clarification: my views are my own, and as I am not ane employee or otherwise authorized representative of Blizzard, there is nothign about them that can accurately be called “official”
IMO, The thread that I believe you are referring to can also be called the least popular of all time, considering the amount of dissent expressed towards the ideas, analysis, and “facts” presented by the OP and others supporting the OP
Personally, I have read little there - particularly (but not exclusively) in the OP - that I found to be “educational”
I dont find that definition to be broadly accepted, but I do understand (even prior to the helpful explanation quoted here) why one might feel it is the most popular thread
But like… how many people would want Regen to stay exactly how it is?
How many want to keep chain beams exactly how they are?
How many want to dump Resurrect? How many want to keep Resurrect but rework it? How many want to keep Resurrect exactly how it is?
One of the most crippling problems in going through such an exercise is that some of those wanting change want mutually exclusive change - such as the many who have said they want rez removed entirely and the many who want mass rez returned. Cant satisfy both groups
Neither do I. Yet, it seems like players that like current Mercy don’t see any issues with her existing support capabilities.
Which means, that either they are playing at high tiers, where players aren’t actively trying to get killed, or rely on their pistol most of the time. Asking that part of playerbase will give you no answers, since they don’t pay much attention to any of those subjects.
there are however some who like Mercy as she is but still want some sort of improvement as well - maybe 5 more HP on her base healing rate, rez becomes instant in Valk, and so forth
I think that the new Mercy players like the same stuff we veterans like about her, it’s just that they can’t miss what they never had so they have much lower standards for Mercy.
It’s like a kid growing up in a small, quiet town and loving it as it is because they’ve never known it any other way.
But when the kid’s grandma looks at it, she gets sad because she remembers when it used to be a thriving, metropolitan hub. She’s had to watch as the town went through an economy crash and all the businesses and entertainment moved away, leaving the place a shell of it’s former self. Yes, the town is still likable… But it used to be so much more.
They can of course choose other heroes outside of the main healer role, but that doesn’t invalidate what I originally said assuming they love sticking with the main healer role, or simply the healer role overall.
For anyone else wondering, TLDR: “I don’t have a source to backup the claim that those hating Mercy are in the minority, this is an opinion of mine”.
Thanks for the unnecessarily lengthy reply though, a simple “no, this is my opinion and not a fact” would’ve sufficed .
Mercy used to be able to be solo healer, allowing to salvage even most disorganized games. Now, unless you can go on killing spree with pistol, there is no backup and no rescue for such game.
We can talk all we want, about how Overwatch is a team game, how players should work together for common goal, etc. but reality is a bit different. And when gold medal is a goal, sabotaging your teammates actually helps your goal
I know that kids these days have the attention of goldfish but it really makes you wonder how they feel when they actually come across legit “lengthy” responses.
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