• The Overwatch League's War On Memes
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwM7qn9SUuA Blizzard is extremely controlling and overbearing with their players
Every time I see Blizzard babysitting the community I instantly remember this: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/198190/69f6309a-bf35-48b0-a34e-59366fc6e467/7ad.png
This is why Overwatch is boring as balls. Blizzard hates fun.
Blizzard is pathetic.
These are the times Valve's no fucks attitude is a blessing
While in Overwatch's case this is true, it's still important to note that the team on WoW is, at least from my own experience and from what I've seen and heard, much more relaxed. It's the Overwatch team who've, for whatever reason, decided that the game needs to be a kid-friendly, yet hyper competitive field, not all of Blizzard.
Blizzard's basically Big Brother now, right
I know a bunch of people from Blizzard. They literally are completely different amongst teams. The people they hire, the general team attitude, etc... They don’t necessarily treat them as one entity in terms of culture.
A safe space where no one feels "offended" must mean better player retention in their eyes. In reality that sort of shit just drives people away.
I always here about how toxic OW is, I so rarely see anyone being toxic, like, maybe once every 100 games or so. Play CSGO, its like every other game in causal and every game in competitive (tho, I rarely play comp in CSGO), Siege is like one in 15 games. Yet, OW spends more time fighting toxicity than anything else. Like, would love if custom games could play events all year long, maybe dedicated servers for customs too, and some mapping tools? I mean, most of the maps for OW aren''t that great to begin with, so quality wouldn't really go down.
Depends on your SR, most times. Blizzard has done a lot to curb toxicity and OW has improved a lot in the last few weeks, IMO.
The LFG feature made the game playable for me. I've stopped using the normal matchmaking alltogether
I dunno, I'd give Blizzard the benefit of the doubt and imagine that they'd be clever about this. Say for instance, a black player gets followed around the map by a player playing Winston spamming the "No monkey business!" voice line. That would be an example where I'd understand someone getting actioned for spamming a voice line.
how are you meant to know a random is black irl ? ? ?
Their voice on voice chat? Have you never heard a black person online get racist abuse when they speak on voice chat?
"you sound like a nigger" nice one
Don't think so. Maybe it happens in NA where black people have something approaching a defined accent, but in EU you literally cannot tell 99.99% of the time.
Really? I've heard people getting racist comments online a bunch of times. You get it a lot more on real mainstream titles, CoD4 back in the day was awful for it. Man that's just false. You should know that if you're posting from the UK. I mean if someone is from France or Germany speaking accented English, that's a different story, but a large portion of black people from the UK/Ireland have a distinct way of speaking casually.
I dont really see anything wrong with Blizzards actions here. Definitely very punitive, but they want their streamers to be professional. Not spam trihard emojis when black people are on the screen, not tell other players to "suck a fat cock." Hopefully the dude becomes more professional.
i can hear color
Also based around the anti-harassment mentality of nowadays. While being anti-harassment is obviously good, there needs to be a balance
I wouldn't use someones speech patterns to guess their race over the internet, that's pretty daft. I'll grant that there is a general difference in vocal timbre or whatever you want to call it, but that shit isn't gonna be discernable from your garden variety white chav through the combination of their toaster microphone and whatever ultra low bandwidth codec is being used. As for why I don't see racism against black people, I basically only play CS.
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To be fair, Valve did nerf voice spam pretty early on in TF2.
Does Overwatch still lack a No/Negative voice command? That was my biggest red flag of it trying to play it a little too safe.
xqc has learned so much in just 6 months. It's always an educational stream.
I don't really understand Blizzard's management of OWL. I don't even like OW and I think it could be cool, but Blizzard refuses to allow any of the things that make sports fun or heated at all. They need to let the players be players and interact with each other and grow their own identities within the league. Free the memes, Blizzard. The Virgin OWL: https://clips.twitch.tv/PuzzledComfortableRaisinDuDudu The Chad CSGO Major: https://youtu.be/9IWzdRO-_9M its fake, but still
I've watched almost every OWL match and follow it closely, but there is no denying it's extremely sterile. They are aiming for the the commoner who watches normal sports to see familiarity with the format. But they have been strong with trying to get all the players to behave. Even warning players for posting pepe memes on their twitter.
Don't forget Blizz also got a bunch of sponsors not normally in the esports scene that they want to appease. Brands that probably don't understand the culture and would get cold feet if they think their brand is associated with things they only think are offensive. So Blizzard's solution seems to be to make sure everything associated with the league is up to daytime TV 'standards'. AKA sterile and lifeless as fuck I love how lively esports are compared to regular sports broadcasts. It'd be a shame if this drab standard is what they become in the future.
What exactly does a black person sound like? That's pretty racist. I've met and played with plenty of black players that don't sound "black". (If by black you mean from the hood)
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