Season 1.5 - Developers are now silencing/muting you for trash talking

[Xbye]

EDIT: To the people giving me clown awards, thank you for the free steam points

Played all of season 0, and season 1 without a single silence/mute. Even though multiple Overwatch carebears whined to the entire lobby to report me.

Now in Season 1.5, I've been muted twice despite never typing any racist/homophobic slurs or remarks, never typing anything inappropriate or even trying to bypass the ridiculous chat filter system.

The in-game support is useless, the people working there don't even bother to read your ticket.

Contacting their e-mail [e-mail] is also useless. Not only are the people working the email struggle with reading comprehension, they also have constant constant simple grammar mistakes in their replies.

The company will not tell you what you typed that violated their rules. In fact, I don't think they even know what you typed. I think their system might be automated, meaning it's likely people can abuse the report system to silence/mute people now.

So watch out. Calling someone a loser for playing Black Panther or Spiderman, or calling someone trash because they are 0 - 10. Either trash talking is now grounds for punishment in Season 1.5, or they've just made their entire system automated now.

[Phantom Limb]

You do know that the game always had a warning that your text and voice chat are being recorded and can be reviewed for inappropriate or offensive content if necessary, right?

[Xbye]

Originally posted by Phantom Limb:

You do know that the game always had a warning that your text and voice chat are being recorded and can be reviewed for inappropriate or offensive content if necessary, right?

Did you bother to read what I typed or are you just as incapable of reading as the people working the customer support/email for NetEase?

[Cheesed to meet you]

As they should, quite honestly

[Xbye]

Originally posted by HappyWorldHappy:

What makes you want to verbally abuse strangers so much? Do people around you treat you like trash? (Just curious for research purposes)

The block button exists for a reason. That was their policy through S0 and S1.

[Hunu]

Originally posted by Xbye:

Calling someone a loser for playing Black Panther or Spiderman, or calling someone trash because they are 0 - 10. Either trash talking is now grounds for punishment in Season 1.5, or they've just made their entire system automated now.

With all due respect, you seem like an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. No one is sitting there thinking "man, this guy is awesome for telling it how it is", you just seem like a jerk. I support Netease' decision to mute you. Plenty of times I have typed things into chat and it prevented the message from being broadcast, ultimately, I realise in those moments that my point probably isn't worth making and move on, or finding a better way of putting things.

An example, calling someone a loser for playing X or Y character. Either find people to play with that are willing to avoid upsetting your fragile sensibilities about hero choices, or don't say anything at all. Guy is going 0 - 10? Instead of saying "you're trash", why not say "this isn't working, maybe you should try a different character, now, Black Widow."

All this to say, you can convey roughly the same things, but in a less toxic way. Your life will be better for not choosing rudeness in every interaction you have with strangers. it's liberating to be in control of your emotions. You might even make the kind of friends you'd play Marvel Rivals with. The sort of people you enjoy playing with, even if they're having an off night or not playing to your narrow definition of viable characters, or "loser" picks.

[Ore]

"I don't understand ! I robbed a bank and now I'm sent to prison !"

[Xbye]

Originally posted by Hunu:

Originally posted by Xbye:

Calling someone a loser for playing Black Panther or Spiderman, or calling someone trash because they are 0 - 10. Either trash talking is now grounds for punishment in Season 1.5, or they've just made their entire system automated now.

With all due respect, you seem like an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. No one is sitting there thinking "man, this guy is awesome for telling it how it is", you just seem like a jerk. I support Netease' decision to mute you. Plenty of times I have typed things into chat and it prevented the message from being broadcast, ultimately, I realise in those moments that my point probably isn't worth making and move on, or finding a better way of putting things.

An example, calling someone a loser for playing X or Y character. Either find people to play with that are willing to avoid upsetting your fragile sensibilities about hero choices, or don't say anything at all. Guy is going 0 - 10? Instead of saying "you're trash", why not say "this isn't working, maybe you should try a different character, now, Black Widow."

All this to say, you can convey roughly the same things, but in a less toxic way. Your life will be better for not choosing rudeness in every interaction you have with strangers. it's liberating to be in control of your emotions. You might even make the kind of friends you'd play Marvel Rivals with. The sort of people you enjoy playing with, even if they're having an off night or not playing to your narrow definition of viable characters, or "loser" picks.

With all due disrespect, I do not care.

People in this game have typed far worse than me, and in other games. The block button exists for a reason, and it was their policy it seemed going into S0 and S1 because they didn't really do anything to anyone unless they were bypassing the chat filter or typing much worse things than me.

It's pretty crazy we've gone into an age where hurting someone's feelings is now grounds for punishment in online gaming. It's fine, I don't need to type anything to these people. But having the game suddenly whiplash in another direction is pretty stupid.

[Millertyme]

Originally posted by Xbye:

Played all of season 0, and season 1 without a single silence/mute. Even though multiple Overwatch carebears whined to the entire lobby to report me.

Now in Season 1.5, I've been muted twice despite never typing any racist/homophobic slurs or remarks, never typing anything inappropriate or even trying to bypass the ridiculous chat filter system.

The in-game support is useless, the people working there don't even bother to read your ticket.

Contacting their e-mail [e-mail] is also useless. Not only are the people working the email struggle with reading comprehension, they also have constant constant simple grammar mistakes in their replies.

The company will not tell you what you typed that violated their rules. In fact, I don't think they even know what you typed. I think their system might be automated, meaning it's likely people can abuse the report system to silence/mute people now.

