Why do blocked people appear in my game?

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Just report the flaming kid and move on i thought. WRONG!! Same idiot 3 games in a row in MY team, continuing his verbal onslaught on me and my teammates. I don’t understand why people that i blocked and reported for a very particular reason (flaming and subsequent trolling) still get into my games. Please fix this garbage ASAP

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They appear in your game (and mine) because blocking or reporting someone isn’t an avoid player feature. It simply stops either of you communicating with each other.

It would be nice to have an avoid player function, but I gather the population for this game is far too low for such a feature and queue times would become astronomical. Even more so with how casual and report happy people are.

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Blocking doesn’t keep them out of your games, just makes it so you can’t communicate with that person.

If blocking could be used in that fashion, it would be far too easy to exploit in a ranked setting.

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This, if it worked in this manner people would abuse it just to not play with people they don’t like anymore.

In addition, it would massively inflate queue times as the matchmaker will now have to cross reference a massive database of block lists.

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Wrong, they tried this in Overwatch and what ended up happening was that very skilled players found themselves “blocked” to the point where they were spending 1800+ seconds to get into a game. This happened to the #1 Widowmaker player in the world, everyone wanted to avoid this guy because he was too good and so they blocked him. The matchmaker then, couldn’t find anyone at his rank that wasn’t blocked so he had to Q for hours just to get into a game.

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If you reported him you shouldnt see what he types even in next game. Or I missed something?

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Bzzzzd response: OK, we’ll offer more skins available for purchase!

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No, they would more likely think the report system wasn’t harsh enough because of “community outcry” and start banning people who they think use pings too often. Oh wait they already do that.

It’s like those end of game survey questions, they are so oblique, so obtuse I honestly wonder how they can glean any useful information from the answers.

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I agree with your first paragraph.

I think you know the reason regarding your second. Manipulating perception. Yayyyyyyyy! :crazy_face: :laughing:

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Sounds like it was working as intended and I see absolutely nothing wrong with the result. Why should that guy be allowed to walk all over lower-skilled players? If he can’t find anybody his own skill level to play with, why should lesser-skilled players be punished for that? It’s not their fault he played the game 18 hours a day 365 days a year until he became so good at it that nobody wanted to play with him.

I wouldn’t care if he had to wait 6 hours in queue for 1 game; in fact I would relish their misery. Go play another game that you’re not #1 at where people can compete on your level, if you’re so impatient. If being #1 in the world isn’t good enough for you, you’ve got far bigger life issues.

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Not sure why they couldn’t include an “Avoid as Teammate” type thing here.

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Please… tell me it was a joke response… its hard to say sometimes on the internet but i want to bellieve that it was humorous…

Because really? “its your fault that you are good and not mine that i suck! Its you that have problems because you can play and get gud and not me, who have the same hobby as you but have to assume you have no life because you got better tham me at it. Im the only one that holds that perfect ground where i can play a game and still have a life and its obviously not a matter of you being more talented or me just being terrible at it”

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100% totally serious, no sarcasm.

Explain to me why I should be forced to play with people whose skill level is so far removed from my own that it’s not even a contest? How is that fair to either of us? There is no challenge for them, and no chance for me or anybody else.

And it’s still nobody’s fault but theirs for being so good at the game that there is nobody who can match them. They will not improve from facing somebody of lower skill, and their opponents will not improve for a multitude of reasons, chief among them is that they’ll spend most of the match respawning.

I can just see it now; a Widow player, you said?

Blam blam blam, dead.
Blam blam blam, dead.
Blam blam blam, dead.
Blam blam blam, dead.
Blam blam blam, dead.
Blam blam blam, dead.
Blam blam blam, dead.
Blam blam blam, dead.
Blam blam blam, dead.
Blam blam blam, dead.

“lol GG”

For whom? Who would consider that a “good game”?

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I dont even…

I am one guy who really roll my eyes at tryhards, but if theres one place where that infamous “get gud” have a place its here…

You wanna have fun in a multiplayer despite how atrocious you might be? How about you… take a page from your own book and get a life to… you know… find buddies to play with so you dont have to settle with internet randoms?

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Because you blocked them.

I love hate and I hate love.

If you do not want to be with me then I want to be with you.

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I don’t think you are really understanding what was going on…

To put it in HotS terms: Imagine the #1 ranked player was blocked by EVERY other master and grand master level player.

Matchmaking would only have 2 options then: Pair them against people of lower ranks (which wouldn’t be fair for the lower ranked players) or just not let them play (which wouldn’t be fair to the #1 ranked player.)

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Brass tacks, you’re still arguing for badly-skewed matchups of worldwide top players against casuals.

That’s unreasonable. You’re being unreasonable. Stop being unreasonable.

If I only want to match up with people who are at or slightly above my skill level, that’s my choice. If I have to wait in a longer queue because of it, so be it. That is entirely reasonable.

So what’s stopping them from making a smurf account?

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Well, in Overwatch you would have to buy another copy of the game… Accounts aren’t free there.

Plus, is it really fair to make someone have to regain all of their heroes, skins, mounts, etc. just because they are a good player?

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In my eyes you are all noobs.

I get paid to throw.

You are the fuel.

I am the fear.

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Fair enough.

In my opinion, no, but in my defense–and this is going by the number of active smurf accounts I see on a day-to-day basis–most people don’t seem to care about any of that stuff, and most people who care about getting to the top of the leaderboard certainly don’t put cosmetics high on their list of priorities.

So I don’t feel particularly bad for them. Again, they are entirely to blame for the position they find themselves in, where literally nobody wants to play with them and, given the choice, would entirely exclude them from competition.