Problems I met after the new patch

As blizzard just don’t listen to any player’s opinion, so the patch updated exactly like the PTR one. There are several problem problem appeared by far.

  1. In ranking match, players not able to see other’s profile, which make it hard to form the best team com.
  2. Sym is reworked, so sym otp or sym main not able to keep their skills status. This is confusing in rank match.
  3. In rank match, you can see player’s rank, but not able to see their sr.
  4. Website that help player analysis their performance are all dead.( E.g. overbuff )

Here is my opinion, overwatch as a competitive game, who always claim to improve players experience. I don’t judge the quality of the game, but after lots of update, seems like the development team is just making players experience become worse and worse. Now the experience in competitive game is awful, hard to communicate and form a team, even the team system is out, it just won’t help. Players are leaving, and all the update are just making players want to stop playing rank and even stop playing this game.

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Believe it or not, they made everyones profile private by default. You now have to change it to be public or else no one can see your profile.

It’s stupid I know, but thats overwatch for you.

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What I mean is they made a new system to let random player form a 2 2 2 team, but even they are in the same team, they still can’t see each others profile, this is a serious problem。

Honestly, give it at least a week. People pour into OW right when a patch goes live. I actually avoid playing when a patch goes live.

Once the dust settles and people figure things out, things will be easier.

Easy fix, if it means that much to you to see it, tell em to make their profile public or they get booted. Just because a team forms doesn’t mean your stuck with them.

It’s not stupid, it’s the only way the system actually works. If you make it public by default and add the option to hide it, anyone who chooses privacy gets reported or trolled for “trying to hide something.” The system only works if private is the default, because then you can only logically assume that their profile is private because they never changed the settings. This will reduce or eliminate the vast majority of false reporting because most of the player base will likely never change this setting.

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private shouldn’t be an option in the first place.

thats the stupid part.

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Should the system make player’s gaming experience become better or worse, that’s the problem. I really want to know why they add this system, to protect otp player and boosted player?

Now I have to go make mine not private.

I understand the thinking behind it, but maybe it’s not the best for comp at least, other odes it’s fine.

But it doesn’t matter much to me since I never looked at anyone’s profiles anyway.

Because there’s a law in Europe that says they have to, that’s the biggest reason.

You said exactly what I wanted to say haha.

No there isn’t. GDPR doesn’t affect gaming profiles that way. If that’s the reason given I’d like to see the legal argument.

That’s what I heard, and I don’t really see any other reason why Blizz would do this move considering that profiles been public all this time.

GDPR is about what Blizzard is doing with your real information (personal, identifying information like name, address, bank account and what they store on their servers, e.g. how long I am logged in from my particular IP), not how many hours Requi3mX has spent on DVa. I don’t have any clue as to why they’ve done it, but I can’t remember anything from Blizz that sounds like an effort to comply with GDPR.

That’s what I heard, not sure if its reliable though.

I personally am not too bothered anyways, I’ve been one-tricking then and I will still one-trick now.

Many of us are glad public profiles are gone. And it makes sense with the current public opinion shifts on how personal data is handled by companies.

That’s your opinion. For those of us who always wanted private profiles from the start, it’s the exact opposite of a problem.

That’s part of the update tho…the ability to hide your stats.

GDPR has nothing to do with this change. Im guessing its about how the allowed onetricks and such get hate. But the toxic people will just hate about something else instead, this wont do anything to stop them.

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Why remove something that helps building a good team quickly? After leaving gold in season 2 ive never seen anyone being toxic with the help of information found in profile. They have been toxic about alot of stuff, but nothing from there. Toxic people will still be toxic, and smart people will have alot less information to use for teambuilding.

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It isn’t removed. Participation has simply been made optional. If you want to use it, go ahead.

Having it private as default and alot of people not changing it serves the same purpose as removing it. Still makes you unable to use the information regardless of how you cant use it.
And the first thing i did when i entered OW was to put it back to public as it should be. I dont have anything to hide.

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