Make haste! Peasants and peons, and those in between, gather around!
I will tell you what Blizzard refuses to!
And one might murmur, “but why JelloPuddin? We have full faith and trust that Blizzard would never mislead us!”
“Blasphemy! Lies!” I reckon
“But surely, any mistake or error on Blizzard’s part would be addressed immediately and fixed. Nevertheless, any error on Blizzard’s part surely wouldn’t be so damn crippling to the player’s account, especially when unwarranted”
“Again” I say, “Do not believe everything Blizzactivisoft throws in your face!”
FOR OVER A MONTH NOW, THERE IS AN ERROR THAT OCCURS (rather frequently) WHEN TRYING TO JOIN EITHER MODE OF COMPETITIVE, RESULTING IN PENALIZATION; POINT DEDUCTION, AND SUSPENSION
The error consists of; upon joining a competitive match, it takes you to a small, intermediate loading screen where the words “Applying Update” are shown. This screen stays put and never goes away. It may as well be labeled the blue screen of death, for those old enough to understand that reference
As such, you are unable to exit, or do anything outside of basically hard-closing the program or computer entirely.
And how does Blizzard’s ranking system calculate this hard-exiting, considering its a competitive match, error not of the user, but of their programming etc? They penalize YOU, suspend YOU, deduct extra points from YOU. All while keeping it hidden and swept under the rug as much as possible until it happens to you. How about being fair, open, and honest?
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“HOLD ON” -says the peon
“WAIT A SECOND” -says the peasant
“THATS NOT RIGHT” -cried the dandelion
But I’m here to tell you all, it’s true
“SUCH A HUGE ERROR SHOULD BE AT LEAST FOREWARNED” -says the peon
“BLIZZARD WOULD FIX THAT ISH ASAP” -says the peasant
“I DONT BELIEVE IT TO BE TRUE” -wailed the dandelion
But I’m here to tell you all, its now been over a month, I’ve personally been affected by it during 4 different competitive games, all resulting in penalizations and longer, unwarranted suspensions, etc
“IS IT REALLY TRUE?” -cried the peon
“BLIZZARD COULD EASILY PUT UP A HUGE RED WARNING BOX LETTING US KNOW, YA KNOW?” -logically said the peasant
“THE DEVS HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED IT, AND HAVE OFFERED A SOLUTION” -added the dandelion “BUT FOR SOME STRANGE REASON, ITS ONLY FOUND AFTER A GOOGLE SEARCH AND ON A 3RD PARTY WEBSITE”
Simply put, fix your game. It’s honestly crap like this that gets kicked around for over a month that just confirms the quality of Blizzard games couldn’t be further from the quality of Blizzard games pre-activision-microsoft.
No disrespect, but the truth may hurt. But understand this too Blizzard, pain is the best teacher. And when you only listen to the greeneries in your pockets over your fans, you will be in a world of hurt