PS4 Overwatch Troll Extorts Money From Teammates And Blizzard Says It's Not Their Problem

Overwatch is available for the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, but console community management leaves something to be desired. A Blizzard forum poster detailed his frustrating experience with a troll that stated "Send me cash or I'll throw" and the complete lack of systems to report and ban toxic players.

[Erik7357]

Well, the reporting system blizzard has would eventually weed that asshole out of the system.

They cant stop the idea of trolling happening but if someone constantly does that they will get banned.

Plus, that guy wont be succesful in getting money and would probably stop at one point lol

[Zero_Suit_Samus]

Sony needs a proper reporting system. I'd report those trolls with a screenshot of their messages attached.

[johndoe11211]

No, BLIZZARD needs a proper reporting system. This is blizzard's game therefore they need to deal with this matter.

[Eidolon]

You know you need manpower for this new reporting system, right? you should go work for them.

[Goldby]

apparently it was via in voice chat so its difficult to record that unless the person already had check that they allow their voice to be recorded

[gums007]

Blizzard has zero obligation in paying for someones lack of competence. That's hysterical if you think otherwise. However a proper reporting system would be good.

[VanDamme]

Nah.

[Liqu1d]

They have an issue with people grinding for loot boxes or using M&K on console but not this.

[PapaBop]

Blizzard just aren't what they used to be these days

[Eidolon]

Sony does? The issue here is the "disconnect" with Sony and Blizzard. What the hell can either of them do about someone talking over a mic asking for money. And this isn't really a huge thing for them to restructure their stuff. It's trolling, no one has to pay this guy anything, it could very well be someone not asking for money and still effing up the match.

[AspiringProGenji]

If they wanted, they would work something out with the console companies to figure put a report system, but they don't put the same lev od attention to consoles. Also banning a troll from overwatch won't make Sony lose money because he would still keep his PSN account and go somewhere else. The rules are the rules and I'm sure Sony would understand and won't intervene.

To me it is just Blizzard not caring enough about consoles.

[kaizokuspy]

Meh, bad journalism. I was in that forum post and I'll state the same thing here. Console report feature is being implemented in the summer. It's been being developed since winter and takes a while to get right before going live on consoles. That's what Jeff Kaplan said, expect it around summer. I have around 700 hours in overwatch and I've never encountered someone trying to extort me. If they tried and threw the match, Meh it's a loss, I'll get a win back right after. After all its a game. You can always get back to where you were, it's not like you'll go on a 10 game losing streak from 1 guy throwing. Even then there's a 10 game Win streak right around the corner after that.

[zaherdab]

I didn't know it's a game!

[InTheZoneAC]

So morons sent the troll money? Lol definitely not blizzards problem

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

This^

[ILikeGamesYeah]

Someone was very mean to me on Overwatch the other day and Blizzard/Microsoft/Bill Gates didn't stand up for me! Why can't they stop this?? They didn't intervene when a person was calling me a stinky pleb or send me a written letter apologising that there maybe people online who would say things which didn't align with my opinions. This is UNACCEPTABLE!

[ILikeGamesYeah]

Btw this was the article...

A guy asked someone for money in a game of overwatch... The answer was no... The person who said no continued to call up support lines for over 1 hour as this upset him very much... This same person then (presumably with tears still in his eyes) posted this in a forum as he couldn't believe how the almighty Blizzard can't prevent someone saying words which upset him.... This post was turned into a clickbait article which im commenting on (with tear filled eyes and a nose bleed)

[Goldby]

except the guy was also throwing the games. seemed to forget to add that. thats an intentional sabatoge and in some cases that's against EULA

[ILikeGamesYeah]

I didn't say that as it destroys my point completely. Its very annoying coming across the kind of person who'd throw their game. But it annoys me more when encountering the type of boring, useless sack of nob juice that would go to this extreme effort of whining their entitlement, in games or in real it's always the right thing to wind these dribbly flannels up. So I decided to leave it out, and it was funny and makes me feel nice (hard).

[raWfodog]

Since I don't play Overwatch, I'm not up on all the details about the game but couldn't they just not play with him. In other games where I had asshats on my team, I'd just quit and find another group to play with.

[Fist4achin]

Man, there are some serious douche bags out there...

[KillZallthebeast]

Lol can't even read the story since their website apparently can't handle traffic, but going to assume blizzard didn't care, and anyone stupid enough to throw money at trolls got what they deserved?

Probably the same people who gave money on gofundme for a guy to make a sandwich.

[corroios]

This is real problem and should be solved.

[Erik7357]

Sony fault for not letting them have more control of the game and letting blizzard implement THEIR reporting system into the game.

[Liqu1d]

Blizzard are more than capable of banning people from Overwatch regardless of platform.

[zaherdab]

i can't count the times a genius started screaming at this team how stupid they are ... geniuses all over in this game

[opinionated]

Link is blocked😒

Hahaha and these people actually paid????? Unbelievable. Finally blizzard told their idiot base to piss off.

[Goldby]

no they didn't pay. instead the lost the game because the guy kept throwing the match and feeding the other teams

[opinionated]

Ok good lol

[InKnight7s]

***** blizzard i was banned because of bad connection last season and this season they dont give a shit to fix the system i was 2600 suddenly all the teams that i am with bunch of noobs like all dps or all snipers with symetra and thats why am 2000 right now which seems i will fonna be their until i got team of one group.

