As title said. Pretty sad where we went… also the news about bots officially aded into QP and plenty other negatives in game. Just continue Blizzard, your game went from:
The direction they’re going ends with me getting paid to play?!?
Yes, please. Let’s do that.
Nah. They are too busy suspending Streamers who mention their streams at an end of the match while trying to promote interest in the game and the drops available on twitch. They have dropped to #25 on Twitch views and down to barely 600 channels. The game is flagging and bleeding both viewers and players as they grasp as straws to rebuild . Player trust in Overwatch is fleeting anymore and is becoming stale compared to it’s competition.
This sounds… kinda personal tbh.
But yeah, if you are promoting something in chat that is spam.
Cheater get banned, oftentimes they wait till end of the season not to give the cheatmakers a heads up.
I know this from a personal experience. End of last season I got 5 thank you messages in one day, meaning people who I reported over the season have been banned.
Obviously the system has it’s issue, but if you really want to move away from cheats, then cloud pvp is the only way to go
Maybe look what the definition of what spam is. repeated messages over and over… a one time mention of username/twitch.tv Drops Enabled at the end of a match will get you suspended. Overwatch is providing the streamers with the drops for watch their stream. The streamers are promoting the game for Overwatch. It is idiotic and counter productive to suspend someone for that. Further If you look at the numbers for Overwatch, they are on a steady decline. #33 on Twitch Tracker in watched games, 600 channels of streamers who broadcast the game…in the entire world. Overwatch needs all the promotion and good will it can get.
spam: Irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the internet to a large number of recipients
And how does blizzard define it? Well I can’t find a specific overwatch definition, but on the forums it’s
This post is an advertisement, or vandalism. It is not useful or relevant to the current topic."
Let’s not derail a legitimate concern with getting reported for twitch plugs
It’s far easier to catch a loud, toxic troll than a stealthly aim-botter or wall hacker that plays under the radar. I still remember one particular player who had a full n-word and f-bomb meltdown. I encountered him the following game, but he did not say a word, so he likely had his chat functions revoked.