I’m considering it. What drew me into this game initially was that it wasn’t a quickfire low-TTK spastic FPS game. And unfortunately, that is the direction the developers want to take it.
I don’t know how many other people are like me in wanting a more thoughtful and slower-paced shooter. But I do know there’s about three or four thousand games that fit that bill a lot better. If I had wanted to play that sort of game, I’d have already invested in those games instead of OW. I don’t know what audience the devs intend to cater to when they’ll be alienating some of their existing playerbase for the chance to entice precisely zero more people from those other games. And the transition will not be pretty either. It’ll be like trying to convert a station wagon into a sports car - with the framework and basics in place there’s only so much work you can do to alter the fundamental design. You’ll never be able to achieve the same results as something that was built from the ground-up to achieve those results.
So we’re going to have a heavily compromised game that only barely resembles the same game the original audience bought into. All to pine for an audience that has better options to begin with.
To boot, the other more basic balancing in this game is a mess. For a quick example, when Ashe was slated to get buffs, myself and many other people spoke up and said it was a bad idea. Ashe was actually perfectly balanced. She had strengths, weaknesses, situations where she was super strong, situations where she was super weak. The buffs to her hipfire and speed of transition between scoped and hipfire largely erased the weaknesses her well-balanced design had. And GM players came onto the forums to rank-shame and argue with myself and anyone else who pointed out how bad of an idea that was. Because they said it was needed for Ashe to not be overshadowed by 'Cree. I argued adjusting 'Cree to have a different niche was the way to go, NOT buffing Ashe. But hey what do I know, right?
Fast forward to this week, and those same players are now saying Ashe is too good, has too few real weaknesses, was overbuffed, and now overshadows 'Cree. Almost like I knew exactly what would happen and why I put those GM players on blast before. They said I had audacity. Now I have a case of "told-you-so"s. Precisely how many more foreseeable bad ideas have to get implemented before people realize? The world wonders.