So I just had a match where the enemy team’s tank was a streamer and they stalled the game forever. Our two healers joined them in the stalling, and they just farmed us. Our mercy would revive us just so they could farm us more. They stalled the objective forever, even letting our healers cap the point a few times to prolong the match. Meanwhile they all trolled us in the chat. So us two DPS and tank were just forced to die over and over while you they harassed us.
The game wouldn’t let me leave and warned me I would be punished if I left. If I refused to engage in combat since all it was doing them was feeding their ego, a timer would start warning us that it would kick us for inactivity. I complained about them griefing in chat and they just laughed saying they’ve never been banned for it before.
The streamer then told all their followers to report me and I watched them report me multiple times on their stream. And then while trying to report them in game, I was kicked for inactivity and wasn’t allowed to requeue.
I’m worried I am going to get banned in Overwatch. I was complaining in chat about the griefing but I was civil and didn’t attack them verbally at all. And the anti-leaver mechanics really made me feel trapped in the game without any options. And now I am also worried I am going to get banned because this streamer sent her followers to report me for complaining, and I don’t know if Blizzard would even care to look at the evidence.
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if qp leave anyway, rather have a 5 min ban then a streamer getting you mass reported.
if comp, thats just how it be sometimes
why lol. scared of 5 minutes without ow?
I’m assuming the bans are longer than 5 minutes. And doesn’t leaving give you a strike now that adds up?
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This website and it’s darned editing issues… 
the first game you leave is a warning, the second is a 5 minute “ban”
Pin the match, create an export code, and contact support with it. You can contact them via Twitter or try the support site. If this was comp/if you have proof, you should be alright as this seems unique and unusual.
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If he told his followers to report you, that probably means you were talking to him in chat. Just don’t engage. Make it as boring as possible for him, and he’ll stop.
Someone like you getting upset is the goal (that’s the content for his stream), so just go AFK near point, and make the game as boring as possible for the streamer. Report the kid and move on.
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Report this immediately.
How do you report someone who’s neither playing with you or on your friends list? … and you watched their stream?
… is this console? Is reporting difficult in console? Takes like 10 seconds tops in PC.
It takes multiple unique reports over multiple games to get banned. Don’t worry about it.
Do you leave regularly? That’s the only reason I’d feel “trapped” about it. They are a rolling count and “strikes” quickly fall off as you play more games.
It takes the last 20 games you plays and anything older “falls off” and is no longer counted.
1 leave: nothing
2 leaves: 5 minutes
4 leaves:20 minutes
6 leaves : 4 hours
10 leaves: 48 hours.
You can “grind” these off by playing games without leaving. As far as we know this never results in banning permanently.
That is reportable for sure. Griefing and maybe the other one, forgot what it was.
You can’t be “mass reported.”
I’ve never left a game before so I didn’t really understand how much trouble i’d get in
Was wondering why this looked so familiar
(https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/1c7nd6c/what_do_you_do_when_a_streamer_holds_your_game/)
It seems the streamer in question is getting completely demolished on twitter right now with a lame apology to boot. Game should be banning people like this instead of people saying the funny poop word with an s.
That… is pretty messed up. Well… “drag them on reddit with clips” is a pretty good response.