He got banned from hots for alleged “afk and feeding”.
I’ve played with him, even though i rarely ever give up, he gives up even less and never rages, so the feeding thing I highly doubt.
He sometimes afks for 10 seconds at the beginning of a game (to fetch some water or something, if the game loads too fast) and I haven’t ever really seen him afk to spite the team (like so many degenerate players do).
I’m going to give you, blizzard, the chance to explain yourself. Because it just seems a bunch of people reported him out of frustration and the sheer number of reports got him his status.
How does your reporting system work? Be honest. Don’t you have metrics aside “if a player reaches X amount of reports they get banned” ? Don’t you have some kind of metric to track actual afk activity? like Actions Per Minute? Screens Per Minute??
What about feeding. Is is compared to average player deaths?
Explain.
Bear in mind, this sets the tone to all your actions recently.
Can he explain why he can’t get a damn bottle of water next to his gaming station?
Must have been quite a repeated occurence to get banned in this game.
If I remember correctly, the reporting system is based on how many games go by where someone reports you. So if you play lots of games (Don’t know exactly how many) in quick succession and at least one person reports you in most of them, then you’d get banned.
You can appeal the ban if you wish by submitting a ticket to Blizzard’s support, but if your friend actually did go AFK in the middle of a match to get water, I think they’ll probably uphold the ban.
And of course he can’t go refill before pushing the ready button.
Being afk ruins games it may look insignificant to you but not to the others people who have to be paired with him.
Even more if he queues ranked mode as it invalidates drafts.
Also if it was that occasionnal he wouldn’t have get banned and his ban would be some insignificant duration like one or two days.
Something tells me you do minimize the amount of time and occurences he spends being afk.
My friend will decide if he wants to appeal the ban.
I want an e x p l a n a t i o n. I wonder if it’s an actual thought out system (the ban system that is) that would take 2 hours to setup and a month to test/validate.
Or maybe it’s just a dumbass system.
It affects gameplay if a bunch of frustrated plebs can report the s**t out of you and you get banned not because what they say is true but because they were “frustrated”.
And it ain’t even like this system is working because i come across toxic behaviour such as Murky first pick in draft, blind split pushing all game (when we clearly needed backup after they pressured keep at* 5minutes), or for some tank being called out to peel more then afking in the fountain. (the examples mentioned are from ranked games).
How. Does. It. Work.
All I know for sure about the system is that it’s at least partially automated, and Blizzard keeps the inner workings of the system secret, for obvious reasons.
But I believe that your friend would need to be consistently reported over the course of many games, by a large number of different people, before the system would ban him.
Which is why a lot of people are suspicious of players who claim that they were falsely reported and banned when they didn’t do anything wrong. One person (Or a party of 4 players) deciding that they just don’t like you is never enough to earn you a ban. I know, because I’ve encountered a lot of people who I’ve had disagreements with, and I haven’t been suspended.
You keep a good system secret. But if you keep a s**tty system secret, and think it’s good. Well.
Proof?
And when you are playing solo in a game with a 4 man or a 3man in your team, and they disagree with you and “just report you” to spite you, when this happens enough times to get you banned, what then?
My argument, Your argument, are equally valid/invalid. This is why my original post was directed at you, blizzard.
The game starts 30 seconds after the load screen anyways so I doubt he would be reported during that period. If he was AFK for a more noticeable period of time after the game has started that is basically where your problem lies. Especially when allies are pinging you or asking where you are at that point. In which case there is nothing surprising about being reported. That only accounts for the games you’ve seen the behavior with.
For games where you’re not there he may have done other actions that could be deemed reportable. Either way you aren’t banned after a few reports it comes from numerous reports over a period of time so the point is that this is a repeated behavior.
I believe someone asked how the afk bans are enforced and the devs said they use automated system to detect players they then verify time spent afk and they manually check games replays to see if it is justified or not and that’s why afk bans were done in waves.
No idea if it is still the same.
Well, insulting the devs definitely isn’t going to help your case.
If you’re too lazy to open a ticket about the ban and ask the customer service representative about this (You know, the person whose job it is to answer such questions), why should Blizzard be obligated to put in the effort to reply to every rando on the forums who demands to know why they received a totally undeserved ban?
For the last time, and i mean this, I was not banned, my friend was
If I didn’t think Blizzard still has some form of integrity, I would not be here asking for an explanation. It’s not insulting to people of integrity.
A fair question.
I never said it’s undeserved. My friend, (let’s call him Barry) Barry, could have done the dumbest s**t and people might have been genuinely in the right to report him.
