It is clear that the development team is taking note and specifically targeting any attempts of throwing to earn a small number of Priority Passes. I would consider this a fair and honest warning to all of us to make note of this, and make sure that we all work to try our best in all of our games.
Let’s keep the discussion civil everyone. I have created this separate topic for constructive discussion about this news. If you have suggestions about the Priority Pass system overall, I recommend posting it in the original pinned topic. As a reminder to anyone who was recently actioned and you feel that your silence, suspension, or ban is not justified due to unauthorized access to your account, you can appeal the action with a web ticket to Blizzard Customer Service. For any questions about what constitutes as acceptable behavior in Blizzard games, please refer to the Blizzard In-Game Code of Conduct.
Kinda depends how big the issue is after the hype of passes wears off. And people start realizing throwing for passes is longer than just queuing for DPS directly.
Could probably just have some YouTubers put out a video and show how much of a waste of time that is. To create some community consensus on that.
I can’t imagine not even trying to win. It’s as you said, a waste of time. I played for a little while last night and maxed out my passes – it doesn’t take long. And you get more for winning so…
You know how much soft-throwing happens currently right? With Blizzard doing what they do best - handling it incompetently and doing nothing about it.
Go look at Sleepy’s stream at any given time. He’s probably punching a bucket doing nothing.
This “manual ban” they claim to have done is kind of a slap in the face to the people who correctly predicted throwing (or at least a lot of soft-throwing) would happen for priority passes, but were wholly ignored by our overlords for no reason.
No, I’m sure they were aware of the very obvious possibility. In fact, it wasn’t a possibility, it was a guarentee.
That’s why they’re doing a manual ban wave. A direct attempt to discourage bad behavior.
Either way, the issue will die down in time as people realize it isn’t worth it or fun to throw matches like this, and will become even less of a problem if they decide to lower passes from a loss to one.
They did say before releasing the feature that they may end up adjusting the amount of passes you gain and/or can store.
My point is that if they could only do a trash job at curbing throwing BEFORE priority pass when there was no reason to do it - why do you think things will be any different afterwards?
There were tons of people who were throwing who did not get caught by this wave and will not in the future.
I’m positive the reason they are being so generous with the amount of passes gained is to encourage people to use the system and see its benefits. If people don’t think it’s worth it, they won’t even try it.
If people see how nice it can be to have these passes and they lower it to one for a loss in the future, but keep six on a win, they’ll probably still end up using it.
Meanwhile, those that only wanted to throw matches probably won’t continue to use it since at a single pass for a loss, it’s hardly worth the time.
Also, nice facts with people not getting caught in the ban. I definitely am going to take your word for it.
I mean, you did imply you wanted facts for me to prove my assertion that many people did not get caught in the ban. As if it needed facts.
Anyways. The truth is, this manual ban wave does little to restore my confidence that Blizzard will handle throwing properly - after all, it is all held up by another garbage system, which is the report system.
Streamers I can believe. It wouldn’t be hard to believe that they get special treatment. However, that’s hardly proof for the larger playerbase.
Also, I’m still amazed daily at how many of you sour grapes stick around here since y’all do nothing but spout doom and gloom. It makes one think that you guys hate this game!
