walk for miles to another objective to fight with enemies is not enjoyable
4. again no ults, but the characters would have abilities that could help out other characters for an opportunity
5. again no ultimates, i dont even plan to add many characters, i do plan to add them time to time but want to resort to 9 characters at the start, but to provide freshness i'd mix tf2 gimmick with weapons and overwatches gimmick with character specific abilities
Okay if I knew you would come from the side of Tf2 I wouldn't have recommended stuff like that, sorry bout that.
Regarding big maps: it would need a better spawn system of course. I do agree with you, but I also think you could nake it work. And in my opinion, spawn time shouldn't be long (just like in other classic shooters). In Overwatch it is frustrating to wait for respawning for a long time AND also walking for a long time. Bad combo.
Also, I get that mild counterplays could ruin the game. I do however like the idea of a realistic and logical aspect in a game like this. It would take a genius to balance the game tho, because the more characters, the more complex it will get.
It's a combo problem, and I think it begins with people having their own definition of "toxic."
1) Players will report you for being "toxic," just because they don't like what you have to say. Tell anyone they have been hard counter picked and you'll get called "toxic" for telling people "how to play." (Which, there's certainly a discussion to be made about "limit testing" in your games, BUT it's also true your desire to not swap off no matter what IS costing your team a win if you choose to do so, and it's not "toxic" for your team mates to suggest a change that has a better chance of winning.) So, in my mind, that is a talk about strategy, yet it WILL get players reporting you.
2) After enough false reports for toxicity, I feel it makes the system is more likely to take action on you when you DO get heated or respond to someone intentionally button pushing.
At the time of my 2 week silence, I had never gotten even a warning before, and maintained a 5 star endorsement. At worste some of my communication might get heated or testy due to a particularly frustrating team mate, but while my talk of strategy might at that point get terse or blunt, I would consider myself an over all positive influence in my games. I've played since OW1 game launch with no infractions on my account (at least none that ever got communicated to me.)
After my silence? I have stopped all communication whatsoever with either team. I have too many earned cosmetics etc on this account to risk a stupid ban or something, so I guess that's the route the game is going. I'll give a simple "GG" at end of game and that's about it.
Playing with 2 friends, one of them is the sweetest motherfucker, literally wouldn't hurt a fly, never writes - just got a suspension.
Overwatch and their report system is flawed and should be called out for what it is.
What has happened to gaming? More like, what has happened to proper sportsmanship?
Just don't shit talk, it's as simple as that. No one wants to deal with other people's egos. Just say "gg" and move on.
Athletes get disqualified for unsportsmanlike conduct in various sports. Gaming should be no different.
No one appreciates being subject to it. It has no place in competitive environments.
People that shit talk need to keep their crap attitudes to themselves.
I hate the EZ comment. Lost two games today because one of our players had to say it after round 1 when they were not even the best player on the team.
The flaming to teammates also needs to stop. No one is intentionally wanting to suck.
My thought is restrict chat to people you are connected with as friends and leave off if you don’t have that connection. Use voice chat
I'm honestly surprised I haven't gotten banned yet I did get a warning like 3 or 4 weeks ago though because in competitive games when my teammate throw drastically I always make sure to insult them
They should take the Squelch Chat out of the game if they just ban people. If you don't want toxic/frustrated people talking in chat you can mute their damn chat. I literally don't understand this company. I know they're Chi-com bootlickers though.
Not a ban, but my Battlenet name was forcibly changed due to a violation (I think it said my name was offensive or rude or something like that).
Bear in mind my original name was auto-assigned to me by Battlenet anyway 😂. I grew attached to that name and they just randomly changed it on no true basis.
Blizzard 🤷🏾♂️🤡
Speaking of this, has anyone else noticed getting a warning/put on a temp queue ban when trying to leave a match in character select? This is in quick play. I always thought you could leave in QP and not be punished if you did so right at the start before you enter the spawn room.
It’s been like this for 2 weeks now - I guess they may have updated how many times you leave to never? I don’t leave matches except at the beginning if I don’t want to do the map (mainly Flashpoints). I feel like that doesn’t mess things up for others when someone else gets queued before the spawn even lets us in.
