Yes. Fully agree with that.
They just had to wait. The ppl by themselves would have started begging for it when the moment has come and everyone is in love with having a solid and finished game.
Hey… sorry!
We don’t like being silent… that’s not our intention. we’ve been trying to show up more on various streams (we have our creator’s residency now here at Blizzard where streamers hang out with us) plus we did a bunch of streams at Blizzcon. maybe you missed those?
We’re also in a bit of a “head’s down” mode trying to get a lot of work done. we also had a few people traveling over the thanksgiving holiday (we’re based in the US) and took advantage of the slow week to allow developers to work on whatever they wanted. the end result was pretty cool. we explored new game modes, new features and new engine tech. it was all really rough but some of the prototypes will actually turn into features someday.
I guess, mostly, we don’t have a big newsworthy thing to announce or talk about right now so we’re more focused on “getting stuff done” rather than anything else.
Roughly, this is a sample of some of what we’re working on:
–top secret stuff i’m not allowed to talk about
–hero balance (i actually think we’re in a better spot than these forums will have you believe)
–quality of life features (UI updates etc)
–new hero prototyping and development
–new game mode prototyping (don’t expect to see these soon)
–feature development
–ongoing event support (skins etc.)
–more top secret stuff i’m not allowed to talk about
–top secret stuff i’m not supposed to talk about
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Make Emily playable or make Tracer have a battlefield romance with a playable character you nerd
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I don’t blame them for avoiding the forums, it’s so toxic and mean.
If you looked at the top threads right now there’d only be a few positive ones, but even those are riddled with negative comments because we can’t have nice things on here
All that aside, they do developer updates and just did a livestream… they aren’t silent
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I really hope this top secret stuff is worth it, it’s hard to keep faith with how rocky and quiet things are.
It’s been very upsetting the past few months with the state of things not limited to just balance changes I strongly disagree with but worse yet with the endorsement of very toxic individuals who have gone on record to tell other people to harm themselves among other issues.
It’s becoming harder and harder to stay, I sincerely hope these secret changes are big enough to turn things around. Because as things are going, we’re going for an elitist smurf filled strictly meta following hate mob.
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Hey Jeff, how do you like this post I made?
I worked really hard and I want you to look at it as it took me about a day to make
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Please, talk about it!
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But there are always things that can be said that is not not top secret Hush Hush that requires Level SSS Clearance with Retina and Biometric and DNA scans.
- Like interesting ideas the community have provided you read about.
- Opinions on state of Heroes who have had low pickrates for 2 years like Symmetera and Bastion, Torbjorn.
- Is there a secret 3rd love child in the Hanamura clan that was exiled that Hanzo and Genji don’t know about.
- Does Zenyatta hate walking because he feels its beneath him?
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–top secret stuff i’m not allowed to talk about
–more top secret stuff i’m not allowed to talk about
–top secret stuff i’m not supposed to talk about
After carefully analysing this I think I’ve cracked the code and figured out what this is and it can only mean one thing.
…there will be top secret stuff in the future that Blizzard aren’t supposed to talk about now. 
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Dang…that’s a lot of stuff you’re not allowed to talk about.
We shall eagerly await it though. Um…is there anything you can talk about at this moment?
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I like it how a simplistic topic like this got their attention
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I hope this top secret stuff is revealing who will have to wash up all the dishes after Christmas dinner.
And who will be cooking it? I don’t trust Roadhog’s cooking skills.
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bless you. thanks for answer.
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Probably because it wasn’t written to read as if it was created by a petulant 5 year old.
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True. Too many posts are like this on the forums nowadays…
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Yep. People seem to forget that the devs are human beings, and that you catch more flies with honey over vinegar.
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Why would I want flies? You catch more me’s with vinegar because I like it better.
It would certainly be nice to have a unified news feed for official Overwatch-related things such as those, so we don’t have to actively seek them out from various third-party sites. Perhaps the Overwatch news page or Overwatch forums would be appropriate.
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But I’m not trying to catch you, am I?
Have a pickle.
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I don’t blame them for not commenting all the time. heck with the stuff you see on here sometimes
insert Mission Impossible theme
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