Was about to hit diamond, got a 15-game loss streak instead. The thing is, these things do not surprise me anymore. A 15-game win streak would, but that’s not what happened: while I was waiting to collect my 15th consecutive loss, once the match ended, I got called the n-word for being spawn camped (they actually sprinkled several insults). Among some other things, I also had 2 different (afk) teammates this weekend that would only move their hero to prevent being kicked.
The things I have witnessed over the past 2 days are outright malicious and not competitive. The most aggravating thing is, I got used to most unpleasant things and probably spawn and fuel more negativity with the behavior that I am starting to display. This is not an environment I want to be part of or cultivate.
Let’s be honest, the game itself was never good and never will be: coinflip, Doomfist, Junk’s double mines, Moira, Brig, double shield, 10-min queues yadda yadda… I just wanted the game to be good, which is delusional. Contrary to my initial thoughts while typing the title, the Blizzard employees are probably as bamboozled about their work as we are about our teams in-game. I am to blame for wishing things to be different than they are. Silly.
I am taking control by signing off and making an effort to explore other things.
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I disagree the game is great, balances issues for sure, terrible matchmaker 100%, rampant cheating yeah. But there is a good game here. I mean I’ve been playing since beta so it can’t be that bad but hey each to their own, choice is a good thing.
I know that they’ve did back when Jeff was at the helm and most of them were Gold, Jeff was Plat and one of them was Masters. But i have a feeling none of them plays right now.
The key figures are involved in play testing, but I’d imagine working a full time job + overtime + family means they probably don’t get much chill time to play.
There are a lot of people working on the game though who play daily. They also have play test servers with about 3500 people having access.
So in short, yes they play. And across all the people involved, they’ll be in all ranks I’d imagine.
I get you. I am no way on your level I just won my first 5 games in row as support. Then the games start to play. First game after reaching bronze 1 is a tank doing nothing as a ball just rolling around in spawn. Then second game eveyone leaves but me after first round which we won to then loose. Like what’s actually going on right now with game
i had like 60 losses in a row and then i stopped playing this game, i was low plat/gold and i got games with some i dont even know the ranks lvl people,a kiriko had 45 kills,soloed everyone,i dont know how these people have their jobs
The top company executives at Activision (now will be replaced with Microsoft) and shareholders most certainly don’t, and they are the ones making the decisions.
Business people and senior staff making decisions on business things. Fine, they need to find a balance between player happiness and business stuff… And if they weren’t happy with that balance you’d see changes quickly.
As for whether it’s bad or not: " “If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.”"
The problem with corporate people who have simply taken over a company they don’t see as anything more than a money-making machine is that they are often unable to make a good product even if they want to and are simply milking the legacy of those that built the said company.
You don’t want the direction of your game to be dictated solely by business people as it was the case with Activision Blizzard for nearly 2 decades. Their last decent game was TBC, which was coincidentally prior to the merge with Activision.
Yea, a quote that doesn’t correlate with reality sadly. It would be a nicer would if that were the case.
If this is the case, then the IP/company/product will fail. Overwatch is, at it’s core, a very good product. They need people to focus on the business side of things to ensure it continues. Because they sure didn’t do that with OW1.
Fair. You need both, as per the above. Have a good product, seem to be making ok business decisions. Getting the balance right will always be the challenge.
But yeah, since the acti blizz merger, they’ve been living off the back of CoD and Candy Crush.
