When will blizzard stand up?

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There are tons of threads here about something Blizzard still has not gotten under control and its costing them players. You see, some of your largest streamers who once promoted the game are leaving for other games. Especially that superhero game and you know which one I mean.

Cone to find out one who has a serious amount of followers left because he threw his hands up and just could not deal with the cheating anymore. I can see why. Quickplay , competitive and nearly any game mode played here in Overwatch has cheaters killing other’s fun.

I am amazed by the Hypocrisy really. You can get banned for comments said to a person, you can get banned for a whole season if you leave a competitive game early and the thing about that is, Blizzard is SO hardcore about that rule.

Yet you let the cheaters run wild. Why?

People simply are sick of playing against cheaters and its rampant that you can clearly see it. You are happy with other players who are bronze or silver unable to rise in the ranks because they play against cheaters who keep them from being able to rise in a game. I dont play competitive anymore because of stuff like this.

Again, any of you blizzard employees who handle banning people can go pull up a website with software that OPENLY advertises cheats for sale. Yet you bring no action against them while they have OPENLY stolen from you, hacked your code and that is not seen as criminal enough to bring action against them. Whatever happened to the blizzard that had a backbone? How can people selling cheat software have WEBSITES doing something 100% ILLEGAL and blizzard with its vast pools of cash not lift a finger to bring ONE lawsuit against these guys?

It shows cowardice and irresponsibility on your account leaders of blizzard. You really think that a new character or tank makes this right? You think that game updates and offering PVE and all that really makes up for the experience that we are still getting when trying to play an honest game? If this is going to be the case then why not just buy out the cheaters and use the cheats as options in the game for those who want to have that experience huh? Just make a game mode that gives people all the cheats and admit the cheaters run your business or you guys are letting it happen for whatever reason.

I makes NO sense to me. You have the lawyers, the money, the power to stop these guys cold who are OPENLY breaking the law and why won’t you do something? If you been alive long enough I hear that back in the day the cheating got SO crazy with Diablo 2 that you guys HAD to step in because so many people were making hacks that in some cases were better ideas than you came up with and that upset you guys so you shut down the Diablo 2 servers I think.

Now that was a company that had enough and put its foot down and made it stop. It did stop because the hackers had nowhere to go anymore. They did not have the money to keep up and make servers because even if they did, it wasn’t what even the CHEATERS wanted. They wanted to cheat but wanted to do in in the actual Diablo 2 environment.

So when will you do enough banwaves? When will you start sending legal letters to these hackers and warn them? Why has there not been ONE official who gives us these update videos to REALLY tell the reason they have not attacked the hackers as they have attacked the game?

You RUIN anything that we LIKE and NERF stuff that doesn’t need to be nerfed (Reapers power of being a tankbuster gone for example) (what I would not give to have the old powerful reaper back) and keep allowing the one thing that should not be.

So when is blizzard going to realize, your problem is not so much a new superhero game, your problem is as a company you are afraid, scared and have lost your mettle to take on the hackers and shut then down and think its going to fix itself.

We the customers who want a HONEST and cheat free experience are disappointed. You dont want to stand up for your OWN company and people who have less than 1% of your revenue and influence have taken your game and you remain in fear.

There is no real Blizzard anymore.

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It would mean you get banned too. So yeah, when will they.

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Its been mentioned numerous times, that the game currently doesnt have any real direction, years have past without Jeff being replaced. Once a replacement comes in they will be given time to turn it around and there wont be any short of takers as fundamentally the gameplay is good and the IP is original.

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Yes it does. Have you not seen the threads of people banned on here. The the anti cheat is getting triggered by GPU associated software.

Whilst the bans seem to be wrong and should be quickly reversed. It is clear the anti-cheat is very much active.

It does. It is just not one you like. Which is fine, can’t please everyone.

As for Jeff… You know he is pretty much solely responsible for OW2 being such a drain on resources to the point where it had to be rushed out before being ready. He was offered resource to vastly expand Team 4 so they could split development. He said no, preferring to keep the team small. Didn’t end well for him.

Also, Aaron replaced Jeff.

Agree

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Maybe I’ve been lucky, idk, but in 5-7 years of playing OW I don’t think I’ve ever come across a cheater except once where it was obviously from the aim snapping of an enemy widow, instantly standing to headshots, and that was like 3 years ago. Apart from that I’ve either completely been oblivious to the enemy cheater, meaning it really didn’t even matter that much, or it’s just not as prevalent as some make it seem. But one clear case of a cheater in 5-7 years of play doesn’t even qualify as an issue or concern at all, but again that’s just my experience, I’m sure it’s all subjective.

I would also echo what I’ve always thought about this matter which is that most cheater reports aren’t legit, and people just got outplayed and they assumed it was a cheater, which is why evidence is almost never provided.

OW real issues above everything else is the money grab which was OW2, ruining a fun game which had tons of streamers and content providers making endless amounts of videos and content, and it all went down the drain due to greed.

Once they go back to the game we paid for, then we will all see a spike in returning players and maybe, just maybe we can regain the spark that OW once had. With this current direction, I only see OW2 going down further.

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Definitely lucky. I haven’t seen one in months. Probably seen about 20 since 2016.

Had probably 5 games cancelled mid-match because someone was.

It defintely happens more than I see it, but I think I am just a bit lucky like you.

Paid to access (we never owned it) ;).
That aside. They’ll never just revert what they’ve done, closest we might get is going full steam with 6v6. But I don’t think that will make much of a difference. OW has its playerbase. It hasn’t really seen that big a drop off with that rival game coming out. The people leaving seem to be mostly the ones that claimed they didn’t want to be playing anyways.

Now with Chinese players back. That will boost numbers back up.

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It doesnt look good atm, but lo and behold if we get hold of OW. Shared IP rights lalala everything works out. I would get Thor “The internet wizard” (ex-blizz, his father was the one who was involved in the cool cinematics we love) on job to get rid of shenanigans. Seasoned, and he is smart in an innovative/creative way.

I would ask Elon to get in on it, but wait till the elections in Germany fold out. (23.2)

The OW IP is worth 50-100mil $, but Blizz has unrealistic expectations for the future atm. MS actually but whatever…

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If Elon gets involved. The games screwed.

He’s got zero business and is as thick as plank of wood.

Also really tetchy now people are calling him out for cheating in games.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

50-100m for a game that turns over 600m+ a year… Right…

Please don’t get involved in a business. You’ll some how do worse than Elon with twitter.

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I dont have social media besides an old FB account from student times which I havent checked in in 20 years. I think you have a wrong picture of me.

If those are the numbers you think, thats what you think. I have real numbers. Super pointless discussing this on the forums, actually. If you think OW is a good investment, join us!

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Same. But that doesn’t mean I don’t see what that goon is doing.

I have the numbers from investor calls. So as you said, you think what you think.