The Anti-Cheat Police Department, a voluntary organisation not affiliated with Riot or Valorant, confirm that the player banned was ‘ReFleck’, who was rank seven on the Valorant leaderboard. You can check out the video of the mid-match ban below: ...
CHAPTER 3 One Tricks, Hero Picks, and Player Politics: Highlighting the Casual-Competitive Divide in the Overwatch Forums Courtney Blamey Introduction In this chapter, I will provide the post-structural textual analysis of the official Overwatch player forums (McKee 2003) to highlight ...
The in-game report system ofOverwatchhas evolved since its initial launch in May 2016. In the early months, a player would go into their “social menu”, find a list of “recent players” (up to 63), and click on a player to report them to the authorities for: “inappropriate Battle...
Hypothesis 2 was tested via the Point Biserial Correlation between rank-transformed loot box expenditure and past-year gambling participation (one-tailed test,p = 0.05). This test was run because 87 participants (i.e., more than 50 participants) responded that they have gambled in the pre...