No. It’s like not sharing your payment records and HR file with your colleagues. You’re demanding to be able to verify somebodys competence by looking at their numbers, when all that matters is their gameplay.
Before this season I had zero hours on Zarya, and maybe ten on Dva on this account. And you think that by reviewing my profile you would be more able than me to decide what to play? I now have an 80% winrate, playing mainly Dva and Zarya.
So seriously, stop thinking you are any better than anyone you’ll be playing with. You’re equally skilled or unskilled, and they know themselves A LOT better than you do.
All you’ve said… i have the exact opposite opinion and experience. Really, 180°. There s more flexing, people switch more when they don’t perform. One tricking? Barely existent, before it was like 80% in my games - and always DPS OTs. Profile showed it. And sucking dick on it. Because of that reason other players started trolling because they could see their"winrate". THIS led to the DPS underperform even more, because they were picked on (sometimes from the start, or after 2 fights… rarely never).
Flexing becomes harder BECAUSE of PP? You are joking right? I’ve never seen more people wait to fill than this season - yes even DPS.
If people play seriously they play what the can play the best AND complements the team AND counters the enemy A N Y W A Y. If not they are trolling you and would do that regardless of PP. If they are slow to switch, C O M M U N I C A T E. So you clearly have no point here, it’s not the PP that are your problem, it’s crazy that you can’t see it.
Disruptive feature? Don’t make me laugh… it was disruptive before the patch. 100% open profiles are a joke and were not existent in shooters and other games before.
Open profiles are a joke ESPECIALLY in competitive games. You should play the game, communicate with your team and not play profiles. Which leads you to make up your mind (psychology - can’t escape it) before something happens (read above).
Another thing is, you shouldnt see the enemy teams profiles for a different reason: It’s comp, play comp, dont try to use a friggin crystal ball.
Next thing that has to go from comp (if you take it sooo seriously) is the killcam. You dunno where the shield gen is, you dunno where the sym turrets are, you dunno where zen is hiding - killcam is there for you. Yea i know, i few things in the last sentence are kinda outdated but i think i made my point. Just think about an OW killcam in CS…
You people just need to forget it, really you seem to be the problem by having an imaginatory problem, that you try to project on a “feature” that has nothing to do with said problem.
I think you personally might have just a problem with your Matchmaking, maybe even your communication, that’s why people maybe troll your games. It s less the private profiles that should’ve been there from the START.
This option was added so that people don’t insta reprot torb/sym one-tricks in the lobby just by looking at their profiles or let the people who one trick mercy and rine pick wiodw to troll and lose games without people calling them out in the lobby. Everything els they said about this option was just to pat themself on the back. I’m in this game since open beta and no one flammed me for what i play’d or one-trick before so i just don’t believe in flaming someone for what they played, is it cause i pick’d a hard hero that letted me improve my aiming letting me have a easy time with the rest of the heroes that take bearly to no aim, yes that’s it. And now you can see it working in reverse, Someone having 1k h on mercy and 10h on widow picking widow in master rank for me is and will always be trolling/gameplay sabutage since that player for sure isn’t trying his best for the team and he will forsure get out played if the other team has a main in the mirror match.
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if you just went and said on the forums that anyone who has 100 hours on torb is a troll I can’t imagine what kind of harassment you inflicted upon other players in-game, simply because they played what they enjoy the most
you do know we play this game to enjoy it right?
you are part of the problem, it’s because players like you exist that we need this feature, YOU are the reason, that clear things up for you?
If you joined my group, and had a private profile. I’d kick you. First of all, because you can’t manage to read the title of my group, and it shows me you are hiding your stats or don’t want people to see what hero you main. I don’t want that kind of person in my group thanks.
A game revolved around teamwork, shouldn’t have an option to hide every single stat about you.
Funny thing that happened yesterday, i decided i could try and make my profile public and see what happens, guess what?
In the 2nd game already i got flamed and threated to get reported simply because i wanted to play dps when i have more time on tank, needless to say i instantly made it private again, private profiles are one of the best things added since launch
and i would report you and your group for discrimination, because you judge me based on preconceived notions of who i am based on a default setting in the game…
further to that as previously said to you you neglect to simply ask someone what they like to play there by creating a rapor with that person and maybe boosting team moral because you are a slave to statistics which mean frankly nothing in a game like this… especially because before LFG which was my entire two year career in this game up to this point was the solo que crap shoot dice roll…
Just make your profile friends only give them the suggestion to become your friend, only accept there friend request if they are nice to you for couple of games.
If you joined my group and told people they should make their profiles public I’d kick you. Since you obviously don’t have enough awareness to be able to judge your teammates by their actions, you aren’t good enough.
I don’t mind some parts of private profiles like hidden hero play times and whatever. But I think SR should be public - I was in an LFG group with people around my rank (group said -/+150) we queue, takes about 5/6 mins, turns out one of the fellas is a low bronze. That’s the kinda stuff that creates issues.
