If alot of people report you, what will overwatch do to that? Will they just ban you directly?
Im pretty new to this so just curious since ive given some reports to other people
IIRC, a player can only recieve one report per match, regardless of how many people report him.
A guy has to be a consistent jerk to get banned.
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Okay but they can still report you after the match right?
why are you saying âits because ive reported othersâ when your last post was you asking if you can be banned because people think youre throwing matches.
Yep.
This post has nothing to do with that, and also because i have played matches recently where people have wanted to report other players for throwing matches
Reporting as far as we know and as far as the Devs have said counts once per match, no matter how many people IN that match report you and subsequent reports can only be done in relation to that one match unless they end up in ANOTHER match with you. Then that would count as another report.
So one match with a bunch of people threatening to report you would , as far as we know, only be one report, no matter what they do⌠UNLESS you friend those people⌠which I advise against. However even then the system seems to take into account unique reports over repeated reports from the same people.
A while ago this was tested by a bunch of people and it took over 100 unique accounts to get someone actioned.
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As someone who hasnât even got a warning before, Iâve never felt the urge to look into it. Still, youâve piqued my curiosity. What action happens after those one hundred reports? A suspension for a week, from the whole game?
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Depends on what happened.
Did you say a few bad words? You might get a mute. the more often you do, the longer it will be up until you snack a ban.
Are you actively destroying matches, you will probably get a temp ban, if you keep on doing it it will soon be a perma.
Always depends on what you do. If you just play the game and enjoy your time, there is rarely a reason to ban you. Just because someone says âREPORTEDâ doesnât mean anything will happen.
There are many automated systems in the background that can check a lot of stuff and I bet even a lot of troll behaviours can be checked automatically. Like seeing in a match that meis wall ate her own teams dva ult 4 times in one match with none of the enemies hurt might be an easy call for troll play.
I think it was the first offense punishment, so like a couple day ban?
It was to prove the system was broken because the account that got banned never actually played a game. And it did prove that the system, at least the old one, was ONLY thresholds. Because if not⌠that means someone at blizzard looked at an account with no playtime AT ALL and went âoh yeah⌠all these people reported it, they must have cheatedâ.
Iâd have to go find it again for the exact punishment, but Iâm going to say the videos are probably still on youtube. But for obvious reasons I will not directly link them here. Iâm just coming off a silence as it is.
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Reports do not work.
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Blizzard doesnât provide much information around how the reporting system works.
Most of what is known (or more likely just highly speculated) is from the little information the player base may get from making reports against other players and getting the report feedback or being a player that has been punished from being reported.
The details arenât fully known of things like:
How many reports does it take to get x punishment
What offenses are more punishable than others
How long does a report stay on a playerâs account
How many accumulative punishments until an account is perma-banned
Itâs best to just follow TOS/CoC (you can search for either of these things at any time if you need to).
Blizzard leaves toxicity pretty broad. If itâs not objectively positive or natural, then itâs probably negative and could be considered offensive and therefore can be legitimately reportable and punishable.
Donât swear, use slurs or any racist, bigoted, discriminatory, sexist, language.
Yes, itâs possible that even common âtrash talkâ is considered toxic and breaks the CoC. So saying something as simple as âyou are bad at this gameâ or anything like it, could warrant for a valid report against you.
It is possible to trigger a false positive, but is highly unlikely and you shouldnât really worry about it (despite that some players may try to strongly argue against it).
If you have received a ban and believe it was wrongly applied to you, itâs possible to reach out to Blizzard support to try and appeal it.
It does seem that it has been made increasingly difficult to do this, probably because a lot of players try to appeal legitimate bans against their accounts. So unfortunately, if you truly received an unjust ban, the process may take awhile to appeal.
And unjust doesnât mean you just donât like that you were punished, but that itâs actually incorrect and you did not commit the offense that was reported against you.
A lot of players think âI should be allowed to trash talk, therefore itâs not fair I was bannedâ and it just doesnât matter that they feel that way. They still broke the CoC, they just donât like that what they want to do is against the CoC and rather they want the CoC changed, which isnât going to happen.
Hope this helps.
iâm not sure how much we are allowed to discuss this. I donât think Blizzard wants players necessarily trying to âfigure outâ and discuss the reporting system, but I believe everything Iâve said here is common knowledge and information just from playing the game long enough and from what information Blizzard has openly provided to the players.
Mostly boils down to:
Donât use cheats/hacks.
Donât group up with players that are possibly cheating.
Donât say toxic or possibly offensive things to other players, in any mode in the game, in either text or voice chat.
Donât purposefully try to âruinâ games by purposefully feeding or going AFK.
Donât leave too many games (you can receive soft bans for joining and leaving too many games, you will get a warning about this before you are able to leave a game if you have already left a lot of games and the length of the soft bans can increase if you keep committing leaver offenses and even be banned for an entire season with enough offenses, I believe).
Donât do these things and youâll be fine.
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Hello Overwatch Team,
I would like to ask about my matchmaking experience because it has been very frustrating.
For the past one to two weeks, I have been playing almost exclusively Support. During this time, I have lost nearly every match, with only one or two wins in between. It feels like no matter how well I play, I continue to be placed into games that end in losses.
I understand that losing streaks can happen, but this has been going on for a long time, and it makes me wonder if there is something wrong with my matchmaking or MMR.
Could someone please explain if this is normal, or if there is anything I can do to improve my matchmaking experience? How much a support should win in order to win a game? it;s really frustating, i know lose streak is normal, but i think it has been happening for one or two weeks. how can a person play when he always lose. I would really appreciate any clarification.
Thank you for your time.