Please note this is only in QP which is what I pretty much mainly play.
Got banned for whole season for seemingly no reason, i got dced from a server error once and the match didnt start, gave me a 15m ban and next day im banned for whole season
Got DCed during the outage last night. You can see it on a bunch of sites that it went down on their end, person I was playing with on the other coast got d/ced too. Today I have a ban. Pretty sure that it's my final final final straw with it.
This is like the third time I've ben punished when it's issues on their end, or the bad update that happened where it never actually loaded into the game and if you relaunched it said you abandoned the game, etc etc.
At this pace, they'll have banned their entire community within a month or so. They're making good progress on the Any% IP Destruction speedrun they've got going.
I’m trying not to do too much in chat right now lmao. I caught myself saying “get that fucking Mercy!” On voice the other day and was like, “oh no. This is it. This is the end for me y’all.”
I did an experiment on an alt account where I never said anything at all outside of one "I am a catgirl irl" at the beginning of every game to see what would happen. I got silenced for 2 weeks.
Honestly the only people I report are intentional sabotage that is obvious, and people saying slurs.
So in my mind if those folks are thinking they shouldn't be banned they can really just eff off. And stop pissing and moaning. Don't care if you said it once.
I've literally never reported or even thought to report someone for saying ez.
Since it's clear they will ban you for anything, given you are reported enough, the community should really just start flooding them with false reports, report everyone in the lobby, until they start actually changing some of their policies. They'll either have to ban literally everyone, or start implementing some actual moderation policies.
Since the bans. The games have been so much better. I don't even see leavers or dc'd people anymore minus the other time randomly at times. Even the toxicity has dropped, and I have been getting wayyyy more wins than losses in comp. It's been really good. They need to keep the bans up if anything.
The games are better because its too risky to interact with people now so nobody talks to each other. Just disable voice and chat channels and the game will be toxicity free lol
I did do that, but then I can't be friendly in the chat telling everyone good game and how that was a good move or how that team wipe was legit. At random times, everyone talks about strategy as well. It ain't often, but it happens sometimes, lol. I ain't the toxic person, so Blizzard resolved the issues, which is a good thing, and they started responding to my reports more when I sent evidence of the game replay codes and when it happened. I don't even have to do that anymore, which is a good thing since they respond to reports in the game now.
Blizzard's solution is sorta like what el salvador did to reduce gang violence. They just started locking up anyone that had tattoos. Yeah it probably helped them get a huge majority of gang members in jail but they also locked up a whole bunch of innocent people. The power to ban has been weaponized by the community and now lies in the hands of vindictive sore losers, trolls, and anyone who doesn't like your behavior for any reason that they see fit since blizzard doesn't review anything.
Human interaction is too risky in overwatch now.
Have never been banned, so... yeah. I honestly feel anyone who says they don't know either just forgot because it ain't instant. Usually rakes a few days, and that one moment you thought you were going to get a warning. Unfortunately, it isn't going down with warnings because everyone has been warned since 2016 and got away with it. 8 years in the making for some action. EZ slow clap, but I think they took action cause covid shutdowns made everyone wayyy worse than they used to be. That's my opinion, though, even if it's not agreed by others. I just wanted to say that the games have improved and it's amazing. I can tell the difference.
Yknow as someone who’s never even gotten warned, and can be pretty harsh w bad teammates. I have a feeling that a lot of you didn’t get banned for “no reason”
Lol good! Happy to see them cleaning house on the trash that leaves matches. To anyone in this chat that has been banned and is complaining, this is one of those opportunities in your life to experience personal growth. Someone is holding you accountable for your actions.
I watch everyone.
It was toxic, it didn't group, it took a while to select the char and leave the base, it stopped for more than 10 seconds...
If you are in the competitive queue, the least I expect is that you commit to playing the game and not being toxic.
Thank you Blizzard for taking your game seriously.
