Is overwatch 2 fun?

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id like to hear everyone’s thoughts on this, and maybe blizzard would like to know what their playerbase thinks as well

im gonna write my own experience below this, you can skip it if youd like i just want to get this off my chest:

ill be honest, after playing deadlock and seeing everything the game has to offer, i found myself caring more and more about actually winning matches

the game challenged me, and each loss made me frustrated but only for a brief moment, because i knew that there were so many more characters i can try and so many more builds i havent used yet

i truly have not felt this way about a game since 2016 overwatch, i remember back then there was so much for me to learn and i was fully immersed in the gameplay

not too long ago i was queuing a bunch of quickplay matches and locking in venture, hoping that there would be more for me to learn about the new hero so that i could get excited about overwatch again, but after a while i was just left with this hollow feeling like “is this really all there is to it?”

its not like ive fully mastered venture or im some godlike player, i simply reached a point where the game no longer challenged me and it only took 10-20 matches to get there, which is really concerning

is it a format issue? not enough new heroes in the roster to keep me entertained? maybe ive become disillusioned with the franchise after so many years of playing?

the heroes in overwatch have so much to offer when it comes to lore and personality, yet their gameplay never feels as exciting as their character design

it probably isnt that their abilities are lacking, or that their guns arent satisfying to use, its more so that there is a lack of “heroic” spectacles in the moment-to-moment gameplay

i always feel like im holding myself back in overwatch 2, everything feels restrictive and almost formulaic, as if there is really only one way to approach the game and if i try to get creative im immediately punished

learning the one right way to play a hero, and then repeating that over and over to win matches, is not challenging me at all, its boring

tl;dr - for me, overwatch 2 has not been fun, i feel absolutely nothing whether i win or lose and i struggle to immerse myself in the game thus leading to extremely short play sessions

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If people are playing it, it’s a fun game. If they stop playing it, it’s not fun. No one in their right mind plays a game if they don’t enjoy playing it.

Anything beyond that is overthinking it.

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Its fun when everyone knows what they are doing. Even if that leads to loss.
Otherwise its just a stressful yet addicting game. Just IMO.

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Not since October 5th 2022

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OW2 is fun for me. But some days are better than others. If I’m tired or feeling stressed, it is NOT a good idea to go on OW (or any team game for that matter) because I will not perform well.

It’s all about knowing yourself. If the game is not holding your attention, it is time to at least take a break.

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The thing is I have fun playing OW, its why I keep coming back to it, its just the fun is very short.

Overwatch is a fun game at its core, but has unfun aspects of it, and sometimes those aspects appear frequently enough to drown out the the fun parts.

For a example, take the tank role. It can be really fun to play tank, nothing will ever beat the feeling of playin a rein v rein. But since OW2 and going to 1 tank, they introduced alot of fun aspects to the game. A very popular and viable strategy is just counter the tank, which sometimes makes it near impossible to play the game. Removing alot of fun from the tank role.

So I would love to play tank and have fun, but in 5v5 I just cant experience that as often.

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I’m just burned out. There’s only so many ways I can play the same game until I can’t do it any more.

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It’s not , have a good day

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I don’t get the people who keep saying the game isn’t fun but they make up some excuse to stick around and complain even after claiming they are uninstalling the game, They just can’t move on, like when I stopped playing Splatoon 3’s PVP and focused on the story missions I stopped looking into the PVP side of the fandom.
Or a big one how I left the Sonic fandom years ago but still play Sonic games at my own paste.
For me since I just like playing with the heroes I stay on vs AI even though the dev team will never expand on it to save their lives. lol

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Yes! I think it’s fun. At least when you come back to it from a long break that is. All that time away makes forget the bad balance decisions this game has.

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No absolutely not. Bad matchmaking, the new heroes are just boring to their kit and origins, cheaters do prosper still, cant be social because endorsement system ruins it and so much more.

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This is why I like the idea of a shop system (not the garbage cosmetic one, but a classic MOBA one) that allows you to create different playstyles via what items you purchase. Deadlock seems to have gotten this right, alongside a classic MOBA tower siege game-mode, but with the shooter-perspective twist.

I like the idea of Tank Reaper or DPS lucio being real and viable playstyles. It would be cool to see every other hero playing roles outside of their own.

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Most games are fun. Its the communities around those games and the developers actions that can impact the fun the most.

OW2 is a fun game.

What isn’t fun is knowing that because its a new season people are back on Alt accounts or back from cheating bans and there still isn’t a viable solution. But this applies to every game. It makes it hard to trust I can go into competitive and have good matches and it makes Quick Play games feel bad.

Its also a team game, so if you have people to play with its an overall more fun experience. :slight_smile:

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It could be fun in certain maps and when certain heroes are not picked. But when you keep getting bad modes/maps against awful heroes the fun turns into frustration.

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It’s had patches I liked and some I didnt like. Kind of neutral on it right now.

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Barring balance and the community, the core gameplay is still very much solid. You don’t get the stuff OW gives from any other game barring maybe TF2/Paladins.

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Basically this. I’ve had a 5 minutes overtime contest in a match last week (we were on the defending team). It was so intense and chaotic, people know when and what to change. We lost but i haven’t had that much fun in this game for a long time.

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I think the game has a lot of stuff to work on. Whether it be balancing,characters that seem gimmicky to me, toxic community, etc.

I actually still really enjoy this game, even if I get tilted sometimes. I try to duo anytime I can but usually solo queue. I recommend grouping, much more fun when you got friends to synergize with and joke with. The less serious you take the game and not let it get to you, the better.

Nanoing valking Mercys in QP also brings me joy.

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For funsies? Yeah if you know the game. For competitive? Only for the top 1%.

Matchmaking in low ranks doesn’t work properly, too many bad players who don’t play the team part of a team based game…

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I still have fun with it when I play. But I also acknowledge that there is the very difficult problem of the game being hard to balance. But I just sorta ignore the balance and enjoy it for what it is.

I’ve also been taking more long breaks from the game. Mostly due to how long I’ve been playing OW. The battlepasses rarely entice me into buying them so I don’t really have much to work towards in game anymore.