[STEAM][PRESS]Overwatch 2 profanity controversy grows as player gets banned for saying ‘gg’ and ‘nice shot’

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Overwatch 2 playerbase has been up in arms over the last few days due to Blizzard’s banhammer swinging left and right. The cause? Profanity. And now, it seems Blizzard is even banning players for complementing others, according to one player’s support chat.

The player in question is a high-elo, smalltime content creator called reise_ow, who

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(formerly

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) on Apr. 18. They tried appealing Blizzard’s decision to ban them for what they said in-game, and got a very strange reply. Apparently, the player was banned for statements including “gg,” “ns,” “f**ck that was clean Hanzo,” and other regular banter.

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labeled these messages “examples of the chat from the account that caused the action,” leading players to believe profanity is not the only one-way ticket to an

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ban.

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