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Kai Tave posted:Just as with regular lootboxes you are never guaranteed to get anything, the exception is at least one thing in each summer lootbox will be a summer loot item, most of which are still sprays and icons. Of course. Literally all I want is the Sweden Torb but that's not gonna happen. Buying stuff with coins is the only reliable part of this awful system, and taking that away so people fall prey to gambling is a pretty gross business tactic!
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Internet Kraken posted:Of course. Literally all I want is the Sweden Torb but that's not gonna happen. Buying stuff with coins is the only reliable part of this awful system, and taking that away so people fall prey to gambling is a pretty gross business tactic! I got the Swedish Torb skin.
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Aug 5, 2016 09:18
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The only legendary I've got during these summer games was Commando 76 which is kind of nice but seriously  The rest has just been the usual 3 greys and one blue whoopdy loving do. This wouldn't be such a crapshoot if there was a trading system in place where you could trade poo poo with other players like you can do on steam with csgo and tf2 items, or even if you could use blizzcoins to buy that goddamn American McCree, but no. I don't even play McCree but I need that skin. I need it more than I need Korean 
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Aug 5, 2016 09:34
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:How much have you spent on lootboxes? How much did you spend on wow mounts? That's not the same thing by a long shot though; The WoW mounts are a straight purchase - you drop money, you get your mount. The lootboxes are pure random chance.
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Aug 5, 2016 09:38
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I accidentally spent $20 on the new boxes but I got a bunch of cool stuff.
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Laputanmachine posted:The only legendary I've got during these summer games was Commando 76 which is kind of nice but seriously nothing like seeing 2 blues and a purp skyrocket into an air and your summer games loot was the white item then my friend gets flag mccree and my patriotism boner goes flatline, knowing i will never get that skin and become a true american hero
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Aug 5, 2016 10:08
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Minrad posted:nothing like seeing 2 blues and a purp skyrocket into an air and your summer games loot was the white item I got that skin. 
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Aug 5, 2016 10:16
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This business model exists because of you people with terrible self control. I'm blaming you, not blizzard.
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Minrad posted:nothing like seeing 2 blues and a purp skyrocket into an air and your summer games loot was the white item It also has the best gun in the entire game:  I'm somewhat sad it doesn't change the bullet sound to be that of a bald eagle shrieking.
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Aug 5, 2016 12:30
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open up a loot box and see a legendary and a purple, get excited, see it's a mei skin and a lucio emote and die a little inside gimme that american mccree game
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Aug 5, 2016 12:47
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Manatee Cannon posted:open up a loot box and see a legendary and a purple, get excited, see it's a mei skin and a lucio emote and die a little inside Congratulations on your Mei skin
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Aug 5, 2016 12:49
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I spent my first 1k blizzard coins on a Mei skin.
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Aug 5, 2016 12:57
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I like her purple skins a lot more than her legendaries tbh
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Aug 5, 2016 13:00
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Yeah, Snow Plum is cool, the legendaries just seem overdesigned.
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Aug 5, 2016 14:15
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Do they change some of the voice lines with the Olympics costumes or does Tracer normally yell "FALSE START!" after rewinding?
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Aug 5, 2016 14:31
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The only good thing from this batch is the American Mcree Presents Alice in Wonderland skin. Also, the whole industry shift to real-money random chance crates is deplorable and you're a horrible person if you support such systems. Blizzard could have taken the highroad and sold by means of a DLC pack or A la Carte, but nope.
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Aug 5, 2016 14:31
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FAUXTON posted:Do they change some of the voice lines with the Olympics costumes or does Tracer normally yell "FALSE START!" after rewinding? Tracer has a few new ones: "Remember to stretch" "Looks like I hit the wall Those are the two I know of.
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Aug 5, 2016 14:36
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Several of the legendary skins seem to have one or two lines attached to it. There are the obvious ones (devil/imp Mercy and wolf Hanzo) but every now and then there is one that surprises me. Yesterday at the start of Gibraltar I heard a Soldier: 76 with the Night Ops skin say "welcome to the Rock".
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Aug 5, 2016 15:10
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Ddraig posted:Tracer has a few new ones: I think she's also been saying "And I'm back in the race!" when I respawn with her, and I think that used to be 'back in the game'? I don't know, I like her more when I don't listen to her talk.
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Aug 5, 2016 15:13
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Did you know Gibraltar means 'Jabal Tariq' in Spanish?
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El Dorado is Spanish for "The Dorado"
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Aug 5, 2016 15:21
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Jeez just had a guy intentionally choose torb and build senteries at spawn, then choose mei and try to wall in his own teams ults so we couldn't win. He shouted every racial epithet and abusive language he could think of in all chat, left the game..came back and dared everyone to report him, which I think they did. What are the odds this piece of poo poo is disciplined? This was comp too.
