With all the rage quitting controversy that's been going on, I wanted to touch on something a lot more egregious and vile system Nintendo, Namco and daddy Sakurai have put in place in Smash 4.
The game has a soft ban feature that acts without the person actually knowing they have been banned. One might think it's a good thing that terrible users would get reprimanded for their rude online behavior, but sadly Smash 4 has a terrible reporting system, in which you can just click a button after a match to report a user, but without any sort of explanation or evidence as to why.
So here's what happens, salty for glory users, even salty for fun players (taunt parties really make me question humanity) reports other players for being better players, playing "annoying" characters or whatever else. So Nintendo has put in place a system where asshole players can ban other players without any legitimate reason. Get a few reports on your name and presto you're soft banned.
What is being soft banned? It's simple, the game puts you in a separate server that groups you with other players that have been soft banned. So this means that you're gonna be waiting a long time to get a match and you'll be paired up with the same 5-6 people or something all the time for as long as you're soft banned. You can't access tournament mode either, but at least you can play with friends with no problems.
It's funny, the people you end up playing are either total assholes as expected, who are gonna be salty for whatever reason (had a guy call me a coward and what not). People with arguably irritating play styles (played a DDD who would do 90% of the match based on ledge play or projectile heavy characters or what not.) and extremely good players that were probably sent there due to salty players reporting on them.
No one knows how long this soft banning lasts, there's accounts of players being a week, two weeks or even a month or so. The game makes no mention of it, but people calling Nintendo have had representatives tell them that indeed there is a banning system in place, but (no surprise here) there's nothing they can do about it and that you just need to wait it out. It's easy to get back into for glory hell, since you already have the reports on you from before, the new quota should be smaller or something.
Smash gets like 90% of my game time, and I've been banned for over a month. I'm a polite player, never taunt, congratulate good players with friendly banter, usually ignore salty players, worst I'll do is say "stay salty" and leave after playing a good ok guy for a while and out of the blue says mean things. I'm a Samus main, and frankly a pretty good one, so it's no surprise I'll end up getting reported from time to time from salty players.
It's an unacceptable system that ruins people's online access and enjoyment because it uses an arbitriary system that punishes honest players where one doesn't have any way to file complaints other than calling Nintendo to get "there's nothing we can do about it" answer. I'm shocked this hasn't been mentioned before, I didn't know about it before it happened to me. I jokingly called it For Gloy Hell in the smash discord and somebody googled it and it's actually a widespread name for it (which I think is a bit funny.
Anyways, I just wanted to rant and vent, and I suppose I'm looking for some collective outrage to make me feel better.
The game has a soft ban feature that acts without the person actually knowing they have been banned. One might think it's a good thing that terrible users would get reprimanded for their rude online behavior, but sadly Smash 4 has a terrible reporting system, in which you can just click a button after a match to report a user, but without any sort of explanation or evidence as to why.
So here's what happens, salty for glory users, even salty for fun players (taunt parties really make me question humanity) reports other players for being better players, playing "annoying" characters or whatever else. So Nintendo has put in place a system where asshole players can ban other players without any legitimate reason. Get a few reports on your name and presto you're soft banned.
What is being soft banned? It's simple, the game puts you in a separate server that groups you with other players that have been soft banned. So this means that you're gonna be waiting a long time to get a match and you'll be paired up with the same 5-6 people or something all the time for as long as you're soft banned. You can't access tournament mode either, but at least you can play with friends with no problems.
It's funny, the people you end up playing are either total assholes as expected, who are gonna be salty for whatever reason (had a guy call me a coward and what not). People with arguably irritating play styles (played a DDD who would do 90% of the match based on ledge play or projectile heavy characters or what not.) and extremely good players that were probably sent there due to salty players reporting on them.
No one knows how long this soft banning lasts, there's accounts of players being a week, two weeks or even a month or so. The game makes no mention of it, but people calling Nintendo have had representatives tell them that indeed there is a banning system in place, but (no surprise here) there's nothing they can do about it and that you just need to wait it out. It's easy to get back into for glory hell, since you already have the reports on you from before, the new quota should be smaller or something.
Smash gets like 90% of my game time, and I've been banned for over a month. I'm a polite player, never taunt, congratulate good players with friendly banter, usually ignore salty players, worst I'll do is say "stay salty" and leave after playing a good ok guy for a while and out of the blue says mean things. I'm a Samus main, and frankly a pretty good one, so it's no surprise I'll end up getting reported from time to time from salty players.
It's an unacceptable system that ruins people's online access and enjoyment because it uses an arbitriary system that punishes honest players where one doesn't have any way to file complaints other than calling Nintendo to get "there's nothing we can do about it" answer. I'm shocked this hasn't been mentioned before, I didn't know about it before it happened to me. I jokingly called it For Gloy Hell in the smash discord and somebody googled it and it's actually a widespread name for it (which I think is a bit funny.
Anyways, I just wanted to rant and vent, and I suppose I'm looking for some collective outrage to make me feel better.
