Because it’s fun.
Doesn’t need to be more complicated than that.
We’re playing games to kill boredom and/or time.
If it’s not fun, you do not play it.
I’m still on the side of the fence with the greener grass.
I’m the same. I don’t even notice that I’m on a loss streak until I check my history in the career profile. If you’re gonna enjoy OW, you need to move on after a match.
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Those Steam numbers are just thousands upon thousands of people lying to themselves.
That’s some bizarre cope.
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Im not but I just dont live in negativity over it like the addicts on this forum.
If you make negative comments about a video game every day you have an addiction problem. You dont have to let a game take over your mental health like that
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i’m not
there’s a reason i privated my profile because if you were to click it, it’d just be endless complaints
People are just bored with the game after so many years, and once boredom sets in, they look to the devs to inject some sort of excitement. But after playing the same game for so long, it doesn’t matter how big a change the devs make, long-time players will quickly adapt and will return to that baseline level of “been there, done that” before too long.
I say all that because, compared to other shooters on the market, OW is undoubtedly quite polished (excluding balance issues, which are a feature and not a bug, since new heroes are always shaking things up) and has more features than any of it’s supposed competitors.
With all that in mind, the onus is on the players to play other games when they burn out or get bored. It’s okay to want change and even to ask the devs for it. But if you’re at the point where you spend more time shouting at the sky over this game rather than playing it, than for crying out loud, don’t take it out on yourself, the devs, or other players… just play a different game until such time that you crave more OW in your life.
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Yea I’ve been gaming for a long long time. OW has lasted, for me, longer than probably any game I’ve ever played. I never played WoW which has been around for 20yrs or a similar game. I’ve seen games come and go so it seems customary for a game to die out after a few years. The idea of forever games is still a little foreign to me.
There’s also only so many ways I can play a match of King’s Row before I just don’t really care any more.
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Right there with you on that.
A long time OW friend of mine and myself finally admitted last night we just don’t have fun with the game anymore. I feel roughly the same whether I win or lose, and with how everyone is silent and there is no sense of community anymore, everything is just ‘blah’.
We weren’t mad at the devs or the players or the balance, just sort of saying out loud what we’ve been thinking for who knows how long. It was bittersweet.
Couple that with some un-diagnosable lag issues I experience only when playing OW, and I’ve basically just given up. I still log in maybe twice a week for 2-3 games, but that’s it, then it’s back to single player games.
I’m basically holding out for Rivals at this point.
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i love overwatch
its that simple. ive been playing since launch. do i agree with the direction overwatch went and how it is now…naw… still its sort of the same game. i always wanted new and fresh heroes. we got that
did i want monetization… nope lol. i wish every thing was free like in overwatch 1 where all you had to do was play the game but im not naive to think that it was gonna stay that way. of course there was lootboxes and that was the mantra back in the day till fortnite created the battlepass and the blueprint of most online service games today. you knew that this game would follow suit sometime. the pandoras box and i use to post this very video from egghead. overwatch opened the pandora’s box …
still it was inevitable. just like real life humanity can take an evil turn and be corrupted. corruption is a part of life, everyone loses their innocence when they get older. when it comes down to it … its all about money and the mighty dollar
so yea… do you really think you would get everything for free?
Yes. Overwatch ruined me for every other shooter. The game is so immersive with all the beautiful map assets, sound design, colorful personalities, bombastic abilities, and of course we cannot forget the solid community memes.
I’ve tried Apex. I’ve tried Valorant. To me they’re much uglier games, in so many ways. It bores me much faster so I uninstalled them. I haven’t uninstalled Overwatch for reasons other than fixing update installation glitches since I started playing in 2016. I love this game. 
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Yea I hope and assume new players will replace players who move on. My backlog has only grown in recent years. It’s a rarity for me to actually finish a game I bought on launch. I’m just now finishing Stellar Blade which I bought day one. My backlog is insane.
I can’t as easily play OW for 1-2 hours as I could in 2018. My OW career was a success. I became really good with a few heroes. Got a high rank. It used to be that I would avoid queueing ranked support because of 15+ minute queues. I won’t even queue into it with 4min queues right now. I don’t think it’s the devs fault.
That trend going around a while ago about checking how much you’ve spent total in the Steam store opened my eyes to how common a “game backlog” is. I’ve spent less than $200 on Steam games personally. 
Gotta love those sales.
It is toxic positivty. The game doesn’t improve when we pat them on the back for doing below the bare minimum. They rereleased egregious kpop skins for $68 the second time but hey you’re having fun so it must all be fine and nothing actually matters /s
See. Toxic positivity.
whenever i dont feel like playing overwatch i just stop and do something else which has led me to enjoy the game more than i used to. sure parts of the game i dont like but i dont want to waste my time complaining when i could be doing other things with my time
I never said everything was fine. but I take a massive issue with people flat out saying “no, you aren’t actually having fun.” I can criticize the game and still have fun with it. it’s fine that you can’t, but you don’t need to project your opinions onto me or anyone else. you don’t enjoy it, and that’s ok. I enjoy it and still take issue with some things, that should be ok too.
I won’t believe it under any circumstance. I know when people are lying to project toxic positivity.
I don’t play the game for 8 hours a day. So when I do play, it’s still fun (pointless health-pool changes aside).
Let’s use Samito as an example (purely because I saw him say on Twitter the other day that he’s already played 100 Competitive games as each role this season). He has already played at least 50 hours of Competitive this season - probably around 4 hours of Competitive each day. Add in Quick Play and 6v6 Customs on top of that and that’s a lot of Overwatch. No wonder he’s burnt-out and negative about this game. The game doesn’t need a change, he needs to touch grass.
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That’s all because of the 2016 OW classic and it was indeed really popular. Those doomsayers also usually praise the 2016 OW classic.
But it lasted only about 1-2 year.
The number of the players after the initial hype(max. about 3 months) remains often very stable in PvP games. But OW somehow lost their players after their playerbase was stabilized and I think that’s because of the wrong balance and esp. wrong direction. Their target audience was just too minor in PvP world, and that is the reason why people say OW is dead (compared to 2016 OW).
It’s fun. i enjoy playing it.
simple. I dont care if it grows or dies. i dont care. why would i? if it dies ill paly something else. if i stop having fun ill stop playing it. done it before.
but its fun. So i still play it.
Simple.
Kinda how most games are now buddy. Get used to it. FTP is the future