Sooo do you guys think Blizzard would ever considering adding a fanmade hero if the community demand is big enough? I’d love to see Tara joining the fray and since symmetra will probably never heal, we’d finally have healing turrets/drones.
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Adding the Thai CTF map gives me a lot of hope for seeing her as a character and I think it would be awesome.
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Hey you guys checked out the animated POTG’s the creators made for Tara?
Here is the video:
https: //www .youtube.com/watch?v=XT_fXRqyon8
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If literally every single player screamed and acted as one ,we can force the developers to do literally anything ,and if they don’t we can just boycott them until it happens.
Point is ,we can get anything done if we act as one ,but that’s almost never gonna happen ,just like how fan-made heroes won’t happen
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I’d love to see Tara as a character honestly. But this one being the only one.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R5mbIpftYKQJust so long as this doesn’t result in another Doomedfist, then it could work. However, they probably shouldn’t do it on a case-by-case basis, as otherwise there would be major outcry form the community on not getting their Hero in. Instead, set up a competition where players submit their character concepts, and the best one (from a series of selection methods) makes it to the actual game (in some form; probably have the creator(s) work with the devs to get the right balance between the original concept and the final version).
I think it’s unlikely as the hero count is too low for it to necessarily work well. As fans we most likely have less knowledge/data about how various things work as we don’t have access to internal stats and testing. As a result, plenty of our mechanic ideas probably don’t actually pan out the way we might want barring the occasional thing they may have missed that would work out well.
For example, I might think that Doomfist would work better as a melee tank with increased hp/armor, reduced cooldowns, reduced damage, and a ult that scaled up his damage to get the punching through buildings feeling. The thing is, previous developer comments have suggested that Doomfist did not work as a tank and that they tried Genji as melee only and it never really worked out. It’s very likely that they tried loads of things and that style clearly wouldn’t work but, I don’t know that for sure because I don’t know what they actually tested.
Additionally, many of the popular player heros are that way in part because they have excellent art. The thing is, while the people making the art are far better than your average person like me might ever be they aren’t necessarily better than the people making the art at/for Blizzard. Once the hero is stuck competing at the same level as Blizzard it could easily get seriously torn down.
Personally, from what I remember about Tara this is how I’d rate her vs other heros
Tara vs other Fan Heros graded on a curve:
Art: A++
Story: B
Mechanics: B
Tara vs Blizzard Heros graded on a curve:
Art: C
Story: D
Mechanics: F
Still, it’s fun to make up hero ideas and hope.
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Some interesting ideas. Do really wish that Blizz would create an semi-annual competition an the winning hero is added to the game. (Of course we would still need to get our regular three heroes each year.)
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I would love for Blizz to do a competition to allow fan-made content into the game. I am even drafting a formal plea to get their attention on it. Unfortunately Blizzard has an unalterable policy of not taking fan’s ideas for their games. So it could be a dead end, but it might not be. If we manage to convince them otherwise then it should work.
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Judging from Moira and now Brigitte, I believe they might be better than the ones they make themselves