After taking time to think about it, I am hopeful this will be a balanced solution to everyone asking for an “Avoid Player” option after the original one was removed almost two years ago. I must admit, I was not honestly expecting a feature like this to be returning after so many discussions about this.
Disabled “Avoid This Player” functionality Note: The game UI option is still active, but will be removed in a future patch
Developer comments: The “Prefer”/“Avoid” player system was designed with the best intentions; however, it’s not currently performing in a way that we feel is healthy for the game. While the “Prefer This Player” option is more or less working as intended (and is thus still enabled), the “Avoid This Player” option has impacted the matchmaker in negative way and led to some very poor player experiences across the board. Although we like the idea of being able to say “hey, I’d prefer not to play with this person,” the implementation of the mechanic is not where it needs to be. We’re still looking at ways to iterate and improve upon features that empower players to reduce toxicity and harassment in their games; we just want to be sure these features don’t accidentally punish positive community members as a side-effect.
It’s going to help, but the thing this says to me is that ther eis still internal discord over one tricks. Jeff thinking that maybe people will learn, is just not realistic.
I think it will be a handy tool just to make sure you can avoid a certain player for a little while. That is what we have all been asking for month now.
Although I find I get unbalanced matches quite often anyway. But yeah I welcome this change, I just hope they increase the limit a little bit, e.g. perhaps 5. But I realise this is early days and perhaps they are keeping the limit low for now until they get an idea of how well their implementation is working.
GOOD. I can finally start avoiding the people in VS AI who are afk the entire match. idc what characters people pick in that mode so long as they, you know, actually play them.
It’s not a huge problem, I don’t see it as often as I used to, but it’s still a thing. I definitely report them, but I also wanna avoid them since I tend to get matched with the same people more often than not in that mode.
I also find it funny that Jeff is pretty much telling off-meta one-tricks to find a group to queue with because you’re not going to find matches at high elo and off-hours.
