I think most people who are not out, themselves, to ruin other people’s fun would agree that toxicity is not good for this game or the people playing it. While in-game, you have the ability to speak to the other team. At best, this is used for a “GG” at the end of the game, which incidentally people usually use for that when they win. The other use for speaking to the other team is to insult and troll them.
FPS games have unpleasant environments due to them being PvP, especially in Comp. I am not sure what purpose it serves to give people the ability to goad people, screw with their heads and insult them. Because, that’s what the chat to the other team is generally used for.
If Blizzard cares about its gamers’ quality of life, the single best thing they could do is remove that in-game chat channel, and replace it with some automatic buttons that signal “GG” and similar functional messages to the other team, like you have with “I need healing” or “My ultimate is charging.” It certainly wouldn’t remove all the toxicity, but it would remove a good part of it.
Please name for me one situation where you need to communicate with the enemy team, which would somehow ruin the game if you COULDN’T talk to the enemy team.
It is also used to ask the enemy team, in the event that your entire team leaves, if you can get that sweet Doomfist achievement. Ask the five people who have it how they got it, fam. I am willing to bet they were glad they could communicate with the enemy team.
Reporting a cheater on your team. You need as many reports as possible to flag the account of the cheater.
Asking people to add you as a friend after the end of a match or invite you to their group (when you queue solo).
Asking for tips and or help from better players than the ones in your team after the end of the match.
Saying hello which is a human thing to do.
If human interaction bothers you, move on to a different game. There are some that offer no interaction at all. They are called single player games and i hear they are very good.
i had an aimbotting soldier on my team once. the enemy team informed us (because you know… they see the killcam) and we sorted it by drawing the match.
because of match chat, no one lost sr unfairly due to a cheater
Right, so Heroes of the Storm, also made by Blizzard, is a competitive PvP game where you don’t get the ability to speak to the other team, and it’s doing just fine. There’s a lot of criticism on HOTS forums, but I don’t remember seeing a criticism like yours, asking to add an enemy chat to HOTS because it’s harming the game.
I’ll lose the ability to say hello to them if they lose the ability to troll me; that also sounds like a pretty human decision.
I’ll probably do that, yeah.
I’ve never seen the cheaters on this game, so I didn’t think of that when making the thread.
I do not care about HOTS. This is OW. OW has different needs than a moba game. You do not need to ask in a moba game to report cheaters and flag their accounts, because the replay of the game exists.
Also if your feelings get hurt by trolls, mute. You have the tools available to stop this from happening. It is literally one click and you never EVER have to hear them or see their chat messages.
Simple.
In HOTS you can’t talk to other team and it’s just terrible. You can’t even laugh on dumb moment with your enemy or call him hacker out of rage. You’re locked within your team and they’re locked with you, with all your salt.
I genuinely say GG WP after every match, regardless of the outcome because it’s good sportsmanship. At worst, I’ll say WP if the game was a 5v6 or something, as I still want to recognize everyone’s efforts and making the game possible at all.
I enjoy the ability to speak to the other team. I’ve made friends with it, and because I enjoy the already mentioned GGWP. I understand wanting to fight toxicity, but I also feel like the chat can also strengthen the community if it is used well.
Here we go again, offensive words holding more value over all the good things that DO happen because we can actually talk to each other as fellow gamers and people.
There are two sides to this problem. One is the a-hats that like to be offensive, and the other is the receiving party who determines how much they will let that offend them. If we lean too much in favor of one extreme the game suffers. Not punishing the blatantly toxic people AND catering to the overly sensitive are both just as bad imo. GG is offensive because you lost the game? Give me a break.