What happened to EXP in custom games? How blizzard ignore their community

I only play custom games, it’s the only way i enjoy Overwatch, mostly against the AI, we create challenging and fun game modes such as harder AI bots than the training modes.

Since Baptiste dropped we’re not getting any EXP when we used to.

Just curious why harm players that choose to play custom games.

But i hope you can fix this for us. Thanks.

Basically exp was taken away from the only way i enjoy overwatch, so I’m not going to gain levels or loot boxes, however if you go into training with bots you can still earn exp, but you do the same exact thing in a custom game you get 0 exp.

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Having the same issue here. I hope this isn’t a permanent thing

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Also getting this issue.

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Same thing happening to me in custom games. Getting no exp.

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Same problem here. Some people are only comfortable playing against AI and I don’t think they should be punished. Everyone should be able to earn lootboxes. I really hope this is just a bug and not a permanent “fix”.

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I agree. Sometimes it’s nice to take a break from the regular games and not have to deal with toxic people

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Happening to me and my friends too. We can get EXP from custom deathmatch and limited duel though for some reason? Just not custom quickplay

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apologies, but can we get some info on this? there was nothing in the patch notes as to why this change came in.

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I’m willing to bet its so that people cant exp grind in custom games anymore. I think a better fix to this is just reduce the amount by like, 25%, 50% whatever, but not 100%

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Who really cares about exp in this game? It is entirely meaningless. All this change does, if it isn’t a bug is punish anyone who are unable to play against players.

Reducing exp gained makes it harder to get loot boxes. The beauty of Overwatch is/was that you don’t have to play with others.

I have a friend who plays mostly custom games and without loot boxes one has to wonder why to play at all. Playing with and against strangers doesn’t work for everyone. I play with and against others all the time, so it doesn’t directly impact me but it does if my friend stops playing all together. If Blizzard were to decide loot boxes could only be gained in competitive people would “riot”. I believe this game should remain inclusive and allow everyone to be able to get rewards no matter their preferred game mode. Yes, with custom games experienced gamers could possibly obtain rewards faster but that shouldn’t be a problem now after not having been problem for almost 3 whole years.

Having said all that I hope it is just a bug; it was like this on the PTR as well, so I am not too confident.

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Same here. We usually play custom matches, we are getting nothing now.

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still nothing? i haven’t played since and people(my friends) don’t want to play custom games if we’re missing out on leveling+lootboxes.

and honestly what’s stupid, you can just go into Training vs AI hard bots and get EXP… my argument is we want to do this but in custom game so i can create harder difficultly. But instead that EXP is taken away. I fail to see the logic behind that decision, it’s bad and it hurts players… but it seems to be noticeable trend with blizzard, they want to force you to play in a specific ways.

Just like events that people enjoy you take away because we will get bored of them? people want a break from qp and comp… and just like classic wow, you think you do but you don’t… how’d that work out?

please blizzard fix this, let us play how we want to and don’t punish us.

Not having this problem myself.
Possible you guys aren’t doing enough in the game to get XP or you’re not letting the match finish.
I only ever play Customs, and I get a loot box every day.

I also play PC though.

I would love to know your settings for custom games. I just played another custom game and I had no EXP whatsoever. And yes, I let the match finish in its entirety.

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“Since Baptiste dropped we’re not getting any EXP when we used to.”

but yeah i’m wondering if you’re even playing custom qp with AI.

With how many people do you play custom games? Is it a full group against a full group of AI? I am trying to figure out what differs between us with no EXP and jaakezzz’s custom games still seeing EXP. EXP is 0 for me since this patch with a bonus of 20 % for grouping up which still amounts to 0, obviously.

6 people vs ai bots, they have 200% hp and 50% faster respawns, its just qp other than that. 8-9 min game of constant action. will say 0 exp + 20% group bonus at the end of the game.

I see. On Sunday I will try to do a Play vs AI to see if I am getting EXP. I will post about the result in that mode of play.

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I don’t know if this is correct but for me I found out that I still get exp in Team Deathmatch modes in custom. However if I play assault, escort, and assault/escort modes then I get 0 exp. Can anyone else experiment with this?

So I just did a Practice vs AI with 5 other players in medium mode (hard mode queue was way too long) and here I did get EXP.

Again, if this is a change and not a bug it is rather stupid. It is not as if Practice vs AI with other players is any harder than plowing through enemies in Custom Games, especially custom games with the exact same setting as Practice vs AI. Heck, Practice vs AI and custom games with the same setting and with exactly 6 players is of the same difficulty but yet in Practice vs AI you do get EXP.

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