So since OW1’s very first announcement at Blizzcon 2014 i was a massively devoted fan. I supported the game so much. I defended and stuck through the dark times of the PvE cancellation, content drought, OW2 launch controversies. I spent hundreds on merch and skins.
For 9 years, this game was the heart and soul of my gaming hobby, and inspired me to become a semi-professional artist. However, these last couple of seasons (while good gameplay-wise) the direction this game is going in is really putting me off.
My biggest peeve atm is the abundance of collabs to the point they are now the plurality of skins we get. I LOVE skins. They are probably what made me so excited to get up at 3am in the morning to watch the trailers, but now its mostly collabs with a sprinkle of recolours.
I also realised how I am struggling to get any better at this game and the gameplay has been annoying me constantly. i went 30 one-sided losses in a row at some point and I thought, “hey lets just play around with the skins” and BOOM mostly collabs now.
This is just a personal rant, really. I adored the world of Overwatch, the characters, lore and futuristic worldbuilding Blizzard has created. But its now nothing more than a fortnite-ahh corporate sellout.
I might still get my Mei tattoo im considering just because the universe means so much to me, but its just so sad we will probably never get anymore original, thought out lore because people like license slop.
Ouch, that happened to me when I was one tricking Mercy. It took an entire season to somewhat get back to where I expected to be given I earned my rank stacking tanks and now I am a Genji OTP. I thought Genji was my worst hero, but… Yeah. It was always Mercy. I even wanted Eleos, but once people were complaining about his volume, I knew it was not worth wasting my tokens on. Blizzard always listens to the most annoying people…
idk, like i thought itd be a good sendoff to what was possibly my most hyperfixated IP ever. i was a massive diehard fan for a decade but as my interest is dwindling so hard, i thought itd be one last hoorah to immortalise my memories with the game, community etc.
Well, it’s your body obviously, but I figure your memories are good enough. In the grand scheme of things, a decade is only a decade. I used to be obsessed with Pokemon for longer than that and to this day I still love Gyarados and Gengar, but man, if I lived out my childhood fantasies and got a tattoo of one of them, I would be kicking myself.