On January 02 2018 13:52 Clbull wrote:
In my opinion Blizzard have completely ruined the game. The other day was the breaking point where I actually uninstalled Heroes out of anger.
Thanks to them screwing up PBMM, purging it from the game and ruining everybody’s hopes at making Ranked a better experience, matchmaking is now abysmal. Games takes too long to queue up for, there’s a huge amount of draft dodging which is frustrating when you spend 4 mins drafting heroes then get booted back to menu for the fifth time in a row, teammates are often idiots who won’t follow pings or communicate because all the people who take the game seriously ditched it after PBMM flopped, the meta changes have now killed the viability of all late game heroes, and the experience has now turned more toxic than ever.
On a less related note, the report system in Blizzard’s games (not just Heroes but also SC2 and WoW) is also a complete and utter joke. The automated silence system encourages players to abuse the report system to try and land a player they don’t like with a ban. It’s also enabled hate speech in public chat because players know there’s no consequence to spouting racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, or otherwise hateful crap in chat. I’m talking the kind of speech that would get a player permanently banned from any other online game.
In my opinion Blizzard have completely ruined the game. The other day was the breaking point where I actually uninstalled Heroes out of anger.
Thanks to them screwing up PBMM, purging it from the game and ruining everybody’s hopes at making Ranked a better experience, matchmaking is now abysmal. Games takes too long to queue up for, there’s a huge amount of draft dodging which is frustrating when you spend 4 mins drafting heroes then get booted back to menu for the fifth time in a row, teammates are often idiots who won’t follow pings or communicate because all the people who take the game seriously ditched it after PBMM flopped, the meta changes have now killed the viability of all late game heroes, and the experience has now turned more toxic than ever.
On a less related note, the report system in Blizzard’s games (not just Heroes but also SC2 and WoW) is also a complete and utter joke. The automated silence system encourages players to abuse the report system to try and land a player they don’t like with a ban. It’s also enabled hate speech in public chat because players know there’s no consequence to spouting racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, or otherwise hateful crap in chat. I’m talking the kind of speech that would get a player permanently banned from any other online game.
Here is the QQ thread, which might be better suited for your venting. I've gone ahead and stickied it at the top of the forums since I think a lot of people are finding some frustration with the newest patch.
I made the wise decision to avoid playing during the holidays.