Please dont make the level of rank the issue here, focus on what i MEAN with this post.
I would like to know the list of characters you are not allowed to play in ranked.
Decided i wanted to see how far i could go as Torb in the season that just ended.
After placement matches i started out at around 2050 or so. I raised it by over 300 first day to around 2380, winning 3 out of 4 matches. EVERY game i had gold dmg, objective time etc. Doing my best, even on attack torb.
Then i got hit with a GAME BAN for 24 hours, i appealed it and it got refused. Cause: apparently i was throwing gamesā¦
My ban ended and i started playing again. still ranked and still torb. Had a bit of ups and down this time. but still getting gold and potg etc, maintaining my 2300ish rank.
Then i got hit by a 48hour ban, i appealed so hard i got booted up to some manager level GM, that looked into it more closely. Still got a refusal on lifting ban. Again i was supposedly throwing.
I then went on a live chat and asked what characters that was not allowed to be played in ranked. There was no such list and i was free to play whatever i liked.
WRONG, i just got banned TWICE for playing a character i like.
I ask again: WHAT CHARACTERS ARE YOU NOT ALLOWED TO PLAY IN RANKED??
After ban got lifted i didānt dare enter ranked again of fear of another ban.
I am trying hard to get to 2500+ ranking, but winning gets me banned. I am at wits end here. who do i need to suck up to, before i dont get banned for winning?
Blizzard banning people for playing Torb is not only ridiculous but also a lie. You were most likely banned by your teammates reporting you multiple times, whether or not you threw. If you receive a certain number of reports, your account will get suspended.
Blizzard is not banning people for playing Torb, it is the mindset of your teammates. They automatically think youāre a troll, throwing the game. And letās remember, that is still a possibility. Whether you were showing poor teamwork, not capturing objectives, refusing to switch or refusing to kill the enemy. These are all likely reasons that you could have been banned for. They have told you, you were throwing. You might think that it was because you were playing Torb, but I think there is more to it.
No, they are. The 3 suspensions Iāve got were because I played torb. It doesnāt matter whether I throw with a different character, if I play torb I automatically get 11 reports and get banned in a matter of hours.
They are not banning people all because they are playing Torb. Thatās a ridiculous accusation. What most likely happened, is your teammates thought you were trolling and you got enough reports to be autobanned. And letās not forget, OP could have been trolling/throwing.
If Blizzard looked into his case, and still concluded that he should be suspended then obviously it wasnāt because he was playing Torb. He must have been doing something else whether it be afking, failing to capture/defend objectives, refusing to switch or to attack enemies or being toxic.
It literally doesnāt matter how I play the character, if we are losing(and sometimes if we are winning) I get reported by both my teammates and my enemies. If I play McCree and suck even more at him Iāll never get this amount of reports.
If Blizzard looked into his case, and still concluded that he should be suspended
1: The Stigma of playing the off-meta.Attack Torb can be surprisingly powerful in the right hands, sometimes moreso than defence Torbā¦ But regardless of how you play Torbjorn heās considered a dreaded off-meta and some people just cant let that lie to the point where they will report with no need for further provocation
2: The lack of oversight in the report system. Blizzard should be able and willing to look deeper into the game statistics prior to issuing a ban and should be willing to gutpunch accounts that are throwing blatant false flags. If person A just doesnt like Torbs then that really should be obvious to find out considering they hold all that info, and they should be willing to unapologetically hit the false flaggers with a hard banhammer upswing
3: Blizzards Absolute Silence on the matter. I mean, for real, its just giving the hate mobs carte blanche at this point to do it to Torb, Sym, and anyone else who may not fit the Meta. Hell, considering the hard nerfs to Mercy iād be surprised if it didnāt start happening to Mercy Mains. So far Players have been given conflicting information, being told that maining is fine one moment only to be told you WILL be banned for one tricking the next.
