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> The solution is to block the person you don't like No. This doesn't work in Overwatch. Because Blizzard removed this ability. Right when Overwatch came out,
by swang 9y ago
> The solution is to block the person you don't like
No. This doesn't work in Overwatch. Because Blizzard removed this ability.
Right when Overwatch came out, you could select a player's profile and essentially tell Blizzard's algorithm that you didn't want to play with this person anymore (Avoid Player).
But Blizzard decided to remove it because they found out a very good Widowmaker (a sniper character) was being excluded by a ton of people so they decided to just remove the feature altogether so that scenario doesn't happen.
However, at the time the Widowmaker character was overpowered where Widowmaker should have just gotten a nerf to her abilities (she went through a nerf and a buff since then) but instead, nope, now you can't stop playing with toxic players until they've been banned by Blizzard.
Now blocking players just means, I don't want to read messages from them. It doesn't prevent players from throwing matches, which is the biggest issue since you can't "block" bad play
- mbrumlow 9y agoI think the said the "solution is", it does not matter if the functionality exist today. Its more of how the gaming industry should handle these situations. Simply blocking somebody should make it so you can't ever be matched with, or have to communicate with them again. In some games that might be harder said then done, but you could at least make sure you are never on the same team, and that if the player becomes an opponent that its name is obfuscated and they can't chat back.
- always_good 9y agoNot very great for the community to make every single person play with a toxic player and then block them. You want to do the work for them. Would you say that's a solution for hackers, too? "Meh, just block them."
- mbrumlow 9y agoThe entire problem though is what is 'toxic' is subjective. Today we find this behavior okay, and tomorrow we don't. It could be simply having a MAGA hat on could be 'toxic'. You also have to worry about /toxic/ group behavior. The masses are not always right. So just because somebody has had a lot of people report them does not mean they are toxic. For any of this to work the very behavior that is not allowed must be defined to the T. But anyways, This is not my argument, I was merely trying to correct the assumptions of a post. And suggesting that because some feature does not exist today is not a very good reason why a suggested solution can't work or should not be considered.
- s73v3r_ 9y agoKeep in mind that this is also the same game where people will report other players for "choosing the wrong character".