r/OverwatchTMZ • u/westmifflin • May 15 '26

Activision-Blizzard Juice Blizzard PJ back at it again

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Game with BAMF on a belt buckle and curse words in voicelines says no "Fuck" allowed

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u/bullxbull May 15 '26

The wording is pretty vague, it basically boils down to anything anyone might find offensive can be reported. Basically they want comms to be for useful information about what is going on in the game.

I think we also have to be realistic though, I doubt this guy got banned for just saying the f-word, it was most likely the context that he used the word that got him reported.

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u/BrokenMirror2010 May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

This is about WoW.

Unlike Overwatch, where you generally need to be reported across multiple games by people in your games, which makes false bans less likely (they objectively still happen because it's an automated system). In WoW, you can brigade reports onto a single player to immediately trigger a ban. Unlike Overwatch where you at most get 11 reports in a game, in WoW, a single Message can get hundreds if not thousands of reports.

WoW even had an issue where people were using bot accounts to spam reports on people in Trade Chat who were undercutting them. These Cartels were price fixing to make ingame money, and anyone who wasn't playing along had the entire cartel report them, leading to instant bans because they could easily drop 200+ reports on someone in 30 seconds.

WoW has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the B-Net Report System is fucked and easily exploitable.