Not really sure where this belongs, but a one month ban for asking for a “not sniper” in chat shouldn’t qualify for a one month ban.
My team needed more DPS to break a Winston shield and I asked, as the tank, “can we get a NOT sniper dps, maybe?” And implied we might lose the match if they don’t.
They then snapped back and said that they’d effectively rather throw on a Widow to guarantee that someone like me loses and proceeded to tell the chat to report me for being toxic. “It’s quickplay, people can play whatever the hell they want!”
I just replied that I was ok with that by we’re probably going to lose if they don’t.
I do not understand how this could POSSIBLY be worth banning my account for a month after I PAID for this seasons Battle pass. Are real people even reading this tickets to fact check the reports or are you just going by numbers? I don’t really want to get banned for 4 weeks because I DARED to ask some emotionally damaged Widowmaker to swap just to have them and their friends chain report me out of malicious intent.
Its getting to the point where I don’t even feel I can COMMUNICATE with my team without someone taking things the wrong way and reporting me maliciously over nothing. Asking someone to swap, or asking for a little more healing on a tank should NOT be a BANNABLE offense. This is just getting absurd.
In most cases, it’s more than “just asking someone to swap” to result in a month-long suspension (a “ban” is an account closure, whereas a “suspension” is temporary). Since it’s an entire month, this means it’s not your first time getting suspended. Back when the staff used to post in this forum, they would point out all the times you broke the rules and how, but those days are gone.
That said, posting about disciplinary actions is against the forum code of conduct. To prevent further penalties, you should refrain from breaking forum rules as well.
I didn’t break a rule in the first place. Maybe you should go BACK to showing me what I did wrong because at least there would be evidence to back any of this up. And yes, I was suspended for asking someone to heal me before, because apparently anything beyond “GGS!” is a suspendable “offense” these days if enough salty people report you for it.
You all have a “mute chat” function for a reason. I do not understand why suspending someone for asking for a swap is necessary at all. Been playing Overwatch since it’s original Beta and it’s NEVER been this needlessly restrictive. Suspend me here if you’d like though. There’s literally no where else I can discuss this
I wish I could. I’m a volunteer and cannot see your account. As I said in my original reply, the days of staff publicly reviewing claims of unjust suspensions in the Overwatch forum are gone.
However, I’ve been helping in this forum long enough to know that most people aren’t honest about their behavior.
There’s always the appeal process if you really believe you didn’t break the rules.
It is known that using the chat, no matter which one, in unranked/quickplay, leads in 100% of cases to a ban, whether it is justified or not.
It is known that using the chat, no matter which one, in unranked/quickplay, to communicate advice to your teammates, in 100% of cases no one will listen to them and apply them, on the contrary some will have fun doing the opposite out of a simple spirit of contradiction.
It is known that you should never use the chat, no matter which one, in unranked/quickplay, and too bad if it means that you behave in an antisocial manner, because everyone behaves in an antisocial manner and therefore it is the norm of behavior in these games.
what I mean is that my experience of the game and the forum pushes me to give the advice I gave.
I do not claim that it is the best advice and that I am totally right.
I just say that it is better to remain silent because otherwise it leads to an unfortunate situation, but I do not forbid anyone to affirm the opposite with their own argumentation.
I said how I perceive things, it is up to the readers of the topic to make their own choice.
If they prefer to be very talkative in the chat and that eventually leads them to a temporary ban, I would have done my part to warn them, the rest is up to them.
Incorrect. My account has 0 special treatment whatsoever.
And I’m saying that if communicating things like “please counter x hero” is getting someonea suspension, they should work on how they talk to other people.
However, I’ve been helping in this forum long enough to know that most people aren’t honest about their behavior.