Make competitive a paid for subscription. Nothing expensive, like $1 a month.
These seems tiny, but then you can easily say that a bank account can only be linked to 1 battle.net account.
Now people with multiple bank accounts can get round this, fine, but how many people are going to go opening up back accounts just to smurf. (much harder to get round that SMS verification, as you can easily buy bulk loads of SIM cards for next to nothing).
This could also make it a lot harder for people to level and then sell low ranked accounts (surprising just how many of them are about). Because you can change the bank account, but it will flag up immediately that the bank account is in a completely different persons name. At that point, suspend the account and ask for proof of accounts to reopen it.
Yeah, could be a small system that would require a little work. But at least it is the beginnings of an idea.
If Blizzard gives me an option to practise a any hero for/in a competitive environment, Iām all for one account per person. As long as my alt remains the very best option to practise without throwing, Iām not willing to give it up.
As much as I wish this would happen, how can they do this? By IP? Whoās to say 10 people in the house arenāt all playing and have their own account? By Credit Card? Whoās to say it isnāt their parents and have 5 kids who all want to play? They canāt go by email as you make new emails per account.
As long as BLI$$ARD is getting easy money, what theyr company has made for, they wont bother to thinks a way how to limit comp 1/acc or what ever you are asking. Anyway itās not BLi$$ARD who is acting like retard, itās those virgins who havent seen or get pu*sy yet so they spend some extra dollars for childrens video game instead of buying a box of chocolad to girlfriend and getting laid to night.
Leksa, Hitscan DPS ready for duty. I click heads faster than the enemy and look out for what you need. I just wonāt join voice because it would up the chance of me playing 50% worse.
I see an āIā. Your problem is you canāt imagine someone not benefiting from something you benefit from. Not joining vc doesnāt mean that Iām a lone wolf btw, it just means that I lower my chance of crashing and playing badly, and up my chance of improving (wich will help future teams :o)
It ups your teamās chance of playing worse 100%.
Of course you do, because youāre selfish.
My problem is selfish people like you not joining team chat.
Itās a team game. It requires people to work together as a team. You not joining team chat is you saying to the team youāre not interested in working with them.
Players with attitudes like yours should not play team games.
But it doesnāt. My team does not need my calls and I play better without their calls and especially their chitchat. Some may do, but as you are a person who prefers to play with calls, I prefer to play without them.
I play better without teamchat, my team benefits directly from that.
In Comp to a way less extent than in an actual team, but yes, I agree. Of course it is.
No, itās not. Iāll swap to something Iām comfortable with when nedded, Iāll pay attention to when Mercy wants to GA to me, if Ana gets dove, Iāll stay with her as McCree, if Zarya has ult, Iāll save my pulse, if my tanks need help, Iāll pressure the enemy tanks. Weāre 6 people whose goal is our individual win, and we cannot win if one of us is losing, of course Iāll do my best to help them. It ups our chance of winning, and so it ups mine. Joining voice chat ups my chance of screwing up, so it ups the chance of us losing. So I donāt join.
As explained, it doesnāt. I still play with my team.
Impossible to do if youāre not in team chat. Youāre playing your own game and ignoring what the rest of the team is doing/trying to do but canāt because not everyone on the team is in team chat.
I wait for my tanks to push, I keep track of my Pharah when Iām healing my tanks, I keep track of my tanks when Iām healing my Pharah, I nano/damage boost my Genji, I keep track of where my Rein is or if someone needs that bubble more badly. Sure, communication does help, especially when playing Zarya, but you completely ignore the downsides, which are huge for me as my self-consciousness is extremely high and a player not able to play is a much higher downside for my team than a player playing and trusting her eyes to work with the team.
What needs to happen in comp is players just need to be WAY more realistic about their in game nerd skills and over all SR goals. There is little to no reason to go full super hard core comp rule set, single account only, forced voice, pay for access and so on for the majority of the comp SR range.
People are not being held back by all the cruddy community stuff, they are simply being held back by their own over all skill set long term. People some how seem to understand this in real sports, like the 5ā8 guy odds are isnāt going to be a NFL line backer.
Yet some how itās totally lost in video games.
I think anyone can get to a decent rank or even a high rank but wow people need to calm down with acting like comp is contender levels from Bronze to 4.2k. Force coms, force certain team comps, get serious, this gold comp try hard time.
Thatās why people are burning out, not a few smurfs or leavers.
Easy, every time I came on the forums the top 10 threads would always be talking about the aimbotters, and how people are stuck in their rank because of some DPS who refused to switch/throw the game.
Easy. Link to a bank account (make it $1 a month to play comp)
If you buy an account, and try to change the bank details, Blizzard ask for proof of both accounts. (Especially dodgy looking if the name changes). Until proof provided, account is suspended.
No account seller will want to pay other peoples subs, so this might drive business down.
If you also had it so a bank account can only be linked to 1 battle.net account this would seriously limit people creating multiple accounts, while still being able to make $ from nominal subs.
Also make more pay for legendary skins to make money. Then they wont have any reliance of smurfs to keep the books balanced
What about $10/season? You have to buy your way back in each season but it includes essentially a reset. Would keep a lot of trolls/burners out of the mix and $3.33/month isnāt much for crisp servers and ladder integrity.
I guess itās something theyāve looked at and arenāt ever going to do. So many other āesportsā titles founded on F2P/microX. Would put out some weird signalling.