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New Overwatch update filters "gg ez" into different, hilarious phrases

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image credit to xander cage, our very own mercy man

here's a video of it in practice on the PTR

this is hilarious and probably the best way i've seen to counter this kind of behaviour - though i hope they'll filter ggez, g g e z, gg e z, etc as well. way too common at the end of the game.

lock if superfluous i guess? think this was funny enough for a thread
 
Love the idea, but those "fake ban messages" are a little cruel.

Are they a typo?

The last couple entries on that list seem out of place.
 
This is just sad.

I still don't know if the kids are the ones writing "gg ez" or the ones getting butthurt from it..
 
A welcome addition, that phrase was never used in a light-hearted manner. It's always the abusive players that managed to scrape a win after insulting their team all game long that type it at the end of a match, and every time it sours the mood for everyone.
 
Uiki said:
This is just sad.

I still don't know if the kids are the ones writing "gg ez" or the ones getting butthurt from it..
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It always used to piss me off when I was playing league of legends, it could have been a really close, fun match and then you have a dick head saying that the win was "easy". It's really bad sportsmanship and contributes massively to an already toxic community.

I don't play multiplayer games like that any more because of how toxic the people are. Call me a wimp if you want lol
 
Uiki said:
This is just sad.

I still don't know if the kids are the ones writing "gg ez" or the ones getting butthurt from it..
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I think people who win a game and decide bring unnecessary toxicity for no reason other than to piss players off are the "kids."
 
Razmos said:
It always used to piss me off when I was playing league of legends, it could have been a really close, fun match and then you have a dick head saying that the win was "easy". It's really bad sportsmanship and contributes massively to an already toxic community.

I don't play multiplayer games like that any more because of how toxic the people are. Call me a wimp if you want lol
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Don't blame you at all. I haven't touched Overwatch since the first two weeks after release. I heard more insults and just straight up harassment during that time then I ever did during the 5.84 days of DOTA, and THAT was a fucking toxic community for a game, but it was more understandable since it ran 45-80 minutes, you were more invested. Overwatch games are over so quick it's hard to understand how people get so worked up.

I am curious to see what they've done for the summer games stuff though, maybe I'll start it up tonight.
 
I just turn off chat, even ez-ier. Can't deal with groups gloating after winning in quickplay like they won a tournament.
 
Ha, that's pretty good
It'll take half a day for people to circumvent it with misspelling/something else, but that's pretty good.
 
lol, I found "gg ez" to be pretty funny. Yeah, bragging is obnoxious but it's so simple and just goofy that I'm genuinely surprised anyone takes it seriously. I don't play multiplayer games though, so I dunno.
 
Hahah, fun and smart. Anything that brings down the toxicity/hostility level even if just a bit is good a thing IMO.
 
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