According to In-Game Code of Conduct, “behavior that intentionally detracts from others’ enjoyment (such as griefing, throwing, feeding, etc.) is unacceptable,” but no definitions are provided.
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/42673
Griefing is the act of chronically causing consternation to other members of an online community, or more specifically, intentionally disrupting the immersion of another player in their gameplay using aspects of the game in unintended ways.
Feeding is where you let the enemies get a free kill off (of yourself, or getting really close to dying). It’s called feeding because they are feeding the enemies Ultimate Charge. Feeding is just a subcategory of throwing. Same can be said about inactivity.
So griefing is being annoying over and over again (I think).
And feeding is intentionally letting the enemies kill you.
griefing is when you mess with your mate’s base while he’s offline i’m pretty sure. tnt, fire, etc.
Feeding is almost willingly giving the enemy ult charge
For example, playing in their back line or going in alone instead of grouping up
Mei on your own team walls you in your spawn to trap you = griefing.
Mei walking into the other team without the support of the rest of the team being there and just dies = feeding.
You got that right. Throwing is not picking a “wrong” hero, or losing shots, or even doing bad calls like trying to 1v6 the whole team. Throwing requires intend. As in, the player specifically want to lose that match.
Which is kinda why it’s hard to accuse someone of throwing unless they are very blatant about it, like announcing that they are throwing, repeatedly jumping into the pit near the spawn, or repeatedly engaging the enemy without shooting back.
Some people argue that others will just pick poorly on purpose to “soft throw” a match by playing subpar while still pretending they are trying. But it’s really hard to differentiate someone doing this, and someone actually struggling. So, personally, I prefer to only report blatant throwers, and give everyone else the benefit of the doubt.
Griefing is using in-game mechanics to deliberating annoy or harass someone else in the match. Eg, picking Mei and walling your own team inside the spawn, or (back before it was patched), using Ana’s Sleep Dart on Total Mayhem to leave someone permanently sleeping until they got kicked out of the match by inactivity.
Nowadays it’s often called “trolling”, but IMO the concept of trolling is more abragent than griefing. As in, all griefers are trolls, but not all trolls are griefers.
Feeding is dying on purpose to give the enemy team some in-game reward that will make it more probable that your team will lose the game. It’s a subset of throwing.
In OW specifically, dying on purpose to enemy fire will give them ult charge over the damage you took. So a common feeding purpose used to be to pick Roadhog, let them damage you, use your breather, and die. Now the enemy team have extra 900 ult points.
Feeding usually is more problematic in MOBA games, where the enemy team get levels and gold for finishing your off.
Do not get confused with “dying together”, which is when you lose significant numeric advantage over the enemy team, and are in a bad position to retreat and regroup. In those situations, it’s usually better to let the enemy team kill you fast, so that you respawn close to the rest of your team, instead of 5+ seconds behind them. Ideally, you want to jump into a pit to prevent them from gaining ult charge, but in maps without pits (eg, Anubis), you just let them kill you by going berserk and trying to get yourself as much ult charge as possible before they kill you.
Griefing is deliberately sabotaging your teammate’s efforts to win the game, the most famous example would be picking Mei and walling your team into spawn.
Feeding is deliberately letting the enemy kill you or do lots of damage to you to make your team lose the match (deliberately letting the enemy team kill you so you can respawn faster is NOT feeding however, it is a tactical decision to help your team regroup faster.
Dunno what’s griefing.
But feeding means intentionally dying to the enemy team, granting them free ult charge.
Throwing is intentionally losing the match or behaving in a way with the intent of losing.
Griefing is intentionally preventing others from playing. Best example of this Mei walling spawn and preventing teammates from leaving or entering. The other common example is throwing yourself off a cliff repeatedly.
Feeding is intentionally positioning yourself to easily die to the enemy team. Often accompanied by doing nothing but walking into the enemy or standing still in an open area.
Feeding is playing Dva in any capacity. Almost /S… almost
The worst is when a Mei throws up a wall in front of a Bastion with line of sight on the opposing team.
Greifing is basically go out of your way to make someone on your own team miserable. Like blocking LoS of your own Widowmaker or walling you supports in a closed room of their entire enemy team.
Feeding came from MOBA where you give the enemy an incredibly high advantaged through stuffs like directly walk into them and let themselves be killed so that the enemy gained more gold, XP and all that stuff. Now in Overwatch, it would be giving the enemy team so much ult charge that they are spamming it every 2 minutes. This is a very common theme with Tanks seeing that they have more HP and are often highest healing priorities.
Oh, so 99% of hog players in my games, gotcha.
Sym TP put on an edge to purposely let your team fall down = griefing
Running alone into an enemy group with the intention of wanting them to kill you = sabotage and feeding
Constantly trying to 1v 6 thinking you can team wipe, but end up dying over and over = feeding
I name my ults from the name of the enemy Hog or D’va who kindly donated the ult charge for them.
Griefing means annoying others in the game instead of playing. Feeding is one of the lazy ways of griefing.
i heard griefing in minecraft is ruining someone’e base.and in ow it would be ruining the game with unitentional uses of ablities. like a sym placing a tp at an edge for your teammates to fall or mei that keeps blocking off your team.
and feeding is giving ultimate charge to your opponent as you ‘feed’ your hp to the enemy for ultimate charge. and there is a difference between intentional feeding and accidental one. if you make a mistake and you ‘feed’ the enemy ult thats not feeding. doing it on purpose is feeding. you can hear this by a lot of people calling out someone’s mistake. like “genji is feeding” because he yeeted himself in the enemy team. and its hard to know if they are doing it on purpose or by mistake.
Griefing is a type of throwing that ruins even the teammates performance like walling them as Mei on purpose.
Feeding is making the enemy charging ults faster due to bad gameplay. It can be seen mostly at tanks like Rein charging in many times alone or Hog going in alone and using Take a Breather when focused at that time.
I actually accidentally ice-walled a teammate D’Va’s self-destruct preventing her mech from travelling to the opposing team and losing a game-winning ult. I apologized for that, but, as pointed out on this thread, that isn’t “griefing” because there was no intent behind it. (I’m learning so much!)
Follow-up question: can you identify instances or ways of griefing outside of Mei’s Ice Wall? That was the only example provided (over and over). I’m just curious how else someone could grief someone.
why playing flank heroes are risky since you can vanish for playing them.
aka reddit lucio, flank hog, flank heroes in general.