Did they finally banned GG?

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if so that would be great since OW2 is so toxic more than valorant and LoL combined

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Nope. Because “gg” isn’t inherently toxic.

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‘gg’ is just ‘good game’

I don’t give myself time or energy to worry about ‘gg’. I leave the game before anyone can type anything. Many other things to get bothered by.

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Yet snowflakes on the forum have posted to say they report people for saying it after a stomp. (Even though it’s just a standard sportsman-like phrase you say after games, win or lose)

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Emotion driven people aren’t logical.

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Overwatch truly does bring out the worst in humanity

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Valorant is generally less toxic but you have a lot more carry potential. Not justifying toxicity in OW but the game is so heavily team reliant it is actually unnatural not to get frustrated by being constantly let down by your team match after match.

So it’s not like Valorant is doing anything better than OW in terms of toxicity, they just created a game where you can quite easily 1v5.

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There are people who have been banned for typing GG

Tho, I think those were banned because they might have an historical reports behavior of being toxic.

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Man, are people’s egos that fragile that they want to report “GG”? Online gaming is a joke.

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I wouldn’t report someone for saying gg, but I do think it’s pointless to say if it’s an absolute stomp. Like if one team got a single kill all game, obviously it wasn’t a good game. Tho imo if the losing teams says it first in a stomp, totally fine to say it back. Just my opinion, I certainly wouldn’t report over it. And there are people who say gg every game regardless, just so many who only say it when they win, that it ends up being meaningless.

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Not exactly. I think they just look at chat logs within a certain timeframe and quote everything, even things that, especially with context, aren’t toxic in the least. I mean, imagine an invisible Sombra getting hit with a sleep dart and ganging up on her with 1-2 other people and the Sombra types “RIP lol”.

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OP has to be bait, I refuse to believe otherwise.

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I always type “gg” because I thought it was considered customary to do so. Are people actually complaining about this of all things in OW2??? This?

“ggz” mayyyybe but “gg”? smdh…

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I say GG after like 99% of my games- win or lose, I just muscle memory it without a lot of thought whenever I have a game where both sides were trying.

I’ve never once been banned

I’m not saying it doesn’t happen- but I’m skeptical that people are genuinely being banned / silenced for literally only saying GG.

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I almost always say gg win or lose. And most of the time I start the match with glhf. You would be surprised at how many react negatively even to glhf. People just want to be angry I think.

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Yup, been there. Got told to “be quiet old chap” (polite version so I don’t get banned from the forums) even though it’s a casual game mode. I guess some people’s epeens really are that microscopic :man_shrugging:

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In good old times not saying gl hf at the beginning and gg after the match was considered a bad behavior. It’s like a handshake whatever the result of a match is. I guess some people are so insecure that they consider this to be a toxic behavior, for them i would say: get good.

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Yet these are the types spamming it.

I always use an alternative.

It’s not hard to get the same meaning out and still accepting that yes it is devisive and can be used to gloat, mock, and shame players.

More specifically over stomps, leaver feasts, spawncamping.

I’m done beating this dead horse around, but you guys do what you want. More and more players these days are getting banned for horrible GG usage.

And that’s a fact. Context matters. Just pay attention to other players. We play this game too.

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I really wish people understood this. I’m 37 years old - in my generation, it was just very common courtesy to say this after any kind of competition. A sports game, a vs. arcade game, whatever.

I mean I remember playing Bingo and Poker online in the early 2000s before all the regulations, and everyone said GG and/or WP after the end of a session. And that was in an environment where real money was at stake and you know they weren’t happy you won. lol

It’s mind-boggling how people have turned the meaning around 180 degrees. It’s a gesture of sportsmanship, not one of arrogance.

Do some people use it that way now? Oh, I’m sure. But people can’t read minds to know how someone meant something. Even saying GG after a stomp doesn’t mean the person is toxic. There are lots of games that are stomps and I still think many members on the other team played well.

Anyway, I think a big problem is people, as a whole, are more defensive and less trusting of others nowadays. It’s common for people to assume a stranger has bad intentions over good ones. I don’t really know why that’s the case. I guess you could make a case it’s because there’s a lack of communities now and many kids don’t grow up in something like church groups or after school clubs, etc. And instead grow up online where the environment is more aggressive, so they’re taught to be less trusting from the start.

I really don’t know, and speculating too deeply about it would take ages and make me look like a crazy person. lol But there was some type of a social shift that happened that caused this mindset to be more common.

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Would be pathetic if it was.