Why did all overwatch stats die. Did blizzard just block them of all/most statistical data.
Why doesnt overwatch have a plethora of sites with stats and info like LoL has. Why is overwatch so afraid information.
It took them 6 years for a basic scoreboard.
Why do they have to reinvent the wheel when competive games/sports have been around forever.
Id love to know whats my win% with pharah on kings row. Which tank wins most against DVA. How much healing am i receiving.
Dont give me the toxicity excuse. We dont live in a utopia. Toxicity never went away. It was just less informed. 1000s of moiras getting berated about damage when in fact they were the games top healer.
Overwatch team answer me why is it so bad for us to have access to all of it
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because its pretty hard to get that information
iirc I believe they said they didn’t want the players min maxing like in WoW, don’t think it helped too much personally and they should really give more info
Overwatch doesn’t have a public api.
Also, toxicity is a valid reason. In League players just throw the game like 1/10 games because someone has bad stats on op.gg so they don’t even want to try.
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The overwatch Api is easy to give access. Most competitive gaves do
If you mean it’s easy for Blizzard to give access to it, yeah I never said it wasn’t
If you’re talking about the sites trying to get stats from overwatch, clearly not or there wouldn’t just be the still buggy and inaccurate in many ways overbuff as basically the only source of stats
With private profiles, a lot of them just showed such inaccurate data, that they werent accurate enough to keep up, but there are still some.
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No offense but this is a BS excuse. My LoL elo is Plat II and throwing is not worse than OW. The only differences is the games are longer and you have surrender.
You cant stop toxicity…you just cant. Overwatch players second guess, backseat, pass blame every game. It cant get worse.
Its so frustrating listening to this excuse. Trying to protect everyone is one of the reasons the game is in the crapper.
yup it’s exactly the lack of API access
overbuff and any of it’s clones can only work with what displays on your bnet profile. why there is no API is beyond me. 
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They just dont want us to have it. Even if they didnt want us to look up individual players. They could aggregate all the info so we could have hero stats as a whole, hero stats on a per map, per matchup, on offense, on defense basis.
I dont even have access to this on my own account, for my own use
The part that I find annoying is that we can’t even look at our map stats. In a game like ow those are really important man. I bet there’s a ton of variance in people’s wr across various maps or game modes
Annoyingly enough, you can get some basic map based stats with a gdpr data request, at least there were the last time I sent one. But it’s not segmented by hero… which would also be a really useful thing to know. lol
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Blizzard doesnt care about us using the stats to min max or even toxicity against other players.
What they dont want is us to see empirical data that can be used against balance.