After waiting literal years for the games balance to be fixed at this point, I realized it was never going to get better, especially when the high point of balance changes came from an April Fools patch that almost everyone unironically liked and was considered a joke patch by developers.
Combined with legendary skins being locked behind paywalls in OWL (Which I warned would become a common practice in 2018), OW2 being stuck in development hell, and the constant terrible balance choices, my passion for this game has finally fizzled out, and I uninstalled the game to make way for Halo coming out in fall.
GG.
For those who still play it, Iām happy you find enjoyment in it and please donāt let anyone change that for you.
I hope you find happiness elsewhere. I donāt play OW as much recently due to Kazuya being added to Smash and Guilty Gear, so I see where youāre coming from.
Yea, they liked it as a fun joke mode. We all know it would have been a massive mess if people were forced to play it, and it was in ranked.
Also id say balance is really good atm. Most tanks and supports are good choices atm, many dps are good, some not that great but have situations where they are. Overall I think balance is at an all time high atm, in terms of hero choices being viable at high tier.
And everyone knew it would be. Lootboxes arenāt selling and thereās more ways to get them for free, so youāve gotta have some way to have the game make money (other than smurfs). Iād take some paid OWL skin over paid heroes/maps any day. Oh, and you can just go watch OWL on Youtube on mute and youād be getting tokens for those skins for free. So, donāt know whatās your problem. I didnāt like Winston or Doomfistās OWL skins, so didnāt buy them. Simple.
The redesigns and especially 5v5 actually did not look good. Figure theyāre done with the main story campaign and are now working on the PvP part (thatās why they announced 5v5 recently).
On a personal level I feel this. I love this gameā¦ but man oh man I feel like somethingā¦ ANYTHING has to change at this point.
The game is balanced (ish) but I legit think having a balanced game is definitely a double edged sword.
Yes itās a good thing to haveā¦ but balanced= seriously seriously boring. Reinhardt, dva, Zara and hog (kinda) feel like you have some sort of Cheat code sometimes.
That feeling is intoxicating and gets people wanting more.
Console balance feels really weird atm. Feel like they dumpstered half the damage roster with the fall off range.
What balance do you want? Balance for GM players who can play the game right, balance for low rank players? People talk non-stop about this ābalanceā but what even is balance? If youāre thinking of a perfect equilibrium between characters then you have horribly unrealistic expectations
If you expect ābalanceā in low ranks then thats never going to happen because popularity plays a roll
The best you can expect is balance in GM but that isnāt going to stop low ranks from begging for Reinhardt and Ana every game
Hello guys, I really understand why some people give up with this game.
However despite all of its things I still love it and would love to make it even better for the future and Iād love if you guys read a post were I explained some minor issues that could be adressed in OW/OW2 so the game becomes even better.
Iād really love if you check it out and gave your opinion too.
Maybe with enough attention the devs someday read it too.
Iām trying to get a better trust level to swap the links I provided with the actual images.
I tried my best with a lot of work and edited it a lot of times to make it as clear as I could and including some of your ideas too.
Hopefully you read it too and agree or disagree with it.
Have a nice day.
I have to say as a Mercy main I did not enjoy the April fools patch. Everyone else gets mega buffed while Mercy gets toā¦ fly to enemies? really?? Lol that was not fun at all.
I can see why everyone else loved it though for sure.
Okay, Iāll give you the redesigns, some look overengineered for the sake of it. I think however what they showed off of enemy animations, the new maps, and the new feature set looked top shelf. I poop on this game but Iāll give credit where itās due.
Itāll also have no competition when it comes out, bookmark tthis.