When OW2 Came Out Blizzard Deleted a lot of my Career Profile data, but not all of it.
Well I just looked again and they deleted even more data recently. I now only have Season 36 Data left, and you know what I bet its only a matter of time before they delete that too.
BOOOOO. BOOOOOO. BOOO BLizzard. I know its just old data, but like why? Like Why delete data and then not even address the community.
Here’s what you should have done if you really wanted it gone.
Give the players a way to back up that data. I don’t know what way that would be, maybe you write a small app but something, and then you put a timer on everyone’s account that gives them x amount of time left before it deletes. The timer would only activate once they log in, that way OW1 players who haven’t played in a while could still have time to get their data back.
Sounds like they should monetize players’ seasonal comp data. Start it off nice and digestible, say just $1 per season per month. Oh? It’s another new season, and you want us to hold on to your last two seasons now? Well that’s just $2/month. I can easily imagine players wanting to hold on to the last 10 seasons. Just $10/month. I’d bet Blizzard would make a killing from exploiting this particular avenue of sunk cost psychology.
Then they can hike their rates a year later. Make it “just” $2/season/month. And then include 100 coins per season saved to sweeten the incentive to keep subscribing to comp data.
well bc past season stats show historical productivity. the more data points that are hidden, the more someone can say, its not the game, its you. its impossible for someone to claim that you’re the issue if you have a history of exceptionalism. likewise, its easy to say, its not the game, its you, after deleting your historical productivity.
They’ll keep deleting more and more data with every season.
If you’d read patch notes and actually care to remember issues you have with changes made within the patch you’d remember that they delete all but the last 6 seasons of comp,
meaning with the launch of S7 all of Overwatch 1’s main competitive data will be gone.
I am sorry I don’t read every single patch note or remember every little detail about this game. But good for you, I’m glad that you can remember to tell me in the nicest way possible.
Oh I get it, You with your 1400 posts are clearly dedicated to these forums, and therefore you expect everyone else to have your same level of dedication and know all the posts on all the topics. Right.
I actually have a solution for you. If you didn’t spend so much time on the forums, you wouldn’t see all the same posts and then wouldn’t be annoyed!
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You could also not respond instead of making a condeciding comment! WOW OMG!
Can you show me where Blizzard made any official announcement about this? All I found after googling the 6 seasons of comp thing is one twitter post by an OW Streamer, that said Blizzard told them so in private.
SO I get it, you have this VERY REALISTIC expectation that apparently everyone should follow that one streamer and know exactly every post they make all the time and never forget them, so that no one is surprised when your data is missing.
WOW ok well there go. It’s not like BLizzard should be held responsible for not ever announcing this or anything. NO NO its our fault the players for not doing the above.
I can’t, which is why I also crossed out the patch notes part since I saw that they didn’t mention it there.
Neither do I know whether or not they ever did respond in any official ability to the tweet / community in response to the tweet.
Yeah, they should be.
When they actually took that action, this has been a thing since the release of Ow2 and people had plenty of time to check their own account data to make sure the ‘merger’ actually has gone right.
But now is certainly too late, they won’t bring back your old data if they still have it in the first place.
Local Ow-fanboy doesn’t get their facts straight while getting annoyed by others different set of priorities, shocker.
This would’ve been the most tactful solution, indeed, but as evident by all the accounts that lost their profile data in the process of Bnet / Console account merging they already had plenty of issues at hand.
Highly unlikely that they actually would’ve managed to successfully merge accounts as well profile data stored on that account without more stuff going poof.
