Overwatch Developer Update previews new heroes, maps, and ranked changes

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i hope the new maps are good, thats all i want

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Hoping for a great (and improved) year of OW!

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CamRa

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That was.... vague. The whole dev update was vague.

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you arent alone in this sentiment

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verb

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they always are

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"As many know, performance-based skill rating is being removed in season eight for those rank diamond and above"

Still no mention of this for other ranks, I doubt the majority of players is diamond or above (gold/plat probably?), and onetricks at high SR at least ar good at playing their hero, at lower levels they are not.

Honestly don't get why implement a change just for a part of the community...

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Because the people in that part of the community probably know what is wrong with the game better than those in plat or below

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wentaway

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And so deserve a better experience (in Blizzard's eyes at least) than every other customer? I mean we all paid for the game.

Let's put it like this, is of course not the end of the world, but if you have 2 clients that paid the same for the same product/service, you don't treat them differently when it comes to "customer service".

Unless you deeply believe the only client worth keeping is one, but even then, if you are smart, you don't yell to both "oh look I gave a better support to the other client, cause reasons :)

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This isn't about treating customers differently. They made a decision make a change for competitive play that they thought would be beneficial. they thought that this change would improve competitive at ranks diamond and above, and did not think that it would improve the game below diamond.

It's not a strict improvement to remove performance based SR, no matter what your opinion on the change is.

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Agree is not really about our opinion, in the end it's their game, and is not such a big issue, but I bet to disagree with you, it is about treating customers differently.

If you want to test something, you test it on PTR, if you implement a feature to one of your (Blizzard's) game modes, you do it for every customer who has acces to it.

There's an alternative, you decide that low ranks and high ranks are 2 different game modes (which considering the gap in skills is almost true), then proceed accordingly, let's say by making impossible for a Plat player to rank up to Diamond "in-season" and viceversa, then yes implementing your change only to one of the 2 populations would not mean "treating them differently".

p.s. I just like to debate, if you are tired of it, I'll simply quit, but sales/clients/videogames are my actual job, so I like to speak about this kind of stuff. :P

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I think the argument of "he got it so I want it too" is flawed in this case. I believe they limited the change to Diamond and above because those ranks hold a relatively small part of the community and a change like this most likely needs some time to be properly evaluated.

It's not something you can really gauge through internal testing. Now, I don't know if the plan is to bring this to all the ranks, but the current sample size is a good one for what could be a pilot experiment. The PTR is a very poor place to test this type of change since an extremely small number of players participate and matches are not taken seriously.

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I'm thinking that performance-based has to stay in lower ranks for smurf/alt accounts to rank up quicker?

I mean, if a GM player makes a new account, but each win only gets you so much SR, how long will it take for them to reach their true rank?

Or am I confusing something here where MMR would still be performance based :thinking:

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That's one of the "excuses" that were suggested, but, If a GM smurf is in silver/bronze/gold he/she's there for a reason:

Boost some friend (boosting shold be punished, heavily imo)
Doing some sort of "challange", from Bronze to GM in 24 hours, or something on the line
Trolling

Why should they help this specific category to rank-up faster while not focusing on the actual players of those SR levels?

I mean, if you truly are GM/master, you'll breeze through lower ranks no matter what hero you play, and your friend (unless he really sucks) as well.
Do challanges on QP, do not waste the experience of other (less skilled) players to boost yr ego.
This won't fix it, 'cause if he/she wants to troll lower ranks, he can simply lose games to lose the "quick" SR gained in the wins.

To be more explicit, the reason lower ranked players are at lower ranks, are not smurfs, it's a matter of skill (and all aspects involved into this) and general level of trolls, that is true are present at every level, but again, a GM team can try and cover-up for a single troll, a bronze/silver(gold/plat one will have way more issues.

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no mercy change, no junkrat change not worth reading :( FeelsBadMan

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Soon™

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No more toxicity, that's all I want

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They recently increased the sesitivity on abusive chat reports by ALOT. I the fist few months that they implemented report thankyou emails I got a total of 4 emails over like 3 months saying they actioned someone who I reported. In the time since they implemented the ingame notifications I have gotten about 40-50 messages saying that someone who I reported was actioned. This is probably within a month or so. Many players I talk to said that they have recieved warnings about being silenced or they say that thier party mate can't talk due to a silence. I would say it's still and issue but it is much less of an issue. If you hear someone being abusive just quietly hit the report butto. And rest assured that others are doing the same.

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Sayabi

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the Uprising PvE event from April 2017

Oh yessssss, I missed the Blackwatch Genji last time, now's the time to get it!