> Shouldn’t it be possible to prevent these players from coming back?
Just make a mechanism to slow down account generation. CD keys were good for this. It doesn't matter that it's not fool proof, it still works since you have less chance of running into a freshly made smurf or cheater account in the lowest rank. Phone does the same thing, however phone is intrusive and a bad solution. Smurf is even less of a problem than a cheater btw.
> Or how about that person who wants to shoot their opponent IRL just because they’re a bad sport? Shouldn’t it be possible to report them and get them banned permanently?
Umm, wtf? This was just an example and no they shouldn't be banned at all for that. That's also a good 50%-90% of any game's userbase.
> When a game is free to play like OW2, all of these things which are already huge problems for the OW1 player base become even worse because there’s no cost barrier to entry.
Free 2 play games are literally a scam. I don't want a game that has skins and nonsense. In fact, I take more issue to having to learn what cosmetic skins mean what (for instance in a class based game, you have to memorize each skin of a class, and for team based, some skins are the wrong color, like in Splitgate), than the perceived problems of this thread. I don't care what Overwatch does, I care about the fact that whatever nonsense they do will be normalized in the rest of the industry to the point where devs can't even argue with it.
Just make a mechanism to slow down account generation. CD keys were good for this. It doesn't matter that it's not fool proof, it still works since you have less chance of running into a freshly made smurf or cheater account in the lowest rank. Phone does the same thing, however phone is intrusive and a bad solution. Smurf is even less of a problem than a cheater btw.
> Or how about that person who wants to shoot their opponent IRL just because they’re a bad sport? Shouldn’t it be possible to report them and get them banned permanently?
Umm, wtf? This was just an example and no they shouldn't be banned at all for that. That's also a good 50%-90% of any game's userbase.
> When a game is free to play like OW2, all of these things which are already huge problems for the OW1 player base become even worse because there’s no cost barrier to entry.
Free 2 play games are literally a scam. I don't want a game that has skins and nonsense. In fact, I take more issue to having to learn what cosmetic skins mean what (for instance in a class based game, you have to memorize each skin of a class, and for team based, some skins are the wrong color, like in Splitgate), than the perceived problems of this thread. I don't care what Overwatch does, I care about the fact that whatever nonsense they do will be normalized in the rest of the industry to the point where devs can't even argue with it.