Not at the end of the development. You can’t just make fans wait for one game for years, and then just come and say “We make another game alright”, that’s just straight up lie. It doesn’t matter how often it happens in the industry, it’s not about standards at all
But not worth 3 years of waiting to get the same amount of content that Minecraft releases with each update. The gameplay is fine, true, but it’s not “new”, it’s ~3 average OW1 patches worth of content
As I said, everyone has a bad game from time to time.
I’m guessing you only played one game with the bloke, so, that could literally have been his bad game. It just sucked that he happened to be on your team when he had that bad game. Don’t put too much thought into it.
It is literally okay to change development goals at any time, provided you have not taken anyone’s money. Once you have someone’s money, then you’re obligated to give them what they paid for. Blizzard never opened up pre-orders for Overwatch 2, and by the time they did announce that the Watchpoint Pack could be bought in advance as the ‘pre-order’, they’d already announced the changes to their vision.
Had they taken pre-orders in 2019, and sold people the idea of Overwatch 2, as originally envisioned, then changed the vision, then that’s a serious issue and refunds would need to be offered at a minimum. But Blizzard did the smart thing and did not open up pre-orders early, meaning no one spent money on Blizzard’s original version of Overwatch 2.
You are talking about the legal part, I am more about the moral side of it. Advertising one game, abandoning the original one and then releasing a different project is just ugly, no surprise why people feel betrayed
The matchmaking is now more flexible. You can easily find Silver3 players in your team, and you wouldn’t know.
You can even get matched with Top500 as Plat3.
You have to 5stack if you don’t want to get cheated like this.
well, this is questionable because my friend I’m playing with, we pushed high gold/plat as tank healer duo, then he went as dps, now siting on silver 3 and I can’t queue with him as plat 5 or plat 3 so I guess no 
it’s weird tho how this match making works
from my experience so far, it’s bad, giga chad bad
There is a different problem with the MMR system no one gets and it’s mind boggling.
Heroes are more or less team dependent (in OW2 it changed a lot)
Teamplay is the lowest on the lowest rank and increases with rank
Meaning: A team independent, a strong flanker can in a low team play environment farm good stats, while in a strong team play environment while he will struggle in a strong team play environment
For a team dependent hero is a low team work environment really hard to climb, because he can’t farm good stats, but in a strong team environment he can
OW1 demonstrated this pretty well. When a team dependent hero got overbuffed and as result player got catapulted up the ranks, they often didn’t drop back after the nerf.
You could also check the numbers on Overbuff, but that is more complicated
Sure thing - how come those comments are still there ? They deleted my other posts that was dedicated to calling them out. Keep drinking the koolaid
You are a liar. Plain and simple.
You’re a troll plain and simple . I just presented you evidence you don’t want to hear it . But hey some people love to live their life this way
You seem to think I don’t remember how you were speaking to people! I remember, and it’s reportable.
Also present ‘evidence’?? Lmao
Yea go back to my acitivity you can see all my comments are still there. My original posts calling them out on flawed system were deleted. If it was truly for “insulting” my comments would’ve been deleted. You done being an ignoramus?
It amazes me how people still don’t know how a basic ELO system works.
New players are always started at the average rank, for overwatch that’s somewhere around the bridge between gold and platinum.
For the first while, anywhere from a couple games to a couple dozen, the algorithm uses very aggressive swings in an attempt to find an appropriate skill tier which steadily becomes less and less aggressive. Overwatch Analyzes your performance so the period of wild swings probably is finished within your first 7-win period.
One game could send you from gold 2 straight to a grandmaster game. The the next down to silver, even if you win. This is how you’re getting these new players in your games. They won’t be there long, you were just unlucky enough to be matched with them.
Overwatch 2 just came out and lots of new players are joining the game. The existing player base also got a soft reset on their ratings, Matchmaking is going to be pretty wild for a bit, that’s just part of the ELO system.
The vast majority of your games are fair and are well matchmade. You just focus on the games you lost because you blamed your team. Overwatch by its nature is just a snowbally game, (especially push) you see it a lot even in the overwatch league. That’s not a matchmaking problem.
Stop whining about your teammates and work on your own gameplay. This attitude is why you’re stuck in whatever rank you’re in.
I don’t care enough to do that. I know you’re a liar. Enjoy your next silence btw.
Lol blizzard
Yup keep trolling , you don’t want to see the truth . I put it in front of your eyes but you want to close it and look away LOL just don’t reply on my comments anymore ok ?
LOL how do you know what rank they are in ? and how do you know they are stuck ? This game is fundamentally flawed because you cannot carry like in other games. Eventually you will get to your true rank but that takes a long time compared to other games like starcraft or counterstrike. Please actually read what people are saying in their criticism and stop labeling them as conspiracy theorists.
Wow, you literally can’t read can you?
You won’t get any further responses from me. You’re not worth my time, enjoy your day.
Why would Activision Blizzard patent a system and not use it? Unless Blizzard discloses the mechanics of their MMR system people have no reason to not assume it’s being used like this.
Keep trolling
So if they were grand master your criticism still works ? LOL good one , it’s obvoiuslycause you assume they are low rank . Please just stop it’s embarassing
Some people choose not to see the truth . It’s hilarious . Suspicious but you will actually see the same people in these posts denying it. LOL
The same reason countless designs sre patented and not used by the engineers that developed the design.
Sometimes there is no use for the company/individual and would be far more profitable as a sold design rather than an in-house one.
Patents exist to make money, exactly how that money is made is in the hands of the patent holder.
Now, if you wanna go around assuming that it’s in game and suggesting that it is based on a patent that explains how the system works in explicit detail, then it should be simple enough to test in practice.
As soon as someone submits proof of a pattern that correlates the existence of a matchmaking system that is based on cosmetic vs no cosmetics, then you’ll have some proof of the system’s existence in Overwatch.