{"id":101720,"date":"2016-08-19T13:16:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T11:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101720"},"modified":"2016-08-19T13:21:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T11:21:05","slug":"blizzards-hilarious-answer-to-overwatch-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101720-blizzards-hilarious-answer-to-overwatch-trolls","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard&#8217;s hilarious answer to Overwatch trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fought a grueling battle only to have the opposite team break through in the last seconds and get the payload over the line?<\/p>\n<p>You type in a heartfelt &#8220;WP&#8221; (Well played) to the opposition and teammates only to be met with a snarky &#8220;GG EZ&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard has started taking steps against these trolls, as these end of game comments will now be written as funny and charming statements, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/overwatch-chatbot\" target=\"_blank\">Motherboard<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Gems include \u201cMommy says people my age shouldn\u2019t suck their thumbs\u201d, \u201cAh shucks\u2026 you guys are the best\u201d, and my personal favorite, &#8220;I&#8217;m wrestling with some insecurity issues in my life but thank you all for playing with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These changes are currently only implemented on Overwatch&#8217;s Public Test Region.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/gfycat.com\/ifr\/RigidMadeupFairybluebird#?secret=VPIOfOoxwZ\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Have you had a troll ruin your gaming experience? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How much should we be paying for games?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101636-how-much-should-we-be-paying-for-games.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How much should we be paying for games?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to South Africa\u2019s first VR arcade is now open\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101686-south-africas-first-vr-arcade-is-now-open.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">South Africa\u2019s first VR arcade is now open<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Overwatch could be getting a free-to-play mode\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101680-overwatch-could-be-getting-a-free-to-play-mode.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Overwatch could be getting a free-to-play mode<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out Blizzard&#8217;s ridiculously awesome answer to trolls and griefers  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":94533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,665,17193,10096,2384],"class_list":["post-101720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-blizzard","tag-chat","tag-overwatch","tag-troll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101722,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101720\/revisions\/101722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}