Perhaps in a perfect world that might work, but we dont live in that world. The information on profiles is most often used to flame people for their choices, as i already said, this hiding the profile measure is a response from Blizzard to the toxicity that public profiles often create, it’s as simple as that.
That is a different case because players have defined roles within teams, in order to do that in the general population, players would have to be assigned a role and be evaluated on that role, or at least be evaluated differently for each role, but i dont think that is happening any time soon if at all.
Respect comes with transparency? I am wondering where you get off thinking your word is the be all, end all. Blizzard is giving people a choice to hide their profile. These people who own their copy of Overwatch can do whatever they want with their profile.
They don’t need some big shot giving them a speech about ethics. That’s right E-T-H-I-C-S, the reason people hide their profile, is because of other people who don’t know the meaning of ETHICS.
So only with this sentence we can say your a selfish dude who think he know thing better than other. Sad.
Stats privacy is an amazing thing.
Stats are ALWAYS using for bad purpose on this game.
You don’t know other player, so you can’t learn anything by reading his stats.
Multi-acc ?
Forced to play healer many game ?
Bad day ?
You don’t know.
So, play and stop try to judge other, your not superior. If you like judge other, in fact, your way inferior.
So, play and stop complaining for something who don’t event matter.
Also, I don’t know you, so Idc about your “respect” (you don’t even know what respect mean…). It’s a game, ppl play for have fun and try their best for win. Do the same.
Maybe if Quickplay wasn’t such a dumpster fire, riddled w/ “it’s just QP lemme throw if I wanna, I paid for my game I can play how I want” attitudes, then people could actually use it to practice new heroes before taking them into Comp. Sadly, that isn’t reality. A person has two choices when wanting to play a new hero (especially a new meta hero). Train them in Comp and tank their own SR along w/ their team’s… or get limited practice in Arcade or AI (which doesn’t account for actual counters/enemy team combos/etc.)
This judgement and character attack says more about you than anything else.
You are demonstrating a lack of rigor in your judgement by actually transforming something I said and making it into something that fits a narrative that suits your ulterior motive, which is to antagonize me and create an unhealthy communication terrain, on top of invariably (just like every other people who adopted the same aggressive stance you just did) not providing a sound argument as to why favoring public profiles would be more detrimental than to actually maintain a moderate level of transparency in competitive Overwatch.
As I said before, I have played over 400 games this competitive season alone, which gives me a tangible pool of games to have a relatively educated and accurate opinion as to the situation, and never have I been harassed in any way due to the content of my profile, nor have I used other people’s profile information to harrass/bully or anything else of the sort.
Odds are that yes, effectively I AM in a better position to assess and evaluate a situation than most people who actually play this game, including you, because I indeed probably take it more seriously and have probably spent more time playing it than you ever will.
jeez dude… whats wrong? are u a troll or something? a guy whiches name is “ezclap” tries to tell something about respect lul. btw ur writting says about u that u are a smart aleck
You’ve got a point with that Archie, while most heroes are easy enough not to instantly get wrecked unless you know exactly what you’re doing, to some degree even if you do your “homework” like I’ve suggested in my initial post, it might be really difficult to get the stable practice context that you need in order to actually improve and reach a critical mass of skill needed to actually be able to play that hero. To me the hardest hero by far that I’ve experienced this with is doomfist. Even with a LOT of closed circuit training, it’s really difficult to truly understand how to play him properly on a meta level without getting wrecked for a while, but there is always a gray zone where you can use custom games or quick play to get that space you need to become viable on hard heroes.
Yeah, DF is a tough one. I’ve been using QP (grateful for the few solid matches I get) to practice Baguette, timing her shield bash to interrupt game-changing ults, finishing enemy Mercy w/ her whip, and rallying at the right time to hold the point. DF and Brig require a solid environment to get real practice on… whereas heroes like Soldier or even McCree can be played effectively after just working on aim w/ Ana Bots and tuning positioning.
Yep I remember the days where competitive mode didn’t even exist and nobody actually really knew how to play, the problem still existed back then but it was largely mitigated by people’s skill being generally so low coupled with the fact that we had no way of seeing that we were effectively losing something when we were losing games, other than our profile stats being tanked, which very few people cared about back then.
I mean Baghetto (lul) is relatively really easy to get into compared to DF even though she can be an insane anchor (as in burden) when used in an inappropriate context which happens very often…
As to what I play, as I’ve mentioned before I play 19 heroes, and I mostly specialize in DPS but my order of affinity is :
I’m noticing there are some people out there in the forums that are actually trying to voice an opinion where they actually advocate for Blizzard to remove all profiles from being publicly visible altogether as a “double up” to “counter” the scenario where “toxic” players would use the fact that someone’s account being private would be something to get bullied for.
This is actually hilarious because if you actually know anything about this game, you know that on a per map basis, the attacker always has the advantage of counter picking the defending team in a way where the defending team does not have a chance to retaliate on time.
For example, let’s say you join a competitive game and you can’t see anybody’s profile on the enemy team. You have to defend first point Anubis. You have a pharah main player with 300h on pharah that can clutch a defense but only if she succeeds in her gamble that the enemy team does not have a Widowmaker player.
Now if the meta information gets removed, and I as a defending player want the best outcome possible, I will actually try to acquire the Widowmaker skill and encourage my team to NEVER play pharah in that context despite her being potentially amazing just because I cannot evaluate whether or not the attacking team has the skillset to play widowmaker or not, and therefore I cannot take that risk.
Following that kind of logic, the attacking team on 2CP maps will always have a meta advantage because they can just scout in less than 10 seconds and counter pick at will.
Players like us have been playing OW for 2 years and played through 10 seasons of competitive OW and have actually developed analytical skill around this meta data, and now players that are actually not that competitive are actually trying to appropriate themselves the competitive environment of ALL players who take the game seriously, when these players are the one who actually look at the role models, which are the OWL players, whose stats are exactly accessible to everyone. I find this situation actually sickening tbh.
Nobody can convince me that hiding my profile is a bad thing. I’m about to stop being a widow main and I don’t want people picking that apart when I start playing D.va (my main tank).
You’re doing it yourself. It’s even in your title. “Respect comes with…”. No, respect comes with accepting peoples personal choices and their reason to do this or that.
Leaving yours public will be respected just as much as you should respect others for not having theirs public. That’s all there is to it. You can’t decide what people should or shouldn’t embrace. That’s honestly not your call.
I’m only trying to give a counter argument as to why it’s unfair to say people should keep their things open for all if they want respect.
Respect my gameplay in the game we’re playing currently. If I suck at my character it will be obvious, if I’m not communicating call me out on it. You don’t need to build a fake picture of who I am before I even push a key.
Respect? Of Overwatch community? The last thing you’ll find here. Just see comments from the people of “adapt and git gud with hero reworked” with “if Genji lose any passive, it will become unplayable”. People here are inflexible. The mere idea that there is a toxicity behind any hiding profile is something cracking to their minds.
Enter through the ear, out through the other.