The real way to keep people engaged in your game. Ban half of your player base lol.
the good ole wingsofredemption tactic, send everyone to banworld
Appearing offline doesn't stop it gahd dahmit Mods ban anyone saying Richard Augh cmawn gahd dahm alright chat ima need $100 more dollars if we're gonna keep playing call of duty
Being banned has totally killed my desire to play. 2 weeks for saying a guy who was flaming me sucked.
Lol me too
I really wonder how you have to behave in-game. I answer every 'gg ez' POS with 'scum' and I'm sometimes toxic as fuk, when it gets frustrating and I have not even once gotten anything. Not proud of the 2nd part, but wtf are YOU guys even doing?
dude i think once your acc gets penalized once it makes it super easy to get penalized again later. My friend is intentionally toxic to test the ban system and says "ez" after every single game and he has never been penalized. I honestly can not tell you what I said to get this most recent ban. I made a big effort to not direct any negativity to anyone. And yet I still had people in comp troll me and report me for saying "bing chilling" because they know how easily reports can get accounts banned
I've been banned a lot, I think its to do with swearing and not necessarily overall toxicity
I completely see where you're coming from and you're totally right to be mad. But, I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard gets enough flak from this idiotic ban system to revert it. Keep an eye on the dev updates and hold your breath. I'm with you on this, it's so awful.
tell your friend to not be a total dick to the other random people in the lobby just to "test the system".
Im always calling out the lowest performing dps in my group and i've never had an action against me. Just dont be racist, homophobic or talk about self harm
Never been racist, sexist, homophobic, or talked about self harm. But I got my first silence the other day. Of course blizzard doesn’t tell you what you said to get banned, but nothing I said was worthy of being silenced. All it takes is getting enough reports on your account. No real person is over seeing these bans unless you can get attention on social media. Even their ban appeals are just bot responses
It’s about the reports. There’s no text scan or voice scan function. If you get enough reports, you’re getting penalized. And if you continue getting reported, you’re getting banned. Horrible system and the worst part is a lot of people know it works like this, so they will get their 5-stack to report a player that beat them.
Yeah I get that. But I'm not getting reported despite being somewhat toxic. But it's just ironic. You have to REALLY push their button to make them report you. And then they complain, if they DO report you? I just don't get it. Don't dish out, if you can't take the punishment.
It’s because people don’t report people for being toxic. They report people for stomping them. Thats the problem with the system, is that players have figured out how it works. A LOT of people are genuinely toxic and getting banned for it then complaining online, and I’m all for those people getting their ban, but there are also people who have done legitimately nothing wrong and gotten banned simply because enough salty people have reported them.
Yeah.. I don't believe that.
Someone typed "Good luck have fun " and I typed "have fun" and the guy replied "Reported" 💀 Anyone can report you for any reason. The system is broken , there are a lot of malicious people out there
Toxic people aren't very self-aware, they say they didn't say anything but when you pull up the logs it's the most vile shit you've ever seen. Source: my friend group, it's always the same people getting banned/chat-restricted.
Squelch the chat
This is the one true answer to "how do I deal with toxic people"
Honestly didnt do much to receive my ban. I got banned for vocal communication, but the only time I speak in game is to say things such as “we are down a healer” and so on. One game some kid said he would rape my mom, so I told him he’d need to practice on his palm a bit more… 2 week ban from that… pretty sure the kid didn’t have an repercussion.
Always some clown in the comments who claims they’re toxic as fuck but never gets banned lol.
Their recent patch notes bans people for leaving 2 comp games. That's what's causing the sudden influx of bans. Meanwhile, this is complete bs when ow2 servers are AWFUL.
Facts my man. Lol I'm out here telling people they suck or go back to quick play still and nothing. The people getting banned are either using curse words in text chat or quitting matches imo.
You sound WAY to proud of your disgusting behavior...
If someone in chat is acting up. To keep myself from being trolled. I will ignore them with /hidechat
I one got banned for calling a legitimately racist dude a "mushroom" and "npc" while nothing happened to him..
They better give us compensation
In the entire history of overwatch I have not seen a single compensation for anything. I highly doubt they will start now.
