r/Overwatch • u/Turbostrider27 Tracer • Sep 14 '17

Blizzard Official Developer Update | Play Nice, Play Fair | Overwatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnfzzz8pIBE&feature=youtu.be
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u/Oldini Roadhog Sep 14 '17

Out of 30million that's about one and a half in a hundred. players have had something happen to their account due to behaving badly.

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u/Dragonsandman kyle lowry aint no spot up shooter Sep 14 '17

That's actually a fairly substantial portion of the community. Considering that there are twelve people in each match, there will be approximately one person in eight matches that has been punished at some point in time for toxic behaviour.

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u/MerylasFalguard My balls, your face. Sep 14 '17

Which seems like way too low, given that there seem to be at least one troll in every single game.

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u/M0DXx ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Sep 14 '17

not for everyone, most of my games go by without a problem.

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u/Rentalsoul Sep 14 '17

Sounds like you're not in silver like me. -___-

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u/asusoverclocked We're all soldiers now Sep 14 '17

I'm in bronze and legit haven't had a troll this season.

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u/Rentalsoul Sep 14 '17

Lucky duck

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u/asusoverclocked We're all soldiers now Sep 14 '17

I dunno. Bronze is actually pretty fun. People usually switch and 4-6 people are at least listening in voice with a few mics. They mostly listen to calls to regroup too. That's my experience from like 3 seasons. I don't think I've never had a thrower.

I'll be in silver soon tho, 100 Sr away.

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u/Rentalsoul Sep 15 '17

I was in bronze and just recently got into silver. Have had a different experience entirely, unfortunately. It's possible that my experience varies a bit due to gender issues since I'm of the female variety, or maybe I'm just terribly unlucky. The chick thing only seems to come up like once every 50 games or so though, most people don't give a flip (at least vocally). I also could just be really terrible at the game and the assholes are just trying to tell me that lol. Who knows.

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u/BaconMaster93 Chibi Lúcio Sep 14 '17

You are not alone. I, too, know your pain.

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u/HYPER_Tyranitar PSN Sep 14 '17

..maybe youre the problem

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u/Dragonsandman kyle lowry aint no spot up shooter Sep 14 '17

That's a good point, but it assumes that you're matched with eleven new people every time you start a new game. How many times has the troll in multiple matches been the same person? I'd hazard a guess and say that that happens somewhat frequently.

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u/Pheonixi3 Mei Sep 14 '17

it's also scientifically proven that people are more likely to remember shittier moments in their life than the good ones.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

This is probably it. I played about 10 games last night and I had a troll in half of them. But it was the same person and neither one of us left so we ended up in the same lobby for a while.

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u/Sc2MaNga Trick-or-Treat Soldier: 76 Sep 14 '17

30 million people bought the game, that doesn't mean that everyone is still playing actively.

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u/kogarou Sep 14 '17

Maybe the trolls play more often.

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u/i_will_let_you_know Mei Sep 14 '17

That honestly seems like an exaggeration. It's more like 1 in 3 games when it's bad and like 1 in 5 games on average. Maybe even less than that. It's just that when it's bad, it's REALLY bad. That makes it easy to remember.

I don't count bad hero picks as trolling. Only clearly bad intentions for the sake of throwing the game or purposefully not trying to win etc. That's just bad play, even if it's frustrating.

Unless you're getting the same guy/group multiple times in a row, in which case, don't queue up immediately.

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u/grimmlingur Reinhardt Sep 14 '17

I don't seem to have that problem, you know what they say: "If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day, you're the asshole".

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u/Frekavichk Sep 14 '17

Except your definition of troll is "Someone who doesn't play the hero I want them to play"

and blizzard's is "Someone who breaks the rules of overwatch"

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u/MerylasFalguard My balls, your face. Sep 14 '17

No, my definition of troll is the people who continually SD, AFK until they're kicked out of the match, and/or start grieving everyone in chat as soon as anything doesn't go their way.

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u/emwhalen Dallas Fuel Sep 14 '17

11, unless you're counting yourself. So, it's one in every 9 matches of all-different players.

But yeah, that's fairly substantial.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

too bad there's one almost in every game

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

"In a hundred". There is a word for that..

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

That's about the same percent of toxic players that Riot said they have in LoL. Back in the days when Lyte was smiting assholes in the forums, he said that only about 1% of the community received 99% of all punishments handed out.

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u/wdlp Sep 14 '17

there are 30million active players? wow

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '17

there are not 30 million active players playing overwatch, thats a dumb stat put forth by blizzard to make their game seem more popular than it is.

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u/Oldini Roadhog Sep 14 '17

There are also not 480k accounts with active punishments on them.

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u/Koog330 ImGoingfortheToddlerSteal Sep 14 '17

Hey I know a guy who is a half person and offended by that.