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Overwatch trolls will face tougher penalties
- Thread starter LelouchZero
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DouglasteR
Member
Promises.
I want to see actions.
In the end, theres always a Hanzo shooting a wall.
I want to see actions.
In the end, theres always a Hanzo shooting a wall.
Royce McCutcheon
Junior Member
Fuck that, I talk trash all the time. Makes the team step up. Don't punish me for thin skinned people who can't mute folks. Grief is a whole different matter and should be a bananable offense.
It would be nice to get a notification stating that a player you recently reported for this kind of conduct got banned.
LoL uses (used?) this system and it felt good seeing the report make some sort of difference. As it is, I sometimes take the time to report a player if they are spewing racial slurs or harassing a player but i sometimes don't bother.
LoL uses (used?) this system and it felt good seeing the report make some sort of difference. As it is, I sometimes take the time to report a player if they are spewing racial slurs or harassing a player but i sometimes don't bother.
ZeroGravity
Member
On one hand, it's about time.
On another, they promised this months ago and this is the best they can roll out with? The rest is still months away? They've been ridiculously slow at responding to this sort of thing and it's actively harming the game's environment right now.
Not to mention they've been saying a console reporting system has been coming forever now and we STILL don't have any sort of firm date on it.
On another, they promised this months ago and this is the best they can roll out with? The rest is still months away? They've been ridiculously slow at responding to this sort of thing and it's actively harming the game's environment right now.
Not to mention they've been saying a console reporting system has been coming forever now and we STILL don't have any sort of firm date on it.
People are allowed to have thin skin and enjoy a video game. Not everyone is as "strong" as you.
If you can't play a game without being negative in tone, you have more underlying social issues to focus on.
Good. It was also weird to me that they feel that saying "gg ez" was bad enough to word filter but significantly worse things don't get filtered and require action from the users to report it. It's hard to filter voice chat but typing derogatory slurs should word filter and automatically send a report to Blizzard the second that shit hits the chat window.
Snkfanatic
Banned
Enough talk, let's hear about some solid plans you have to attack the toxic community that seems to be getting worse and worse in Overwatch.
Get over yourself...seriously.
Get over yourself...seriously.
Visit Reddit, people are talking about how they (or someone they know) were banned today for 24 hours. Example.
Vital Tundra
Member
They're going to do that. They are basically going to be doing exactly what Dota or CS do.
So basically let me be an asshole because there is NO other way possible to get your team to step up and pull through the match.
Royce McCutcheon
Junior Member
I use it as a coaching technique
Oh gimme a break. If you're taking it to the point the game is no longer fun then you deserve what you get. Every belligerent ass hole says they're just trash talking.
Nope. People is'nt obliged to hear your bullshit because you don't know how to act as an adult online.
Good intentions from Blizzard here, let's see it it's not just PR talk and there's actions behind.
Positive reinforcement is always better than negative.
What a leader, hahaha. Oy. I always found talking trash in a video game to be weird. I always imagined someone talking trash in a game to be someone who would never do it in real life against someone standing next to them.
Anyway, this is all talk by Blizz.
You sound like the dad that people don't talk to after they move out.
I mean.. some people just want to relax and play a game without having shit slung their way? I don't want to deal with someone talking trash to me when I'm just trying to unwind and push a payload.. also as far as "thin skinned" goes, a lot of people deal with depression and anxiety, and insulting them or belittling them won't benefit them in the slightest, even if they can "just mute someone" the damage is already done and their mood has likely already tanked
OT: Glad to see they're taking an active approach to combat a lot of the toxicity in the community, it hasn't reached MOBA levels yet, and if they can nip this in the bud and minimize a lot of the harm being done online, then more power to them, especially being notified when someone you reported has action taken against them.. a lot of the times you won't know if someone you reported has been looked in to, it's just a "hope for the best" scenario
Neuromancer
Member
How about you be a good sport and not an asshole?
It's not working.
RecRoulette
Member
It's pretty sad how much this season of Overwatch has broken people. Granted there's a lot of other good games out there, but a lot of folks I know completely fell off.
I don't think anything in this season is particularly egregious (maybe nerfing Roadhog into oblivion, but it's just his turn in the hole), but the last year has been slowly building up and this was a breaking point for a lot of folks (myself included).