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Aug 5, 2016 15:48
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Jastiger posted:Jeez just had a guy intentionally choose torb and build senteries at spawn, then choose mei and try to wall in his own teams ults so we couldn't win. He shouted every racial epithet and abusive language he could think of in all chat, left the game..came back and dared everyone to report him, which I think they did. Well, what do you think?
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Aug 5, 2016 16:11
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Blizzard doesn't send you a notice that your report was acted on but they do respond to them with punishment, if the whininess on battlenet forums is an indication.
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Jastiger posted:Jeez just had a guy intentionally choose torb and build senteries at spawn, then choose mei and try to wall in his own teams ults so we couldn't win. He shouted every racial epithet and abusive language he could think of in all chat, left the game..came back and dared everyone to report him, which I think they did. Dude has his trolling confused. A good Mei or Torb has your teammates melting down at you.
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Ddraig posted:It also has the best gun in the entire game: ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RArGl2vkGI
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Aug 5, 2016 16:57
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yeah the typical "bald eagle screech" you hear in movies/tv is actually a red tailed hawk 'merica
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Aug 5, 2016 17:04
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neonbregna posted:Dude has his trolling confused. A good Mei or Torb has your teammates melting down at you. He was the opposite of good. Also sorry RBX for getting frustrated. It was exactly as I posted and it came to fruition.
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Aug 5, 2016 17:26
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Is it too much to have a "Don't play with this dude ever again button." at least in quickplay. The amount of salt in this game rivals every single MOBA I've ever played.
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Aug 5, 2016 17:33
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KildarX posted:Is it too much to have a "Don't play with this dude ever again button." at least in quickplay. The amount of salt in this game rivals every single MOBA I've ever played. There used to be one and turns out it would have turned matchmaking into an eventual clusterfuck because people avoided players who were really good (which in turn led to those really good players suffering long queues before being matched with players who were worse. You can imagine the vicious circle here).
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Aug 5, 2016 17:39
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The actual situation was that one of the world's best widowmaker players was getting avoided by people, even in their bracket, and rather than that person thinking "Maybe I should play a less unfun class" or Blizzard thinking "Maybe we should look at this unfun class" they decided to remove a genuinely useful tool from the game.
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It should be like "no one wants to play witn this dude" "oh, otherwise it's gonna put him against a bunch of scrubs" "ok sorry but for real you gotta play against this dude, even if he has saltmouth"
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Aug 5, 2016 17:48
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"Sorry but you're too good, bitch"
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Aug 5, 2016 17:50
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Or just have a separate queue for all those people who have somehow managed to be avoided by 90% of the playerbase they play with so they can stew in a hell of their own making. The Low-Priority Queue is one of the best things ever introduced into competitive online games and more companies need to steal it.
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I avoided good Widowmakers all the time because they simply aren't fun to play against. Snipers were a mistake.
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Mierenneuker posted:There used to be one and turns out it would have turned matchmaking into an eventual clusterfuck because people avoided players who were really good (which in turn led to those really good players suffering long queues before being matched with players who were worse. You can imagine the vicious circle here). Yea, that's why it should only apply to Quickplay. If the dudes so good that even people who are really good are like "nope go away" then that guy should go play competitive, and leave us nice scrub folks alone, and if the dudes so salty that people don't wanna play with him, then he should go play competitive and be salty. Defenestrategy fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Aug 5, 2016 |
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Aug 5, 2016 17:55
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Mierenneuker posted:There used to be one and turns out it would have turned matchmaking into an eventual clusterfuck because people avoided players who were really good (which in turn led to those really good players suffering long queues before being matched with players who were worse. You can imagine the vicious circle here). I still adore that story, if you are so good that no one wants to play with you then you should probably quit the game because you already beat it
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Mierenneuker posted:There used to be one and turns out it would have turned matchmaking into an eventual clusterfuck because people avoided players who were really good (which in turn led to those really good players suffering long queues before being matched with players who were worse. You can imagine the vicious circle here). I don't think that would be that much of a problem these days since Widowmaker can't shut down entire games so easily anymore.
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Maybe require a report to be filed in order to avoid that player? You can't report for "Being too good", so they would be ignored by a supposed administrator (lol it seems to be automated), and those that are genuinely toxic would be under more scrutiny. I mean I suppose that COULD work, but I dislike the idea of someone being under extra scrutiny just for being reported so they have to walk on eggshells no matter what, but it kind of already happens as it is.
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I love how some of you went back to the knee-jerk response of "gently caress that Widowmaker player" when I deliberately mentioned how this would negatively effect the game for a lot of players. Would you really want to be matched with someone like Seagull just because the other pros can't handle him? It would be cool at first I have to admit, but then he steamrolls and dumpsters you at the same time and you start writing a dumb post on the Blizzard forums on how the matchmaking sucks. Also, this is one example they used. The post about it seemed to imply that it wasn't just a single player at that time which had this problem with the avoid feature. Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Aug 5, 2016 |
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