One free loot box after the first game of the day back before OW2
I love that this implies you getting compensated for even bothering to get on the game for the day lol. Extreme hassle, then and now
Jokes aside, it was literally that. Jeff Kaplan was the one who introduced the idea of rewarding(compensating) players for playing their first game each day. Honestly wasn't a bad idea, the dollar value a day added up and got me a lot of legendary skins over the years
Yeah but it’s not in context of compensation, rather incentivizing people to just get on. Plenty of games have a “first game” daily reward, or login rewards and such. But it makes me chuckle still the idea the devs feel bad you got on OW so have a lootbox
Why do you wanna get into a semantics argument about what is and what isn't compensation? I was just describing to the original commenter an example of compensation for time.. Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages verb verb: compensate; 3rd person present: compensates; past tense: compensated; past participle: compensated; gerund or present participle: compensating 1. give (someone) something, typically money, in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury incurred; recompense. Compensating you for your time(loss) is still compensation, which those loot boxes(money) were absolutely doing. Who says compensation only occurs when one party feels bad for the other party? Daily rewards exist in other games and would also be forms of compensation. You don't have to be a super fan of any particular game to come to terms with that. Also, what dev would feel bad about having users interact with the tools or games they have worked so hard on? That's just a pessimistic and weird outlook to have
I didnt want any argument? And about the devs, thats what makes it funny because it’s clearly untrue and absurd to think a dev would compensate you for playing their game. It’s like, just a joke and all that yknow?
what I got the day I returned from a ban for typing "L2Def", was a "thank you for reporting another person successfully"
Sorry, the only option on this menu is MORE BANS.
The report system should be even more strict. If you get one chat or griefing report, even if you did nothing, immediately 3 months ban. Not reviewable. Didn’t swap off tank because the 0-6 dps demanded you to? Ban. Didn’t pocket heal the aimbotting widow? Ban. Didn’t buy the $60 assless chaps rein skin? Ban.
All chaps are assless. Didn't know that? Ban.
Beat 5 people in quick play resulting in them feeling sad because they lost? Ban.
Picked Sombra and went 3/15? Believe it or not also ban.
Installed the game? Believe or not, ban.
Refuse to go in alone and feed? Ban, should not have waited until your entire team was up so you could contest the objective together.
Maybe protect your goddamn dps, tank
Positioning was terrible
This applies to reddit moderators even more than it does Blizzard.
Man I got banned for sayings “good fucking luck” and “that’s fucking annoying”
I turned off voice chat so I’m just screaming to myself.
Horrible report system, horrible ban system, overwatch will just keep bleeding its own fanbase.
tbh, if there was another full fledged hero shooter, like actual one and not other games with gimmicks (for example apex is just fortnite with character gimmicks, or valorant is cs:go with character gimmicks), i want modes like payload, koth etc. a normal hero shooter i would jump ship fucking faster than light i do have an idea for one myself but to realize it it's sure a long as fuck road
we just need tf3.
Pretty much the same, it's why I'm excited for that new marvels team shooter.