The big issue with this final statement is what one tricks are reported. Somehow i doubt the otpās that play 76, McRee, Winston and such almost exclusively are getting the same harsh response of āChange or report.ā that Sym and Torb get and that really needs to be addressed or it falls into the category of community wide harassment to certain players. Blizzard really need to put their big boy pants on and air the issue or they will ban legitimately good players over the choice of character they decide to master.
Blizzard does not have manpower/money to review. Its automated system where a bot sends you copypasta replys, and top10 streamers per year get manually unbanned to keep reddit happy.
whatever you are doing - the only thing that matters is your LIKE / DISLIKE ratio.
If you never flex, you get reported by those annoyed that they should flex around you.
If you play a niche hero OUTSIDE of his niche, youll get dislikes from tryhard poeple who dont like that youre making their win harder.
If you provoke poeple further (verbally, instantly leave voice chat, play badly, pretend to afk every few seconds, go on solo missions against your teamā¦) then surprise - youll get more reports.
Basically dont do stuff that the overall majority of population dislikes too much.
Aka you cant be dps only, flex around 20% of time and you should be safe.
Blizzard does indeed refuse ban appeals for bans that result in playing certain characters, because their customer support is not properly educated on the matter.
Probably because Blizzard doesnt care and are still liars about the issue, because it has been known for quite a while now.
The ālogicā for refusing ban appeals is this:
Hypothetical GM says:
You are allowed to play every character you want.
You are not getting banned for playing that character.
You were banned for the result of playing said character.
i.E. you were banned for a lack of healing, dmg or peel, which may or may not have been caused by playing character x.
So, again, their logic is that youre not getting banned for playing Torbjƶrn, but instead get banned for ālosing the match.ā
Suprise suprise i got another 14 day game ban for play torb in ranked again. I AM SICK OF THIS. Blizzard effectively just shut me out of playing ranked ever again, because if i get another ban i mostly get permabanned on a lvl 2250 account.
And i am NEVER Throwing a match, i get card and medals for most dmg done, objective kills, kills etc and armor uptime. HOW THE HECK AM I THROWING LIKE THAT???
Stop playing Torb in ranked then, or use the LFG option. Donāt whine that queuing solo is getting you banned because everyone is in it for themselves.
Well, imagine seeing you on here complaining about the game once again.
I once had the displeasure of being teamed with the OP in Arcade matches a while back, ranting at people with his usual BS how no-one is killing the healers even when it isnāt tactically viable to, and saying how great he is with all his gold medals and that, so it no surprise to me that heās continually banned.
OP, what was it you PMād me in game, 20 minutes after our matches ended? āGo and kill yourself and uninstall the gameā or such? Have you not learned anything by now, after 2250 levels of OW? That itās your behaviour that gets you banned? Or maybe you really are just a fool beyond savingā¦ enjoy being banned forevermore.
'Oh i wonder why all of these people keep reporting me? It could be because I am doing something that the majority of the playerbase does not like? It could be that I am playing competitive in a non competitive way? Could it be that Iām making the game less fun for everyone but myself? ā
Clearly notā¦ Or if you have you decided that it couldnāt possibly be anything to do with you. That everyone else must change to fit around you. And when they dont, you go cry about it on the forums.
People who state that he was 100% not banned for playing Torbjorn are hypocrites. You all know that other players will ban you for whatever reason they want.
In one team, there was a group of 4 linked guys. They didnāt like the nickname of the 5-th guy, in voice chat they started calling him nigg**, ga* etc. When I told them to shut up and focus on gameplay, they all reported me and I got auto-ban.
So the reasons you can be banned for can be very different - if someone doesnāt like your nickname, your main character, your playstyle, your voice, your race / nationality, or someone doesnāt like that you donāt like that they donāt heal or revive, or someone doesnāt like that you were the last survived player and could not contest long enough against 5 enemy players.
So being reported and banned for playing Thorbjorn is not the most weird and impossible scenario that ā100% cannot be trueā as you say.
as long as blizzard have this bad a report system you will be banned for no reason as long as they do not type in reports like Ā“Ā“ ban this noob thorĀ“Ā“