So I’m seeing this more and more lately. While I get it, it’s the “rick roll” of Overwatch, I hate when it’s used in competitive play to make a member of the other team disconnect and then, I guess they are suspended so they can’t come back in.
I’ve already seen it twice today and a few times yesterday. It’s getting to the point it’s actually harming competitive play.
I don’t like reporting people, but is this something that can/should be reported?
EDIT: Again, happening this morning! I got a screenshot this time.
[SYSTEM] You have been reported in a recent Competitive Play match. To view your report log, type “/log” into chat and press [ENTER].
Usually someone is stupid enough to do it (it causes Overwatch to close on a PC which means they are suspended and can’t come back to the competitive match) and then that team (usually the opposing team) is short one or more players for the match.
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Can you explain what you are talking about? I play on console so idk what you mean
it doesnt happen for you then. people troll others into basically clicking alt f4
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Correct.
And it’s affecting competitive play.
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i had it today too, and tried to type it in, it tries to get you to /logout. i deleted the “out” and just had “/log” and it did nothing.
The game should just ban anyone that types:
[SYSTEM] You have been reported in a recent Competitive Play match. To view your report log, type “/log” into chat and press [ENTER].
in too all chat. They are clearly trolls.
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i think they could just remove the /log or logout command to avoid this issue…recently fell for this trap never even seen it before…threw me off…i think it should be a bannable offense by far as it tries to act like a system message/moderator action which is against blizzard TOS
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This is messed up. If blizzard can troll people that say gg ez then they should do something about this.
How did you even find this topic to necro after 7 months?
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searched log out reported
Cool will try this out later, thanks 
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If theres a dot in front of the message, its a player.
That was added like a year ago…
You get a message to say you have been reported?
Is that just a pc thing?
Hopefully this’ll be more informative.
Use this:
Any system messages will have no identifying username and will appear in yellow or red. Critical messages may appear in red text with a white background. These other colors indicate a message from another player depending on the lobby or game mode:
- White = General Chat (while in the main menus)
- Orange = Match Chat
- Blue = Team Chat
- Green = Group Chat
- Purple = Friends Whisper
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someone was tricked into doing this in my match today. i reported them. it appears they change their btag in order to have this message
That’s actually kind of cleaver. Suggesting a log-viewer when it’s a log-out command. I can see people falling for it.
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I kinda feel bad but one time, someone left the match because I typed:
The server closed due to an unexpected error.
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ughhhh I hate this, I backfilled into a qp game and fell for it like and idiot 
They had been doing it to anyone who reenters I guess cause people kept leaving?
they really should just remove the command. Who actually uses /log outside of world of warcraft. When i close OW its almost always the menu option, as i imagine most people do.
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4 years, and its still not fixed, i got tricked and log out during my game, remove the command, damn it
I found this in my chat today. I thought I got reported by the other team because they were salty they lost (no other reason made sense) so I retaliated by reporting their Mei. Seemed legit to me lol