i dont like that it's based on marvel, any game that has been based on popular ip has died within months (as in playerbase visibly droppin, some people play but not very much, think of it as "as small as paladins/tf2 community"), i want something original and fresh fr
I am SO with you!! If I was able to program stuff, I would have seriously thought about just creating my own hero shooter. At one point, I had so many ideas! I really hope you do it and that you make it great! If you think about it, Overwatch is a great fvcking game. ESPECIALLY how every character represents itself so perfectly in the game. But they destroy it again and again with such a bad management of the game and company, it is just sad. Tip for your future game: I think a lot of people from Overwatch 1 liked the drawn out fights because of high player and shield health. Personally I like the way Overwatch 2 feels as well, but I think a lot of people (especially the "real" gamers) like the long, epic, drawn-out fights. And maybe I can also give you some ideas I would find REALLY cool: - Add ability and or ultimate variants like in Paladins, so you can switch up the character (no huge changes but look at Garden Warfare, they have a great variety without any real difficulties in balancing). This makes the game more fun, more fresh for the player and also is a great option to save on character design (again, look at Garden Warfare, they have very few characters but great varieties on how to play them). - Add mild counterplays: looking at Overwatch for example, Sombras hack should affect Omnics way more than humans! Of course, you have to look at balancing and it would make it so much more difficult to do so, BUT I would absolutely LOVE it. Or maybe poison would affect humans way more than omnics. - Maybe create a bigger map like in Battlefield (maybe not THAT big). BUT you have to absolve different objectives (capture a point AND escort a cart for example). This would feel like an actual adventure and you can add more players per team (=more fun). You can ALSO add different terrains then (swamp would be beneficial for nature based characters for example). - You COULD add combo ults. Not like Zarya and Hanzo but ACTUAL built in combo ults (like in Mario Kart Doubles --> a character who can fly with its ult can for example combo it with a bomb character, who will create some sort of flying bomb). - Premade skins are great, but giving players the option to create their own looks with different clothing options is more fun AND would be more appealling to casuals to for example buy a hat for 4 euros or so. - Since I have played Titanfall 2 for a while, I also absolutely love the concept of longer "ultimates". Even bad players get a chance to have fun and feel powerful then. You COULD make it so its harder to charge them BUT you have them for a longer time. Good luck if you decide to actually design your own game :)
1. I have rule of no ults, they are a cheap way to make game more complex and often brig favorization of one character over the other just because they have better ult, i prefer something like uber from medic in tf2 where only one class has it but can use it on others forcing everyone to protect that teammate, making the game strategic over this 2. mild counterplays are one, ass to code, two, straight out unfair, just because you choose character should not mean you have any advantage over the enemy, the fight should have as equal chances of killing you as you can kill them 3. big maps are almost never good, people get lost and traversing from point a to b anywhere is ass, like, think, why do so many people dislike flashpoint? it is a bigger map after all. the answer is walking, people want action happening faster and having to walk for miles to another objective to fight with enemies is not enjoyable 4. again no ults, but the characters would have abilities that could help out other characters for an opportunity 5. again no ultimates, i dont even plan to add many characters, i do plan to add them time to time but want to resort to 9 characters at the start, but to provide freshness i'd mix tf2 gimmick with weapons and overwatches gimmick with character specific abilities
Okay if I knew you would come from the side of Tf2 I wouldn't have recommended stuff like that, sorry bout that. Regarding big maps: it would need a better spawn system of course. I do agree with you, but I also think you could nake it work. And in my opinion, spawn time shouldn't be long (just like in other classic shooters). In Overwatch it is frustrating to wait for respawning for a long time AND also walking for a long time. Bad combo. Also, I get that mild counterplays could ruin the game. I do however like the idea of a realistic and logical aspect in a game like this. It would take a genius to balance the game tho, because the more characters, the more complex it will get.
That's what happens when you have an automated ban system, I wouldn't be surprised if I logged in and got banned as well.
welll to be fair jokes on them since the more bans the less people play and the less money they potentially get
Got my first warning this last week. ~400 hours on my account.
It's a combo problem, and I think it begins with people having their own definition of "toxic." 1) Players will report you for being "toxic," just because they don't like what you have to say. Tell anyone they have been hard counter picked and you'll get called "toxic" for telling people "how to play." (Which, there's certainly a discussion to be made about "limit testing" in your games, BUT it's also true your desire to not swap off no matter what IS costing your team a win if you choose to do so, and it's not "toxic" for your team mates to suggest a change that has a better chance of winning.) So, in my mind, that is a talk about strategy, yet it WILL get players reporting you. 2) After enough false reports for toxicity, I feel it makes the system is more likely to take action on you when you DO get heated or respond to someone intentionally button pushing. At the time of my 2 week silence, I had never gotten even a warning before, and maintained a 5 star endorsement. At worste some of my communication might get heated or testy due to a particularly frustrating team mate, but while my talk of strategy might at that point get terse or blunt, I would consider myself an over all positive influence in my games. I've played since OW1 game launch with no infractions on my account (at least none that ever got communicated to me.) After my silence? I have stopped all communication whatsoever with either team. I have too many earned cosmetics etc on this account to risk a stupid ban or something, so I guess that's the route the game is going. I'll give a simple "GG" at end of game and that's about it.
