First things first, I extremely love Overwatch, its gameplay, the way its meant to be played, its uniqueness due to teamplay and strategies, its design, animations and hero details. I deeply believe, no game even comes close to the beauty of this game at its peak. If this ever reaches someone from developer team, I want u to know that there are many many not so vocal people like me who extremely appreciate ur effort and don’t expect from you to perfectly deal with every insanely hard problem.
That being said, right now, as I see it, its a hard time for Overwatch community for some reasons, but 3 reaons stand out: DPS queue times, lack of new content and balance/hero state issues.
- DPS Queue Times - while tank and support players proudly sit and don’t see problem with "dps kids wanting to just play dps waiting for ages’’, dps queue times are killing popularity of the game. No doubt that most people would watch DPS overwatch streamers, not moira mains (no offense to fellow aimgods). fact that people have to wait 3829 hours for their loved streamer to get into game is reason why numbers of OW streamers is decreasing, turning this beautiful game in a dying state.
- Lack of new content - While I cant think of an easy solution for the first impossibly difficult issue mentioned above, I think that what keeps game fresh and exciting to log in for a massive amount of community are … simply … yes … its that simple … skins (of course I would be mad to even mention new heroes, new maps, cause u guys are working so hard for OW2, like wtf, ow2 should be like a side event for ow1, not the main thing) Like cmon guys, I know you always brag about how hard it is to make even a small skin, but cmon guys, really? we got so used to not having new content for long periods of time and then getting sh**ty epic skin and stupid 9win events, which I personally would be even ashamed to put into game, that even those one skin events make people happy and excited. I don’t think I would be unreasonable to say that even skins we get from big events, which are not that big, are recycled and they come around 5 times a year (I know, wtf right), are NOT that high of quality and its not just my artistic opinion. Obviously I don’t know how these things work, but I refuse to believe, that skins are THAT hard to be added more frequently to the game. You have to remember, most of people aren’t Rascals and don’t play 32 heroes. they get skins for their heroes and that feeling of freshness 2-3 times a year. Call me stupid, but my immediate relief for the game would be hard focus on adding new content.
- Balance/hero state issues: Obviously its super hard to balance heroes across different ranks and also professional play. Personally I agree that Overwatch should be considered more as a professional esport than a chill videogame, where heroes in high ELOs should be balanced for pro teams. My wild idea is that there should be different balance for high and low ELOs. As a player who started from gold, where there is no team coordination and u cant expect hitscan players to hit shots consistently, it is simply not fair to have same matchup expectations as in pro level. First example that comes to mind is reaper situation. In this topic I also want to mention “not fun/cancer” hero issues. My opinion, which I strongly believe is logical, is: If you put a cancer or in worse case cancer/ez to play hero (and don’t pretend u don’t know what a cancer hero is: mei moira brig…), u have to make sure that if played absolutely PERFECTLY, these heroes can bring LESS VALUE than high skill heroes. You should NOT be awarded for picking no risk no skill hero and be punished and slammed for going exciting high skill beautiful heroes like genji, tracer. Unfortunately, I don’t expect developer team to understand this issue given fact that they state soldier is OP and mei has low winrate, the braindeadness of the thinking process behind that is out of this world, wont even start explaining that in this long post.
Anyway, I strongly believe and am really passionate about what I just said. I also believe my opinions are hardly based on logic and people’s opinions, who really care about what this game is about ( not people who play moira in deathmatches). I love developers of this game so much and would be insanely grateful if this ever reached them. Thx for your time guys