Oh I’m sorry, but if this makes you feel better, I understand that Mercy mains are whiners. I am myself an example of that, tho I don’t think myself as a huge whiner, just a person who wants to help/fix. But I can understand.
“We’re listening” doesn’t mean “We’re awaiting your command”. It’s Blizzard, not Amazon Alexa.
Balancing the game to your wants would just unearth the same number of people who’d find those changes unbalanced. It’s a game of “You’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t”.
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What’s wrong with not playing mercy and learning a new hero? That’s what brig/Hanzo forced people into. Hog/dva/Winston we’re badically throw picks during season 11 and still kind of are actually. Mcree/soldier/reaper/sombra are and still are prett weak(until after ptr) I don’t see any threads daily about people crying about their state. They adapted and moved on and make it work or play other hero’s which is healthy. Ya mercy has some pretty bad decisions in the devs changes but what makes mercy more important over every other hero? Is it just the mercy mains that are just this vocal and entitled?
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i guess we chose to forget about the reaper meta
Beyblade meta was life ;_;
Never got to play it because it died before I got OW, but dang if it doesn’t sound magical.
Don’t insult an entirety of mercy players based on a vocal (relative) few. Every hero’s mains have those vocal toxic few. People just see the mercy ones more because she was and is statistically the most popular hero in the game.
I’m just saying it’s silly. I’m a Zarya main and she was straight garbage during dive (season 4-11). So I learned dva/Winston during dive and in a better tank main for it.
Why don’t the mercy mains do that and learn ana/lucio/zen? Very relevant hero’s right now who are worth learning for the different mechanical skills they can help you with.
“Feels like the vocal forum Mercy mains hear what they want to hear and ignore that which doesn’t appease their demands or fits their narrative”
should actually be the title for this thread.
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It all depends on who people find fun. Maybe they don’t find ana/lucio/zen very fun.
It’s not a philosophy I personally enjoy or like because I get a lot of enjoyment from variety myself, but if that’s the way they play…
I was just saying every hero has those…“fans”…that take it a bit too far.
But how have we done that? All they’ve had to say is they think the changes are successful to supports, which is true. Mercy is no longer dominant. You can’t possibly say that they’ve even slightly mentioned our main concerns, which is her fun level.
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Mercy’s situation is not really all that bad, in the long term context of the game. Many other heroes, including every support but Brigitte, have been weaker for longer.
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I do agree with the notion that every hero fan base has the loud dramatic section. It just seems so much more prevalent overall in the game that it seems to be mercy.
Fun is subjective so how would they address it, and even if they did, would it be enough? I really doubt it.
Beyblade, as in, “the meta in which Reaper was Ana’s toy spinning top.”
Because mercy has the most mains of any hero in the game.
It’s the same reason there’s very few angry ragey bastion threads.
But that’s still our main concern. It seems like a pretty large portion of the Mercy mains (at least on the forums) agree shes no fun anymore. And I’ve seen a similar sentiment all over the place, on Reddit and Twitter for example. So I feel like even them saying “we feel she’s still fun” is warranted.
This is a video game. Fun is supposed to be the primary goal.
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Again-- fun is subjective. Just because you think it’s not fun does not make it a fact that she is not fun to play.
Some people have found Mercy to be boring or unfun since the very beginning. That’s because they don’t like playing support, or healer, or they don’t enjoy the most passive playstyle there is to play. You don’t see them saying “Address my concerns that Mercy is not fun” they just play something else.
The “fun” factor is just a flimsy excuse to have something to whine about. If you’re playing something you don’t find fun, that’s a you problem.
The people who still think she’s fun dont complain loudly.
Also, the complaints escalated drastically with the 50 hp/s nerf. Going from overpowered (for ages) to slightly underpowered is going to suck a lot, and make people feel low-impact and un-fun. It’s hard to sort that out from her inherent playstyle being less fun now.
Thing is a lot of Mercy Mains HAVE learned other heroes or those who didn’t did quit.
However just because they quit or learned a new heroes doesn’t mean they’re going to be idle as a hero that probably brought them into OW is in a state where she’s at.
So maybe, instead of saying “just learn a new hero” maybe offer ideas of new heroes to try out instead? Maybe even outside support.
Some of my Mercy Main friends went to Tank and even DPS because, to them, they provided the same amount of fun and allowed them to use their game-sense they gotten from Mercy.
Stay Positive!
Sincerely,
The Brigitte Spaghetti Movement
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Did you miss the part where I said I’ve seen tons of other people say the same thing? For it being subjective it seems almost 90% of Mercy players I meet in-game and other wise agree she’s not fun anymore.
Ah, yes. The infamous “Just learn a new hero!” By that logic all Sym, Bastion, and Reaper mains should just shut up and learn a new hero as well, right? Except you only use that argument on us, for some reason. We want the hero we’ve been playing for hundreds of hours to be good. Don’t you want yours to be too?
I’m not playing her actually. Because I don’t find her fun. And how is that a flimsy excuse? This is a GAME. It’s meant to be FUN. And wasn’t Mass Rez removed because it wasn’t fun? Stop being hypocritical lol.
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