I ve been playing the game since about season 4 and the moment the game started spiraling downward was the moment you started adding heroes that were at the time low skill high reward for some reason (moira,brig) now they are low skill low reward,cause you found out what balancing is,then you gave players the option to lock profiles and started having mercy mains locking their profiles in gm and playing tank or dps at a diamond or lower level,how you solved that problem? different role qeues and ranks, but then that created a different problem, people otping heroes and climbing.I mean those are just some of the issues and stupid systems you ve created. you got people who derank , snowflakes who will throw the game for very little, otps i mentioned, you also have groups and a long time ago you made it so you cant see who is grouped with who , i mean you still can if you invite players during the game it ll show you who is in a group, so its easy to figure out, but the game should be solo/duo xD.
All this is irelevant though because players just play they way you show them or allow them to play.Reality is that the game you made is all about countering heroes, enemy team compositions and playing a hero that works well with your own team.Sometimes you need to play a hero that needs to follow a dive or contest highground or make space not just counter an enemy pick, but its always good to do so.So what happens now is you get players who just play moira and the opposing team will have hitscans and a mercy for example or you get a doom otp,that happens very often, so then you see the enemy team playing orisa or hog,sombra and other heroes that counter doom, the doom wont swap because you allow them to otp in a game about countering, both games are unplayable.Those situations of course happen in both teams and i do report even though it doesnt make any difference,when its happening to the enemy team.
Anyway, OW has always been my favourite game, just because its competitive mode was similar to what league and cs go was, not many games are made well enough to be in that category where you can have a legit competition, but you messed it up. now its just random , i mean being in a team with just worse players doesnt even happen that much anymore, its always an otp player in the tank role which you ve made to be the most impactful and most important but you put it in the hands of one singular player who might not care or understand that in order to win you have to do what tanks are supposed to do. ofc it happens with dps too but the skill level is obviously different, you ll more often see a echo otp being better than a moira otp.
My advise, make parameters on how the game should be played, suggest to people what picks they should play in every different situation, stop giving away free ranks to save your game ,just because someone is spamming a role or a hero,(when you are a platinum player that got master otping moira you arent really a master player because the people who actually play in that rank can most definately play moira better than you mechanically and have the range and gamesense to play any other hero as well).Make the game stats more objective and not delusion feeding, elims should be final blows and assists should be significant damage on a kill or an ability that helped contribute to that kill.Last advise, the game mode is called ranked, for me the highest objective is to win the game, for some players its their ego, so asking someone to swap more than once will cause those players to throw a tantrum even though they are provably not playing well and not playing the right hero while we are losing.You never ban those players and the game is free now and im sure that you ve made bank on the battle pass system, i cant even imagine people who spend money on that ,im sure you care about nothing more than money , because the motive of your decisions seems bad, you just wanna keep players playing your difficult game so you make it easier but at the same time worse.
I mean honestly idk how the forum works or if this is gonna be read by anyone other than other players,because back in the day you closed the forum down.but if this is read by anyone from blizzard responsible for this point your game has reached,as someone who just watched your long downfall ,i have to tell you that every decision you ve made has been wrong and illogical and i find it very hard to believe that the people who are responsible for this are people who are employed and educated.
P.S. before players start dissagreeing with me check if you are one of those players i mentioned