Why am I so angry? These are the biggest issues with Overwatch:
- Matchmaker “It’s your turn to win/ It’s your turn to lose” simulator
- Leaver/backfill-watch
- 80% of dailies/weeklies requiring wins + no deserter timeout for leavers
- Removal of 25 features and all progression systems
- Comically overpriced skins, no free event skins like old days
Consider those a table of contents for this topic.
THE DEFINITIVE MATCHMAKER PATTERN
THE DEFINITIVE MATCHMAKER PATTERN
First match:
Backfill directly into defeat screen, or have 5 seconds to play
Next 3 to 4 matches:
Get HARD stomped. Enemy team has multiple people with Top 500 and GM titles. Our team’s total elims are like 5 to 10, Enemy team has 70+
Example: https://i.imgur.com/rLTBJBy.jpg
I can tell the pattern flips around this point. The matchmaker takes 10x longer than usual all of a sudden, from 10s queues to now 2-3min queues; it’s trying to assemble “victims” for me to stomp because it’s my turn to win now
Next 3 to 4 matches:
Our team HARD stomp snowballs enemies, it’s not even close. We have 70+ elims while they have 5-10 at most. Their team is a revolving door of leaverwatch/backfillers.
Example: https://i.imgur.com/xYPxr78.gif
IF I’m lucky. I will now get 1 match that is actually close and balanced and both sides are equal in skill. This is the ONLY time I ever type gg/great match all. I only type this about once every 10-15 rounds, or about once every hour and a half/two hours
Then the pattern repeats back at the top. I get forcefully backfilled.
I start my string of being hard stomped because it’s now “my turn to lose” for a while. I never leave matches so I’m forced to endure string of leavers who give up and it’s a loss no matter how hard you carry.
Example: https://i.imgur.com/uFEqz6N.jpg
This is the infuriating pattern that is happening for 2+ years now. Day after day after day. Over and over and over.
It’s gotten so much worse since Overwatch 2 launched…
I think because they get us lowest queue times at the EXPENSE of the matchmaker quality
…combined with an internal need in code to push everyone towards 50% winrate
…combined with leaverwatch/backfill-watch issue
…combined with dailies/weeklies requiring wins
Leaverwatch is made worse because of the daily/weekly challenges where 80% require wins in various modes/roles, which is why people leave the nanosecond initial teamfight/capture point is lost, 20 seconds into the match bc they deem it a lost cause
This also happens because Blizzard won’t grow a backbone and put in deserter timeout status for casual modes like nearly every other multiplayer game has been doing for 20 years
Paladins has it.
League has it.
Halo has it.
Destiny 2 has it.
R6 Siege has it.
Even Blizzard’s other games like Heroes of the Storm and WoW pvp has it.
Something changed about 2 years ago in the code.
That’s the earliest I found topics of mine describing this pattern. The few of us would call it “forced 50% winrate” back then. Everyone called us schizos who were imagining it/skill issue
No. It’s not the player’s fault. There is a deliberate “It’s your turn to win/It’s your turn to lose” simulator going on and more people are waking up to it
Ive seen more topics in the past month than I have the past 2 years…all pointing this pattern out.
BLIZZARD GET OFF YOUR MOUNT AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
You play and test the game in closed servers or custom games in the office.
You don’t play the full game and use the same matchmaker that everyone else does or else you’d notice this awful bs instantly
You don’t have nonstop leaver/backfill-watch because your coworkers aren’t gonna leave a match when you are testing stuff. You don’t understand what it’s like nonstop for years and years
God this is the most infuriating devolving of a beloved game into a stinking trashpile. The life blood of the franchise was ripped out when you went 5v5, started doing 0 to 1 free skins per event, charge 20-40$ for cosmetics and skins, and removed 25 features including every possible progression system:
Account Level Portrait Borders Looking For Group Lootboxes Medals EoM Cards Match chat after potg General chat Visible ranks Visible groups Fire status Endorsement on portrait Endorsement categories Priority Pass exp card/ptr Winstreaks Gallery filter for All Environmental in killfeed Postmatch scorecard Comp stats pre-s32 2CP core mode 2CP maps 2nd Co-tank on team Elim Contribution % Many CCs
It just hurts because I know the squandered potential of the series. Ive never loved and put more effort and time into a game than Overwatch.
It used to make me so happy but now I leave the game more angry than when I started
But I still play because I want the fomo titles and battlepass skins. Because I still love the characters in lore. And because I’m waiting on PvE.
I am my own hostage.
and now I am ready to receive 3000 people reading 2 sentences and replying “lol just play comp/skill issue/you’re imagining it thousands of times in a row somehow”
