I know OW is toxic. I am aware that players can be mean and cruel, but complete anonymity for a competitive game is not a good thing.
We may as well be playing bots at this point. The only thing we know about players is their endorsement score, which is rather meaningless.
For comp, we don’t know rank or time played. We are completely at the mercy of the game to say we are playing with real people and against people our own rank. I, for one, do not buy it. Alts and smurfs run rampant with no repercussion whatsoever.
PVE wasn’t scraped. It evolved into what we are playing now. Silent, anonymous players with zero game sense and zero mechanical skill.
What you’re going for with the anonymity didn’t work. It has made playing the game miserable. Wins mean nothing and losses mean nothing because we have no idea who we are playing with and against.
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So, you want to scrap anonymity, or at least, partly?
How would something like that be achieved in your eyes?
I get showing rank, that’s fine in my opinion, but what kind of information would be useful to you?
Make personal information available that’s set on the account, or more statistic stuff?
Assuming it’s content/data they set themselves, they could’ve simply filled in something that isn’t completely true.
Removing anonymity, even partly, could result in more targeted harassment, which isn’t something you’d want either.
Now I’m maybe jumping the gun a bit, so, what kind of information would you like to see of other players?
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I don’t know about OP but I’d like to see what heros people play most and what heros they’re best with. And we can see those things, IF they don’t have a private profile. I think we should always be able to see those things. Maybe I have a 800 hour mercy one trick on my team(and I’m more versatile than this person), now I know it’s probably a good idea to give up mercy to that player so they can provide our team the most competent value they can. I’m less likely to tilt them by taking their hero and I’m not going to handicap them by making them play a hero they just simply don’t play. I can go on and on with the examples. Additionally blizzard needs to have a unranked mode to practice as if you were playing competitive get rid of quick play altogether or put it in arcade. Quick play is massively received as a casual mode anyways, even though I’d debate that. It’s to get into the game quick, that doesn’t make it “not try” mode but I digress that isn’t the main emphasis of my point. People shouldn’t be practicing in comp they should be competing in comp and practicing in a unranked mode with the competitive rule set.
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so tell us your rank then
Nope, never.
If you’re worried about taking someone’s character, just don’t insta lock and wait until they’ve selected. If they still don’t after some time then just pick one first because they aren’t that worried about having to play a single character, obviously.
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Unfortunately any single piece of information you can surmise from a profile will be used against you out of context to troll.
Someone doesn’t like the character you main?
Trolled.
Played the game too many hours?
“Hard stuck touch grass.”
Guy who you beat really bad two weeks ago is on your team?
Hard throw
The game gives you so many statistics and metrics and people only ever look them up to take them out of context or place priority on getting high stats to make themselves look good and someone else look bad when there’s a million different ways and reasons one persons stats could be lower than someone else because some characters offer benefits to the team that are not easy to appreciate or impossible for the game to track.
Having a team full of selfish people trying to top each others stats is not going to perform better consistently than a team that does what it takes to win and uses their stats as indicators on how to better help their team.
Almost every critique I’ve ever heard of anyone make of anyone else’s stats were pointless observations taken out of context with the intent to be inflammatory.
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I have an open profile and face toxicity a lot. But very rarely does it have anything to do with information which can only be found in my profile. The only time I can think of is someone who made fun of my 55% ball win rate. I was like yeah ok what is wrong with 55%? I would be very happy if all of my other teammates had a 55% win rate on their hero.
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Just remember. You guys voted for the game we have. I want no part of that, because the things I’ve asked for are not the same as the things you’ve asked for and y’all got what you wanted. I did not get what I wanted. Did it help? Nope. Toxic people will find a way to be toxic no matter what. We don’t need the ability to view metrics taken away just because there are some bad seeds out there. Punish the people who bully and flame and do so without infringing on transparency.
The only thing I got that I asked for all the way back in ow1 was role Q. I’m still pretty happy with that, but that is about all I got.
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I know you’re trying to find an answer as to why OW is so bad, but it’s the matchmaker algorithms that are awful.
It boils down to one simple thing, the devs simply don’t have what it takes to resolve the issue so they have just put all their efforts into convincing leadership it’s working correctly when it clearly isn’t.
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You voted for the game you have, you must be “you guys” too! What a ridiculous comment.
Privacy trumps this.
Yeah we do because people cannot help themselves. They need to be saved from themselves. Far as I knew you said this was just about not picking someone’s character and I gave you the solution. You’re welcome by the way.
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I’m not part of “you guys”. I didn’t ask for private profiles. And I’m not ok with having them. I also didn’t ask for ow2 or 1-2-2.
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Rank, time played, and endorsement level. I don’t necessarily want anything else.
I don’t like private profiles but I also don’t think they are hiding any vital information behind it.
hiding ranks, I still cannot even start to comprehend. it honestly feels like they did it to hide how bad the matchmaking is but now with wide groups being a thing and it showing you the rank range of the game, I see even less of a reason to keep it hidden.
at the very least put the icon back over my hero icon in the bottom left so I can feel good about the rank I have reached.
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Gold 4 tank, plat 4 DPS, and Plat 2 support. Gold 2 open queue.
Yeah you are, you asked for role queue so you voted for the game we have.
You guy.
I agree career profiles should be public and highly informative.
People act like a toxic player will use your profile to flame you. Believe me they would have flamed you regardless of being able to see your profile, they were just looking for ways to do it anyway. If your profile was private they would just use other derogatory remarks… Your private profile isn’t protecting you what so ever - but it is IMO reducing peoples ability to measure themselves against other people in their rank range, or see peoples hero choices and consider counters before coming out of spawn etc.
Back in the day I would check every profile I could before we even left spawn doors to decide what hero I’d play.
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Nope. I asked for 2-2-2 role Q not 1-2-2 role Q. I never asked or was promoting 5v5.
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Yes, you guy. You asked for Role Q, this is the game you voted for.
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and yet you dare to talk about gamesence?
Given the ranks you’re in, you don’t need any of this. You just need to focus on what you’re bringing to the table.
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