Part of why MR is so popular is it can be a very casual experience. I think having one more player on each team diminishes your value and as a result puts less pressure on you. 5v5 was marketed as a game with more solo impact which is very true but I think many didn’t truly understand what that meant. In the time I’ve been playing 6v6 I noticed I can kinda just zone out (especially on support/tank) and play much more relaxed. I prefer 5v5 so this is a bit of a disappointment but seeing how the current culture is shifting I can’t really see blizzard sticking with 5v5 from a business pov. My prediction is OW2 will eventually shift into a 6v6 min 1 max 3 format and possibly add hero bans in the future for higher ranked play.
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I haven’t really felt that to be true of 222. Tanking still sucks, it’s just that you trade one set of problems (CounterWatch™) for another (my co-tank has hardlocked Roadhog). Supports have a higher chance of getting a feeder to prop up and then swear at them when he takes insane amounts of damage. DPS… well, okay, DPS is more chill, I’ll grant you. Playing 222 test as Torb is fun, what with the tanks no longer having dink protection.
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Thats a problem everyone has, every other role learned to deal with it
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Yeah that’s true but I think it comes down to what people are willing to suffer through lol. I never mind counter watch because I can play lots of heroes so swapping doesn’t bother me. But it seems people really dislike this playstyle.
Idk how true this is. I’m biased because I’ve basically been one tricking echo in 6v6 so far and she’s really good hehe. I’d assume hitscan would be weaker in 6v6 which is maybe a good thing as it gives projectile heroes more freedom to shine.
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I really hope they do. It just feels like OW was made for 6v6 (like the good old days).
As for community-voted banning of heroes in competitive rankings? I highly doubt they would do that. Sure, they do that with newly-released heroes but to do that with established heroes seems very Un-Overwatchy.
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Didn’t they literally say 5v5 isn’t going anywhere, regardless of how the 6v6 tests pans out.
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They buffed a bunch of hitscans to make sure they’re just fine. Phew! Can’t have Widows feeling left out.
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6v6 maybe…
222 prob not
if i had to guess
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it’s much more likely that they’ll give 6v6 some space at the end. if only because it’s right to respect how players have fun, it happened with their other blizzard games where some people liked the cumbersome gameplay of starcraft 1 while recognizing the fluidity of starcraft 2. and the result was two esports tournaments and people competing in the two versions of the game. overwatch 2 since its debut had the gall to say what was wrong, and this was unfair especially in removing it in the arcade / non-competitive plan.
my personal speculation: we will have a 6v6 unranked mode and possibly a 6v6 openq competitive environment with role limit (depends on how things go with the next experiment in the season) but giving up the 5v5 openq which doesn’t seem to balance coherently.
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They say a lot of things. It’s all just noise to me.
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it’s true. and it’s RIGHT that it is so. 5v5, whether nostalgics like it or not, is a reality that for other players works and/or is fun. and the best choice they could have made at the debut of ow2 would have been to not eliminate 6v6 completely, but rather relegate it to an alternative availability. they didn’t do it, and this made players paranoid in useless feuds about what OW2 is, when essentially the game continues to be anything but the game that was promised: not a PVP esports machine to advertise the madness of the Overwatch League, but a game that had a narrative start. and not only from the mind of Jeff Kaplan, but in general by everyone.
the game today has simply “returned” to being a well-updated pvp live service game. but wasn’t this also the duty of ow1? 
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Not really. The language used implied there was no current plans to remove 5v5 entirely but it’s within the realm of possibility. Unlikely but possible.
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What do you mean “probably”?
6v6 is pretty much guaranteed even before those pointless “tests”.
Seems like going to be quick death if we get that over 222.
Blizzard just wont resist to chase another trend. After all, they have been trying to do it since the launch of OW2.
I can’t see them making the game more casual to compete with marvel rivals. That’s a losing battle imo.
Marvel rivals has the recognizable characters, the stupid broken balance, and even silly nonsense like team ups. Overwatch could never
Then they’ll bring back the PvE campaign they reneged on! 
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Whatever solo impact gained was lost with giga tanks and further healing creep.
Part of MR success is obviously the fact there is no RQ and queues are fast. Most people won’t admit too that thou. It would be interesting to see the numbers 6 mo the 1 year after role lock being introduced in the game thou.
5v5 just has to go, ruined overwatch, made the game stale as all hell and mind you boring as could be… 5v5 is a baby fake mode anyway.
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Just let the players decide who they want banned…
instead of 2, let each role ban 1 character, and hog mains insta lock banning ana.
Seeing how fast everyone left this game for Rivals it would be insane if the dev team still held on to 5v5 as the future for 2025.
I said it years ago, 6v6 is inevitable
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it wont at all they have been getting negative press on 6v5 but mr isnt in as great as eople report im honestly tired about hearing about that game