I love Overwatch but I’m always playing alone, before I had a group of friends I regularly played with. Untill they realised I was holding them back in competitive and they all unfriended me and removed me from the discord group chat.
I’ve tried to make more friends to play with but it’s impossible, the discord communities are awful and mostly filled with kids. I try to compliment other people in-game if they play well or over PlayStation, I ask to group or friend.
But no one wants to play with me, the few times they respond and we do queue together. They’ll eventually leave without a word, or we’ll be friends for a few days untill they ghost me.
Not so long ago I was so happy to finally find someone to play with, then after a few days they had suddenly unfriended me.
Whenever I go on Overwatch and look at my empty friend list I get depressed, I really want to play Overwatch. I love the game, but these days I just wind up opening the game, starring at the menu and browsing the shop, before replaying a single player game I’ve played a hundred times before instead.
How can I make friends in this game? What am I doing wrong? I’m so frustrated and sad, sorry for using forum to vent. I’m on console by the way.
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Honestly, a lot of people are just really boring lol. Enjoy your own company.
If you were on PC in the OCE server I’d send you an invite, though.
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The discord is full of interesting people I will say… but its okay to play by urself!! Dont be depressed about that. I find it so relaxing without others, and this game is lowkey comfort to me more than other fps now.
Also you can find people in customs that are most likely ur age if you really wanted to girl :)) people always looking for friends there
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Yo what rank are you?
Your name is familiar and I’m not sure if it’s from seeing you on the forums or in game.
There is some websites you can try…
I’ve used teams.gg to find 1 guy and it worked. But we only played for 2 games and things fizzled out. The guy was super duper quiet and didn’t respond much to me.
The world is certainly becoming more anti social from social media addiction and also ever since the lockdowns on top of that.
What I’ve found is you have to put in effort. Nobody will ask you to play games with them, you have to ask them. Again and again. Maybe after enough time of asking them, they’ll start asking you. But no promises.
It doesn’t help that OW Too has become less social. They intentionally wanted to make the gameplay less team dependant and more solo carry potential… well you get less team play with that 
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You’re better off switching to marvel rivals and trying to make friends there. It’s a fresh new game, everyone will suck, and they have clans so people can build friendly communities.
The time for making friends in Overwatch was OW1 seasons 1-9. Everyone hates each other now.
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Real
Been so long since I duo’d with someone
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This is really sad to read. Im sorry you’ve had these experiences. Its tragically-ironic with your Battletag 
My first advice is do not try to make friends in Competitive. Its just too serious to make friends there. I would recommend trying to make friends in Arcade, QP and OQ. Those are “casual” modes and you are likely to meet some cool, friendly people. Another good place to try is Custom Games. Doesnt get more casual and chill than a custom game 
It could also be because you are on Playstation but Im not totally sure what the general demographic and demeanor of Playstation players are 
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I did not expect such a tragic backstory…
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I don’t play Ranked, but my lobbies are usually Plat - Diamond.
I didn’t want to say this but I swear this has been my experience. I had so many groups I’d play with pre-pandemic, but these days I could count the fun people on one hand. Now I can be a bit shy sometimes, but a lot of people just have no personality lol. No offence to people, but yk…
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Hmm maybe I have actually seen you in game then as Im plat. If you play qp, owc or junkensteins before.
Thats far too real 
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It is not you, it is the game design. The team dependence is so high that it is so easy for everyone on the team to turn against each other.
Your own team are often going to be more toxic than the enemy and that already tells something.
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This is not an Overwatch problem. It’s not even an online gaming problem - the world has changed drastically since social media and people just aren’t very social anymore.
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The funny thing, ironically speaking, is that social networks have strongly encouraged people to behave in a totally antisocial way, the impunity effect induced by theoretical anonymity has helped a lot with that.
“Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.”
― Mike Tyson
Human beings are capable of the best as well as the worst, when the worst no longer has any consequences, then the easy choice means that the worst is chosen by default.
I say this without judgment, it’s just basic human psychology.
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OP I had this problem too, even had a friend who was considered more than a friend but was ghosted by them too after a month or 3 weeks almost 3 years ago.
Lately I’ve stopped playing because it’s been depressing and has been affecting my mental health so I’ve stopped cause it was a major trigger for me.
I hope you find some decent friends soon so you can play what you enjoy. The holidays in overwatch are fun.
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same thing. Tried to get acquainted through the chat, went permabanned.
Play Ana and always nano Genji.
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If you don’t, mind me emoting and using voice lines to talk I’ll play with ya hope you don’t mind vs AI.
I’ve told you, Bernard. Never place your trust in us. We’re only human. Inevitably, we will disappoint you – dr. Ford, Westwold
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All competitive team pvp games are toxic by their principles. Especially when they have a lot of players, because of the anonymity it provides. Look at LoL for example. And there’s nothing we can do about it.
Looking for positivity in these games is an endless quest with no tangible results.
That’s why you have to find a way elsewhere to recharge your mental stability batteries when the game has drained them by spending so much time on it.
Everyone will find their own way. Walk or play with your pet, watch a humorous or romantic movie, for examples.
In my case, I already explained how I did it : I do a few sessions in the cooperative pve game Deep Rock Galactic, it cheers me up without difficulty.
That’s my solution, find yours. But don’t look for it in Overwatch, especially since its transition to f2p and its many players who don’t care about misbehaving.