Geoff did a Livestream a couple days ago where he discussed what the devs are looking at. More healers, railguns, burst fire weapons for new heros, possible sym/Mei buffs, no D.Va changes and some more.
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I actually have it copied and pasted into my notes for easy access.
They are really not. I play a game that is 10 years old and has no pro scene. Speaking of which, so do TF2
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theyāre busy focusing on owl and mobile diablo looooool
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Yeah Iām gonna vote no on making it the trashiest garbage to appeal to the lowest common denominator
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Probably because they have nothing to talk aboutš
Blizzcon didnāt give anything on whatās to come, other then heroes in the works.
So Iām guessing they have nothing really planned and are focusing on mobile games. Sad.
And no lore updates either, itās as if they expect us to sit here and wait for months, and be happy when a small sliver of lore is shown.
Cmon blizz, step it upš
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We need them to be vocal leaders for this community. Thereās a reason why this game is drowning in toxicity and it all comes back to Blizzardās hands off approach to the community.
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Yup.
Esports is not helping the game much at all, in fact I think itās taking away from it.
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Sir this in no emoji zone.
In OWās case, I highly agree.
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Well sort of, actually not really at all.
It only shows backstory. So far, the story hasnāt moved at all, and we are still waiting for our heroes to come back together.
Been waiting since 2016
Though the archives event does add great loreš
It just doesnāt push it forwardš
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Obligatory reminder that OWL isnt actually the spawn of satan and isnāt delaying anything. The game has had the same update schedule since launch, anyone saying itās OWLās fault is just trying to scapegoat their pre-existing annoyances on something they donāt personally enjoy.
As for why the devs donāt talk to us, itās because we pretty much taught them not to. Every time they try, that comment is blown out of proportion, taken out of context, or even outright ignored. Hell, even nowadays you have Mercy mains demanding a response about her, while at the same time outright admitting that if itās not the response they want, theyāll just ignore it and continue campaigning for their personal vision.
People donāt care for what the devs have to say, they just want to hear that theyāre right, so the devs donāt even bother trying anymore.
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OWL could have workedā¦if it came naturally. OW in general had everything to become a great ESport and already showed that there was an audience ready to just watch.
If they could have just waited.
But hey at least thereās the Archive event to look forward to.
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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.
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Heyā¦ sorry!
We donāt like being silentā¦ thatās not our intention. weāve been trying to show up more on various streams (we have our creatorās residency now here at Blizzard where streamers hang out with us) plus we did a bunch of streams at Blizzcon. maybe you missed those?
Weāre also in a bit of a āheadās downā mode trying to get a lot of work done. we also had a few people traveling over the thanksgiving holiday (weāre 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 donāt have a big newsworthy thing to announce or talk about right now so weāre more focused on āgetting stuff doneā rather than anything else.
Roughly, this is a sample of some of what weāre working on:
ātop secret stuff iām not allowed to talk about
āhero balance (i actually think weāre in a better spot than these forums will have you believe)
āquality of life features (UI updates etc)
ānew hero prototyping and development
ānew game mode prototyping (donāt expect to see these soon)
āfeature development
āongoing event support (skins etc.)
āmore top secret stuff iām not allowed to talk about
ātop secret stuff iām 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 donāt blame them for avoiding the forums, itās so toxic and mean.
If you looked at the top threads right now thereād only be a few positive ones, but even those are riddled with negative comments because we canāt have nice things on here
All that aside, they do developer updates and just did a livestreamā¦ they arenāt silent
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I really hope this top secret stuff is worth it, itās hard to keep faith with how rocky and quiet things are.
Itās 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.
Itās becoming harder and harder to stay, I sincerely hope these secret changes are big enough to turn things around. Because as things are going, weāre 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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