How do you know ? Do you have any proof that tells afk players never get banned or is this just you making up stories because it sounds good in your head ? And for the record. Those that still afk/trolls in every game are not even fan of the game. They are just Blizzard haters that cant move on so they stay in the game they hate and make a living out of making games bad for others. If people never reports them then ofc nothing will ever happen.
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You’re taking individual examples, and then convincing yourself that they’re sweeping generalities.
What really damages the game is impatient ignorant people that distort their reality with their hyperbole because they expect the universe to also distort around their gripes.
The sort of players that rationalize chronic afk probably also sell themselves on bad lies because it takes less effort to do ‘nothing’ than to learn to skillfully play a game, or put in an honest interpretation on reading.
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Yeah, no, I’ve literally said the opposite in all my posts regarding the very flawed report system. I’ve always said that chat infractions were often unfair, as someone wishing death or cancer on a player, is punished (if reported) the same as someone who called another player “bad.”
I know, from friends who were silenced, that you can be punished even for asking a player to swap lanes, as that falls under “Telling someone how to play.” I’ve always advocated for clear rules regarding chat abuse and feedback for players, as people can’t modify their behavior if they don’t even know what they said that was abusive.
That’s enough, I don’t have to justify my position with you, just read my post history on this subject. I suspect, even if you take the time to read it, you will still insist that I “defend” this system, as your reply to me was emotional, rude and favors personal attacks over facts.
Yet it is not. I saw my friend’s email, they were suspended for “Disruptive Gameplay”, for dying too much in ARAM. I would show you the email, but as you’re aware, that would breach the forum TOS and I would be flagged and suspended.
What I’ve always said, is that that players of Hots, shouldn’t be tasked as the primary means of policing Blizzard’s community by issuing reports. Blizzard should have a more active hand in determining if players are AFK/INT for example, by using AI to flag accounts for human review.
As Hots is a dead title, I don’t expect any changes or improvements to the report system that’s in place. Unless something major changes, Hots will remain in stasis, play it while you can, and keep your expectations in check for an old game that is no longer actively supported.
People should just stop asking for major game changes cause it wont happen now. Hots is a now a finished game with now only a few bug/hero fixes done now. Cant expect they gonna listen to all the complainers on this forum when most of the changes they want wont happen.
Either you just sit back in your chair and enjoy the game as it is with a casual mindset or find yourself a new game to play. Its not that hard to make that kind of decision.
If Hots is not fun anymore then there are 100 of other games on the marked they can play instead of keep complaining about the one game they hate.
Just people that are unable to move on and just let the game be when its no longer fun.
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I have been observing this behavior too, it is surprisingly frequent, and the behavior is suspiciously identical. Which makes me believe it’s a troll farm.
In some nations, notably a big one across the ocean, they employ prison inmates in troll farms to spread propaganda. I think the defeatist AFK trolls/bots are trying to instill a sense of quitting when things are hard mentality.
Encouraging players to all give up early rather than persevering.
I have written out plenty of times how i know. Same players ruin things for 6 months, done everything possible to draw any attention to it. I just get run over be the knights that be, and banned for life on accounts i sacked to even get anyone at blizz to have to read.
Made multiple listings of games in a row over time. and have done so in another thread. At 4games in a row of 1-3 afks in a row. They still play. I get banned from forums for breaking ToS. Who’s committing the greater sin?
Yet, most people agree with you, that a player is more likely to be banned/punished for chat offenses than AFK/INT. The how and why of it all, is the actual discussion. When these forums had CS reps, they said players overreported for Chat Abuse and underreported for everything else. As I’ve said to you, I agree that Blizz should play a more active role in detecting the most egregious forms of game griefing, but we are where we are with Hots.
Some good news for you, just as when someone is punished for AFK, you won’t receive an email, or any official word from Blizzard, it would seem Blizz is cleaning house nonetheless.
an amusing anecdote of my own, in my earlier aram games one of my allies asserted that a ‘player’ ruined their previous game with intentional feeding. In this game, they had the lowest deaths on their side.
Granted, they may still be ‘ruining’ the game with disruptive conduct, but players on my team said they reported him for feeding, and he was clearly not feeding in that game. So that may yet be another occasions of people thinking that reporting ‘does nothing’. If a blue reacted to that, they might see it as a false-positive by skimming report and comparing it to actual number of deaths.
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So you have thier names written down and are tracking them down every day you are playing to check if they finally got banned ? Or maybe you just got into another game with another thrower you never played with before and then assume afk reports dont work when you dont even know how many reports they had the past months ?
Again all people have to report him for afk not just you. Just because you have seen someone you reported 6 months ago not banned yet does not mean report system dont work. Nothing happens if its only one who report each match. Alot of people have to do it before its flags him in the system to prevent individuals from abusing the system.
If only your report did the trick then every troll in the game could get everyone banned.
Depends what you did to get banned. Admins can ban you if you dont follow the forum rules and other people can flag your post if the post is irellevant to the topic or you are using abusive language. I dont see any civil posts gets flagged so if you have been banned then you likely deserved it.
This is so very true, and my prediction is those calling for more automation to detect AFK/INT players, will be the very first here to complain how they were unfairly punished by such a system.
Speaking of amusing misunderstandings in games. When watching back a replay, I’ve often discovered people having a “conversation” with me, despite my chat being disabled. Some of these people thought I had said something to them, but they confused me with another player on my team, so they continue this one way conversation.
I only mention that as it speaks to your point, if some players get confused by something as simple as who is speaking to them, I don’t trust those same people to make the distinction between a player who is simply dying too much because they are playing poorly, over someone who is intentionally doing so.
Nobody denies this is happening, in fact many of the people you claim “defend” such behavior, have posted clips and screencaps of players who have been throwing for six months, or who have cheated.
As we can’t name and shame on these forums without being banned ourselves, just what else do you think the 10 or so random forums members can do about this situation?
enemy team is statistically more likely to have these trolls than you. just become thanos and win the 4v5 anyways or better yet find a stack.