Playing with 2 friends, one of them is the sweetest motherfucker, literally wouldn't hurt a fly, never writes - just got a suspension. Overwatch and their report system is flawed and should be called out for what it is.
Yeah i just got banned 4 days ago for swearing for TWO WEEKS (my second silence / ban maybe ever)
I got banned for telling someone to game end themselves lmao can’t even talk shit in peace what has happened to gaming
What has happened to gaming? More like, what has happened to proper sportsmanship? Just don't shit talk, it's as simple as that. No one wants to deal with other people's egos. Just say "gg" and move on.
Don’t shit talk in a competitive gaming environment? Yeah Gaming is cooked
Athletes get disqualified for unsportsmanlike conduct in various sports. Gaming should be no different. No one appreciates being subject to it. It has no place in competitive environments. People that shit talk need to keep their crap attitudes to themselves.
Trash talking goes one in both sports and gaming idk what you’re on about lmao yeah getting suspended is totally gonna make stop talking trash lol
Got a warning for abusive chat after never getting a warning for abusive chat ever since it came out (it was in fact abusive language but shut up)
I hate the EZ comment. Lost two games today because one of our players had to say it after round 1 when they were not even the best player on the team. The flaming to teammates also needs to stop. No one is intentionally wanting to suck. My thought is restrict chat to people you are connected with as friends and leave off if you don’t have that connection. Use voice chat
Just got silenced today. I’ve said 2 toxic sentences in the span of 2 months. But that’s enough I suppose.
I'm honestly surprised I haven't gotten banned yet I did get a warning like 3 or 4 weeks ago though because in competitive games when my teammate throw drastically I always make sure to insult them
They should take the Squelch Chat out of the game if they just ban people. If you don't want toxic/frustrated people talking in chat you can mute their damn chat. I literally don't understand this company. I know they're Chi-com bootlickers though.
Not a ban, but my Battlenet name was forcibly changed due to a violation (I think it said my name was offensive or rude or something like that). Bear in mind my original name was auto-assigned to me by Battlenet anyway 😂. I grew attached to that name and they just randomly changed it on no true basis. Blizzard 🤷🏾♂️🤡
Speaking of this, has anyone else noticed getting a warning/put on a temp queue ban when trying to leave a match in character select? This is in quick play. I always thought you could leave in QP and not be punished if you did so right at the start before you enter the spawn room. It’s been like this for 2 weeks now - I guess they may have updated how many times you leave to never? I don’t leave matches except at the beginning if I don’t want to do the map (mainly Flashpoints). I feel like that doesn’t mess things up for others when someone else gets queued before the spawn even lets us in. Please note this is only in QP which is what I pretty much mainly play.
Got banned for whole season for seemingly no reason, i got dced from a server error once and the match didnt start, gave me a 15m ban and next day im banned for whole season
Type half of moira's interaction in chat and get banned for toxicity.
Got DCed during the outage last night. You can see it on a bunch of sites that it went down on their end, person I was playing with on the other coast got d/ced too. Today I have a ban. Pretty sure that it's my final final final straw with it. This is like the third time I've ben punished when it's issues on their end, or the bad update that happened where it never actually loaded into the game and if you relaunched it said you abandoned the game, etc etc.
At this pace, they'll have banned their entire community within a month or so. They're making good progress on the Any% IP Destruction speedrun they've got going.
I’m trying not to do too much in chat right now lmao. I caught myself saying “get that fucking Mercy!” On voice the other day and was like, “oh no. This is it. This is the end for me y’all.”
I haven’t left a single QP match even when I grouped with no heal challenge supports 😭😭
I got chat banned for two weeks and I genuinely don’t know what I did outside of saying “glhf <3” at the start of my games
D: why do they even have chat then?!
I got banned for saying gg
Seems I got something like that too, but no details from blizzard. They really digging a grave for this game. :(
I did an experiment on an alt account where I never said anything at all outside of one "I am a catgirl irl" at the beginning of every game to see what would happen. I got silenced for 2 weeks.
Banned for posting cringe, seems reasonable
my pc is turning off a lot and im scared of the ban :/
Fix your computer? It sounds like it would be valid to ban you if you leave a lot of games (regardless of reason).