[zuul9018]

Great players make the players around them better.
Did Kurt Warner bitch about arizone being trash when he got there? Did he complain hes's the only person that doesnt suck? Kurt knew how to get on people. If you couldnt take a chewing he'd be supportive, if you needed someone on your ass he'd do it.
Everyone always blames everyone else. Maybe if you take charge and lead (if youre always the best it shouldnt be hard to assume the leader role) fill the spot thats needed (i know if you fill then you dont get to play who you want to be) and say things like "group up" or "could one of the snipers switch to a tank".
Im betting youve never tried that though. I doubt youll admit it but id bet you go for the toxic approach of insulting and blaming everyone else and taking no accountability. Might be why you dropped from 2600 to 2000.

[Chumdiddy]

Site is overloaded. So, is this player basically saying to pay him or he'll "throw" the match? Like, work against the team?

If so, who cares? Who would care so much about having an A-hole teammate that they'd pay him off? Haha....

Or am i wrong here?

[Liqu1d]

Correct, but they didn't pay him. They reported the troll to both Sony & Blizzard and both said it was the other company's issue.

[Chumdiddy]

Man, that's hilarious to me. I'm not a big multi-player gamer but I can't imagine doing anything but laughing in the face of a dude on BF1 claiming to pay him or he'll throw the match. I'd laugh loudly into the mic and spend the entire session hunting and killing him (haha).

Can't imagine you'd make a penny doing this.

[bluefox755]

To be fair, it's not their problem. If you get conned by a Nigerian scammer, you don't blame the phone company.

[MoonConquistador]

OK, so who's problem is it?

You can't say you've never had an online experience ruined by someone over the year's. This is where a fair, workable reporting system is required which also means implementing consequences for bad behaviour. As kaizokuspy mentioned earlier a system is being worked on.

But plenty other games have inadequate reporting systems.

[bluefox755]

It's the moron who got scammed. Why would it be anyone else's? I have had my online experience ruined a few times over the years, but if it was my fault, it's my fault. Any "solution" amounts to nothing more than idiot insurance.

[MoonConquistador]

But nobody got scammed. No money was lost by anyone, only someone going on to ruin an online game for others.

The topic is actually about the game having no adequate reporting system

[Liqu1d]

It's both Blizzard & Sony's problem. They shouldn't be allowing people to attempt to extort money from others.

[Elda]

It's Blizzard's game..it's definitely there problem.Who would be fool enough to let someone extort them for money on Overwatch? I would lmao at them & pay them dust then possibly report them or pay them nada altogether.

[The7Reaper]

Why not just leave the match and find a new one? Good thing Blizzard won't do anything about it you're the twat who payed the guy.

God not only is the Overwatch community nothing but crybabies it's also filled with idiots.

[DanteVFenris666]

Because it's not blizzards problem?

The problem is in the player who just should throw the match. No biggie don't need to give them money lol.

[windblowsagain]

Send me money or i'll cry. muahahah. pathetic.

[rocketpanda]

So Blizzard is salty about PS4 players using KB/M because they want a fair experience, but when players go out their way to make the Overwatch community toxic they lift up their hands and say not our problem!

[C-H-E-F]

That's BS sony has control over the PSN but they have control over the database that house all of the players. They are full of SH!T. If that's the case then how was Rockstar banning people on GTAV, that wasn't a Sony level ban but a Rockstar level ban. They probably didn't think that far into dev and never had a banning system in place. SMH poor poor effort. I'm glad I don't support blizzard games.

[kevnb]

First world problems

[KillBill]

"There’s no real option for PlayStation and Xbox One players to report toxic players, and one particularly egregious example was posted on Blizzard’s Overwatch forums earlier today." - what crack is this person smoking? I know for a fact Xbox One has a very good reporting feature for player interaction. So tired of poorly researched articles from people that don't know jack about what they are spouting.

[feedthereaper]

They said they didn't want a Block option because it would harm the way games matchmake if people were blocking loads of poor players then complaining about nobody left to play with and game load times doubling and tripling.
However, I do believe they need a Block button that has limits in place so that it is rarely used. For example:

-A block button that will only allow you to block 1 person/day for extreme situations such as this. (Stops you blocking everyone)
-A block button where it requires at least 4 people on the same team to press it during a game for a player to be blocked (Makes it more like a group agreement that a player needs blocking)
-A block button that needs 3 strikes. Play in a match and block someone, it reduces the chances of that person being on your team. A second game and second block it reduces the chances of them being on either team, and a 3rd press on a 3rd game together and it blocks them from ever being put in a game with you again. (This means that blocking random strangers may still put them in a game with you in low player count situations, but will block them if you encounter them and their harassment regularly).

What I really want to see is a fix for the player dropping out of a Season match. I believe that the weaker team should receive a small boost to damage/health for the remainder of the game to try and balance the lob-sided match. Or find someone from Quick Play to jump in their place after they have been absent for 60+ seconds. Because even a poor 6th man is better than no 6th man.
Something needs doing because certain times of the day it is far worse than others. For example, 5pm - 8pm UK time has someone dropping out of a match 1 out of 3 games, because you have the young teens playing who rage quit a lot when thngs don't go their way, but come 10pm - 2am UK Time, you get the adults playing and they appreciate the gameplay and Season mode more and you barely get 1 match out of 7 where someone quits.