tl;dr:
- The Overwatch forum favors people who harass others and will silence anyone who fights for a safe, clean, and friendly community.
- They are clearly not interested in Reinhardt’s bugs; they’ve even lied in a set of patch notes about fixing them.
- The MMR system could be worse, but a forced 50% win rate certainly exists, especially by giving people teammates that the system knows will refuse to cooperate.
I’ve been suspended an entire month (only once) for flagging an abusive and cruel post. I quit Overwatch back then, but came back after a month or two.
That aside, I’ve been suspended four times other than that (five times in total) for being the middleman/peacemaker in fights, telling people to not harass each other on the forum, and derailing hate threads. One instance was even for trying to calm someone down when they made death threats.
I won’t say names, but several of my crusader friends have suffered silences and suspensions for the same reasons.
Clearly enough, Blizzard hates the idea of us forum goers fighting for a clean community.
I know it’s against the code of conduct to talk about the actions taken against one’s profile, but screw it. I’m not coming back. As long as word gets out about this atrocity, that’s fine by me.
Side note - as an ex-Reinhardt main, I’m also tired of the bugs. I don’t know if Blizzard is actually working on them or not. It’s been more than a year since they started popping up everywhere, and they even lied about fixing the bugs in a set of patch notes back in April. I get that programming can be hard, especially when treading new virtual water, but you could be open and honest about it, y’know? You’re not going to irritate people by saying “we don’t know what we’re doing, but we’re trying to figure it out!”
“We fixed the bugs!”
[bugs worse than ever]
This will irritate people.
I’ve said this so many times on the forum, and I hate to say that this is my last time, but it is.
In season 8, I was given teammates in the queue who were rather underwhelming in skill, but they were cooperative; they stayed on the right side of the barrier and never trickled. I had an 80% win rate in competitive as Reinhardt despite his bugs and the onslaught of dive meta at that time. The system didn’t like that. At first, the opponents got a little harder, but my team stayed with me and I kept winning.
The system didn’t like that, either. I started getting negligent, trickling teammates. Lo and behold, six days of consistent queues with nobody who groups up, my win rate went to 30%.
I understand that playing an effective DPS role is the most efficient way to rank up, but I don’t care too much about rank. I just wanna play hard against people on my level, and thanks to the system refusing to let me escape the range where abandoning your team is so popular, I don’t get to.
It’s been an honor knowing and playing with some of you, but Blizzard has proven to be cruel and sadistic, and I’m going to firmly (but sorrowfully) say I’m done and I will miss all of you.
Most of you.
For those who want it, here’s my discord tag.
CATCH PHRASE#9670