I start playing OW from around 2016, season 2, almost 9 years. My highest ranking is master, score of old ranking system is 3500, normally diamond.
I found this game is going to be boring, OW cannot be recognized as a FPS game, instead simulator or something. In order to decrease queue time to cut 6vs6 to 5vs5, nightmare began, all dps become weaker than healers, they even lost the meaning of existence, they can be deleted from OW absolutely without any influences because they cannot kill anything. But when team fail they will take all responsibilities. This change is too big to all old players, it leads them need to learn OW as a new game, most of them might choose to leave this game, including me.
Sometime I think about what is a good FPS game, like CSgo, BF series, they can give what player need, it’s praise when someone in specific time to lead team to win, his highlight. However, current game likes football game in the swamp, it’s not smooth. The gameplay slowly became simpler, just dive into opposite healer then kill them, no one can stop it, players start to race who can be fast to clear healers.
I’m glad to hear about that OW will recover 6vs6 in future, it’s a good pathway to save player experience. My recommendation is that don’t save both of 6vs6 and 5vs5, only remain 6vs6. The biggest conflict across whole life of OW is that some people would select dps and don’t coperate with team members. Eventually team becomes 6 dps. I would like say OW can give players all rights, to decide what kind of gamemode they want. For example, players from both sides can vote to play 303 or 222 or 132, everyone will be sent to a preset role, if someone would like to change role, they can sent a request to other players. Once request is accepted, role can be changed, this can prevent players randomly change their role then destory experience of other players.
As an old OW fan, I hops this can be better, has more new players. So that every mechanism design is very significant and should be treated carefully. Finally, hoping OW come back to the top status.
My English might be not good, please understand. A player from China.
All Best.