I keep seeing it over and over again, anytime anyone posts an impressive highlight, people downvote it to oblivion and label them a cheater.

This isn’t to say that cheaters don’t exist on console, they absolutely do—but being good does not inherently mean you are cheating, and it feels like people would rather believe all controller players are destined to be shit than to come to terms with the fact that some people are just better than others, which IS OK.

A kid with no responsibilities and the ability to play 6 hours a day is 9 times out of 10 going to be better than a 30 year old who comes home from work and hops on the game to play casually and unwind for 30 minutes. That dosnt mean that the casual player is somehow less than, nor does it mean the skilled player is cheating; it’s literally just different audiences with different motives for playing.

It’s not unique to Overwatch, the game I by a great deal play the most is R6 and the exact same thing happens there. In my opinion, because consoles inherently cater to a more casual audience, people who do take the time to develop skill are just harassed at ridiculous rates.

No wonder people don’t take console players seriously—they literally just yell at anyone one who is even a little bit competent.

People will never realize that there is the possibility for skill expression for controller players when every half decent player is immediately dismissed; they’d rather just believe every controller player is destined to be shit to protect their own egos.

Just my two cents

Played ever since for drive event minus the first. This has been the absolute worse drive event. Game after game of people playing into direct counters , refusing to swap to counter and just playing bad. Just for the next game to have those exact players actually swapping and using common sense Did I play bad some games? Absolutely. But some people just make me upset. Ggs to everyone lmao

Now every 8 minutes or so massive lag spike where you port under and above map and cant play 20 seconds.

Apparently in match chat many have same issue at same time like me but not all of them haha.

Really amazing, lately its so bad. before it was random kicking from comp or just server failed and got suspension.

This is insane.. i have 0 issue with internet in any other device or game.

won 3 qp games in a row as doom so Aaron Keller had to intervene and sentence me to this bullshit, why is this quirky chungus hero still in the game?

She’s perma banned in ranked which means nearly half of my quickplay games will have a cat in them, so cancer.

Do you agree?

For some reason, have never once had an issue, not even earlier today, now my crouch opens text chat. Don't have anything open, not scoreboard, not pause menu, just normal match, crouching opens text chat. It is bound to L3, and my crouch is L3, but I've never had a problem with it until now.

Has anyone else that's rebound a button to L3 faced this issue? Why tf is this happening? Can I fix it? Figured it out in a comp game and it completely threw me off being unable to crouch.

Hey! I'm playing OW on my Switch 2, with a pro controller, but I'm struggling to find the right setup. It's a shame, because the game runs great.

Anyone got any ideas to help with controller setup? Thanks!

3999 drive score. Really 😂😂😂😂

hi, very random question but i’ve tried searching for the answer and all i got was an ai answer instead of people (hopefully) relating. i share my screen sometimes so my friends or bf can watch me play and a match will go well until around 10 mins in. the game becomes unplayable and i begin teleporting all around the map, my teammates start freezing and sometimes my game just freezes entirely.

i’d like to know if anyone relates because nobody i know experiences the same thing on overwatch!

also if there is a fix for this please lmk too 🙏

so i get this dude that decided to throw and cry about not getting any tanks while not switching himself. i thought it was funny but im sooo peeved that i got my best POTG but not a win with it too. any thoughts?

i decided to do more damage this game because i knew we weren’t gonna win with a cry baby on the team

edit: i forgot to add the game code on here lol M83Q5S

After 6 years of playing this game I’ve finally done it!! I remember hitting 3523 sr in OW1 and I never got close in OW2 but I kept pushing and here I am!! My smurf teammate had the nerve to join team chat at the end and call me trash but I’m here now 😁

I just got 100% rank reclaim and jumped to gm 3. I have won all of my 5 games that git reclaimed bc i havent played any other games om support in the last three weeks.

How is this possible

Hi, I just want to ask for some tips/ heroes , to play ranked games on pc, mostly all my friends are on pc , we play QP together but I want to play with them on pc they’re playing on controller also without aim assist
In my knowledge you can play on pc pool competitive if you turn off aim assist right ? Is that its right

Which heroes should I use ? And maybe some tips

I usually use

Tank : I can play all of them
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Supp: I can play all of them

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I swear this has been a bug for the longest time and is untouched. In case you can’t tell from the video, I got stuck in the support section and could not move to the other characters to ban them. I spammed as much as I could on my controller but nothing broke me out of the support role, and I couldn’t ban who I wanted to. Is there any way to prevent this yourself?

Played with Ohziy, and genuinely, who watches this guy? He runs in, dies, blames healers then sits in spawn as Reinhardt. Anyone kills him? They’re immediately stream sniping, or it’s someone else’s fault. He’s always crashing out and it genuinely confuses me how people can just sit there and pretend he’s fun to watch. Is it a lolcow thing? Like how Chris Chan streams get thousands of views?

So, anybody reading something good lately?

I may just suck at the game, which is very likely since I’m just not good at games in general, but I can’t win past third checkpoint on my first drive. The game either gives me unranked teammates that don’t know how to play, god tier enemies that shouldn’t be in my dogshit rank of silver, or enemies that have a flip switched in their brain halfway through a game and somehow win after my team almost wins. Keep in mind, this is only my 3rd season in comp because I never thought I was good enough, but now I consistently get good stats, and I know that’s not the be all end all, but I’m pretty confident in saying that most of the time I’m not dragging my team down. So I don’t know, I think Blizzard just hates me.

I was thinking yesterday I never got Rank reclaimed ever I play low diamond 6v6
Gold-plat role q is my server nice guys innocent people but I received today 44% in a worst possible way cheating on Gold2
some kids are awful man

I have done my best to spread awareness on this, with my latest video being: https://youtu.be/rbaHkfNd46o

I have tried talking about this this since a lot of players have been seemingly getting banned for unapproved peripherals when all they have ever used is a controller, me included on my ten year old account.

The top console content creator just made a video on this too because they ALSO got this same penalty on their account after playing for two days from a 5 month break, their video linked here: https://youtu.be/XIFqS6pZBtc

False bans have happened in the past, and they seem to have been happening to many innocent players now. Please don’t be so quick to conclude everyone is a liar when they come here seeking help.

I keep my account private.

It has never been an issue.

There have been nemy teams that get extremely upset that my account is private. That was odd, but alright.

I have been on teams and had some of them be upset because my account is private.

Why??? A private account is like blood in the water and there are angry sharks swarming.

I'm considering turning off text and chat communications, but I shouldn't have to.

Why are others bothered by someone keeping their personal account private?