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Or else, we should always all begin taking part in with comms off.
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If I can’t name somebody a “noob” in Overwatch 2’s textual content chat, what am I supposed to jot down? I’m not good at writing poems, I’m not a comic, and I save love letters for my spouse. Perhaps I ought to simply not write in any respect, as a result of Blizzard can apparently ban gamers from recreation comms for these minor insults and rather a lot much less.
A pissed off participant within the Overwatch 2 subreddit shared a message they received from a recreation grasp. It was a reply after interesting a everlasting suspension of in-game communication, which the sport grasp rejected as a result of the participant “obtained a number of penalties for any such habits”, extra particularly, utilizing the sport chat to ship “noob”, “?”, and “price.”
The GM’s full reply is just too nonsensical to imagine an actual human wrote that, so any longer, I’m assuming it’s an AI job, or a minimum of it’s assisted by one. The AI should have a minimum of written the message for the sport grasp, even when they manually reviewed the participant’s chat historical past.
Fortuitously, there isn’t any signal that bans for typing a query mark within the chat are being handed out like flyers on a busy avenue. However it is a bizarre case of an outlier that reveals that Overwatch 2’s moderation instruments may be fallacious once they ban you, and that the attraction methods might double down on that error as an alternative of serving to you repair it.
A good counterargument is that the participant who shared this has most likely mentioned a lot worse issues to their Overwatch 2 teammates, however Blizzard’s methods simply failed to point out them. I’d agree with that. Even when we’re proper, it nonetheless reveals how no matter AI the corporate’s utilizing can damage the belief gamers have of their moderation crew.
Belief within the recreation’s ban attraction system is essential as a result of it’s not possible to be well mannered on a regular basis when taking part in a crew recreation like Overwatch 2. You don’t have the suitable to be poisonous, after all, however I received’t belief anybody who says they’ve by no means cursed or known as somebody a noob in textual content or voice chat a minimum of as soon as.
So when instances like this occur, we hope it’s an outlier and never one other case of moderation methods ignoring racist, poisonous, and discriminatory feedback to as an alternative ban truthful gamers for false positives.
Revealed: Aug 27, 2025 02:53 pm