Blizzard Asks Overwatch Players To Quit Being Mean To Each Other

While not exactly reputed to be as toxic of a community as those in League of Legends or Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, many Overwatch players can get a bit carried away in trolling others. In a recent update for the game, director Jess Kaplan decided to address the fans, saying that they should start being better behaved.

As Kotaku notes, there seems to have been an uptick in bad behavior among Overwatch players over the last few months, which is forcing Blizzard to constantly come up with ways to police its community. It seems Kaplan and his team have finally had enough and have decided to give players a talking to.

In a new video that’s meant to provide update details, Kaplan told players that their bad behavior is taking up a lot of their attention. This results in the slower development of new maps and characters.

“We want to make new maps, we want to make new heroes, we want to make animated shorts,” Kaplan said in the video. “But we’ve been put in this weird position where we’re spending a tremendous amount of time and resources punishing people and trying to make people behave better.”

Kaplan also highlighted how the extra time they are spending looking into things like console reporting is eating into the responsibilities of Blizzard’s developers.

“I wish we could take the time we put into having reporting on console and have put that toward a match history system or a replay system instead,” Kaplan explained. “It was the exact same people that had to work on both, who got re-routed to work on the other. The bad behavior is not just ruining the experience for one another, but the bad behavior’s also making the game progress—in terms of development—at a much slower rate.”