Why is overwatch so strict?

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Like i noticed you can’t really have fun in the game.

Like you get those trolls who bait you into being toxic back and you both get banned in the game but why?

like is it just me but you can legit get banned for anything in this game.

oh you acctdently pressed q in spawn? ban.

oh you called your teammates bad? banned.

those people spamming they twitch links. not banned?

like idk man something they ban you for and sometimes you don’t get banned.

i am just wondering why overwatch is so harsh on people aka theirs those troll youtubers who i used to watch and loved them.

they played the game very well but they did troll people.

like why does overwatch be so strict to trolls even if those trolls are really good at the game and try their best.

overwatch claims they want everyone to have fun but everyone has fun in their own ways?

why does everyone have to have fun in 1 way?

bascally the reason i am making this post is why does overwatch remove the freedom to play and enjoy the game the way you want.

whats the point of having a block butten if people get banned ether way?

like i just don’t get it to be honest.

i kind of can’t have fun in this game anymore because i legit fear i can get banned for something and idk what because ow rules are so vague and no one understands them.

idk just wondering if anyone aggrees just coming from other games and seeing people still being toxic in this game and the bans on those people kind of do nothing cause they have alt accounts.

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you don’t get banned that easily, i’ve done

this many times.

and sometimes get heated enough to do this.

but i’m not banned because i don’t do it enough to get consistently reported and get banned.

you really have to try to get it in this game

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ya but this one time i got banned for throwing or whatever when i missclicked my ult in spawn and their was a 5 stack and they all reported me . aka they hated me for playing ball and wanted me to get banned.

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You definitely didn’t get banned from one incident. It takes like 50 reports.

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Getting toxic back… practically still a violation of the EULA/Code of Conduct. Just mute those users, no need to interact with them.

Pressing Q in spawn can be seen as throwing, even if you didn’t do it on purpose you are not aware of what you’re doing.

Report would be justified but isn’t that important imo.

Calling your teammate bad can be seen as a negative comment.
You could rephrase it in a way it’s more positive like saying what they should do better rather than saying they’re doing a bad job at it.
Also keep the tone when you’re doing that a bit more positive

Report is justified if the user gets offended by it.

People spamming twitch links do get banned if reported, most don’t really care when it happens because:
A. It doesn’t have any impact on their game
B. Noone is getting offended by it in any way
C. You can just mute the user

These do get banned, though you wouldn’t always know.

Everyone can have fun, Blizzard still supports this. Though there are things called RULES in a video game. Blizzard has these set up, what you described in this thread were multiple violations of these rules.

Why does everyone have fun in 1 way?
Because otherwise they would allow toxicity because toxic people like to be like that.
Or allow hackers because hackers have fun in their way.

No it doesn’t work like that, you can have fun however you want.
As long you do not violate the EULA/Code of Conduct AND make sure your behavior is accepted by the community.

Not all rule violators are banned, this is because the community doesn’t report that actively.

Also do note that bans usually come after warnings or mutes.
If you’ve broken these rules alot in a small period of time or had really severe cases of breaking these rules. Only then an account suspension or ban is in place.

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that seems very strict to just banned from the tone of how you say things even if its in chat.

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Well if you got banned then you recieved alot of reports.

Maybe you should check if your messages aren’t offending others because if they find your behavior inappropriate then they can report you.

It’s not strict, these are just rules so noone get’s hurt.

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nah, blizzard is incredibly strict, one time the only thing i literally said was ‘heal’ to one of our healers that wasn’t healing their teammates and ‘push payload’, and what happened? I got suspended literally 5 minutes after that match,
absolutely ridiculous

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And as previous poster here pointed out, you don’t get an instant ban, you need numerous report to pile up.

I also questioned and doubt if that’s actually what you said.

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exactly that’s what id expect everyone here to say, but yes it was true.

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and they dont even give you warnings anymore, they just give you instant suspensions or bans

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THIS. EVER. SINGLE. TIME I GOT BANNED WAS AFTER PLAYING SOLO WITH A 5 STACK WHO BLAMES EVERYTHING ON YOU and blizzard never answers my tickets even when i have proof. I used to screenshot everything but i give up. They never watch it.

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exactly, they dont even tell you exactly why you’ve been banned most of the time

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Banned temp because a streamer thought you were stream snipping.

Banned for saying GG. Not “get good” but good game. (But today kids treat it as insult)

Not switching to a hero a teammate wants you too be. :confused: (only to comply and loose and get called a thrower) because you suck as that hero.

List goes on. So many complainers over a video game. And I thought halo 3 was bad back in the day. But geez. Snowflakes

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I have fun by causing injury to people. Why can’t I have fun?

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It’s because we have an extremely delicate and overly sensitive community. And by this I don’t mean that we should start endorsing explicitly toxic behavior or anything, but when the players say that they actively report it when players say “gg :slight_smile:” in a game and even the forum users here agree with it, I think we’re way deep in the swamp of it that we’re being gatekept from attacking real issues. If absurdities like that are actually widely agreed upon within the community, we’re just doomed right from the getgo

That being said all you have to do is to ruthlessly play the game for a win and use all the tools available to do so and never speak to others unless asked questions and you won’t ever get reported. Or at least you won’t notice it. You see OW is a game where the rules are binary: You’re either breaking them or not. It’s not like you can occasionally break the rules and get away with it because you usually play the game properly. You have to do it always

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No, what that means is the standards for gaming are changing. You may not like it, but this is absolutely because gaming is now a mainstream hobby and not a niche thing.

You’re going to get more people, and more diverse groups of people, playing games that used to be sealed off. Your choice is to climb back in your tree fort and pretend these people don’t exist, or learn that toxicity is no longer wanted in the general community.

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Yep this is the exact absurdity I’m talking about. No, the standards for gaming aren’t changing. It has been a mainstream hobby for decades now. There’s nothing new about it. There’s no changes in the winds. There’s nothing else except a small wave of extremely entitled and overly sensitive players abusing the game. You do understand that the described behavior is straight up extremely toxic and you will get suspended if you get caught reporting players for saying “gg” ? You’ll also get reported and eventually suspended for engaging in gameplay sabotage if you don’t want to play the game properly and end up being a nuisance for 5 other teammates all the time. This has been the standard on the industry since forever. Since we actually had communities integrated in the games which again was decades ago

If anyone should “climb back to their tree forts” (that’s kinda painful to say) it’s these toxic overly sensitive individuals who are so entitled that even when they’re the newest most unreasonable and naive players they think they know something and then continue to make the most unreasonable and irrelevant claims about things. Nobody wants to harbor toxicity, that’s why communities are actively repressing these players, rightfully so

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It is not our job to educate you on empathy, sportsmanship and decency.

Your personal growth is not our responsibility.

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See, this is the same attitude I saw in the RPG community, the stubborn refusal to alter their behavior in the face of a changing demographic. The groups involved are slightly different, but the end result will be the same.

All those new people to shooters who came in because of Overwatch? They’re not steeped in the toxic behavior of the past that was tolerated, and they simply don’t want it. And Blizzard, being interested in making money, is going to listen to them. The people who loved the virtual idea of a wild west where they were the law are running into the new people who want order and a police force. Get mad about it all you want, this is the future.