Did Blizzard Wait Too Long for 6v6?

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I’m not going to lie, I’ve been having a lot of fun playing Marvel Rivals. So far this season, I’ve only played Overwatch to complete the event challenges, which only took me a couple of hours. Even though I consider myself a 6v6 enthusiast, I don’t see myself playing much Overwatch this season.

This is largely due to how Blizzard has been handling the game for the last six seasons; I just don’t trust that Blizzard will handle 6v6 in good faith. It wouldn’t surprise me if Blizzard put the super tanks, that are currently in 5v5, into the 6v6 format. We, the players, rightfully complain about the super tanks, and then Blizzard and their unpaid shills gaslight us by saying “See, you guys didn’t really want 6v6! Now spend more money in the shop!”

I’m not seeing much hype about the return of 6v6. Most current and former Overwatch streamers are playing Marvel Rivals and are also having a lot of fun, or at the very least, they’re doing a good job at pretending to have fun. Either way, I think it might be too late for Blizzard.

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No need to guess, we’re about to find out.

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At least wait for the 6v6 balance patch to release in 10 minutes before making a decision on whether to play it or not. :sweat_smile:

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They never wanted to do it, likely because of the tank playerbase, but we forced them to

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Nope
Already confirmed that all major tank changes are being completely reverted or partially reverted. Examples include;
-Rein loses double fire strike but keeps cancellable charge
-Zarya goes back completely to her OW1 state

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patch is out and is crap, they increased the hp of tanks what the hell

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Yes waited too long and poorly made because they don’t want it

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No they didn’t lol?
They literally removed the RQ passive which was that they would gain +150 health.
I swear not a single person crying about the patch has actually read it.

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In my personal defense, I havent played it and am complaining, but I’m not complaining about the balance, and more so that they just arent taking the 6v6 test in the direction I wanted. I dont want OW2 with another player per team, I want OW1 with old sombra, old orisa, old bastion, flashbang mccree, mei with freeze, dps doomfist. I certainly didn’t expect all this to happen, but from the patch notes and previous dev discussions it’s clear that they’re not even remotely interested in going in that direction, so I dont really have an interest in playing a 6v6 version of OW2 since it’s not really fundamentally addressing my issues with the game.

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If you go back to OW1 completely, you kill the game and any chance of 6v6 working.
Things like Mei freeze, McCree’s original flashbang and DPS Doomfist would just get piled onto the tanks. They are part of why the queue times died and had to be mended.

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Well to be fair I also dont like RQ, so queue times arent my concern. I never found the additional CC a problem while playing tank though.

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Oh yeah screw RQ, Marvel Rivals has perfect queue times because of the lack of it.
OQ SUPREMACY

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is because the game was abandoned and paywalled and did nothing in 3 years, any of the ow2 changs which the majority suck hard could be implemented any time in ow1, mei lost her identity, mcree became useless, and doom pffff, completely ruined. doomfist coming back to be dps would be great, in 5vs5 he has no reason to be tank

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Nope. CC spam was also part of the problem.

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Did Blizzard Wait Too Long for 6v6?


I think so. Also running the test through the weeks of Christmas and New Year's is diabolical. Contrary to popular belief, I have a life and a family...
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I mean if you prefer 6v6 and marvel rivals you should play that. Overwatch probably isn’t the game for you. 6v6 is awful as is rivals. But that’s the style a lot of people want. Now there is both that probably 6v6 crowded slow garbage and a 5v5 fps it’s great!

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game was abandoned and did nothing to fix it in 3 years, and ow2 is still full of cc, nothing changed

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So where’s Mei freeze?
The extra set of CC that DPS Doom would bring?
Where’s Brig’s normal shield bash stun?
Where’s McCree’s original flashbang?
All gone?
Gee whiz
Who woulda thunk

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the tanks are full of cc and abilities that dont let you do anything. you remove mei freeze but give it to hazard ult, mcree granade still slows you a little. however, nothing of this have nothing to do with why ow1 queue times get long

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I mean the game wasn’t abandoned and the second they added role queue players left by the tens of thousands. But everyone wants to say they just miss 6v6. Truth is you miss the very peaks of 6v6 open queue. But when no one does what they have to there is no choice but to force role queue and then the game dies.
Overwatch 2 comes out, grows like crazy and everyone who preferred the 6v6 format can’t comprehend that despite them liking and missing 6v6, 5v5 is the more popular format between it and 6v6 role queue. Always has been. But everyone lives in their own preferences and takes their opinions as fact. But here is a fact that gets ignored they make money, more money now than they used to, they have more users that spend money, they have more users spending money than they used to. Basically the popularity of overwatch is like so.
Release 6v6 open queue (wildly popular game but was also new and novel)
5v5 role queue
6v6 role queue

I’m sure there will be people arguing with the reality of this based on their personal experience and opinions and honestly I’m over it. Between this forum and the YouTube loud goobers the only thing anyone hears is the opposite of the facts because the happy people for bother telling you. But the money and the numbers tell blizzard and Microsoft everything they need to know.