I see people act like the game is bad or broken or whatever else because they are bored. Does anyone ever stop to think that maybe the real problem is you’ve been playing the same game for thousands of days and hours and that you’ve simply ran out of things to do?
It’s completely normal to admit a game is no longer fun or fresh for you and move on to something new. No one wants the same job forever or the same car. Some people get divorces just because they get bored of their spouse. And those are life changing decisions.
For something as simple and useless as a video game it makes no sense why some of you sit here and dwell on it like your world is coming to an end because you don’t like Overwatch anymore. Just go try some different games. Eventually something will click and you won’t feel the need to come on here and moan about it anymore.
Many people just play for hours and hours and hours until burnt out. It’s pretty human to do to take stuff to excess. Nothing in Overwatch really fatigues a person like say sports. Playing a physical activity will wear you out quickly and prevent you from playing for like awhile. Slows down the burnout and some people can play the same type of sport for decades without much issue.
Overwatch played in healthy sittings I think can prolong its enjoyment for quite a long time. Well beyond 7yrs.
You’re not wrong, I think a lot of people just get nostalgic for the old days. They remember how fun the game was and they want to feel that once more. But it’ll never feel like that again. Doesn’t matter how many changes they make, it’ll still never feel like it did when it was new because it’ll never be new again. We either have to learn to love what it’s become or accept that what it felt like back then will always just be a memory and not something we’ll be able to attain again.
Those who continue to chase that OG feeling will just become more and more embittered with the game. Those who can just accept what it’s become and enjoy it on those merits will have a much better time and it will never feel like a chore or a job or a grind.
well when in-game responsiveness is relegated nearly exclusively to practice range, hence your ability to delete bots instantly , versus actual matches with players with equivalent HP, where damage output fails to register due massive lack of in-game responsiveness, then its easy to get bored. except for those down the street from the server. smaller studios have more servers than blizzard.
Well said. What players miss is the having a brand new game to learn. It’s no different with other games. People complain about Call of Duty being the same game every year. Well that’s because they’ve been playing it for 15-20 years so of course it always feels the same to them.
There are people out there playing Overwatch for the first time and having a blast. They don’t know what the game was like in 2016. They aren’t worried about battle passes. To them it’s something fresh and different from what they usually play.
My God, this! This should be pinned. It’s hard to make a case in my personal experiences, since Overwatch is an online and live service game, and “2” is just an update that completely overwrote the old game, whereas other franchises I’ve seen go downhill do have the option to go back. Things change, sometimes for the better or worse, and that’s life. You can change with them, making new memories, new experiences, or you can stay in the past and wish things never changed.
It can be hard to let go of something you really liked, but being crotchety and begging or demanding things to go back to appease you isn’t the way to go about things. I used to love Pokemon from gen 3 to even 7, but after gen 8 was such a disappointment, I stopped buying it. I know it’ll never be like I remember it being, so… that’s it, haha.
