WTF!? Minimizing the game, gets you banned!?

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Found it. esports.hollywood(dot)com/overwatch-jeff-kaplan-apologizes-for-roasting-rude-forum-poster-b4952d8944fb

Is this what u were talking about?.

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yeah I think that was it.

23

This game actively hates you/everyone something to remember when playing it

24

He shouldn’t have apologized. :disguised_face:

Alas, it is what it is.

25

You crazy. Obviously something else happen.

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i think OP is saying:

  1. Queue for a comp match.
  2. Minimize OW and go use your browser.
  3. Maximize OW at some time later.

Result: Sometimes, the “match has started” sound and all in game sounds and voice coms do not play when OW is minimized;
You are now banned for X time because you afk’d out unintentionally.

Note: Sometimes, the OW icon also does not flash in the task bar, which it would normally do to let you know “the match has begun”

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Minimizing whilst waiting for a match, that’s when cos starring at a empty screen is a wasted time. In any other game (RoCo, Valorant, Paladins, (even in the original OW) you can minimize the game and do some web browsing, or anything else, not in OW2, you get banned automatically.

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idk it sounds like everyone is explaining to you that you don’t get banned for doing that, and that something else must’ve happened