I think I finally get it. Its closure or an attempt at closure. Last night, I was playing a 6v6 match. It was CTP and it was the third round. We were neck-and-neck around 50% each then the server crashed! The game disconnected and the entire 2 teams got put into a Payload match, and we were the Defense team. We start the game, no one leaves. I almost left cause of what happened with the server.
Well, we play the match, they make it half-way and we win. It didnt really feel like a win thou. I didnt get the closure I would have got in the original match. It was just too different. And I feel like OW players have a similar feeling about when they leave, they need to tell everyone after so much time and mental energy invested in the game.
… What would you like us to respond to those posts?
“noo please don’t leave it’ll get better!”
… I have no authority there. That might even just be straight up lying.
We just don’t need announcements that peoples are leaving. There are metrics the people who are making game decisions can see that are FAR more informative than “I’m leaving this game sucks”.
Devs don’t read this forum, we can’t do anything about why you left. Why would we want these posts?
I don’t like MR art, and isn’t really invested in Marvel heroes. It’s weird, but it seems like MR fans don’t like this point of view, and are dead-set on arguing this point with me (with one exception). I don’t care for the aesthetics of MR fans, I’m just not the type to “ooh” and “aah” over the theme park feel of MR maps.
I care about this game, but why should I care about the faceless MR/OW2 fans who I don’t know? It’s the pleasant community atmosphere of the few regular forum posters here that I do care for. If I do care enough to go to MR forums and make friends (which I don’t care to do), maybe I’ll care more about MR fans who are former OW fans. Otherwise, I don’t feel the connection enough to feel otherwise.
I’m not part of their family or their psychologist o shrink to care about why they are uninstalling this game, maybe personal reasons, maybe peer pressure of their favorite streamer, maybe skill issues or maybe the actual problems the game has, you can just uninstall quietly if you feel that annoyed or mad. I feel the same about the “I have x amount of months without playing Overwatch and my life it’s amazing” kind of posts, just attention seeking at this point, why would you comeback to the forums of a game you despise or hate that much to post if you feel great without that game in your life.
I love the hero designs. Most of them have never looked better as far as I am concerned. There are a few that need a skin to fix up they ugly mug. Namor and Johnny Storm come to mind. For the most part, I am impressed.
The maps on the other hand? They leave a lot to be desired. It’s a lot of repeat maps and I do not believe they pushed the environments enough. Nor are any of these locations super iconic. Intergalactic Wakanda? Why not just Wakanda? Asgard is alright, I guess. I wish the colors popped more to contrast the other maps. Hydra base is whatever. Tokyo is cool because I am a weeb. I wish we got more diverse locations.
Hmm, I like the way the heroes look too. The problem is that the heroes are terribly imbalanced. Because I played a lot of Diablo before, much of the game-play revolves around kill-combos – skill rotations resulting in a kill, which is what I’m so used to when playing Diablo. I might be wrong, because I only played a single game, lol, but I’ve also seen it in streams where it’s played.
On the maps, I prefer a lived in feel that I can connect to – a temple, a commercial area with stores, an arena, houses where people might live in, etc. That’s a big part of what I like about OW maps. If I’m invested in Marvel lore (which I’m not), I might like the MR maps, but they feel too gaudy for me – I don’t fantasize about living in a place that gods/superheroes/supervillains fight in, which is the feel I get when I watch it (and the one time I played it).
Lol, now that’s something I’m interested in, because I prefer my art to be down-to-earth, anchored in a bit of reality.
This game should’ve “died” back when Heroes of the Storm did. Then it wouldn’t have been butchered on the altar of live service and loaded with paywalls so bad they had to walk back a chunk of that just to keep a playerbase. Game of the year in 2016 is still “mostly negative” on Steam instead of being seen as another great Blizzard classic.
No player leaving can to nearly as much damage as OW “2” did with it’s cancelled PvE.
Ì would assume people have been leaving goodbye posts for at least 6 years and the game is still alive and (questionably) well. Goodbye posts mean nothing about the state of the game. People are leaving and discovering the game constantly. Why would 1 person leaving a post on the forums mean anything?
Did you leave a goodbye post for every game you stopped playing in the past?
I quite like these topics tbh if they give a reasoned explanation as to what it is about the game or the recent direction of the game that they dislike. The topics where they just say the game is garbage and that’s it are pointless (we all know that ).
im gonan admit ive been pushed to the point to giving up mroe than once i do find it quite sad when people are pushed to the point of giving up and leaving the game forever…the devs need ot realize they are making huge mistakes and need to work on correcting them like i used to be a happy player at one point
If someone decided to leave i cant do anything bout it. Only thing i can do is point out problems and hope devs fix them as well as point out when ppl are posting garbage cause the more noise there is ther harder its to sift through it
Nah. Goodbyeiers are attention seeking drama queens. Most of them aren’t even leaving, and they keep playing the game they allegedly don’t enjoy anymore.
Then you have the people that go “It’s not an airport, nobody cares about you announcing your departure”. Those same people are probably off with the originally-departed, playing Rivals. If even a SINGLE solitary person posts something negative on this forum, it means something because they took the time to post. And especially if it’s valid, all that means is they are ahead of the curve or not silent. The real issue is the survivorship bias this game has, the consequences of which are being felt more and more.
The way I see it is that L4D2 has like a min 20k daily players for a game that is like 13 years old. I dunno how fully, but it has no updates beyond modding and it survives just fine.
You don’t need 500k players daily to have a successful game.
For me, I’d like people to simply quietly make their vote of not playing anymore than to loudly shout they hate the game. Its just tiring. Its more fun to discuss a game of those that enjoy it than what usually results in it being pro fans and anti-fans.
The nice thing about MRs coming is that finally those people who are anti-OW finally have something else to play and put energy into than coming into places like this and denouncing the game.
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