Great move by Microsoft.
Blizzard needed to be bought it.
Finally we may see improvement.
Great job Microsoft
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Iâm not sure why people think weâre going to see improvement. This means less independence for blizzard
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Blizzard is against independence.
Hong kong
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And thatâs a good thing, especially after the past 3 years. MS will want to make their money back and that means theyâll want to keep content rolling in.
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Good. Maybe this will mean the end of the algorithmic handicapping.
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Iâm optimistic. I hope this will mean theyâll have (or be provided with) more resources to pump into the game, while still maintaining their vision and integrity (as in, not throwing in wacky shizz just to keep the game fresh. âWooooaaaah, we got Marvul skinnz and tankz nao!!!111â)
And yes, you may laugh at the âvisionâ and âintegrityâ thing, Iâm ok with that 
OW is just un fixable.
Only way I see it working charge fee $7 monthly subscription PER acct.
Many wonât pay for it plus many wonât pay for their alternate accounts.
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Nah, far from unfixable. Even if I were to hate the matchmaker Iâd still see a good game running underneath all the crap. If the game woulda been doodoo feces through and through Iâd call it unfixable. But in that case I wouldnât even care about the game, and I wouldnât hang on the forum
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I think youâre mistaken.
Do you really think the reason why players have left is purely because of alt accounts?
Every game has such issues, though they do not die just because of that.
If you have to pay monthly just to play a game then you are wasting your money, this is pretty much the most garbage idea iâve seen on here.
The community has been deprived of content, the touch between community and devs had been lost.
If the matchmaker gets adjusted so players whoâve left for a while can return and if the other issues get fixed, then players will definitely return.
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Are you okay there buddy? The industry is moving forward towards free to play models in which cosmetics are monetized, not backwards towards the 2000s. This is such an enormous hopium take because you are fed up with smurfs.
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EZ fix, enable the option âMatch me with old accounts onlyâ then you play against, say, silver border + accounts. Should eliminate most smurfs. Of course, you have to be an old account to enable this. That way all the smurf accounts can play in one big cesspool together
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True I will finally be able to reach rank one after this handicapping is gone.
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heres a problem with that:
lets say i have an older account, which was in lets say low gold. i buy a new account, spend time on that one learning to be more efficient with my character pool, climb this account lets say to mid-high plat. then i log onto my old account, and with that match making option enabled, completely roll low gold/high silver games. how does that it make it fair to you?
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its on bruh! im gonna get there first!
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Blizzard has been dead for more than a decade. Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard. 
I donât think this will change anything. Microsoft didnât improve Bethesda, neither will it improve Activision Blizzard.
This is just a move any conglomerate would take. 70bill is pretty much pocket change for Microsoft. Not to mention they overpaid for it because Acitivision Blizzard was valued at around 50-55bill at the time.
People will keep buying Blizzard games; thereâs no denying that. Microsoft just thought to own that part of the market also.
Gaming industry has been growing fast and big, and thereâs no signs of it slowing down. Monopolizing gaming industry could be insanely good for Microsoft in the long run.
Wouldnât surprise me if Meta bows down to Microsoft in 10-15 years. Google and Apple will follow suit soon after.
Hate to be that guy, but the same people are going to be in charge till next yearâŚnot to be a debbie downer just a heads up. Microsoft canât do anything really for a whole another year for now.
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I havenât been playing OW so I can wait.
I wonder if the OW player base is 500 now?