I’m so glad they made profiles private. So many times in previous seasons, every game someone would say this guy is a “insert character” thrower. Then that guy would get banned with 11 reports. It’s so stupid.
Blizz makes cool profiles to share play stats… Toxic people abuse it.
Blizz makes report system to keep community clean… Toxic people abuse it.
Blizz makes endorsement system to keep community clean… Toxic people even abuse that.
See a pattern here? Toxic people always find ways to abuse everything.
Blizzard makes OWL, Toxic people compete in it
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More than toxic. Wasn’t one of them involved with some underaged kid or something?
So…you’re going to use their profile to try and make them switch then.
Which is the entire thing people dont want anymore.
You’re not really making a good case for this here.
I never paid attention to OWL.
But I think most people know who I am talking about without mentioning said users name.
I’m going to directly quote someone I was in a game with right after the new patch launched. “I really hate that you can’t flame peoples’ profiles anymore.”
I watched Stage One. Thought it was over-hyped XFL level garbage. Never went back. Just once in a while stumble on some news article about it out there on the 'net.
… by checking out of context numbers and then… doing what? TELLING them that they don’t have enough time on that hero and should change?
That’s why it was put as private… to stop that.
“we need a hitscan, can someone swap?”
“a phara would really disrupt the comp they’ve got going on, can someone switch?”
YUP! Pretty much 90% of the time someone says why they favor public profiles they are really making the case of why they should be private.
maybe this is because I play on console but that has never happened to me
Suppose you could see their profile. You ask them to swap heroes. They say no, which is well within their rights to do. What has that public profile accomplished in this scenario?
Any amount of public information you could obtain doesn’t give you the authority to force one of your teammates switch heroes. And the lack of any public information doesn’t mean you don’t have the right to ask them to. Either way, the end result is the same, is it not? Either they’ll swap heroes or they won’t.
Ok you actually make a good argument, and you are right about them not swapping being their rights to do so (even if its super annoying) but the reason why I believe the career profile privacy should be removed is if they make a questionable swap the career profile is good back up on assuring me that they can play that hero because in competitive we can’t just try out heroes we have little time on that would be like if I chose Genji a hero I know I can’t do well as.
because people are toxic jerks when they see i’m a torb/symm main before i even pick a character. and ignore the fact i have 65-75% win rate with said characters. But i will solo heal while they run like chickens with their heads cut off staggering to the objective.
All I have to say to your argument is if you play torb and sym but make them work fine thats fine keep playing them but if your damage is slipping down from gold to bronze then its time to swap. How ever you being a solo healer while your team mates run around the objective staggering I got to salute you for putting up with that BS.
I agree 100% that competitive shouldn’t be a training ground for heroes you have little experience with. That doesn’t change the fact that players have the right to do so. Nobody has to assure you of anything. It’s not your group.
Going back to my previous post, what are you going to do if you see someone’s profile and know they are just practicing a hero they are not as familiar with? Hero choice and poor play are not against the rules, per Blizzard. You could report them, but you run the risk of being actioned against for false reporting since Blizzard has been explicit in the fact that hero choice and poor play are not reportable offences.
Here’s what I would suggest to you. Don’t solo queue. Make a group using the LFG tool, and title your lobby with the requirement of public profiles. Being the creator of the group gives you the option of removing players who don’t meet the stated requirements.
If you solo queue, it’s not your group, and you shouldn’t assume you have the power to change anything outside of your own hero choice and playstyle. That hasn’t changed at all with the profiles defaulting to private.
i tend to only lose gold if our hanzo is good. otherwise i sometimes even out dps our hanzo.
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This is all true but it makes me furious when people practice heroes in comp.
True thats why I avoid them as a teammate I don’t report people for this but I wish poor team play was an option to report sometimes (although it shouldn’t because it would be abuse so much)
I don’t solo que ever actually. the smallest groups I run are 3 stacks. but its the randoms that trigger me sometimes
Make a group using LFG to be sure. Your 3 stack makes up half of that group, the other 3 are required to have public profiles, per the stated requirements given in the lobby title. Your 3 stack is now a 6 stack, and all 6 members have public profiles. Problem solved.
maybe this is just because I play on console but most of the time I use the LFG system I lose. I usually win when i 4 stack most of the time because when I LFG the team has no synergy or some people aren’t doing their job (I played with a Brigitte who was having trouble killing a tracer close to her on several occasions)