That’s why I never talk on the voice chat in competitive. I only do it when I farm Legendary achievements during Archives as it takes a lot of team coordination.
While I agree that answering bullying with another type of (maybe milder) bullying is not okay either, people that use voice chat should all know what using voice chat implicates.
Any streamer can freely record your voice without asking for any sort of copyright or consent from the person’s part (which is kinda strange as I had to ask for the consent of every person I voice recorded for any uni projects a few years ago).
So if you’re like me, not very comfortable with the idea that someone could track you down on the internet by recognizing your voice or any other personal detail you might accidentally give out, better stay away from using voice chat (or even text chat).
You can still join it to listen to other people that don’t care about exposing their voices on an online game.
So could the opposite when that toxic person bullied other people just because the team was losing a game. Again, I’m against the “an eye for an eye” policy but anyone can be seen as a victim in this scenario.
I agree, even though this video’s goal was to reassure people that were bullied during their game, advising them to look at the replays of the bullies’ gameplay just so they acknowledge that most of the time, those guys are the problem because they tilted (maybe a few games earlier) and are making a lot of mistakes themselves (and are just looking to blame others to take all their rage out).
Your Overwatch shouldn’t make more videos like these though as it could become popular and encourage people to make their own “exposing toxic people” videos. I think it’s against the CoC to do such a thing on the forums. I don’t know about Youtube’s stance about it.
Even though I’m hardly ever toxic (more like answering to bullying when it happens), I wouldn’t like my username to appear all over the internet, even if it’s just me playing.
Usernames should always be hidden. I would appreciate it more if Overwatch just displayed the name of the hero we play just so streamers don’t have to face that consent problem or people reporting their videos to be taken down.
If I ever found a video of a streamer in which I accidentally appear (and I know you might say I’m overreacting but) I would report the video so it’s taken down by Youtube or Twitch.
The only voice chat I’m using is when I’m on Discord when I play with my friends because it’s a safe space with people I know for a long time.
Overwatch is not like World or Warcraft where there’s the notion of guilds and respect among members (on Team Speak or Discord). In a shooter game, name calling and bullying occur a lot more so if you’re not ready for this, better stay aways from any type of chats.