The whole idea of the LFG feature is to skip jumping in and out of games trying to find a good match with good teammates and you just threw the whole thing out the window. Not only is your argument really absurd on a naive “no u” level as Hanqz clearly already said that he wouldn’t even consider staying in group with you but you’re expecting the other players not to assemble their team through the LFG but to just group up and test run them? That’s no different than just queueing up into randoms and sounds really unreasonable
This. You can’t be reasonable and expect people who want to win (everyone wants to win in this game as it indirectly states in the ToS that this is a pre-requisite for everyone who has accepted it) not to complain when you’re playing a role that you didn’t climb to your current MMR with because you don’t share the required skill for that MMR across all the heroes meaning that you’re jeopardizing your team for your own subjective benefits. It’s hypocricy to expect them not to do this back to you.
Just flagged your post, you’re false reporting people for not including you in their groups news flash they have all the right not to include you that’s the whole reason why lfg was created to try and create the perfect team comp and then you come a long with your private profile and queue as dps… I’m sorry I don’t know who you are why should I trust a word you say? Either make it public and show me you’re a dps main which I asked for or get kicked and hopefully a mod see’s your comment of you admitting false reporting.
Show SS prove or i don’t believe you.
I have never mede any one of my profiles privet and i have a tank and support main accounts. I can pick Widow on my support main account and when i start to poop off people can’t tell me anything. The problem is when you can’t play dps but you can play tank and you refuse to do that for no reason but personal enjoyment. " Players who are trying hard to help their team to win should not be reported" You picking something that you don’t play isn’t you trying hard to help your team so they lowkay have a reason to report it might be a false report but at this point Overwatch doesn’t care since its accepted that even if you don’t do anything wrong if enough people reprot you, you are gettin punished.
Imho you can play dps and when you do good you no one will question you but when you do bad people will try to make you swap for the team’s sake. Even when its not the best decision its best to follow since you might potentialy show your team that you just don’t care about the match and want to play for fun that does noting in the end but tilt and lower your teams moral.
So why can’t you play Tank if you play’d so before ? I really don’t believe that this will happen to you in every game since i do swap out to dps on my tank and support accounts when its needed and i wil tell my team that i can play Widow if we have a pharah/hanzo problems that our dps just can’t deal with.
Its normal for people to see a Mercy main with 300h that pick’s Widow and tilt a little when they want to win since that lower’s the team’s chance to win unless the Mercy main know’s how to play widow like a widow main. Since in a mirror match you will just be less to nothing vs someone who main’s dps or that set hero. This game has counters and such but if you don’t know, cant pull off or abuse the part that lets you counter the other hero it really doesn’t matter.
This change did nothing but make trowers safer and in the end of the day i still report private profiles who threw or play a little off and lost the game. That’s what people did to my dps main account, the moment i didn’t solo carry a game i eat at lest 2 reports.
This game needs role que more then even now since you ill get at lest 4 people with privet profiles that will just lock in dps and leave voice comp since they know that someone will disagree with how they will play.
This change just made the game a clown fiesta for the most of it.
If you take a minute and imagine that trolls were a minority, that people at the same SR as you were usually equally skilled as you, and that the vast majority of players actually wanted to win, do you still think you would have to spend a lot of time “test-running” them? The difference between me and people who insist they need public profiles is that my experience of Overwatch is the one I just described. I used to rave about all the trolls, and stupid teammates holding me back, and went so far as getting not one, but two more accounts to escape the “ELO hell”, and back then I would have definitely been on your side. After finally realizing I wasn’t part of some “sane minority” though, and that most players were in fact just like me, I don’t really see a reason to look at people’s profiles and decide if they’re good enough to play with me. They’re at my SR, and as they’re likely to try their best to win, I trust them to pick the hero they think will be the best and the most fun.
So no, I’m not “throwing anything out the window”, I’m simply taking a perspective where I’m not superior to everybody else.
Yea i have a 60+% winrate with mccree this season as my most played dps hero, all you People who want Public profiles can use them, but i will never make it public again, end of the story
Again I have no idea whether any of this is true even when I use the LFG. You can’t see your teammates SR if they have their profiles hidden so when I use an SR requirement for LFG there’s no way to know if hidden profile players are that SR. Case in point I haven’t played competitive since season 5 (SR3200~) but my MMR is on a high master/GM level outside that so even if I could perform with almost any group it would be really unreasonable to expect them to take me into their groups with this information hidden especially since I don’t have the required SR but could just say so.
Whether troll players are the minority or not doesn’t matter when you consider that they’re still really common. On top of that everybody’s skill is rarely what they think it is and evaluating your skills to each other subjectively is even more vague than looking at profiles. Why not just have the profile public if you’re going to use the LFG feature and you’re going to be honest either way? There isn’t a reason to have it hidden and therefore it’s safe to assume that something is wrong when somebody’s joining with one.
EDIT: Point being that pure subjective opinions alone on one’s capability to perform certain role aren’t generally trustworthy enough and should be backed up by something. You’re free to think otherwise but you’re being unreasonable if you expect this to be true and the standard