Snkfanatic
Banned
No, it makes a good number of people you attempt to "coach" instantly mute you or just flat out refuse to assist you because you are being an asshole. You are not helping anyone, you are contributing to the toxic environment.
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
Being an asshole is different than Trash talking.
Are people really becoming so soft that Trash talking is not allowed anymore?
Are people really becoming so soft that Trash talking is not allowed anymore?
so you're the asshole who makes casuals feel like shit
Way to be the leader of the group
good to know
OT: I'm all for any improvement to the overwatch reporting system
Gentleman Jack
Member
Well that didn't take very long...
Keep telling yourself that
benicillin
Banned
I'll see if this actually does anything before I really hop back into Overwatch.
Trash talking quickly escalates in to someone raging. You might be good natured about it, but let's be real, most people out there aren't.
I grew up playing online games so what people say doesn't bother me too much. But there are people who straight up harrass others. Particularly women getting harrassed just for being a woman playing a video game. That shit needs to be stamped out.
Most people can't stop trash talking once started and just keep going to the point they're a an annoying ass hole or worse as often happens and when its to your own team mates its even less desirable. I just mute anyone like that.
Verbal abuse and harassment have always been against the rules. If you don't like the rules, don't play the game.
Eh, trash talk is usually reserved for people who know each other or have some kind of social connection in most settings.
Gaming trash talk is usually pretty awful because anonymity makes people awful.
Ex: Trash talk in a pick up basketball game with strangers "Nice brick, you building a house! Haha"
Trash talk in video games "You're the reason abortions exist."
Gaming fucking suuuuucks. I almost never go in team chat because it's just people with no social experience.
Vital Tundra
Member
Instead of talking shit to your team mates you should use encouragement. Never has it worked less than making people feel like they aren't doing goo enough for someone else. Being positive is better than being negative. Nevermind trash talk in a video game settings is pretty different than in a real physical social setting.
These past few months people have just been done with blizzards shit. With the anniversary event having tons of legendarys that weren't permanent, to them giving double exp at the end, to the jacked competitive mode with SR gains and loses reliant on staying the same character and playing the character better than others, to one of the biggest nerfs to a character that really didn't need to happen as it did. We are in the grwoing pain stages of the game and I think Blizzard will sort it out over the coming months because its clear what they are trying to do, isn't working for the fanbase.
You tell them dude! Internet only the strong are allowed to survive!!!! Trash talking is such an important part of playing the game over anything in the game itself. God forbid teamplay, if someone want to be a jackass you just gotta deal with it, mute everyone and play in complete silence and with no coordination whatsoever
Jesus.
Is it? When you keep bothering someone to tell them how many times you fucked their mum last night, ain't you being an asshole by proxy.
Yeah, you tell 'em, 36 Chambers! All these soft punks!
Good.
You think your "coaching" is noteworthy, how? Can I get some receipts on your skill and knowledge?
If your goal is to frustrate, annoy, insult and etc. then yeah you are an asshole.
But in order for the kid to be able to move out... it implies that dad successfully raised the kid to be able to achieve financial independence in a rapidly changing volatile economy! Vindication!
i jest
Talking trash with your buddies is fine, you know eachother and it's usually friendly ribbing, random people on the internet? you don't know them or what they're going through
& Maybe it's that people are becoming more sensitive and empathetic to those around them, and realize they don't actually gain anything from belittling others, but would rather encourage and teach people who are performing poorly in a positive manner, so that person feels good about themselves and wants to rise to the challenge, instead of spiraling in a mess of negativity and ultimately dropping out of the match, going afk, or quitting the game entirely
LordKasual
Banned
The more popular competitive games become, the more this is going to be an issue.
The mere fact that "GGEZ" has become a bannable offense in most games is a bit troubling to me.
I mean some things are genuinely assholish and shouldn't be condoned, but there comes a point where the crying is just a circus
What is the point with this? What does this give to someone who says it? Isn't the purpose of this to be genuinely an asshole?
Exactly. If you are both "into the joke" go ahead.
Validation that they aren't getting somewhere else in life.
It's just self gratification. Temporary and empty, and they can't stop once they start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9U_C_q6WcU&list=FLW0Pxle6RGaN-xl6kbYNbJA&index=10
Seriously, I'll believe it when I see it.
Seriously, I'll believe it when I see it.