They did that with Heroes of The Storm. Everything made after that has been downhill including this game considering everyone has jumped ship from this company.
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yeah it pretty much is caused by SMURFFS flooding competitive. So everyone just plays the game as ranked players, in an UNRANKED mode.
The system has PLENTY of those player-groups to deal with. I get reported constantly as a âTHROWERâ in Quickplay matches and then berated because I didnât play in their stupid little group, with the role they refuse to play.
The match making engineers are to blame at Blizzard for this problem. NOT ours.
As well as it is the fault of COMPETITIVE players for Qâing into a match and having a high expectation that the randos pulled from Q are simply there for FUN and dontâ care about those stackerâs hopes and dreams for a win.
Activision knows we are frustrated with the game. But since they are headed to a sell-out to Microsoft, There isnât anything going to be fixed or repaired on this game much anymore. So just expect that everyone whom worked on this game is probably spending their free time to look for a new job and rightly-so. They should.
It is a GOOD strategy to EXIT a company during a buy-out. I learned the HARD WAY and stuck out an acquisition and it destroyed my career because I had TENURE coming up and they wanted to shed me fast.
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In my experience they are still children. At least they act that way.
Though I canât say the toxicity claimed in this game bothers me much. People get frustrated, they last out. Itâs a game, who cares, move on, imv.
In any competitive environment different people react differently. The most competitive among us can be the most intolerable to be around in a competition.
Humanity is toxic, good luck.
Oh and donât make me laugh. Considering how toxic this game has become everyone is afraid to chat in the first place due to the report system. Now why did it end up that way? The few who do use chat are the ones I mentioned before who say âGG or GG EZâ but only if they win. Is this your idea of a good community? Better to not have one at all if itâs going to stay that way forever. We have no reason to chat with the other team. Itâs a pointless distraction that gets in the way of gameplay.
It comes down to frustration I believe. Since you only gain SR when you win a match itâs not based on just your performance but the performance of you and 5 other random people that may or may not be working as a team. This causes people to blame other for people their loss of SR whether true or not.
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Some people like to troll also. Ran into a 6 stack tonight running Ball, Hog, Doom, Mei, Brig, Ana. I ran through so many teammates that match I had to laugh. Couldnât do anything, stun, hook, slam, sleep, boopâŚâdonât moveâ. LOL.
It was a hot mess, but I had fun. Ended up backfilling into matches against them 2 more times.
I get why people left out of that, but whatever for, its a game, laugh and move on.
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As long as they keep rewarding people for being toxic then the game will continue to be toxic.
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TLDR is this
Play TF2.
Start to find âinsert annoying thing hereâ annoying.
Remember you can swap to any class in the game, and your value isnât interconnected with the randoâs that youâre put with.
Doesnât complain about team and has fun.
Play OW
Start to find âliterally any hero in the game but lets go with pharah for this exampleâ annoying.
Remember that because youâre a certain role, itâs up to some random guy to take care of her.
Junkrat Doom.
DEFEAT.
Since you know what the problem is and what the solution is, you feel entitled to how your team should play because you HAVE to work together.
Turns out trying to force strangers to work together through no benefit of themselves doesnât work.
because the devs do absolutely nothing to stop it, they allow racism, sexism, and homophobia freely and openly to be in the game. They donât care, and the report system is a joke.
The smurfs and toxic players know nothing will ever happen to them, so they are allowed to treat other overwatch players like trash as much as they want.
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They are one in the same most of the time. If Blizzard would actually listen to my solution youâd have much less alt accounts created with the sole purpose of cheating / harassing others through text.
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It is exceptionally toxic. The reason is because current leadership at blizzard cares about money, thatâs it. CEO does not care if people are toxic in the games as long as they get their money. Itâs not just overwatch, itâs all blizzard games. For a game like WoW a pve game to be as toxic as it is just goes to show you how little they actually do to control it. Final fantasy 14 on the other hand is 99% free of toxicity because the devs have a strict 3 strike policy on toxicity and then youâre premabanned. Hop over to Apex legends for a month and youâll see a dramatic difference in toxicity.
95% of my overwatch comp games have some form of toxicity, in Apex I can count on one hand how many times I experience toxicity in a month. The Apex community is actually kind of awesome. Iâve even had a game where someone on my team got toxic but they still had my back, revived me and tried to win. Iâve also had people apologize to me lol that kind of stuff never happens in overwatch. Once someone says you suck they stop healing you and you forever suck even if you get a 1v6.
Anyways, letâs hope things change for the better once blizzard is in Microsofts hands.
I think the problem is also the lack of a satisfactory straining mode. Usually this is determined by story modes, but ⌠Overwatch doesnât have it, yet. And his AI simulation is really painful and out of date.
There are tons of good workshops that have significantly improved the intelligence of the game, and that has made that kind of cumminity incredibly united. Too bad, however, that Blizzard does not value their efforts by highlighting their training workshops, but rather limiting itself to an automatic system of âwhich workshop codes are currently used most?â. Without real monitoring, in short. Letâs remember when there is another DOTA case with Overwatch XP: Blizzard should give a buff to its collaboration with that type of audience. Even by formalizing certain arcade workshop modes and giving credit to their authors.
but no, serious training is done in multiplayer. But to get back to the topic, I fully agree that the toxicity in quick play is unmotivated.
We do⌠and wait sometimes 30 minutes between games.
Thatâs not fun to do in any online game⌠and shouldnâtâ happen.
Toxicity is a common thing in pretty much every community out there (even the seemingly calmer ones still have a bit of toxicity within them). Anywho, one of the reasons why OW community is so toxic is because players take the gameâs competition way too seriously
Why did Rambo run away into forest and fight back?
Because they drew first blood.
This community became toxic in response to utter mistreatment and mismanagement. Both of the in-game systems, the members at large, the prioritization of owl/pros, disregard for QoL and integrity, and some really toxic handling of issues both in-game and out-of-game.
this is the one, doc
the thing that made me cringe so hard Iâm doing a permanent kegel
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Arenât you the guy currently complaining about getting bad teammates in the matchmaker, and how itâs rigged against you?
nah man heâs chad only, an alpha who solves all his problems with a grim and serious look and a small pat of his egregiously large muscles
blizzard couldnât possibly hold him back even with slanted matchmaking
/s
I canât help that I borderline look like a convict.
Well, I could help it, but then what would be the point of these thousands Iâve spent on tattoos and eons spent in the gym?
Iâm genuinely not a mean person. I just look mean and âresting b face runs in the familyâ.
All that Iâm getting at is that strangers donât get upset at me over trivial matters and then cuss me out in person. Iâd think this is mostly due to my appearance, and not humans displaying a lack of self control. My more preppy clean cut âsmallerâ friends get crap from random people all the time whether theyâre out at the bar or some knob at work is all twisted up about nothing. People donât do that to me. If they did Iâd just ignore them anyways. Iâm not one to divulge in threats or violence.
But why OW players think their toxicity is acceptable behavior is beyond me. You wouldnât say this in person (especially to myself), so donât say it virtually.
Sportsmanship, respect, and basic decency shouldnât have to be forced with consequences.