So watch out. Calling someone a loser for playing Black Panther or Spiderman, or calling someone trash because they are 0 - 10. Either trash talking is now grounds for punishment in Season 1.5, or they've just made their entire system automated now.

Wait you start by saying you never say anything bad and end the post with admitting you call people trash and losers (both btw are very toxic, I have personally been perma banned on my OW account for this exact same thing, repeat offender)
So you got muted for abusive chat, just be nice and you won't be muted

[Xbye]

Originally posted by Millertyme:

Wait you start by saying you never say anything bad and end the post with admitting you call people trash and losers (both btw are very toxic, I have personally been perma banned on my OW account for this exact same thing, repeat offender)
So you got muted for abusive chat, just be nice and you won't be muted

Yeah, calling people trash/losers, is not inappropriate or bad.

And saying you got perma-banned from Overwatch for toxicity is not the norm. Blizzard's policies for toxicity for Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm are absolutely insane and should not be taken as the normal in the industry. They are extremely extra.

Hell, I remember digging through some Heroes of the Storm posts of people complaining they got silenced and what they were silenced for. In one case, someone got silenced because (From their email) they typed "???" after someone died in their match. Another person got silenced for typing "Genji?" after their Genji died.

You can ask anyone who plays online multiplayer games and they'll tell you that Blizzard is the most carebear "anti-toxicity" online platforms. I don't think even in League of Legends you'd get silenced/muted for calling someone a loser/trash, but I don't even play LoL.

EDIT: Actually I take that back. FFXIV is another extremely carebear "anti-toxicity" video game. I never got silenced/suspended in that game, barely ever spoke to people because I knew how insane their policies are. Just to give you an idea:

FFXIV suspends people for jumping, yes jumping, on someone's corpse in PvP. No, not sitting (teabagging). Just straight up jumping.

Oh, also they disabled typing in their PvP mode. You can only use their pre-determined chat lines. And using "Nice job!" when someone messed up was grounds for a suspension. Typing "Good game!" before a game ends was grounds for a suspension.

Crazy stuff.

[peep]

Good. Game is so toxic in quick play alone, can't imagine how bad Ranked is.

[Phantom Limb]

Originally posted by Xbye:

Originally posted by Phantom Limb:

You do know that the game always had a warning that your text and voice chat are being recorded and can be reviewed for inappropriate or offensive content if necessary, right?

Did you bother to read what I typed or are you just as incapable of reading as the people working the customer support/email for NetEase?

What is there to read though?
Like I said, the game literally warns you of possible actions if you act like a jerk in chat. Yet you decided to ignore that and got punished. I do not need to see the excuses like "they do not even review things", while you mentioned yourself how they do not allow you to call people names and such.
Sometimes it's better to stay silent, if nothing good can be said, you know.

[Tracker]

If you cant even play a game without being toxic that's on you, not the devs. Annoys me to no end when a 0-5+ Moon Knight rages in comms about how I need to get off Rocket or play better because he isn't getting the heals he "deserves."

No dude, you're just trash at the game and raging at someone else isn't going to make you play better. Go touch some grass or something geez.

[Xbye]

Originally posted by Phantom Limb:

Originally posted by Xbye:

Did you bother to read what I typed or are you just as incapable of reading as the people working the customer support/email for NetEase?

What is there to read though?
Like I said, the game literally warns you of possible actions if you act like a jerk in chat. Yet you decided to ignore that and got punished. I do not need to see the excuses like "they do not even review things", while you mentioned yourself how they do not allow you to call people names and such.
Sometimes it's better to stay silent, if nothing good can be said, you know.

Yeah, this clearly shows you aren't bothering to read what I typed. Done with you.

[Sheiriff Woody]

Originally posted by Xbye:

Played all of season 0, and season 1 without a single silence/mute. Even though multiple Overwatch carebears whined to the entire lobby to report me.

Now in Season 1.5, I've been muted twice despite never typing any racist/homophobic slurs or remarks, never typing anything inappropriate or even trying to bypass the ridiculous chat filter system.

The in-game support is useless, the people working there don't even bother to read your ticket.

Contacting their e-mail [e-mail] is also useless. Not only are the people working the email struggle with reading comprehension, they also have constant constant simple grammar mistakes in their replies.

The company will not tell you what you typed that violated their rules. In fact, I don't think they even know what you typed. I think their system might be automated, meaning it's likely people can abuse the report system to silence/mute people now.

So watch out. Calling someone a loser for playing Black Panther or Spiderman, or calling someone trash because they are 0 - 10. Either trash talking is now grounds for punishment in Season 1.5, or they've just made their entire system automated now.

"The Devs muted me for Verbally abusing people.....This shouldnt be a thing" Theres Trash talking, then theres taking it to far, only reason this happened was because enough people reported you and caused the Devs to look at your account and search your Match history. Got Caught.

[Xbye]

Originally posted by Tracker:

If you cant even play a game without being toxic that's on you, not the devs. Annoys me to no end when a 0-5+ Moon Knight rages in comms about how I need to get off Rocket or play better because he isn't getting the heals he "deserves."

No dude, you're just trash at the game and raging at someone else isn't going to make you play better. Go touch some grass or something geez.

I don't use voice comms in this game. I type. And I'm not the "0-5" player on the team. I'm usually the 20-5 or the 30-5 player on the team.