But you do know what they’re playing… When they pick their hero.
You seem to be treating this as if everyone else is playing Mystery Heroes or as if you’re some sort of self appointed coach in charge of picking everyone else’s picks.
This is a team game, so there has to be a level of trust amongst teammates. Very rarely will a teammate pick someone they are not confident on, especially when you give them the option to choose for themselves. In all honesty, what you would want does typically line up with what they pick anyways, but the difference its their choice to choose what they play and what they feel is best.
Demanding you get to dictate their play based on your own opinion of their stats is quite literally the opposite of being a team player. If you can’t understand the difference between “Are you comfortable playing Rein” and “I’m playing Zarya, you need to go Rein” then that’s on you.
Ever hear the saying “a half truth is a full lie”?
It means even if you’re given technically true information, if the lack of context causes you to make a false assumption, its as good as a straight up lie.
This is what profiles can and did do, and was my entire point originally. You don’t know why they have certain hours on certain heroes, and I very much doubt you’re going in depth for all of the individual stats either. Just probably looking at most played, maybe a winrate or two. This information lacks context and can easily lead you to the wrong assumption. You don’t know that they want to play Mercy but had to fill with Ana a few times. You can’t tell that they’re not a half bad Rein, but a few unlucky games tanked their winrate.
You’re not looking for what they’d like to play, you’re looking for what you’re comfortable dictating to them. Again, solid difference.
Jeez, something tells me I may have annoyed you by mentioning facts…
Anyways, this is from roughly a week after private profiles went live:
Now, obviously on the flip side of this, you have over 70% of instances that private profiles didn’t effect because, like you said, these people would just find another reason. But that doesn’t change the fact that at least some portion of the remaining confrontations had their the main driver in someone getting upset being purely based on what they saw in profiles and how the players who actually owned them disagreed with their teammates “suggestions.”
If you have a reputable source that can say otherwise and prove that there was objectively no change in player behaviour, I’d love to see it, but until then it’d be good to recognize the difference between a legitimate fact and a personal, albeit logical, assumption.
I really was not expecting you to take that literally.
God forbid you wait 30 seconds when the hero select + setup phases run double, sometimes triple that depending on the map.
Again, no one is expecting you to get in a full on “5 minute conversation” with anyone. I quite literally said multiple times that you don’t need to say anything. Just wait the “30 seconds” and see what your teammate picks, then pick around them. In my experience, ~80% of the time you’ll still have plenty of time to run to wherever you need to so you can just stand around emoting while you wait for the match to start like you would anyways.
The few remaining times, they’re either AFK or trying to be just as nice as you are, in which case, again, it’s important to have the line set for yourself to know when you need to just go ahead and pick so they can play around you. It’s seriously not that hard.
I don’t believe I ever said that?
Sometimes people don’t respond. I get that. My point is that if you were to see me in game, you wouldn’t even try to ask, then blame me for “being that type of person”.
So picking your hero based on what your teammates are playing literally so you have a coherent team comp is the same as not caring about team comp?
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I mean, sure bud. If you want to believe that, I can’t dig you out of that hole.