I’ve been duo-ing w/ a friend for a while. We’re in a strange position where our favorite heroes to play, aren’t our best. I got to diamond lobbies w/ reaper, but I actually want to play Sombra. Likewise my friend really likes Widowmaker but isn’t the best with her, he probably plays at a Silver-Low Gold level. Duo-ing together we end up playing in low Plat lobbies.
Regardless, we prioritized fun and learning over some dumb ego rank, and took our medicore heroes to comp to learn to use them in a comp environment. We lost, a lot, ended up with a 5-12. My friend had chat disabled because he was expecting people to be toxic. I didn’t have chat/vc disabled, but didn’t use it, and pretty much every game, people were hard flaming us (mostly him), and every game we lost (even if it wasn’t 100% our fault) they would at the least call for us (or at least my friend) to be mass reported, or also spam racial slurs and profanity at us.
We took it in stride, and accepted that our mmr would go down, and people would be upset about us losing… and then my friend got perma-banned for distruptive behavior. We tried to appeal but got a bot response that did not elaborate at all on the circumstances the next day, and refused to give any context on the ban.
This is such utter BS. I didn’t know being bad at the game, was a bannable offense. I didn’t know not cowtowing to raging, slur-spamming tempermental 12- year olds and NEET shut-ins when asking you to switch was a bannable offense.
We have done absolutely nothing wrong, and I’d happily put a wager of 10K dollars with any REAL Blizzard Employee to review his account activity and find any bannable-wrongdoing. Hell, I’d wager my entire life savings.
Blizzard, if you’re so confident in your reporting system, why not take up my offer? It’s free money for you.
His account name is LowGroundWid#2653. Review it, for real. Make sure to get in contact w/ me for the wager details.