In their latest developer update, Blizzard has revealed that they'll now be monitoring what Overwatch players say online on social media and YouTube, previously a safe space for trollish behavior or bashing of the game. In the past, doing such behavior while streaming or talking over the mic mid-game could result in a ban but it now appears that what actions you take while you're not even playing Overwatch might also result in a ban.
Jeff Kaplan explained that it's still okay to bash the game but behavior that Blizzard deems "excessive", that would get a player banned if it was said or written in-game, will now result in a ban.
Most recently, Blizzard implemented a number of tools to combat trollish behavior including adding a reporting option for consoles and instituting an alert that lets gamers know that someone they reported has been banned.
Over on the
Battle.net/Overwatch forum, the new policy is certainly drawing a lot of comment. Gamers are hoping that this new policy is something that Blizzard will only enforce in extreme instances but other gamers are concerned that it gives Blizzard a broad paintbrush to get rid of anyone and anything they find objectionable.