Do you play your game? Like, genuinely? I swear every patch that comes out seems just random to change up the meta and make someone OP instead of actually balancing the characters. If the balance sucks in 5v5 then why did you decide to leave 6v6 behind? The issue was not that you couldn’t balance a 6v6, the issue is that you cannot balance at all! This game could be a 1v1 and you would still fail to balance heroes.
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This is exactly what they’re doing, and Aaron has admitted this.
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they dont and i doubt they would care about what they done to the game the current team 4 is nto the OG team 4
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“oh you mean winston actually shouldnt have gotten 99 billion hp from armor changes that one patch? our bad yall the gerbil on a treadmill powering a random number generator in our offices selected Winston and Dva this season, you’ll have to wait… hmmm… two months before he makes enough power for the machine to give us the new meta, sorry :(” - Blizzard HQ
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The biggest issue I have with how they balance stuff is that instead of nerfing a problematic character they decide to change the whole role, which in turn, makes someone else broken. They have been doing this since overwatch 1. When they buff or nerf they do it across the board with 0 testing which as you might have guessed, breaks too much stuff. Which they then pile on top of the stuff they broke before.
Im going to guess that they aren’t given time to play their game.
This is Microsoft and Activision we are talking about. Both companies with a track record of not doing a great job anymore.
Microsoft use to be very picky on details. When Gates ran the company it showed. Windows XP showed what expectations truly were.
Same before Activision took over Blizzard. Everything that Blizzard did, was 100% Quality at all times. You knew if it had the stamp “Blizzard studios” on it. It was sent out with every “T” crossed and plenty of care.
Activision takes over and its a half (redacted) job just like what happened with Rockband and Guitar hero (More like guitar Villain). Speaking of which. One Vile company sells out to another Vile. Its just worse.
So yeah, gonna bet they dont even give them time to test anything. Its probably just about rapid-fire patching and not so much about customers. Something like microsoft has shown us with Windows Vista, 8, 10 and 11. Its just junk thrown on a board, over-hyped and nothing with merit.
It used to be that new heros broke the game now they just break it every patch. They probably don’t have a philosophy and are just keeping it constantly changing to hide their lack of a philosophy.
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Well, the chart says…
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They don’t even need to do it themselves, PTR existed for a reason. I’m not saying it’s perfect but if they don’t have time to test their stupid changes then at least let us give feedback before you break this mess even more.
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50 seasons of nerf unnerf nerf unnerf. ever wonder why?
well in a rigged environment balance is delusional fantasy.
balance and rigging is an oxymoron. every time they nerf
they lose thousands of players. this is bc most nerfs are
impulsive and invalid. only way to fix ow is to unnerf everyone,
restore 6 v 6, deactivate rigging, to make ow actually
fun to play and watch. otherwise it will become paladins.
They do play their game, and this is flimsy but sometimes they make strange changes today that will be relevant in 6mos time.
Is what they’re doing good/enough? From an OW1 player perspective, I don’t think so.
The charts also say that the economy is doing great. Numbers are often elusive. Focusing too much on the numbers instead of the “feel” of the game is why overwatch 1 balance was a mess. Apparently they learned nothing from it. I mean, they’re telling us d.va is in a good spot and her winrate is fine, I mean, okay? It’s still five nights at d.va’s >.>
Why do you think you know the formal definition for Balance?
I’m pretty sure you don’t, and you’re basically just repeating some uniformed streamer-take.
Literally posted a huge blog post about this a month ago and the main reason wasn’t balance. I only highlight this because it’s proof you are just whining about stuff and don’t really care.
Facts are you’ve played overwatch for 6 years and made over 1000 posts so they must be doing something right.
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No, we don’t - Balance Team
It reminds me of when they were announcing the OW2 changes and the gameplay they had to showcase 5v5 was like gold/plat gameplay. I feel like that is the balance team right there lol
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I believe they do, but in a very closed environment. I don’t think they play on public servers though.
Of course they do. It’s just that by being the devs, the way they play the game is a little different compared to how you play the game.
- You log in to your BNet account or Steam and click play to get into a match.
- They log into their bank accounts and click on activity to make sure they got their paychecks.
In both cases, everyone logs in to play the game.
Well that’s where the average player so it makes sense. If you recall around that time they also had 5v5 show matches with overwatch league pro teams
And the Overwatch league pro teams weren’t the balance team lol