I like to play SC2 Monobattles and a few other Arcade games. We loaded up with a few regulars and some randos who I didn’t know. About 3 min a video appeared on my screen. I have never seen this before but it took up the whole screen. It was a Russian pop video or something that played for 20 seconds or so. Most of us were talking in chat about what the heck was happening.
Very odd. Then about a minute later a video pops up with a guy entering a store with a SC1 HUD over the video and ghost emotes playing. I was talking with the others in the game trying to figure out what was going on. I then realize he is murdering people and shooting people in the head. At this moment I freak out and hard close out of SC2. My 5 year old daughter was in the room with me, half paying attention to me playing a video game.
This is beyond unacceptable. I should never have to worry about seeing people murdered or p*rn while playing a SC2 game. I know Blizz doesn’t do much anymore for SC2 but this has to be fixed. This isn’t a game issue, it is a safety issue. I am just very upset about what I saw and what my child could have seen.
I went to the Monobattles discord and thought it was some issue with the map. It appears this has been going on for a month or so in various Arcade games. People are somehow about to inject videos into games.
I have a copy of the replay but don’t know the best way to share it. I wouldn’t advise watching it but if someone at Blizz wants a copy I am happy to share it.
Unless you are the one who created it. Or know the developer very well and has a reputable reputation. Honestly, you should only be playing official game modes anyway. Either the campaign, coop, or versus. That is it.
I have been playing Monobattles for a decade now. This is a well known mapmaker and is not his fault. It is also happening in Battlepoker I was told. If Blizz cannot fix it then they have to take the Arcade down. The ESRB does not play and I will be filing a formal complaint if I don’t here about a fix soon.
I’m so dissapointed to see the responses you got from these alienated people. They got 0 empathy for whatever happened to you. The response to this is ‘oh, stop playing that mode, bro’. I sometimes think these forums are full of 12 year old kids using their parents PC down the basement.
These are the same people that are encouraging this behavior. Don’t like CP, people being murdered on your screen then stop playing the game is an asinine take.
no one here is condoneing it, all were saying is when you play arcade, you do so at your own risk. The arcade games have always had problems since the beggining of sc2. and blizzard barely ever does anything about them, cause again, you play them at your own risk.
Forum poster from the WoL days here. Neither you nor I are the “great overdictator of forum acceptableness.” If you can’t handle people not liking your harsh and unempathetic responses, then forum environments might not be for you.
You don’t get to decide that your flavor of toxicity is acceptable or unacceptable to other people. That’s a part of social interaction. You can find an AI friend if you don’t want pushback.
to be fair duck duck anyone can post here, if you dont like how it is you can go, plain and simple. i dont have to be a nice person to a bunch of randos i dont know, i try to be to an extent but when things get rediculous then no. ill play ball and watch my languague and what blizzard wants but that doesnt mean i have to be nice and coddle the mass’s. if people dont like it tough. they dont have to be here.
“Anyone can post here” is a two-way street and doesn’t just apply to you. You aren’t the person who decides who stays and goes based on if they agree with your approaches or like what you say. You aren’t a king, you’re not an admin.
Now in the end I recognize you in some sense are trying to be helpful, and I’m not saying you’re just evil. But people are allowed to disagree with the way you go about things, that is a part of life. Co-existing with people who approach things differently than you is necessary for social environments, so you trying to shun out people who don’t approach things the way you do is socially immature. Fine to voice disagreement, though.
well see here is your poblem, unlike the people who have a problem about what i say on the forums i personally dont care. say what you want i may disagree with you but thats it. i may not like what other say but it personally dont offend me what they say. im not thin skinned like alot of the people here.
as far as it goes when it comes to actual problems around here when im trying to help people, im not gonna sit here and coddle my words and say bliz is wrong or that the other people are wrong, im gonna tell it to you straight, if you dont like it tough, thats just how it is.
like for this problem. blizzard can only fix the injection problem to an extant till they find another work around, this is given from past exploits, after that its up to the map makers to go and fix the maps themselves and remove the scripts. two part process. the problem here is everyone jumps to conclusions and thinks bliz is inafalabial and that they should have it fixed the instant it happens, let alone it being in custom and arcade, and its the holiday weekend to boot. right now bliz dont care about nothing but what breaks the ladder, everything else theyll get to when they do. thats just a fact. you may not like it but its a 15 yo game that is in its dying stages. again thats a fact.
According to a Reddit post Blizzard made the following statement:
"Hey everyone, I’m Eric from the Blizzard Comms team.
We are working to fix the exploit we believe might have been used by certain players to upload content that violates our policies. We take the safety of our players and our platform very seriously. The inappropriate content is being removed, and the responsible parties have been banned. To prevent additional policy violations, we have temporarily disabled the ability for players to upload new maps and mods through the SC2 Map Editor while we work on a permanent fix."
More likely they are totally zombified millennials apathetic and incapable of real human capacity due to decades of hardcore internet corn and liveleak videos, while rattling off unhinged rhetoric in small online spaces until it warps their view of reality.