If the demand is not met, he simply plays Mei and repeatedly blocks his own team with an ice wall. Or he plays Mercy and simply jumps to his death.
But it doesn’t end there. If someone vocally complains about this troublemaker, he then adds them as a “preferred player” – increasing the chances of playing with this person again.
By the way, this is not a problem in the “lower ranks” – the incident occurred within a Diamond rating, so rather in the upper third of ranked matches.
Blizzard has likely become aware of this person by now and will probably take action soon. However, as long as there is no proper reporting system on consoles, such cases will likely continue to occur.
We have already questioned whether Overwatch is a selfless game that is played by egoists.
On PS4, some trolls are causing trouble in Overwatch. A new trick is insidiously reminiscent of the horror-slasher film series SAW.
Trolling and disturbing can lead to an account penalty in Overwatch fairly quickly – at least when playing Blizzard’s hero shooter on PC. On PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, the situation is different, as there is still no proper reporting system to report troublemakers.
And this is precisely the fact that many players exploit to behave like a lumberjack in the woods.
Particularly audacious is a case that has caused a stir on Reddit – more than 28,000 users upvoted the post to draw more attention to the issue.
A player joined ranked matches and subsequently played a creepy sound file through the voice chat. The file strongly resembles the content and wording of Jigsaw from the SAW film series – but you should listen to it yourself here.
One leaves or everyone loses
The player warns everyone and roughly translates:
“I will make sure you lose this game. You can prevent it if one of you leaves the match before the game starts. If none of you leaves the match in time, then we will all lose together.”
Enforcing the demand is relatively simple. If a player actually leaves the match early, the game ends – without a win or loss. However, the player who left the match will receive a penalty for repeated incidents, which can go as far as being banned from the ranked mode.
If the demand is not met, he simply plays Mei and repeatedly blocks his own team with an ice wall. Or he plays Mercy and simply jumps to his death.
But it doesn’t end there. If someone vocally complains about this troublemaker, he then adds them as a “preferred player” – increasing the chances of playing with this person again.
By the way, this is not a problem in the “lower ranks” – the incident occurred within a Diamond rating, so rather in the upper third of ranked matches.
Blizzard has likely become aware of this person by now and will probably take action soon. However, as long as there is no proper reporting system on consoles, such cases will likely continue to occur.
We have already questioned whether Overwatch is a selfless game that is played by egoists.
