Account suspension - Why it's okay and why us Toxic Players need to better ourselves.
I think the title really does says it all - but let me expand on the topic a little. This morning I received an email that my account has been suspended for 7 days. I at the time did not agree with the suspension so I appealed the suspension. I did not expect much out of the appeal due to many posts I've read here on Reddit stating it's just an automated system. However, the response I get in the ticket clearly proves it is no longer an automated system (if it's ever been such a system) and that they do look into appeals. I wanted to show my response to everyone who has been suspended here and feel as if it isn't taken seriously (like I did) and feel like people might be a bit over sensitive (like I felt) and in result have been suspended and appealed their suspension. Look through the below response and you can clearly see that I have not been a good Overwatch player, I have not been a good teammate or anything that has been fun to play with. Regardless of how bad or not, my teammates have performed my conduct is not in any way okay.
So what I am trying to say is, us who have a tendency to get frustrated over a game. And especially if we speak our frustration either in VC or chat, we seriously need to take a good long look at our own behavior and do better. Frustrations is normal but outburst such as I did are not normal.
We can do better and we must do better or the repercussions could be worse than a 7 day suspension
I am not asking for pity or understanding, I just wanted to share that - I am an idiot and recognizing this hopefully will help me become better in the future. That I know there are other people like me and as you can see in the below ticket - it was not an isolated incident and they copy pasted things I've said in chat and put in the ticket - things that wasn't recent.
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To my fellow toxic players, it's time for us to grow up and stop.
All the best
Dear \*\*\*\*\*,
Issue ID: #64680145
A Game Master resolved your ticket, and left the following response:
*Hey there Christopher!*
*I hope you are having a great week! Game Master \*\*\*\*\*\* here, I am reaching out to you in regards to the action taken on your account.*
*I understand that you are dissapointed with the action taken on your account, sadly they are a result of your own actions. The first time action was taken on your account this was part of the warning, you don't get more warnings as it is quite clear that if you continue to behave inthe same way further action will be taken.*
*Please also remember that another players bad behavior does not excuse your own bad behavior, the correct approach is to report other players for their behavior, as they have for you.*
*Saying things such as:*
*'You guys are fucking terrible, holy fucking shit. How can you be this high level and this bad at EVERY character?' is simply not OK.*
*And this is far from an isolated incident, there has been many times where you would call your team fucking garbage or 'you guys are so fucking terrible'.*
*If you continue to communicate in this way it will only lead to further action being taken, there are ways to provide constructive criticism without resorting to insults, and I would encourage you to either dont take part in chat at all if you can't, or reconsider how you talk to your team.*
*I hope that despite these issues though you have a great remainder of the week.*
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