Overwatch‘s new custom game browser has given rise to everything from tense “predator” games of cat and mouse to sex role-play rooms. Good times all around, in other words. Other players, however, have taken to abusing the feature.
If you take a look around Overwatch‘s custom game lobby, you’ll almost assuredly come across at least a handful of XP farming servers. Basically, these modes allow people to do nothing for the duration of a skirmish match and gain easy XP. All you have to do is select a hero every once in a while.
I decided to search the term “farm” in Overwatch‘s custom game browser, and I found pages upon pages of the dang things.
It’s not surprising that these modes are popular. Overwatch rewards you with a loot box every time you level up, after all. I sincerely doubt, however, that Blizzard intended for people to use custom games this way, given that they have jam-packed Overwatch with other means of unlocking loot boxes — all of which involve, you know, actually playing the game. On top of that, some of these modes encourage players to use illegal tools like auto-clickers.
It will be interesting to see how Blizzard handles this. The obvious solution would be to remove XP from custom games altogether, but I imagine that would pretty seriously detract from the number of people playing and creating new modes. My guess? Prepare for banhammer deployment in 5… 4… 3…
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4 responses to “Overwatch Players Are Abusing Custom Games To Farm XP”
What exactly do these servers do that allows you to farm XP any easier than any other server though? If it’s really just ‘join and sit around until the timer runs out – no special rules/settings’ what exactly is the problem? How’s that any different than what the RP servers are doing (which is apparently ok…)
I’ve posted a reply, but it’s been in moderation for 17 hours now…..
I thought the game is supposed to kick you for inactivity.
There are no time outs in skirmish mode
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