while i only have maybe 33 friends on here some havent been on in a long time or aren’t playing Ow2 they are playing wow or another another game like as of writing this for example 2 of 33 friends was playing ow2 and one other was showing playing on wow…the rest show online, away busy or are offline…this to me looks really bad for the game as i met alot of these peeps through overwatch
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It is true that Overwatch seems to be rather stagnant as before. Which I find strange, because they have the tools to address some issues within the game:
- Frequent balance changes (at least every other week, with some wiggle room for if something comes up).
- Addressing Push (the game mode definitely needs to be looked into and/or revamped).
- Map changes (whatever happened to that “more natural cover” for maps that they mentioned at the start of Overwatch).
At least these three—among more nuanced topics—is something that I believe would garner some positive feedback from the community?
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Some people like myself, play less and less when i complete the BP
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overwatch is not dying, it has already passed away
this game is nothing more than a wandering spirit clinging onto the living realm, we must learn to let it go so it can finally find peace in the afterlife
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Some guys at my work had a club that played games once a week and usually they played OW1. Since OW2 they’ve pretty much quit. They still meet on an irregular basis but they never touch OW. One of them is trying to get me to join so there is another OW player and try to get them back into it. But when I went along and talked to some of them, only that one guys wants to play OW any more. Everyone else wants different things and they mix it up with other games now. But never OW.
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The game is boring and garbage and not remotely ready for 5v5 balance wise
And 2cp > push
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Considering the decline it was in at the end of ow1, I think its just because the IP itself is kind of fading, as nothing actually new has been done with it yet. The gameplay loop is identical to the one in OW1, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but not enough new stuff was added to make feel fresh.
Hopefully this changes with PvE, since it would a new type of gameplay to the table. Im hesitantly excited for the smaller story mode coming with the starwatch event.
im usually on daily except for yesterday but usually im on every day as i dont have much else better todo currently i could reinstal some of mysteam library or epic but i try to find some joy in ow2
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-sniffles- you might be right 
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Well, yes, it’s gotten worse.
Whether you like the new changes or not, 5v5 scared off a lot of tank players in all ranks and the change people tried to be hopeful for barely made a dent in the current playerbase that it used to have. Infact, it’s speculated that the monthly player count is worse now than what it was when OW 1 was still around.
Why?
Probably because when I have played a couple games for each role, that is essentially the game. You aren’t getting anything else out of it. Less progression system, more monetization, and changes that (Personally in my opinion) was not for the better.
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I really don’t want to agree with you, but with each passing day, and seeing the train wreck that my favorite heroes are in, the social state my own OW friends and my own declining interest in the game… 
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I think its likely more due to how Blizz has been operating the game. First you have all the corporate scum scandals, then you have the atrocious monetization stories (even if its the same as other games, the news that the outrage generated still had its effect), and the fact that many promises they made have yet to be fulfilled has likely created a stigma around the game.
All these things have likely had their toll when it comes to player perception.
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Pretty much this, games less fun all around, but monetization is up, so great success all around 
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We are both definitely saying atleast this, there is a massive amount of variables and you could say there have been positive and negative changes. I am on the idea that a majority what has been new has mostly been a net loss of player retention, balance, and the overall gameplay loop of why you play the game.
People are finally walking away as they should.
Stop paying for this business plan where the company just aims to suck its players wallets dry.
This game isn’t enjoyable anymore, nothing is being fixed, a good percentage of the community is now overran by F2P players that have 0 to no respect for the rest of us.
The director is a patsy with 0 knowledge about what quality gaming is.
I hope he gets fired. Seriously Aaron. You suck.
I’m done. Fook this game and Fook this company. .!. Right here Blizzard suck it.
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Speaking honestly? OW2 currently is sorta like OW1 2019-2022.
They’re the same level of frequent hype and player retention, with hero releases being massive driving forces and with Weaver being a flop for the general population what’s there to look forward to until the next big seasonal drop? Nothing.
Ooooh mid-Season patch! Cool, we got one of those every 3 months when we were told the game was on auto-pilot with no new content coming.
The BP! First one I’ve ever had a desired reward tiered higher than the hero, I’m nearly done with the game since my main drive to play is that singular reward. It’s like a seasonal event, but less frequent and way easier to nope out of. Like I want a cool skin from an OW1 event I needed to grind boxes to either get 3k coins or get it to drop, now I just need to hit the level required and have like 2 months to do so and I get to see if there’s any cool skins from the get go. I don’t blindly open a box and hope I got a repeat or something cool, I know if the box contains anything cool and have some idea of the time investment they’re requiring to get that thing.
The matchmaker is frustrating, some characters and the gameplay they enforce is frustrating, people leave Push because six months should’ve been enough time to figure out that the game mode is a walking simulator and needs revamping. You’re so far from every fight on Push if you die that you only ever re-engage if your team all dies too, backs off or the enemy team pushes it to your far spawn.
The monetization is frustrating since they’re so invested in FOMO you can’t just get content that has existed for years, oh no, you need it to rotate into the Shop, a free event reward, a Twitch drop, or other service partnership. The in game features have been trimmed down and it’s left the game feeling bare bones. How many people constantly talk about missing the fire system, the end-game cards, the elim participation numbers tied to the fire system, the LFG function?
The core gameplay is all OW2 really has, and even it has some fairly serious issues even to someone who loved OW for what it was for years.
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its simply not fun to play with the current matchmaking, if i want my face kicked in by smurfs ruining metal ranks id much rather spend my time elsewhere, which is sad the game is great in concept but blizzards inability to fix their matchmaker makes me not wanna spend my diskspace or time on having it installed anymore
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the so called pro’s are making 5v5 look bad bnecause they cant be op anymore using stupid double shield tanks
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No, the pros are just playing like they usually do and will always play meta. The only thing making the game look bad is Kiriko/Ana support domination, the season’s given meta-tank that everyone plays, and DPS hitscan domination. Double shield hasn’t been meta for a very, very long time and whoever told you it was meta in 2022 is lying to you.
Double Shield wasn’t noob tactics by Top 500. They were Top 500 for a reason and earned that right through raw skill and teamwork. Same as OWL.
Current Overwatch never experienced year long content droughts.
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It’s pretty simple, the game cannot ever fully attract the FPS crowd, and they alienated so much of their core playerbase with the changes attempting to attract the FPS crowd.
So despite new heroes and it being F2P, the game is a wash because for every new person you added you lost someone with the gameplay changes.
Overwatch will never be a majorly popular game. It is niche. Games so reliant on teamwork will always be niche.
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