I’ve had my fair share of one tricks so it doesn’t matter to me if you think I’m assuming. I’ve actually witnessed all these and more.
The answer is always yes. The report system and bans are all automated with no verification by a person with no way to appeal because that is also automated.
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Oh no no. It is far less at about 50 reports. A very small effort against someone is enough to get them suspended.
sad but (mostly) true
Ok well i just used 400 as a placeholder number.
On the forums it is even worse. I’d imagine about 25. There are people who form flagging groups to get people banned from the forums with no repercussion. Rules are irrelevant in game and on the forum and support / appeals do not exist.
I actually haven’t seen the BS movement in awhlie. They dropped the Spaghetti?
Already been addressed by devs. Any reports over not switching are false reports to be shunned. Other players are fine to request or suggest changes but ultimately it is up to you what to play. So long as you are honestly playing there cannot be valid reports against you. It is NOT gameplay sabotage!
You cannot get banned for one-tricking or playing off-meta heroes.
So what can you get banned for when one-tricking?
1. Being toxic.
If you never work together with your team, your teammates might resent you for being so uncooperative. This might in turn cause you to return the volatile language—they can report you for that.
What to do: No matter what people say to you, do not flame back. Abusive chat reports do not care who started “the fight.”
Punishments: Warning ➩ Silence ➩ Suspension ➩ Permanent ban.
Side note
You can blame of course blame your teammates for being petty as everyone has the opportunity to switch themselves—but if you play heroes that are actually underpowered and require a very specific composition and map to succeed, then you’re laying a big burden on your team and if everyone played like you, your win rate would be abysmal.
This is also the reason Blizzard is actively reworking heroes that were considered “troll picks” to bring them up to par—they fully realize what a negative impact it is on the player experience to have “wrong” choices. For a metaphor, it’s like you’re sitting at a restaurant table with a leaky pipe and the other customers are blaming you for the water dripping down.
2. Feeding and not contributing.
If you do nothing but die the entire match several games in a row and your performance is so below the worst average that it actually looks like you’re intentionally throwing the game, then reporting you for “Gameplay Sabotage” will trigger a punishment.
What to do: Stop playing and take a break. You’re likely tilted and not trying to play around your counters anymore. Note: It takes A LOT of bad games to get ponged for gameplay sabotage (more in side note).
Punishments: Suspension ➩ Permanent ban.
Side note
The system scales with your league (e.g. Bronze players are not automatically banned compared to Diamond players), has a certain threshold that separates bad play from intentional feeding and a forgiveness factor to account for bad games.
E.g. if you die 20 times in a single game as Bastion while dealing only 20% of everyone else’s damage, the system won’t punish you and just consider it a bad game. If you do it in 5 games out of 10, you might get punished for sabotaging games.
What I would recommend:
- Only one-trick in Quick Play.
- Play with friends and/or find a group willing to support a Bastion composition in the Group Finder tool for Competitive.
- Get used to muting players for playing an unpopular hero (their abuse only wears you down in the length).
- Consider adding another hero to your pool. Torbjörn or Soldier 76 are probably the closet to Bastion’s play feel. This will help you when someone else picks Bastion, or your Bastion pick is just being punished too hard.
Just because you get unlucky with 1 tricks doesn’t mean we are all like that
Of the many other 1 tricks I’ve played with, only 1 actually fit your description of 1 tricks.
So yes, highly assuptious of you.
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yep that’s what you get with a toxic community
due to a competitive mode with no public scoreboard
and a hand’s off automated report system
break the magic threshold of reports or play on 1 account
bamn actioned
this is maybe partly why every overwatch player has more than 2 accounts
Exactly how does a role quick cement a certain hero pick?
It’s role queue, not hero queue
i also can go naked in the middle of the street, exercising my freedom… but that doesn’t excuse me of being reported to the authorities, being labeled like a damn pervert and being tossed to the jail.
But you know … “Freedom”
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People can report you for anything, and playing bastion is one of the reasons they like to report. “Not reportable” isn’t really a thing, as has been shown time and again.
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If you get enough reports you can get a temp ban, regardless if they are valid or not. And your endorsements go down, not that anyone would endorse a bastion to begin with.
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With apologies - I would agree with this if everyone obeyed the rules of reporting - but many folks do not
To illustrate this, lets say that it takes 100 reports to be banned by the automatic banning system currently in place
Lets then also say that a player plays one character, and that character is very unpopular.
Over time, the player will play in groups with one or more teammates who do not like that character
Some of those will go to the extent of (falsely) reporting the player using whatever category they want - doesnt matter which one they choose, because one tricking doesnt fit any of these reportable categories
One by one, these reports add up, until finally the total reaches 100
a this point, the player receives an automated ban due entirely (in the scenario as described) to false reports over one tricking
If was a solo game… go whatever you want, but in OW is a “TEAM” based game… you know the other 5 people around you? the ones trying to win the match? you affect negatively your team when you are being hard countered to the point you are a liability and you still refusing to switch… and of course here come the classic argument: " I payed for the game, i play whatever i want" well… other people already also bought the game and payed money for it, and also they are free to report people who make unnecessary hard or toxic their matches.
You don’t have the freedom to run around in public naked because there are laws prohibiting it in most places.
There are no rules prohibiting one-tricks; the rules actually specifically allow not-switching.
I’ve noticed that people who argue against one-tricking tends to be really bad at making analogies.
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Nope, because the report system just doesn’t work that way. Depending on the report, the system either scans the chat for abusive language (or creates a snippet if voice chat is active—which is why Blizzard encourages you to report abusive voice chat as it’s happening) and the gameplay sabotage looks at statistics like your death count, your activity percentage and damage/healing/shield amounts.
This has been documented hundreds of times. Literally the Blizzard post I linked debunked everything you just said. They’ve looked into those suspensions—it wasn’t the case. It’s just a really bad myth that keeps going around.
Think about it like this: Blizzard records statistics of all their punishments. If a specific hero got punished more than others, don’t you think they would have resolved that issue? Your statement implies Blizzard is largely incompetent and ignores the problem—the only bad thing in my opinion is the time it’s taking to rework old underperforming heroes.
with apologies, my understanding of the report system differs from yours, and as such, I disagree
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Sooo your understanding is a self-invented one that’s not actually based on any observations, statements or evidence of any kind, and you just make it a habit to spread misinformation and fear?
“With apologies,” please stop. You’re not helping anyone. I know it’s a popular theory to blame Blizzard for everything wrong with the game but in cases like the original poster, he’s never gonna get suspended for playing Bastion—he’ll get likely only get suspended for flaming back from all the negative attention he gets (such as the replies to this thread that’s actually harassment “no one likes people like you”).