A streamer from Heroes of the Storm takes out his frustration on his own team and abuses the reporting system. Blizzard reacts promptly.
Heroes of the Storm has a significant problem with toxic players. As far as known. To counteract this, there is a reporting system in the game. Anyone who makes derogatory comments in chat or plays poorly on purpose can be easily reported. If such reports accumulate, punishments such as a ban from ranked play or a chat restriction follow.
However, the reporting system is not only used by honest players who want to make Heroes of the Storm a better place. In anger, some players decide to report their entire team just out of spite. This also happened with the streamer Alexander “Stalk” Melder. After his team lost the match, all teammates were reported. One of his teammates noticed this, as he was watching the stream and published the incident on Reddit.
Alan Dabiri from Blizzard’s development team then spoke out, stating that it is “unacceptable to use the reporting system for false reports”. Although the consequences for Stalk are not discussed in detail, Blizzard wants to “address the issue”. This likely means that Stalk will face some account penalties.
Feeding the reporting system with false accusations is prohibited by Blizzard and can lead to account penalties for the reporter. However, so far, filtering out such false reports has been rather ineffective, and only the most blatant false reporters are being sorted out. Blizzard promises to continue refining the system.
Do you also know players who report the entire team without reason just because they are having a bad day? Or do you do this yourself?
Whether Heroes of the Storm is dying, we clarified that here already.
