Hots reddit is the biggest echo chamber I have ever seen.Devs used it to get feedback about the game, reddit only allowed positive feedback, devs think everything is perfect.
Every legit complaint was instantly downvoted and had same replies.
Complain about matchmaking or that is impossible to carry games when you have one potato while the enemy team does not: Confirmation bias, GMs can CONSISTENTLY carry in bronze insert bronze to gm challange , Dunning–Kruger effect
Complain you were wrongly silenced : it’s your fault you are being toxic hahaaaa I was never silenced and I’m playing for 25 years, turn off alied chat in a team based game
Tell reddit that you had enough and you will be leaving hots and many of your friends already left: Bye Felicia, dont let the door hit you too hard.
Youre the definition of an echo-chamber yourself.
Youre not original and you barely have legit criticism.
No, artificially boosting and rewarding you for statpadding is not how a proper ranked mode works.
Other than that, if it was criticism it was the combined nonsense of those who voice nonsensical complaints such as yours flooding the forum and other spammers.
Overall it was merely the reluctance of Activision to fix the game where its necessary.
HotS reddit was funny anyway. All the naysayers/discussions got downvoted (be it MM, balance or actual real discussion or criticism). Appreciation threads and “love letters” got upvoted. Memes, art showerthoughts got upvoted.
HotS reddit had very different audience. Competitive/realism was just 0.
The only time where naysayers got upvoted was when something big exploded in the scene. And even that was berated by the original reddit audience in the comment section.
You must’ve only read Reddit once or twice, that place had a lot of negativity, but it was mostly REASONABLE negativity. They understood why it’s not possible to use stats to measure individual skill in a game like HotS. They actually did a study using all the games uploaded to HotSlogs to show that having a potato on your team does not lead to more losses. That potato is balanced out by having a higher MMR person on your team also and that person is able to influence the game as much as the potato. It only seems like the potato is more of a factor because you only remember the games the potato got killed late to end the game. You don’t remember the macro plays and the shotcalls the high MMR player made to give you the 3 level lead that allowed you to win the game long before the potato had a chance to lose it. You see, the Reddit poster was reasonable and for the most part, educated.
Yes. Have to agree with you on this. It is shame that Blizzard valued their feedback more than here because it has high upvote even it is nonsensical suggestions.
The new forum changes removing down votes here made these forums look very similar to reddit. People would have been buried on the old forums for low effort posts, spiteful criticism, and mei spam. Until the recent announcement about HGC the shills/trolls were running this place too. Ever since the announcement you have seen a resurgence in posts from people where were disenfranchised but also passionate about the game who often dismissed by these pathetic trolls.
Every time I visit HotS reddit, I see a lot of usual negativity and some fluff content like clips and artworks. I don’t stay long there cuz my gawd, I find reddit format to be freaking messy.
Every subreddit, especially those for Blizzard games are nothing but an echo chamber. Blizzard has to do something egregiously bad for Reddit to turn on them.
Because of it, they outright just ignore all real critical feedback they receive.
The HotS reddit community has been a dull, silly, and not a constructive place. Obviously their positivity didn’t pay off in the long run, and it turns out it was not a good sanctuary for Blizzard representatives and developers who cared about their jobs. That said, it didn’t kill HotS. It was just a silly, positive place.
Reddit is an echo chamber by design, you have to sort posts by new or controversial if you want to see some different opinions. Sorting the hots reddit by default is nothing but doomsaying, sort by controversial and suddenly you’ll see some rational discussion, lol.
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