No one gives a damn other than 0.1% of players that this affects, it’s literally irrelevant to everyone compared to enjoying the game more.
Hardly anyone is even playing comp anyway ffs there isn’t even 500 people in the “combined” top 500 anymore, it’s at 400 players with just 12 days of the season remaining.
And everyone knows OWL is ending. Who gives a crap.
You mean like the 0.1% of players that are in a pool small enough to be matched with the same people consistently?
How about you ignore it, or mute the player? You have solutions that don’t hurt other people. Use them.
HURT other people? Wtf are you on about? You’re concerned about the hateful crowd being HURT? Get a grip.
100% guarantee that more games are affected by smurfs and hackers than would be affected by this at the other end of the skill range. If you think otherwise you’re completely out of your mind. The calculus is incredibly easy.
The forum would benefit from a proper block feature so we don’t just have to “ignore” losers that go to bat for hateful crap too.
I’m concerned about queue times skyrocketing and matchmaking getting even worse because YOU can’t handle insults.
Grow thicker skin. I’m black and gay, and I’ve been called every slur in the book. Mute and move on.
Of course there’s something lost, namely decent queues for people who are having a good day who will get blocked by people because, it turns out, plenty of people care about winning in QP.
Granted, that could be fixed by having the “blocker” be the odd one out who has to sit in queue all day and giving the “blockee” priority over them 
but I suspect you wouldn’t want that.
Yup
Watch them call what you suggested discrimination
So people could simply block all good enemies in order to have easier matches? Great idea.
I’d like this.
Haven’t read replies yet, but no doubt someone has already said the tired old “It’s easily exploitable, people would use it to avoid being matched against specific good players”
Solution? Allow people to totally block as you suggested, the exception being Competitive where you can only do so in metal ranks. Once you hit diamond, you’re no longer allowed to swerve matchups.
So Toxicity can run rampant in Diamond and above?
Sounds counterproductive to me!
People don’t just stop caring about winning because they’re playing QP, where does that fan fic come from? Of course people would abuse it just the same in QP as they would in comp. If they get stomped by a Widow who has a great day, that Widow will likely end up on their block list.
Point proven by half the QP games I play when I’m learning a new hero where I get flamed for playing bad. Hell, the entire point of this thread is to block people who care too much.
Damn you love creating a straw man argument, huh?
Systems like this don’t work the higher in rank you go because there are fewer players. Just look at everyone avoiding Kephrii in OW1 when avoid stopped them being in your game at all.
I’m not having an argument with you though.
1 . I don’t care enough. 2. We’re talking about a totally fictional issue, it’s a massive waste of both of our time.
I know, that is why it is a bad system
I don’t need to… I know that people will abuse this!
Toxicity is not fictional issue tho…
Fictional block feature then. Either way, this is boring me.
This seems pretty reasonable and should be something to easily implement I’d think.
If a few blocks breaks the queuing system for a multiplatform game like Overwatch but doesn’t break the queues for a single platform game like Splatoon then Overwatch quite frankly deserves to die. It’s a rubbish argument.
Except it would absolutely ruin the higher rank gameplay because people would abuse it to avoid playing against certain high skill players like they did in the past when you had more than 3 “Avoid teammate” slots.
Catering to casuals is the worst way to make a game, as you can tell by the current state of the game and will more than likely lead to its demise.
You have a report system for cheaters, a mute/block system for “toxic” players, and if it really bothers you that much, you can wait like 2 minutes before queueing to 100% avoid playing with them again.
Don’t like having your feelings hurt? Stop playing competitive games
This is already addressed. I don’t give a damn what it does at that level, making things worse 99.9% of players for 0.1% of players is absurd. None of them will be playing the game anymore after OWL ends anyway, there will be no esports.
“Catering to casuals is the worst way to make a game, as you can tell by the current state of the game and will more than likely lead to its demise.”
Yeah sure, that’s why esports are doing soooooo well. Totally not dying because investors won’t prop it up with millions in wasted money anymore.
Don’t like someone yelling abuse at you in the street? Stop leaving your house.
This is wouldn’t effect OWL, you can’t just “Avoid” playing against someone in a tournament. This effects people on top500, GM, Masters, etc. OWL was designed for profits first, in-game issues later. Literally catering to the casual esports audience rather than the actual esports players and high ranked players in OW.
It’s actually wild that you believe a majority of players in high ranks are playing the game to “reach OWL.”
Fun fact, Bobby Kotick was the one who wanted OWL to exist and has been funneling every penny out of the casual audience with his Monetary decisions in OW2. Nearly every bad thing that has since OW2 has been spoken into existence is because this guy knows how to get money from casual players.
Every single decision where the options were “Make money quick” or “Balance the game,” they chose to make money because casual players don’t care what happens to the game. All the easy heroes in the game (made for casual players to hop in and enjoy while having a balanced impact) are broken and that’s why no one is playing ranked.
No ranked? No streamers. No streamers? No content. No content? No players. Game dies. Simple as that really
Funny thing is, Overwatch was never competitive game 