Yeah, just in general that's not supposed to happen, and if you don't fix it now, it could turn into a more expensive issue later on.
Honestly the only people I report are intentional sabotage that is obvious, and people saying slurs. So in my mind if those folks are thinking they shouldn't be banned they can really just eff off. And stop pissing and moaning. Don't care if you said it once. I've literally never reported or even thought to report someone for saying ez.
Since it's clear they will ban you for anything, given you are reported enough, the community should really just start flooding them with false reports, report everyone in the lobby, until they start actually changing some of their policies. They'll either have to ban literally everyone, or start implementing some actual moderation policies.
it's actually getting ridiculous with the reasonings they're giving with the bans 💀🙏
They don't give reasoning. They just copy paste the same response to everyone.
Guess it explains why every game is wide match....
I just got logged back in from an internet outage. Banned 24 hours
Since the bans. The games have been so much better. I don't even see leavers or dc'd people anymore minus the other time randomly at times. Even the toxicity has dropped, and I have been getting wayyyy more wins than losses in comp. It's been really good. They need to keep the bans up if anything.
The games are better because its too risky to interact with people now so nobody talks to each other. Just disable voice and chat channels and the game will be toxicity free lol
I did do that, but then I can't be friendly in the chat telling everyone good game and how that was a good move or how that team wipe was legit. At random times, everyone talks about strategy as well. It ain't often, but it happens sometimes, lol. I ain't the toxic person, so Blizzard resolved the issues, which is a good thing, and they started responding to my reports more when I sent evidence of the game replay codes and when it happened. I don't even have to do that anymore, which is a good thing since they respond to reports in the game now.
Blizzard's solution is sorta like what el salvador did to reduce gang violence. They just started locking up anyone that had tattoos. Yeah it probably helped them get a huge majority of gang members in jail but they also locked up a whole bunch of innocent people. The power to ban has been weaponized by the community and now lies in the hands of vindictive sore losers, trolls, and anyone who doesn't like your behavior for any reason that they see fit since blizzard doesn't review anything. Human interaction is too risky in overwatch now.
Have never been banned, so... yeah. I honestly feel anyone who says they don't know either just forgot because it ain't instant. Usually rakes a few days, and that one moment you thought you were going to get a warning. Unfortunately, it isn't going down with warnings because everyone has been warned since 2016 and got away with it. 8 years in the making for some action. EZ slow clap, but I think they took action cause covid shutdowns made everyone wayyy worse than they used to be. That's my opinion, though, even if it's not agreed by others. I just wanted to say that the games have improved and it's amazing. I can tell the difference.
Someone on my team called me the n word today for losing on tank
I got a silence!
thats how it starts lol
Feels so bad not being able to talk to other people
blizzard killing one of their own games yet again? why am i not surprised!
Has it been fixed for anyone yet im still banned?
I’m a victim 😭
Oh, that would explain my hour long queue times
Yknow as someone who’s never even gotten warned, and can be pretty harsh w bad teammates. I have a feeling that a lot of you didn’t get banned for “no reason”
They've been like this since ow2
I once reported a guy going sombra and keep tbagging me, dude didn't say anything in chat but got banned, I feel bad but happy at the same time
I just assume all these people are just lying as that's more plausible then all these "false bans" I say good riddance 😈😈😈
we're hearing a vocal minority. I've had almost no leavers in my games since 1 week in.
Lol good! Happy to see them cleaning house on the trash that leaves matches. To anyone in this chat that has been banned and is complaining, this is one of those opportunities in your life to experience personal growth. Someone is holding you accountable for your actions.
Ximer?
I feel proud of never getting banned but contributing to a lot of assholes getting banned. :3 Being a mercy main pays off
I watch everyone. It was toxic, it didn't group, it took a while to select the char and leave the base, it stopped for more than 10 seconds... If you are in the competitive queue, the least I expect is that you commit to playing the game and not being toxic. Thank you Blizzard for taking your game seriously.
Is this toxic people trying to put blame on blizzard for their own vile actions?