Director's Take: Loud and Clear

Director's Take: Loud and Clear

You’re never shy about providing feedback, but how does Team 4 use it? Game Director Aaron Keller explains the philosophy and methodology behind responsive changes and measured futures.

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But you HAVEN’T listened to us :frowning:


how about Just give us Overwatch 1 Launch Date iteration, place in Single Pane Q, remove pinging from it and call it a day.

:slight_smile:

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On behalf of all the fellow Bo7 advocates, thank you for listening. We just wanted to have fun, sweaty, strategic games and now we’re getting to do that again. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I have only one request. Please stop banning my accounts. One time, because of mass reports for playing Widowmaker, I was mistakenly banned for cheating, and I’ve lost count of how many accounts I’ve had to create again and again. Fix your reporting system.

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Let’s see dva buffs in 6v6 otherwise no way im touching that gamemode ever

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Tell A-Aron that I demand more Reinhardt buffs, please and thank you.

:flexed_biceps::face_with_steam_from_nose:

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We hear you loud and clear!

Please Devs - can we get the game on several cloud gaming services that have now officially launched:

  • Xbox Cloud Gaming
  • PlayStation Plus Premium cloud streaming
  • Amazon Luna

This would be so wonderful!

:+1:

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Loud and clearly not listening.

This might surprise you, but we see and consider (almost) all of your feedback and comments, from social media posts and livestream chats to creations on TikTok, YouTube, and beyond. If our developers don’t catch a Reddit thread or deep dive on their own, the Community team gathers public data on sentiment and delivers it to the necessary parties on Team 4.

Why do they even post this on the Forums? Like you can’t even be bothered to namedrop it once in the entire post and yet you want to pretend like your listening.

We can’t spoil all the surprises for Season 20, but we’ll be introducing a new feature for the highest-skilled players on the leaderboard directly inspired by our conversations with them.

Cool. As if they weren’t spoiled enough. So out of other non-500 players, who else is supposed to be excited about this? Like why do they think anyone would care about this?

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No word lost about the forums. Hm…

Now, they clearly rolled back a controversial change to Stadium, I’ll grant them that. But otherwise, the Overwatch team is historically known to not be listening for valid reasons.
Just see the state of balancing.

Unless, of course, they feel like generously listening to us now after all!


…No. There’s not enough trust between dev team and community to believe in them trying to turn around the ship now of all times. This dev post, while indeed adressing a more serious opic like registering community feedback, loses its edge considering the state of the game. It’d be less controversial if they released it after adressing some more feedback.

And id they would adress feedback accurately.
If we say “Stop giving Ana a major perk as a minor.” We don’t mean ‘hand out another buff to her’.

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Dva is amazing in 6v6. Actually, perhaps I should start playing her again. I totally forgot that she runs things in that mode and honestly Reinhardt is kind of lame BECAUSE I do not have a supah fly Dva that is ride or die.

:flexed_biceps::pensive_face:

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I’ve noticed some suspiciously forum Based changes that happen within the month the change was requested in forums.

I don’t remember specifically what it was but I had the gut feeling someone was relaying requests to the devs.

Anyways. Good on you devs, cheers mates :+1:appreciate you.

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Legitimately awful in 6v6. Not even a question

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Well, hope they learned after two major Ls with Stadium changes. Big companies learn slowly, so expecting a third one next season.

Kind of funny the forum wasn’t mentioned at all in the feedback section. But not unexpected.

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No. Her place is being a DM slave for Reinhardt. When did people stop believing in the magic?!

:flexed_biceps::worried:

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Listen to users? , haha, nice joke devs, and stop new maps and other on Stadium, other modes (5v5 and 6v6) , need more love.

S-T-O-P.

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Instead of just dropping huge format changes like no mirrors, or making comp bo5, why not have testing periods with a clear start and end date so you can collect player data but it doesn’t feel like it’s just being slapped on without any forethought? And then make a final decision once the data can be reviewed?

I probably would’ve given bo5 more of a shot if I didn’t feel like I had to avoid it at all costs so it didn’t look like I approved of it.

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Who asked for yet another Stadium map so soon??
I am sorry but why does it take this long, multiple seasons for a new 5v5/6v6 map to drop??

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6v6 is getting a much-needed balance patch!

Thank you for listening, guys!

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People who like controller on PC still get ignored. You allow crossplay based on input but only for mouse/keyboad for console players.

PC Controller still have no aim assist while going up against mouse/keyboard users.

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Aim Assist has no place in PC lobbies.

As someone who plays in a crossplay league, aim assist offers a ridiculous advantage that should not exist. Still fighting for them to ban aim assist.

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