Hello people. I had a friend that started Overwatch one year ago not to long before he got diagnosed with brain cancer. I am disabled myself, and met him at therapy clinic that we both would had to go to (though different kinds of therapy obviously). We became real close friends, real quick. I’d go hang out at his house, and we’d take turns playing Overwatch (since I had neither a computer that could run it, or a PS4 or anything of the sort).
Notice I said had cause he passed last month and a half ago as the cancer took him. I was working on building a computer to purchase and build so I could play with him (which I finally did). When playing with him either watching or him watching and we were chatting it was a great game to play. We got to talk on the characters we loved, ways we could try and get better. Especially as disabled players. Overwatch was one of his favorite games (and mine) to play and he managed to make it to mid diamond before the cancer got too bad.
So I got the game, but sadly it was after my friend died (literally purchased it 2 hours before it happened 
). I was excited to play, and a month later after trying to get over the loss of a friend and how much this game meant to both of us I decided to try playing. I’m actually regretting playing this game now. It is cause of how vile and toxic players are in this game towards one another, especially relatively newish players like myself. I find myself sad, angry, and unhappy after playing a few games cause of how I am treated or other players are treated and if you try to draw attention to it you just get a lot of people ganging up on you instead. I find making genuine friends in this game hard, especially as someone who has a disability that makes playing the game harder than most.
I’m finding myself regretting buying the game and playing it at all and it is sad. Cause the game means a lot to me. I love the characters, and every one of their voice interactions. I love trying to play Winston/Zarya or Ashe/Doomfist/Echo or Ana/Baptiste/Mercy and Moira. I love learning new things in this game, and when I see myself improve but sadly I don’t think I can actively see myself playing this game. The amount of toxic people, people who genuine just want to belittle or hurt other people daily isn’t worth the few happy moments in my opinion.
This isn’t helped at all by what I said, trying to make genuine friends in this game. I’m trying real hard to want to keep playing, but I can’t just seem to want to.
I hope everyone is doing well during these trying times and thank you for taking the time to read my post.
s are, so you gotta make sure you got plenty of keepers to clean it up otherwise they can catch disease. 