Naahhh Zenyatta Patience meme was diabolical meme 




But tldr: no
End tldr.
the problem is 5v5ers aren’t innocent in how they handle these arguments either.
They CAN and also HAVE been dismissive and condescending when a significant portion of these OW2 players didn’t even touch the original game (let alone at a high level) during OW1 6v6 role queue OR 6v6 open queue.
Easiest example of the counter echo chamber is rose tinted glasses.
Many of us haven’t enjoyed OW2 since the drop.
More over the main problem has ALWAYS been the devs and how they’ve handled the game in and out of matches.
6v6 Role Queue during Oct 2020 was arguably the best state the game had ever been in especially regarding the issues that arose in OW1 that were not necessarily ALL exclusive to 6v6.
There was room for improvement and with the right attention it could have improved. But instead they took that attention and decided to invest it into a money grab that they couldnt deliver on.
What did we gain?
Queue times are great at lower ranks but still dogwater in this version of the game once you get above a certain rank which mirrors the issue of 6v6.
It’s not necessarily that the game is good and people are actually loving what they’re playing.
It’s that there isn’t a game in this genre (currently) that can replace the spark that OW gives us.
THAT is what makes it fun, but that isn’t necessarily attached to a format which strains on people who are passionate about the game.
If rose tinted glasses applies to anything it’s THAT spark that the OW Universe and style of gameplay offers.
Paladins is ALSO a great game but there isn’t much that gets you attached to the characters and their stories.
There’s a lack of unique interactions between the heroes as well as QoL things like emotes, highlight intros, engaging backstories to keep players interested.
I’m a year into playing and I still know about as much about my main as when i started the game.
Their skins are not enough to carry that game even for the goofy gooners (their character designs can be a bit on the raunchy side for sure).
So ultimately,
If you want us to stop, you [all] need to stop capping about the game being in a great or better state in 5v5 and meet us somewhere closer to the middle as well.
There’s no problem with liking it but you don’t speak for the whole community so it isn’t a reason for us to stop speaking.
You can’t tell me that the rest of us should find it fun to play into:
Multiple deployables and Immortalities, Brain dead AOE healing, Raid Boss tanks, a necessary DPS passive because of how hard it is to fight into said brain dead AOE healing and immortalities, current Pharah, games devolving to Bastion Mauga + Infinitely Invisible Sombras as counter swaps when your enemy can’t anchor in against said Raid Boss tanks or touch the Widow sitting in the back of sniper maps with just as deadly 1 shot potential, dead voice chat because people are afraid to get banned because “we never have allowed cursing in our community” and more over a lack of meaningful content.
Additionally the devs constantly move the goal posts on where they want to take the game and double down on issues that plenty have spoken up on.
Like keeping Kiriko’s design as well as Baps but only slightly changing numbers to act like its helping the fundamental flaws.
Im just scratching the surface with these things and we dont have to address that last statement… but essentially the answer is no.
We will not let you talk us down from arguing just because people like turning on the stove but cant handle the heat.
Shouldn’t have stepped in the kitchen in the first place.
I also personally hate when people wanna put a pause like its gunna change anything.
Jerks will be jerks no matter what.
We can’t hope that stopping this discussion will make them not be jerks.
[Edit] I wrote too much and I need to hop on Paladins anyway, so excuse any typos. I noticed a few but it should be easy enough to infer even on the ones I already edited.