Overwatch will be telling you what happens to the players you report soon

The toxicity in the Overwatch community is fairly well-known. Blizzard has been slowly adding new features to the game to help mitigate the toxicity levels and has even created an anti-griefing 'strike team' to help deal with negative players.

Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan has revealed the next step in Blizzard's attempt to curb player toxicity, and it's to let people get satisfaction from reporting players. If you were to play Overwatch today and report someone for their behavior, you would never know what the result of that report was. You wouldn't know if Blizzard actually dealt with the player or not.

Blizzard is looking to let people know what happens to the people they report after the report is investigated. 

"If you've reported somebody and they've gotten actioned you'll be notified in-game," Jeff Kaplan explained to PCGamesN at the Fun & Serious Game Festival in Spain last weekend. "We've done a pilot program where we were experimenting sending emails to people. As of that Winter Wonderland patch, we'll have the technology to do it directly in the game. Hopefully, that restores some of people's faith in the system and then they use it more."

In addition to that feature, Blizzard will begin warning players who have been reported.

"[Another] feature is that if you've been reported a bunch and you're getting close to an action against your account - meaning a silence, a suspension, or a ban - you're actually going to get a warning now that tells you 'hey, you're kind've behaving poorly. If you don't chill out pretty soon you're gonna get suspended.' We think that warning will help with some of that behaviour."'

Ultimately, Blizzard knows that toxicity in a community will always persist, they just want to be able to fight it.

"Toxicity is gonna be ongoing, there's not going to be a moment where it goes away. I wish that was the case. There's not going to be a moment where we stop working on it. It's just a matter of what's happening now and what are our current priorities. As I've stated before toxicity is our top priority to combat."

Blizzard has been doing quite a bit to fight off the negativity of some players.