Blizzard has no idea how to balance this game

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Remind you that the reason they added role queue is because they were unable to see a way to get the triple tank meta out of rotation.

Instead of looking at the deeper issue, Blizzard puts a bandaid that hurts the game even more. I like role queue, but not for the reasons it was added. Tanks are still too influential. There is a reason why triple tank ends up being the meta in a lot of cases.

Tracer was a problem in the game, so they released Brigitte, making Tracer virtually unplayable for 6 months. Then they nerfed Brigitte where Tracer is more powerful than when Brigitte came out and Brigitte sucks. Honestly the Tracer-Brigitte situation is a whole mess. Tracer was supposed to be this gold standard that would never get nerfed and would be used as a baseline for the balancing, comparing her damage to the damage of other heroes and checknig if it isn’t too high (not to benefit Tracer, but to not have rapid fire oneshots and stuff).

These are the people that think that “Bastion is in a good spot”. He is not. Bastion has been a throw pick in virtually every situation since release.

They took 3 years (I think?) to rework Mei, who was also basically a throw pick in almost any situation.

They reworked Symmetra 2 (or 3?) times and she still is a niche pick. Regardless if the reworks were successful, it still took them around 2 years to even come to the idea that maybe Symmetra was doing poorly.

Torbjörn was a literal troll pick for 3 (I think) years before they even tried to rework him.

Instead of looking at power creep and realising that you could actually go around a corner as a tank and not die in what feels like one shot, they added more and more barriers into the game. When they realised that barriers were too annoying/powerful, they nerfed them, instead of taking care of power creep.

Maybe this would be fine if Blizzard were a little faster with their changes, but it literally takes them ages to even realize that they need to change something, and even then the change does virtually nothing. To say they are incompetent would be a compliment. I am pretty sure there has never been a point in this game where you could have a good chance of winning a game if you picked any hero from a category.

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First time?

Blizzard have never been good at balancing. StarCraft and WoW are also shining examples of this.

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interested in what you think the cause of triple tank was, want to know if you can do what jeff couldnt

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You’re level 17 bro smh

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It’s an alt lmao

20 chars

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The game and forums seem to be infested with smurf and alt accounts sooooo


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The main problem is Blizzard seemingly has no intention of even attempting to balance the game. Their statement a while ago was to keep nerfing/buffing the game to mix up the meta. They don’t want any hero or comp to be too strong
 so they constantly nerf who is ever at the top.

It’s all just to keep OWL and streaming matches exciting. They can’t be bothered to make new content so they nerf and buff hero’s so every a season of OWL isn’t a mirror match of the same thing.

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I mean, tons of smurfs and alts is what Blizzard wants. Otherwise why give about tens of thousands of free accounts?

You’re 100% wrong. They just lack the competence to do it.

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Just play paladins mah boi atleast balance is better then OW.

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is that a bad way to do it? its obviously pretty impossible to achieve true balance, so why not just go for variety?

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Some months ago they nerfed a Lot of heros to nerf the powercreep and now they are buffing the heros again. Xd

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I saw the name. I saw the dva matrix thread, with the 1000 emojis, I can’t even take you seriously.

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Interesting how y’all are quick to blame bliz for everything yet literally every tracer player was saying no to nerfs and sKilL and boom brig was born.

Like if they made balance choices on their own terms and no outside sources the game would be SO DIFFERENT

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I feel like their game would stop being in the ‘suffering’ stage of playing if they’d just balance like normal games would and maybe sometimes take suggestions from their community. Both for skins and for nerfs/buffs.

They want a strong community but they seem to be excluding more than including their fanbase. :\

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I don’t think anyone does, OW is trying to do too many things at once.

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Not necessarily.

It depends how rapidly the changes come, how extreme the imbalance is and whether or not Blizzard just cycle in the same heroes over and over. I’m sure there are other factors too.

Done well cycling metas can work. Has it been done well though
ehhh


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They could do this. It’s their fault they cave to the slightest amount of pressure

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It was not “slight pressure” at all wym lol

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yep power creep every nerf to every other hero like baps IF has been a buff to genji and people still want him buffed

I do agree with trob tho because well besides the turret being pleased way backline it dosnt do much

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What are you talking about? We literally can’t pressure them. We already bought the game and paid the money. Any “pressure” is just talk. Like I said if they fold to just forum posts, that’s on them