Like before you would get flamed for playing anything other then your top 3 heroes. I feel people are just upset because now mercy mains will have a chance to pick dps without people screaming at them “YOU PLAY MERCY WHY ARE YOU PLAYING MCCREE??? SWITCH PLEASE”
This will most likely get more people to try different heroes without getting attacked.
People don’t like that they can’t try to form a composition base on your team’s and the enemy’s play history. Players also don’t trust other players to just play whatever they want. I can see why people want public profiles in comp, but I still think it’s better for the majority of players to give them the choice.
If I see someone who has 500 hours on Mercy, and under a minute on genji, and they swap to genji, I’d like to know that they dont play genji at all, instead of me having to ask everyone on the team what their main is, and expect them all to be truthful.
Hide profiles in QP or Arcade? Fine. In competitive? Definitely not.
I’m fine with it as well.
The only downside is, yeah, sometimes I’d take an overview peek at my team’s roster to see what we’d probably need. Like if I saw we had a Mercy main, I’d pick Moira instead. Or if we already had a Tracer main, I’d pick Soldier if I was DPSing.
… Or if we had zero main tanks, I’d hurry and pick healer so no one would ask me to swap to tank. XD
So yeah, sad to see that go. But I guess it’s fine. I can just be like, “Hey guys. I can play either X, Y, or Z. What would y’all prefer?” and have the same results, I guess.
The only time I ever looked was when I used the LFG feature on Xbox. If you say you DPS, I want specifics.
It doesn’t make a huge difference in solo queue. If the mercy main pick genji, they won’t change.
Or you could, I dunno, just play the game?
Or you could play the game, and know what your teammates are best at so we could work around it.
they want to judge your profile from the start and if you make a mistake they want to attack you and make everybody in the team to report you…now they won’t be able to do it, and thats why are some people negative towards it, because their fuel for toxicity is gone.
blizz nailed the change
You could always just ask them what they are best at. They should know. Besides, what is important is what are they willing to play today. Maybe their “best” hero is something they are no longer enjoying and would refuse to play even if asked. Then one of you, or maybe both of you, are just going to be mad the whole match and you lose all because you knew what was in the profile and made it an issue.
While players lile me are silent when using your profile to read your particular playstyle, we still used it to accomodate the team’s needs.
I check to see how much a player has and what roles they proficient in. If they play somrthing outside of that role then they would probably need the more assitance.
Maybe they are playing something that they have good amount of hours on. Alright cool! I can trust that player to play alright and leave them to their own doings. Because that means that can adjust better to most situations.
Its also an indicator is someone is putting effort or not. In combination of their player level and which heros they usually play you could easily spot a player who is just griefing a match in favor of headshot practice or to sabotage the gamr through throwing.
Which it isn’t as surprising as you’d think that some angry players do try to sabotage this game.
Anyways. I never used someones’s profile to shame them. I think half the roster is viable the other half can stay there on the waiting benches to sit a season or two out before they even see play. But thats just me.
Whay gets me upset is when a hero is doing badly almost ten minutes straight hasn’t changed and you can tell completely they had little or no impact to the match and when things get gritty in a tooth and nail fight for the win they still do not will not and choose not to adjust to the situation.
Meanwhile five players have already completely changed up line up showing their own effort.
That is when I get upset and call them out on not swapping. But I never shame someone for what hero they choose to play the most.
Its how they act ingame that bothers me. Because they will carry that into their next match.
If it’s comp I want to atleast know what people can play. If we are in a group and both DPS can only play Tracer then what are we supposed to do. Also if we have a Rein Zarya tank line and Genji Tracer DPS then the team will have to adjust to that accordingly. It will be easier so know what we should do with that team comp.
Not everyone you meet online is going to be completely honest when you’re asking what they main, what they’re best at, etc. Sure, this’ll stop some people from being bullied, but it’ll also mean more games lost because people arent playing their mains because they simply dont want to and people dont know what their main is and cant get yelled at. It’s a team game, working with your team to the best of your ability is kinda the point.
You can still just ask them, though. As for whether they’re telling the truth? Let their gameplay prove or disprove it, not their profile.
It makes it easier for throwers and boosted people to hide. ex: I had a game where a silver player locked torb during koth. i’m not gonna flame based on hero choice alone cause maybe they were a torb main but after round one loss i looked at their career profile & they had almost 200hrs on pharah and hit plat with her in a previous season. i dunno if they were throwing games to queue with friends but it was bad
the logic of people that blame others for every loss will be simple: “you’re just hiding your profile to hide your bad stats/that you never play that hero. your fault we lost so get reported”
Have fun getting banned for hiding your profile. Because that’s exactly what’s going to happen with the whole “I have to report someone when I lose” mentality
If people aren’t playing their mains, it’s because they don’t want to. And if they don’t want to, they’re not going to. Yelling at someone who doesn’t want to cooperate doesn’t really change much. Checking people’s profiles and yelling at them doesn’t do much aside from increase toxicity and arguments, which itself has a negative impact on the game, too.
Doesnt mean they’ll switch though. The whole point of this is so people who dont play certain characters can now do that, and not get yelled at for being a one trick, or whatever. If they’re actually going to be like “Yea ima dps when I dont know how to play any dps character”, a lot of times they’re going to be ignorant and get annoyed when you tell them to switch because they’re doing bad
Did you forget about the new LFG function? Where you can group up with people in any way you want? No longer are you a slave to your profile, you can freely create whatever comp you want with whatever stipulations you want. So let the people who want to solo queue privately do what they want too.
If people actually end up getting reported for no good reason, Blizzard will have to take action to prevent it. If people who have a “must report someone” mentality upon a loss, they’ll find another bs reason to report someone. It’s not really a reason to avoid implementing certain features.