I think the game has been going downhill for too long, and I feel like blizzard doesn’t give back to the community enough as they should.
This is my opinion, be warned.
LFG and endorsements
LFG and endorsements were supposed to fix/help the game, and they did not at all. Giving exp to people for endorsing is going to make them only do it for exp and not care at all about how well anyone did, and LFG is pointless if the game still punishes you for grouping up rather than solo queuing. It just makes games harder.
It took them literal years to implement these two simple changes and apparently they’re “big” ones as well. I’m not an expert on game design, okay, but I don’t think it would be that hard to make the LFG system as you already have custom game browser set up very similarly, all there is to do is make minor tweaks to it, and endorsements are just a couple button presses and something to spice up your profile.
Big updates like those should have an impact, and should actually take a lot of effort to make.
New heroes/balancing/the ‘OP’ problem
I haven’t cared AT ALL about any of the new heroes that have come out since Ana. If you’re going to add new heroes, wait until you actually balance your game with the present heroes in it. Otherwise, it will create chaos.
It took them MONTHS UPON MONTHS to change mercy from her CRAZILY OVERPOWERED STATE to a still very powerful character, so powerful in fact that she’s STILL a must pick, and now everyone is sick of her. You seemed to change bastion very quickly in season 4. Granted, he was the most overpowered hero there has ever been in this game, mercy was up there with him. Just because she’s one of if not your most marketable heroes, easy to play and she’s a support doesn’t make it okay to have her be insanely overpowered for months. Pressing one button to negate something like an insane shot from a widowmaker is not fun to play with or against. Speaking of marketable heroes…
Tracer didn’t receive any nerf at all when she was overpowered for months upon months as well, probably because she was a very marketable covergirl hero, too.
Zenyatta is also still insanely broken, and he is my favorite hero and I have near 1,000 hours on him. I don’t care if he’s my favorite hero, you eventually get sick of having to play zenyatta mercy every single game, especially even into a doomfist. You could argue to play moira, but it’s STILL not as viable as a free kill zen because we still have a defensive ult and discord like the other team some of the time.
GRAV DRAGON IS THE MOST BORING META I’VE EVER PLAYED EVEN NEXT TO THE TRIPLE TANK META, AND YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE AS LONG TO FIX IT AS YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE. WAITING FOR THE INEVITABLE GRAV DRAGON EVERY GAME IS SO BORING ON BOTH SIDES NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO THERES NO COUNTER PLAY IF YOUR TEAM FOLLOWS UP. HANZO NEEDS TO BE NERFED MORE, PLEASE. WE ALREADY ESTABLISHED THAT FAN THE HAMMER WITH HEADSHOTS WAS IMBALANCED AND THAT SCATTER ISN’T FUN TO PLAY AGAINST SO WE COMBINED THE TWO. HAHAHAHAHAHA
Phew! Sorry guys, I went off there… I heard from someone that they’ll fix that NEXT SEASON. -_- This one just started.
If you’re going to make a game an eSport, you have to prioritize balancing over marketing, AT LEAST A LITTLE. Just because a marketable hero isn’t overpowered doesn’t mean they’re not going to be played and people won’t buy your game.
So instead of fixing these heroes, they add heroes like brigitte or moira. Brigitte counter tracer, moira counters genji. This is fine. But, could you at least give us a hero that takes some skill to counter two of the hardest heroes in the game to play? It reminds me of when mercys got boosted from hiding with rez over and over again. Not as bad, but so many brigittes I’ve see have been boosted in rank just from playing her. From playing her myself with no experience whatsoever in a top 500 game, I rolled with her. That is not fun nor engaging to play with or against.
Reportable people in S11
I played against a hacking duo yesterday two games in a row, and after being called out by Sadura, who in case you don’t know is a very nice french girl, they proceeded to call her very sexist names that I can’t write here. I felt bad for her and also because why tf is this still happening?
I’ll tell you why this is still happening. Because the game is at a very unenjoyable and stale state, at least in high ranks right now.
Hanzo is still op (Hasn’t been for long at least, but it will be), mercy is still op, zen is still op, tracer is still op (to anyone who doesn’t agree, just because she isn’t played as often because she’s not as powerful as hanzo doesn’t mean she’s not op), brigitte is still unfun and unengaging to play with and against and is very easy to play and kinda op, ANA IS STILL UNDERPOWERED DESPITE HER HAVING ONE OF THE MOST FUN AND SKILLED PLAYSTYLES IN THE GAME, symmetra is reworked and kind of fun but takes way too much coordination to be effective, and I got sym throwers the day she came out, and 4 DPS COMPS ACTUALLY HAPPEN IN GRANDMASTER GAMES.
I’m done with blizzard and their bs. It’s not fun playing the same heroes over and over again, having 4 dps games, terribly stale metas, crazily op heroes every season, and grav dragon.
Just a week ago I really wanted to play and enjoy this game like I have for 2 years straight. But now, I feel no desire.