Eternity I highly agree and stand by your statements, this is beyond the joke now and I’ve noticed less people playing on Xbox Live. As for the competitive opportunities: if 343 Industries can make the Halo 5 WC in its FIRST YEAR, if Forza can do the Forza RC in its FIRST YEAR and if Call of Duty has been running the the CWL YEARLY, what is Blizzards excuse? Plain up pure laziness, I don’t care if Retribution will be good, I’m not prepared to go into a game that the devs give no love for clearly and play with broken and/or missing controls.
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WARNING: Huge rant incoming! Read at your own risk! Also, no there will be no TL;DR because every rant can be easily summarised as: wah wah, blizzard is mean! Wah wah. You have been warned.
Now I know this is a minor issue but to me, it’s one more issue which really makes me lose my temper.
So we console players were FORCED to pick the Origins edition with 5 additional skins (6 if you include widow noire). The goal of oicking this edition is to have exclusive skins… so from what I’ve heard retribution will unlock the reaper Reyes skin?!
Are you EFFIN’ kidding me?! So we HAVE to pay for a 60€/$/£ edition, and the trade off is that we get exclusive skins which at some point will be unlocked anyway?! This just shows even more how much they don’t give a single Turd about us console players. The very least would be to give us additional lootboxes to open in exchange (which still takes away from the fact we were forced to pay for skins even if we didn’t want them and even lose the “exclusivity” of it, just like it was with the HotS skins). Some kind of “refund” if you wish.
But will that happen? Something as ridiculously easy to realise as giving us a few lootboxes to right a wrong done to us? No of course that will not happen. Why? Because Blizzard doesn’t care. I really hope people stop buying lootboxea on console. Their revenue should be as close to 0 as possible from console. At least until they fix the game.
This is outrageous. I’m not talking about the reaper skin, but in general. Not giving us an e-sports scene? Fine! Actually even better, it would show how much of a joke the state of the game is on console. Better not show your flaws.
No specicif balance? Fine, we can work with that, makes the meta on console slightly different.
No intervention against MKB? Fine. I understand it can be complicated to fish those guys out. It’s annoying but I can live with that too (although, instead of trying to find a “fix” as you say you are: it would be a lot easier to allow us to just report them for cheating, after which you could flag these people and it would be easoer to trace mk users by reducing the search down to reported people).
All of this is actually a lot of annoying stuff and I’m still willing to live with it.
What I can’t accept is you half a$$ing your involvement in terms of aim mechanics, cutting us off on mechanics and QoL options that DO exist but for some reason are not included on console. That’s where i definitely draw a line!!
For the love of money, get it together Blizz! Get a team of 5-10 people on console to communicate and actually work with us!! I don’t mind if it takes them 3 months to fix something that the whole team could do in 5min! I just want to know there’s people who are dedicated and working on it!
Bring out the “Tigole” inside of you Jeff and look again at the game from the consumer perspective! Give us 5 people who work on console specifically, give us some kind of “pseudo PTR” in the arcade:
A gamemode which remains constantly on the arcade, is basically Quickplay but with those specific changes: let us test it and change/remove it with the next big patch. That way it’s not even more updates on console it’s just that for us and our specific changes it would be slower. Which is fine by me and still better than NOTHING!
example: with retribution coming now, we get a quickplay in arcade where we get a FOV slider, options like lucio’s hold to crossfade and others we console players have not gotten, and maybe an additional aim mechanic like " max turning speed slider". We get to test it until retribution is over and give feedback on a forum topic created by the console team. And after the event ends, you see if it works or not and implement it in the game. If not, you will work on it and give us the refoned version for testing again on the anniversary or summergames event.
But hell why am I even suggesting this? It’s nothing more than a dream at this point…
Can’t wait to finish school and get my pc. I know the community there is toxic but at least i know they will update the game for my device.
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Blackwatch Reyes is listed as coming with Origins Ed. or Game of the Year, looking at the skin in-game as of right now (4/7/18) those are the only ways listed to get the skin so unless something changes in the upcoming patch hopefully it stays that way. Along that same thought I believe the only skin labeled as “Exclusive” was the Noire skin which came with pre-order (or if you snagged a copy on shelves close to launch).
If this is the case and the skin wasn’t only used for promotional purposes (to fit in with the other skins) I’m slightly perturbed at having to pay extra, even if that skin has had 2 years of relative exclusivity.
Rumors say blackwatch reyes is to become unlockable in the event… but that was really not my main point.
Edit: we’re closing in on 300 comments without a response. I predict this to be the next Mercy megathread with 12k replies and no response from devs… for sure. And yet almost all the comments here did try to contribute in some way or another to the topic itself…
Edit2: have we reached max comments or why is nobody keeping it active?
Edit3: in case we have reached max comments, I have posted the continuation or part 2 of this topic on the forums! If yiu can see this, help keep it up! Here’s the link:
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This thread won’t die. While I do keep an eye on this thread, I simply choose not to post during weekends. If there truly is a cap for a given thread, I would imagine it being upwards of 500 posts, since that’s what it was on the original forums.
Trust me, if you think I’ll let this thread die, you’d be wrong. Like I said, I will see to it that we get a response, or I will die trying.
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I’m pretty sure the console versions of the game only exist for the extra revenue from loot boxes, and nothing more.
And we all know the console specific balancing is a joke. Outside of the turret damage nerf, it’s never going to happen. Either commit to it, or not at all.
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Alright! Now i know for the next time!! Appreciate your commitment! While we’re trying to keep the post alive: what console and SR are you at?
Haven’t truly played regular Comp since Season 4 
(It’s a toxic cesspool in the mid-ranks; throwers literally everywhere…)
Otherwise, depends on competitive mode. In regular competitive, I’d be at high plat-low diamond if I were to do my placements (I finished at 3021 for Season 4). During Comp CTF, I finished mid-diamond. During Copa Lucioball, I finished Top 500
(And to those that don’t believe me on the last part, you can look at my PSN profile here; I have the Copa Lucioball Hero Player Icon equipped on PSN.)
PS4 is my platform.
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It is true. And i went from console to pc, and it is a better experience overal
We mustn’t Stand down mis amigos fight for console rights we are the omnics of the overwatch player base
That’s how blizzard treats us lol
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Time to bring in the update to what it adds for Console specifically:
- Push to Talk is now useful (you can change Voice Chat Modes now)
…Yeah, that’s really all I saw. Half the languages still don’t work, still no Hold to Crossfade for Lucio, the list goes on… At least the ability to change Voice Chat Modes for Console Players is shown in the Patch Notes though. That counts for something, even if not much.
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Of course not more than necessary…
Just another bump until we get a reply.
The lack of developer feedback on console concerns
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I have to admit I really had hopes that this patch we would at least get some kond of answer… yesterday Bill warnecke was quite active on the forums… yet we are apparently still not worthy enough to be given any kind of attention or feedback or even statement…
I teally don’t know what to do anymore. I think this time spamming the forums will not be as easy anymore because you lose your bump ability. It would have to be a heavy investment and coop effort from the whole community. But then again:
Do we really want to do this again?
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If these issues are important, then it is worth continuing the discussion. Sometimes you have to persevere in the face of apathy.
Whether they like it or not, collectively we can help Blizzard become more than the second rate console developer that they are today. I have faith they can get better.
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I’m sure we’ll find a way to get to them.
Even if I need to make a bot to spam their Social Media accounts.
For now, let’s wait.
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Welcome to Post 300 folks!
…Where the lack of Dev Responses still remains!
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Please enable text chat bliz
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