Xbox Bans can be so ridiculous
I'm really getting sick of getting banned for telling a toxic player to stuff it. It's getting old.
Yesterday I'm playing a match against a pretty good rank 1 Deathslinger. He's killed 2 of my teammates and it's now down to myself and one other player, and that player just got hooked. Now, Deathslinger decides to camp the hook because it's endgame and it's probably his best move in this scenario. I'm on my death hook, and I'm injured. I have a medkit, so I try to heal up but my med kit runs out too early and I don't get healed completely.
Now, keep in mind, I'm a rank 8 and I'm fairly outmatched to begin with. The killer is much better than me at looping, and if he sees me fairly close, I'm almost surely dead. It's also a huge map and they are clear across the map. I think for a few seconds about just leaving because I know my chances of saving him are slim to none. But I say ######### it. I go for the save, because it's just a game and too many times I'm playing and see people leave without trying so I decide to make a play for it. I run to the hook and once I'm close, I hide nearby for a second, behind a wall. The killer starts searching the area near the hook, and goes behind a wall I can't see him at for just a second and I have to guess which way he's going to come around the wall at. I guess wrong and he sees me. Anyway, important part is, I'm ######### now and almost surely dead so I go for the save, and I get speared and die trying. I feel like it was a valiant effort, and one I didn't have to make in the first place because I know most people would have just left in this scenario. It happens to me all the time. Still, I feel bad so I message the other survivor and say "sorry man, I tried"
Now, I figure he's going to come back with something like "yeah, you can't win em all" or "yeah, it happens" or "yeah thanks anyway man" or something similar. NOPE. He replies "yeah...sure ya did."
I said "you saw me get speared and die trying to save you."
He says "you were walking at one point and healing at another point"
I said "why wouldn't I try to heal up before going for the save? Everyone should do that. And they do. It's not like I ran out of time to save you by screwing around—I just died trying. There's not much I could have done about that."
Feeling he's probably wrong here, he decides to switch tactics and starts grasping at straws:
" Yeah well, you didn't have any protection hits that game either"
I said "yeah, It was a HUGE map, and a fairly quick game, I never really got the chance. What am I supposed to do, stop doing gens and run across map when there are 2 people closer, and I know they'll get to you before i do? Those games happen, I get protection hits most games but sometimes games happen where you just don't get the opportunity. "
"I get protection hits every single game."
I said "it's practically impossible to get all the way to rank 2 (which is what he was) without having a single game in which you don't get a protection hit, but ok."
He says "no, I have every single game, you're just selfish."
I said "you're a kid, I can tell. When I said" I tried, sorry man"i thought you would say "ah, oh well" or something similar. I never dreamed you'd be this big of a baby over it"
He says "I'm not responding anymore because the smarter person ignores. Have a nice day"
Now, he started this #########—I cannot see one single good reason for him calling me selfish and acting this way because I died trying to save him. And now he's doing the thing everyone does where they fake kindness and tell you to "have a nice day" when they really don't want you to have a nice day and I have always ######### hated that. So I tell him "take your fake kindness and shove it up your ass"
I already know the next thing I'm about to see him type:
"REPORTED"
I said "yeah, who didn't see that coming. I'm shaking in my boots over here. I don't use comms at all, so jokes on you, that won't bother me."
And while it's true that I don't use comms and won't really feel the ban at all, it IS still annoying that people can be such dickheads to you and if you use a single naughty word to respond to them, you get banned.
Is telling him to shove his fake kindness up his ass, REALLY worse than calling someone selfish and trying to make them feel bad for doing their best and failing? Of course not. But xbox says naughty words are the worst thing you can do, so they ban you for cussing.
Like I said, I don't use comms and it's just a 1 day ban, but why does Xbox give people this power? I know kids are using this too, and I get that they're trying to keep it family friendly, but something needs to be changed. I get messages everyday from people being toxic for no legit reason and if you tell them to ######### off, you're the one banned for it. There has to be a better way.
For one thing, they need to stop letting algorithms dictate bans the way they do. Microsoft is a huge company, there is no reason they can't pay human mods to use their best judgment for these things. And calling someone selfish when all they did was try their hardest to save you, should be a worse offense than saying the "A word"
And honestly, this was just the straw that broke the camels back, this isn't even close to the worst exchange I've had that ended in a ban.
They know that they can say whatever they like to you to piss you off and if you say one word that they know xbox won't tolerate—REPORTED.
How are so many people so unashamed to report players for cussing, anyhow? If someone is truly harassing you, I get it. But people use the report button because they're angry, as an offensive thing, way more than they use to actually protect themselves. It's like someone sticking their bare ass in someone else's face over and over, until finally the victim hauls off and punches the guy putting his ass on people, and then the guy putting his ass on people goes "I'm calling the police, you're going to jail." Stop doing this, you little gd weasels. Reporting people is for when you genuinely feel like you're being harassed, it's not for getting the last laugh, you immature clowns.
/rant