If you believe him then your really naive
Trolls have a grand time in HOTS. If you get triggered then all the better, because then they can report you. If you play Abathur youâll especially be familiar with more subtle forms of trolling like players hearthing back then lingering at base giving the enemy team an advantage bit by bit. My favorite is the pro trolls who will pad their stats then deliberately get caught out of position late game so they get a lengthy death timer. The team wipes in a subsequent fight and the game is lost. What better way to troll than to make people play half an hour and make them think they are going to win?
there have been posts that developers have made which make it clear why more posts are written there by them.
Mostly because due to there being more high quality topics/discussion there.
I also think you are severely overestimating how often they comment there Because youâre counting comments that the art team developers are making.
If you want to ask why the art team isnât frequenting the forum given that the art section is essentially dead, well. I think you do understand why they wouldnât there.
In the last 28 days, there have been 3 technical posts by developers on reddit. Two back to back about the matchmaking changes for SL. One about Gazlowe balanced.
in the last 21 days, there have been zero non-bug, non-artist posts on reddit.
From that point, 28 days ago, you have to travel back another 30 days or so to get anything beyond artist posts or âthank youâ.
Iâm not counting hogger/new hero interactions, as that is pretty much all fluff and not informative.
But that still leaves massive gaps where nothing meaningful is posts, and most of the posts are by artists.
Yeah, thatâs dumb. OR even if they donât happen here, take questions in a thread at least.
IF that is the goal, theyâre really bad it.
Look at the SC2 site for example. It has direct links to their reddit and Teamliquid.
My experience with knowing this game since beta:
The toxicity in this game is a direct reaction of bad matchmaking that Blizzard was never able to fix. If you put players into the same team that have a huge skill gap and the good players feel that they canât make any difference because everything they achieve is just ruined again by the weaker player that die 15 times and do questionable plays then this causes the toxicity in the first place.
It is not like this game is flooded by trolls because they like to troll. It is more like people have become heavily frustrated to lose 10 matches in a row and not being able to do anything against it because no matter which game mode you play, you always have the feeling that your own game play does not change anything and the game is decided by which team has less bad players.
If you put players into the same team that on the one hand really like to play a competitive team game (no matter which game mode because ARAM and QM are also about winning) and then those that just want to yolo around for 1-2 matches then this just will never work. Never. HotS clearly shows that. It is like opening a restaurant that both targets people that really like to eat meat a lot, every day and in masses and vegans, that donât even like to smell meat at all. It wonât work.
HotS and Blizzard is basically like the Sorcererâ Apprentice: Blizzard was unable to fix matchmaking thus creating frustration and toxicity among the players and then began to build up their reporting, silencing, suspending and banning system to deal with their own created problem which in the end even caused more harm. If people would be honest they would see that the reporting system has not made the game better but worse because nowadays you just report anyone for anything.
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alot of things in this game is trash, mostly MM, reporting and other plays afkâing
This game could have be great and lived a long life like OW, but stupid decisions after stupid decisions after âfixingâ things 2 years after, promising something that never cameâŚ
I really donât know what goes on in their offices to just divert player and game problems. Their focus looks more towards stupid aesthetics.
If management diverted their focus on aesthetics to actually fixing serious issues, then player trolling, reporting and raged players would be to a minimum