why even have block? while it is nice to mute someone via block for messages. but when I am forced to play with throwers, leavers, and trolls. it creates an atmosphere of BS I as a player am forced to endure.
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Because my dear sweet friendâŚPeople abused it. Players were FORCED to deal with long queue times for doing absolutely nothing wrong. That function was called the âavoid this playerâ function and ANY idea that even EMBODIES its nature MUST NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY! Even just the rep system on XBOX was absued!
Look, if you have such an issue with these peopleâŚReport them. Blizzard wants them out of the game, and so do you. Also, you do others a favor. Theyâre getting better about it as well.
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The block function is only for communication, not matchmaking. And no, you arenât forced to literally do anything. You can leave the game you donât like with that person, you can wait to queue up so you donât get that individual, you could even queue in a group to ensure you wonât get anyone you donât like on your team!
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Letâs be real here for a moment OP.
You want âBlockâ to work the same as âAvoid Playerâ used to. Avoid Player was abused, end of story, period. Players didnât actually use it as intended by isolating players who actually threw games, trolled or so forth.
Instead, they used it as a means of avoiding players that met the previously listed and/or didnât choose a hero they agreed with, were on a team they lost with, or for any number of reasons.
Players cannot be trusted with the power to avoid others, because in this competitive environment any and every advantage will be abused. You need only look to the forums to see the hatred towards one-tricks and each other in general.
Apply an avoid option to this, and you can see the problem it would create, and did indeed create. Matchmaking simply couldnât place people together in matches, so the queue time exponentially increased, and even then games didnât happen.
The atmosphere is one the community has a choice in, unfortunately the majority are not mature and expect a win, every single match. I completely understand the frustration, and experience it myself almost every second match encountering a smurf, troll or thrower.
It is part and parcel of Overwatch. Nothing can be done to prevent it any longer. So itâs up to you to decide what you want to do moving forward.
Take it on the chin and keep on to the next match, or retire from competitive entirely. Your call.
Block will never act like Avoid Player, and Avoid Player will never return. Blizzard have washed their hands of toxicity, citing it is now a community responsibility. So donât look to them for solutions.
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This BUGS me! You mean âmet the BELOWâ because literally everything you mentioned was AFTER that phrase! You could also use a colon whilst making the listâŚ
Other than thatâŚWell said.
But the reasons were listed above that paragraph, so Iâm not sure.
Perhaps an English PhD could enlighten us.
edit: edited that line for clarity.
Damn man, whyâd you make 2 lists then!? Itâs so easy to get confused because itâs a completely different paragraph!
no if i leave a game. i get suspended and thus penalized, but only way i can avoid that is yeah to group with friends. but that canât happen reliably. so there has to be some form of system in place. doing nothing is just as a badly abused system.
My brain is weird I guess.
This is why we canât have nice things
Precisely. I wouldnât wanna be on the receiving end of that.
Because EVEN IF Youâre good at the game! Youâre not immune to this!
Yes. Yes it is. And thatâs OK! (But not reallyâŚ)
Thatâs why I said you werenât* forced to be in a game with anyone. No one is literally forcing you to do anything. A result of consequences donât force you to stay in the match, they just compel you to.
And like I said before, you CAN greatly reduce the outcome of getting the same person that throws byâŚ
And no, leaving a system that falsely punishes the enjoyment of players and greatly imbalances matchmaking is not as bad as facing throwers every once in a while that you can proactively avoid if theyâre so harmful to your gaming experience.
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we can expect blizzard do nothing as usual. stop being mediocre in their involvement when it things as they always do. as far as being parcel of overwatch. I donât think it should be nor has to be. It is not something we should âtake the the chinâ. that is like a battered housewife who gets abused saying âhey only hits me when heâs angryâ.
Do something, but donât pretend that is is âpartâ of the game we have to endure. I donât believe that. I will be a voice in this until something is changed. I will run it into the ground, rub and grind it in like salt in wounds until we are listened to. There is a way to form the system where we can avoid âabusive playersâ but I agree that it has to be done in a way that does not strip away the competitive system or the ability to âplay withâ players artificially through abuse of the system. This is something that has to be thought thoroughly and be addressed if this game wants to stay here long term and avoid the level of toxicity it is growing to have as time passes on.
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ThisâŚis literally impossible. One of these HAS to give in order for this idea to work. Itâs still unnecessary though! We have a report system and it worksâŚ
not really. every player I have ever reported still see. (did a test of 15 players that i grew that purposely on several occasions as I witnessed (2 or more instances) or others relayed to me via game. I wrote their name down. they committed their âshenanigansâ weeks later or so. every single player that was reported by me or others. Still present and accounted for. So while I am sure for more explicit offenses bans can happen, or some form of âpunishmentâ can take place. It is likely rare if ever taken or acted on by Blizzard moderators/in game devâs who monitor gameplay issues/offenses. So no It does not work, far from it.