The game has gone to sht tbh, nothing left to do but troll in matches till banned, GG
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Maybe they are grammar you-know-what and banning bad spellings because itâs actually spelled âGod damnedâ 
The year is 2024.
We, probably, live in one of the safest centuries to be alive. (Depending on your country but letâs say central Europe and America)
People have enough money, jobs and ressources to spend it on pixel stuff.
The biggest problem Blizzards OW department can come up with: saying the F word.
We truly live in the worst timeline.
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Overwatch devs started pandering to the alphabet soup group a while back and itâs pretty much been downhill ever since. Their entire dev team looks like they were bullied in high school and are projecting that on to us in tandem with all the whining snowflakes who insist their feelings matter more important than anything else.
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Hes using the logic as comparison. Sure it was an extreme one, but hes absolutely right
I am and I take exception to it.
Fun fact, using alternate characters to being able to get around filters is considered the same exact word from Blizzardâs perspective.
If you think that not saying the F word is an actual reason to support âWe truly live in the worst timelineâ, you should go back and rethink about things happening in this world that are really bad other than some nonsense you just stated.
/clap in 15 chars or less
So we should report every single person who plays Cassidy?
What about Ana, Brig, Genji, and Widowmaker who all use harsh cursing in their native language?
Report every player who plays them too?
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Obviously not judging from this thread and text chat in general.
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No it doesnât.
Do you see football players going on tirades of profanity when their team doesnât win a game? Do you see professional swimmers or track sprinters go off on their coaches or throw a fit towards the other people in the race when they come second, third or donât finish? Is the Olympics filled with immature people acting like unruly children when they donât take home a gold medal?
No.
These are some of the most competitive sports in the world, no athlete goes on tirades of profanity or curses out anyone. Hell you donât even see that happen in professional eSports. When the Overwatch League was a thing, you didnât see professional teams throwing profanity at their own team or the enemy team because they were losing.
Donât try to claim that âcompetitiveness breeds profanity and permits itâ because it doesnât. It is unnecessary.
Are you seriously comparing slavery to me stating a fact that profanity is not allowed in Overwatch and never has been? Really?
People have been getting banned for years. In 2020 there was a post from Blizzard developers themselves outright saying that they were going to be conducting a ban wave to remove toxic players from the game.
UPDATE (Oct 12):
In addition to the improved profanity filter and updated penalties for inappropriate language, weâve also performed a manual action wave against some of the worst offenders of toxic language in Overwatch. This action will take effect with updates to profanity filter and penalties in the next live game patch.
And you can find posts on this forum from 2018 and earlier from players complaining about getting banned for language despite the fact that the profanity filter exists.
No it isnât. Maybe to some extremely conservative religious folks it is, but to the vast majority of people in the world it is not, and thatâs why it isnât blocked by the profanity filter.
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Iâve been swearing a lot in chat and I only got a warning tbh
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Blizzard apologists are the weirdest breed of humans.
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People can swear casually without it being directed at another person, you know?
what the blizzard guys!!! No more saying cuss words! Its inappropriate and violent!
You havenât pissed off enough people yet. Just argue with anyone eventually you will get banned.
It doesnât matter if itâs directed at another person or not.
Look, end of the day, youâre in Blizzardâs house. Blizzard, as the owner of the house says âNo profanity.â so donât use it. Itâs not hard.
Iâm sure you have rules in your own house about what people can and canât do yes? No shoes on inside, no feet on the table, etc etc, right? What would you do if someone walked into your house and didnât follow your rules? Would you warn them and then ask them to leave if they didnât do what you said? Or would you just let them do what they wanted?
the thing is though they didnt enforce it until recently. So was it even a rule if it wasnt enforced until now? They let it continue for 7 years and didnt do anything until now, cant blame the players if the rule wasnt enforced for the majority of Overwatchâs lifespan, or they didnt tell us that was the reason we got punished for
its like how tourists get arrested in other countries and get prosecuted without them even knowing what their crime was
Thatâs not a very good analogy as swearing is a commonly accepted form of self-expression which has been seen used across every form of media ever produced. And in a game rated 13+, Iâd expect that restrictions on profanity would be a little looser. Plus, even when Iâm just talking to teammates, Iâll use profanity because Iâm so accustomed to it. It is never directed at another person, nor is it meant to be offensive.
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This is blatantly not true and Iâve quite literally shared a post from 2020 in this thread (a few posts up) where Blizzard staff outright stated they were going to be banning people for toxicity in chat (voice and text).
Theyâve been actioning people for using profanity since 2016 when the game launched. Youâre just noticing it now because a kid got banned, lost his scholarship and thatâs created a massive drama storm.
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