Do they know that every hero other than Sigma, Orisa, Zarya, Doomfist, Mei, Reaper, Moira, and Baptiste are considered THROW picks?
Do they understand barely anyone is having fun with this game?
Do they understand they need to balance heroes after making it impossible to counter double shield with 3 DPS anymore because of the forced 2/2/2?
Do they even understand the pain it is to play tank? Half the tank roster might as well be deleted from the game.
Do they listen to us? Maybe. Do they respond to us? No. Do they update us? No.
Do they make LEGO bastion for no apparent reason? Yes. (Well I think we all know the reason $$$)
There hasnât been a time in this game where all but 10 heroes are unplayable. Why now? And why is Blizzard the quietest theyâve been.
I swear Blizzcon better be the balance of the century. Or maybe they release Overwatch on Mac as their big reveal, make a Sym short and add an Indian map. That too.
Please. Your silence is deafening. Give us something. Tell us you care. Fix the game. SO many people are having horrible times. There is so much wrong wit hit right now itâs humorous. Your absence is also humorous.
Theyâve only ever listened when they absolutely had to, and ignored us whenever theyâve gotten constructive criticism. The only kind of feedback Iâve ever seen them endorse as âwhat we wantâ is unmitigated praise.
To answer your question, most of the time they donât appear to. When something is serious enough they might then listen. Professional player and popular streamer feedback does appear to weigh considerably more in getting things changed, compared to community feedback.
We only have to look at whatâs happened in the past to see this. Especially megathreads, Mercyâs popular megathreads being the best example. Very few official responses, of which were all moved from other random threads into the megathread. When identified as not really appearing to read the posts in the megathreads we shortly after had the integration of âhidden forum profilesâ so nobody can view the stats of most of the official forum profiles anymore (e.g. the number of posts read).
Do we get any kind of roadmap? Not really.
Do we get regular developer updates or regular updates from a community manager (e.g. insight into whatâs happening, what might be coming up, or some detail on why something is or has recently been changed)? Again, not really. Iâm not even sure what a CMâs role is on here, other than posting a very rare announcement. In other forums for some other games Iâve observed them taking a more interactive role with the forum members, and providing a little insight into whatâs happening behind the scenes, but I donât see that happening here.
Itâs unfortunate but your post is very true. Yes, one could argue that weâve had things like role queue or replays, but at the end of the day those were of benefit to OWL so thatâs most likely why they arrived. Yes, we also had workshop, but that was a side project that took some time. The lack of a roadmap, regular developer updates (e.g. as a blog article or short video), regular interaction with forum members/community and having hidden forum profiles, isnât fantastic by any means.
I can understand why they wonât talk on the forums cause they messy, however they can at least give public messages about their plans. This is just ridiculous
oh boy, you are pretty naive it seems a bit of a megalomaniac too, look, as much as you and a lot of others love calling this game garbage or trash or whatever, the reality is that you log in everyday and play it, the reality is that here you are investing time of your day on a plea based on your own subjectivity
The situation is very simple, if the game was dying then people wouldnât be playing it or even coming to the forums to complain, when youâre done, youâre done
but here you are, still engaged on this âunfunâ game, lol, admit it, you would still play overwatch even if it was 6v6 soldier 76s, I know I would
Whereâs the constructive criticism? (there are definitely some but the bad ones are overshadowing the good ones.) Most of the posts here are whines, complaining about x hero being op just because it eliminated the person a few times, someone calling 'em incompetent indie company etc.
Honestly given the ways people use the forum can you blame them?
Yes, dozens or hundreds of posts about the same set of characters should not be considered evidence of a question⌠Iâll agree that there is yet to see some character someone hasnât posted about, but the vast majority wrap around a set that seem problematic.
I am just saying that it depends on the numbers, just qualifying your statement a bit. Its a bit absurd to come on say complain about getting killed by Battle-mercy (which is quite easy given the humongous projectiles she fires), but lets say there are several hundred posts about Doom or Widow⌠something is usually at that stage out of whack on some level, thatâs all.
To some degree, i guess? however the forum loves to complain about everything. Legit, thereâs a new hero every month/meta thatâs labeled as OP and previous one is forgotten, mostly.
therefore itâs hard for me to take most of 'em serious and most of the posts arenât even constructive criticism.
Iâll handle itâŚDev proceeds to go on forums for our insightful commentaryâŚ
NEXT DEV MEETING
So what did you learn?
UmâŚwe really need to nerf ALL the tanks, the heals and supports AND delete half the dpsâŚwe need to delete half the mapsâŚwe need to redo the entire matchmakerâŚum our writers need to release lore every other weekâŚwe need a patch every day and we need to rename the game ânot overwatchââŚalso OWL needs to go as it is apparantly responsible for global warmingâŚ
HmmmâŚinterestingâŚguess weâll get right on that
Maybe if they actually ENGAGED with the community most of these post would filter out themselvesâŚ
Would you still get a few idiot post about ânerf x character into the groundâ or etc. etc.
Yes, yes you would because there would always be people like that but actual engagement⌠Knowing whatâs going on, talking with your people has actual produced more successes for other games and could be for this one unless they truly donât care