So again, how is it that it “just won’t work”?
I’m just confused what your request here is. If they stop producing content, people stop playing because it becomes stale.
As much as people complain about shifting metas and hero changes, it keeps the game fresh. It forces people to try new heroes, new strats, new comps, etc.
Changing the game is WHY it works. Otherwise, we’d all have grown bored months ago.
The Problem is most of these are opinions. I don’t find Brig OP (Zen main) Mercy is far from ruined… I like the new sym she just needs some tweaks and well yea rein is bugged but they are working on that.
The thing is everyone has an opinion and that does not mean they are right or there are problems. Does this game have some issues, yes of course it does. Name a game that doesn’t have issue be it online or single player. You won’t find one.
Believe me, if they were doing the very half of what the community requests, it would be a loooot worse, like a thousand miles worse than the worse game you ever played.
I’ve always had the impression of it being a strategy game more than a traditional FPS game but it seemed that when they were also marketing this game, they were pushing it to the FPS crowd as well. So I can understand if those players feel frustrated. Personally, I love the element of creating unique strategies, utilizing maps areas, setting up defenses and over coming them. Which is why I disliked 1. the shift from No Limits (weird combinations) and 2. certain reworks or changes like Symmetra’s orb going through shields (I always liked to use that to counter shield walls). But that’s just me.
Im asking can it be fixed. The answer is yes if the stop releasing heros for time and focus on what they do have. Yesit would be boring but at least the anount of complaining would dwindle? Buti understand these are opinions…
Boring and less and less player, because even if they stop adding new heroes, all the roster couldn’t be balanced or as much viable in the same time, so it would remain imperfect but boring on top of that
Personally… I don’t think anything is wrong. Its like any other PVP game. Needs constant tweaking and balancing. But nothing is broken about it. Some heroes perform better than others. Name a game that isn’t like this, you cant.
Let’s take what is obvious as example.
Zenyata.
META since almost forever. Poor healing, poor mobility, he only has his dps for him.
Some people want him to be nerfed. Ok. You nerf his damage output ? Zenyata won’t be seen again in game.
(And it would be indirect nerf to flankers who are best targets of his orb of harmony)
Then what? You wanted to balance supports, you create a lack of… if you up a bit his damage and his mobility with a new tool ? What would be the point to play lucio? So again, heroes kit interaction. And we are only taking 2 heroes into account…
Edit : not even talking about heroes who are in check thanks to zeny ! Dragongrave festival the day he is nerfed and disappear from team composition
Yes. It would be boring. Take a look at TF2. Zero changes since launch. They cap at 40,000 players a week? Maybe? I get what you’re asking, and I get what you’re saying.
What i’m trying to highlight is you’re focusing too much on the negative. This entire community is so negative.
You paid $40 for a game and have gotten 100x more value out of it than any other game you’d spend the same on. Yes, push the devs for balance, but at the same time appreciate what we have as a community. Hell, they pay for us to have our own forums to complain on. What other service does that?
The biggest obstacle to balance is basically mirror matches. It’s almost impossible to tell the relative balance state of a hero when both sides just run the overpowered ones. They really need to bite the bullet and have a one hero per match limit on competitive. They’ll be able to balance things a lot better once they can see how a team without a Hanzo does versus a team with a Hanzo and so on.
I don’t know if smurf can be fixed but they will never be balanced hero.
Okay this bothers me because of course Blizzard can do something about it.
They have all the manpower, skills, talent, resources, and the time to do so. Even the loyalty of the fans is on their side.
So if any company is going to fix a game and properly balance a belived gamr it is this company and should be this game.
There is no excuse. There really is not.
Except it is not because you want something and have the capability do it on one shot that you can do it on this game, again, if you change one hero, could it be for the better or the worse, it will change the interaction he has with others, then you will have to change the others and you will finally come back to where you started…
Examples were given few posts above regarding zenyata…
Yes. We’ve been aware for over 2 years now that this game is going to be in a long time development cycle due to it being a competitive team-based multiplayer game with complex mechanics. If this comes to you as a new thing then I don’t know what to say
People thought the same thing about HotS, but they replaced the balance team’s lead and it’s actually a well done game. Sadly, said removed individual was place in charge of this game’s balance team. We need a change in leadership or this game dies at this point.
Overwatch is broken, please blizz buff this game
but seriously, uh… I kinda believe there could be a balance one day.
Like a total balance.
But with this community wanting nerfs and buffs, im not sure.
I would say the key problem is they constantly overbuff a hero (HANZO!) to a point where it is pointless to pick another hero so that is when mirror matches come into play.
So… what happened? Because the game was great, and now it’s terrible.
If the game wants some serious improvements then I’m sorry but we probably could do with a fresh team. I believe HotS had something similar at some point?