Do you know if there will ever be a Q&A on these forums?
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Hey AndyB!!
This is a question for current OW.
Will we receive a new experimental soon to address some of the issues currently?
– Thanks
Oh. This is blizzard sponsored?
Well of course people who get money from blizzard, speaking at the behest of blizzard aren’t going to speak openly and honestly about their new product. It’s just advertisement. Propaganda.
Also I thought that sanito person went to go design jeans or something.
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I liked the Twitter space personally 
Just felt a bit odd because it seemed like a “be there or be square” type deal ;p
And then create massive imbalance between the pure support roles and support hybrids like zen, ana and bap.
Just because crimzo likes playing aggro ana and 3rd dps, doesn’t mean the support role as a whole should become exactly like that.
If supports want to dps, we have an entire different role for that.
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It’s possible…however.
Part of my being more active and present here is to encourage folks to engage with us in a more constructive way. Through consistent posting, and answering of relevant questions, my goal is to shift the conversation away from hyperbole and to demonstrate that constructive criticism and dialog creates space for us to engage in conversation with y’all in ways that are additive and beneficial.
It’s completely understandable that folks have been frustrated by the gaps in communication. The current state of the boards is our responsibility. If we want for it to be a useful communication tool I need to put in the hours with all of you to ensure that when Team 4 is able to join the conversation it’s a productive and safe environment for both parties.
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Has someone got a summary? I’m hearing impaired
Hmm.
Is asking if Baby D.Va will be addressed… a… relevant question?
Like, could she get a mini rework in a way?
Maybe since it was mostly OWL staff, just put it up on the OWL YouTube.
This is completely understandable and you doing a very well job with it! I think I can talk for a lot of us that we are happy to have you as CM! 
Possible.
It’s also pretty valuable (pro) player perspective on how OW2 “feels” to play right now. I’d keep an eye on our social channels for updates to be sure :).
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Yeah for sure because I don’t want to something like Twitter Spaces where I will have to record it since there isn’t really anyway to preserve it on there other than that.
Although I guess what will probably happen is that it just gets posted to @PlayOverwatch on Twitter.
Legit this is what we have been wanting for 5 years now so props to you for being someone who was like us until they started working at Blizzard and taking it upon yourself to try and alleviate this!
Because let’s be real the lack of communication for months at a time is very…painful (??) as players over the years. Even more so since OW2 was released. To a lot of us it feels like OW1 got shafted for OW2…yet we’d see and hear virtually nothing for very long amounts of time. So it’s really nice to have someone trying to advocate for us very directly finally!
As someone who plays all roles, it is VERY concerning that Tanks and Supports have seen next to no POSITIVE limelight this year.
Looking at what has happened FOLLOWING Blizzcon 2019:
- Only one new hero and it has been a DPS (and the only revealed one for OW2 so far is clearly a DPS)
- Of the 6 hero reskins we have seen since BC 2019, 5 of 6 have been for DPS heroes
- BOTH of the reworks revealed have been DPS heroes
EDIT just thought of another
4. A new storyline was to be released before OW2 and in line with the above 3, it’s for a certain nameless DPS
It is very concerning from the eyes of Tank and Supports. In my mind as an outsider, I would think that OW2/5v5 working out HANGS in the balance (literally) of how Tanks and Supports feel and function as those roles will dictate queue times for DPS and how the game feels as a whole as those 2 roles generally are the flow and tempo setters. Yet from the community’s perspective, all we are seeing is how DPS are changing and that feels very off putting when DPS balancing should come last in my mind based on what I said above.
Granted we have zero clue how much work is actually going on amongst your colleagues and on what components exactly. But what we have been allowed to see so far screams DPS DPS DPS so much.
Do you think you could relay this to the team? Put in a good word for the community that big, positive reveals and reworks for Tanks and Supports need to start being shown ASAP to relieve some of the tension for people who play those roles?
We needs some wins in the Tank and Support roles. They are feeling left behind and feeling like they are only being made worse while DPS are looking like they will be much stronger and way more fun than currently (if Sombra and Bastion reworks mean anything for how the other 16 will turn out).
Please.
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Man, this is probably the best thing anyone at blizzard has said in like, 5 years. Even I have to admit that.
I would also like to say it is highly unrealistic to expect Andy to respond to everything but I doubt a lot of the forums will listen to that advice.
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I seriously hope people read this - it’s kind of a shame this is in hidden in a topic although some people might get all emotional if it was it’s own thread.
I’m glad Blizzard takes responsibility for the current state of the forum but now the community must take responsibility as well.
read carefully here
If you do not present your views in a balanced, constructive and mature way, it’s very difficult for your views to be taken seriously.
Who would have thought that a group of devs don’t find value in insightful quotes like:
- “Are you serious Blizzard? Delete Moira already!!”
- “Sombra OP, devs what are you smoking?”
- “This game sucks”
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Just wanna say props for recognizing this. I’ve applauded Studio Wildcard in the past for addressing communication issues by bringing in Cedric, and it seems that Blizzard finally got the memo by bringing you in. It’s been a major shortcoming on Blizzard’s part that I’m glad they’re addressing. Even if I wholesale disagree with the things being said, I can appreciate and respect that Blizzard is now making a more serious effort to at least say something.
I tried listening to all thirty-five minutes of it and, well, there wasn’t anything in there that you probably didn’t know already.
I think the TL;DW could well be: they enjoyed playing it, they liked how 5v5 allows for more individual impact, support ults are hard to charge at time of writing but that might not necessarily be a bad thing, and apparently New York point C is quite wide open with high ground and less choke-y design. Maybe I zoned out and missed something, though.
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I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head. I was hoping for some more tougher hitting questions, but it is what it is.
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