Wow.
I don’t even know what to say to all of this. I never thought Bastion was loved so much even with just a small amount of the playerbase. I always thought that he was considered just a cheap and useless character by pretty much everyone, even those who didn’t even play the game. That however, didn’t affect how I played, and didn’t effect my love for playing the character. I think of Overwatch as a game I have incredibly mixed feelings about, not when looking at the OWL, which in my opinion does not interest me in the slightest, nor does it make me happy or benefit the game in my eyes. However, that being said, when I look at Overwatch via the characters, I look at them via balancing, I look at them with there abilities, I feel fond of the hours I had, even when I was mad at Blizzard and cursing them all the time.
It’s probably not that hard to see that most of my playtime was with a certain robot, which I had mixed experiences with. Everyday I played Bastion, there was not a day after the rework where I felt the character was fitting with the game in its current state. I loved Bastion before the rework, and like a previous said above, I did not voice my opinion on the rework of Bastion, the changes he would recieve and nor did I respond to those who voiced their opinion about the changes. Simply, I kept quiet, not because I was afraid or anything but because I didn’t feel the like the changes were needed. About 1 year ago now, or maybe near Halloween I stopped playing the game entirely. I was bored, tired and overall done with Overwatch. The seasons were becoming stale and I was just as a player, not improving. Yes, it was my fault for not becoming better, but Overwatch failed to keep me interested where games like Team Fortress did for a few years. Ever since, I’ve always looked at Bastion. He was the most fun during Season 1 in my opinion. I always loved playing a game with him because at that point, he wasn’t strong due to the changes in the open beta, but he wasn’t the useful pile of bolts he is now. After the rework, I found him less fun but still enjoyable to play, but noticeably harder when working with a team, not because he was a bad pick (I mean, yes, he was) but because he either needed a team to revolve around him, or you needed a very specific setup, map and enemy to use him to his full potential. I pulled all the way to when Junkertown released (I don’t remember the period that even came out, I’ve forgotten too much about this game) and then quit out of just being bored and tired.
Looking at the support Bastion still has, and the dedicated people who play him and main him, all I can say is, How?
How have you managed for so long, since the start of the game, seen this character you love been constantly ignored at the beginning of the game, then seen left to rust, only then to be ignored even longer and still counting to this day. I wish I could say that posting on the forums, that making this megathreads or ultrathreads will change something, will make people at Blizzard listen, but if Bastion’s changes taught me anything about Blizzard and how they “listen” to players, its that they really, really don’t. You might think they do, but it is obvious to me and should be obvious to you, that they do not.
I could go on for hours, tell you everything in ‘The Last Bastion’ that doesn’t even make sense according to the release date and the status of Bastion at the time. The countless times that people like you have made threads, talking about this, trying to get Blizzard’s attention, yet does it ever work?
Thank you. Thank you for sticking so long for something that I wouldn’t try to fix, considering the track record that Blizzard now have with this game. The question now I think for Bastion mains, isn’t that “When is Bastion going to get a change or a GOOD change?” I think it is now “When are you going to get bored, tired of being angry, of being okay with this?”.
I have no hatred towards any of you, in fact, I like a lot of you because you obviously have more soul than I ever had to continue and try, but I don’t think this is going to achieve anything.