Overwatch 2 outlined several new rules and penalties it would be implementing in season 10 to help curate a less hostile player environment on April 10. But since the season began last week, players have been reporting bans that would typically be applied to someone leaving a game early being implemented for seemingly no reason. Blizzard’s rules already seemed to punish people out of context, but according to the company, these bans have been given in error.
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Users on the Blizzard forums have been posting threads reporting they’d been banned from Overwatch 2’s ranked mode as if they’d left a match. For some, this started as a 15-minute ban, then repeated to the point where some users were banned for the entire season. Users note a queuing problem in which the game couldn’t connect them to a match, which I’ve personally experienced while playing Quick Play and Mirrorwatch on the night of April 23. Fans hypothesize the game could have registered those failed queues as leaving a match.
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Whatever the case, Blizzard has put out a statement saying it’s looking into these issues and asked players not to submit any further ban appeals until they receive a direct update from the company. The full post on the forums reads as follows: