It’s a new game. Every single hero completely reworked. It is 5v5, which completely changes the fundamental concepts of the game. This is in no way a patch. This is a new game. Do not take away the game we love and replace it with something with an entirely different target audience. Just make a new game, but keep the old game online as is (no new content if the returns don’t warrant it). If Blizzard division disagrees, overrule them.
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Ah yes, split the playerbase! Good idea!
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They’ve already confirmed that OW1 will be grandfathered into OW2. The last thing Blizzard want to do is divide the playerbase even more.
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It’d be terrible for the game and community to keep OW1 and OW2 PvP separate. Microsoft is not dumb lol
Welcome to live service games, you must be new here! WoW has been going for over a decade and the classes in that game are nowhere close to what they were at launch.
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I really don’t think it would that much and one of the reasons blizz probably plans to overwrite ow1 with ow2 is because they know it would just die off. Very few people would stick around playing overwatch with 0 updates when OW2 gets updated regularly.
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If the changes were good it would be understandable, but it’s a complete disaster. Most of the changes shown so far reveal that the people in charge of hero balance and design are terrible and incompetent at their job. They need to stop taking feedback just from specific people or be outright replaced or this game will fail hard.
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“What if overwatch… But the tanks and supports didn’t do anything?”
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Omg you got to play the Alpha??? Lucky!!!
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The targeted playerbase is different. There is no tank role in OW2, just brawlers. EVERY OTHER ROLE will play completely different with a brawler in place of tanks. They’re targeting the 5v5 FPS market with OW2. People like me who like to tank and play a coordinated game on other roles centered on tank will just stop playing. It won’t split the playerbase much more than releasing a new Diablo would split the player base from Overwatch.
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Which is sad. But you guys also probably make up around 2-6% of the general playerbase lol.
Tank players already are the vastly smallest role (in any game, not just OW), and the ones who will quit because of OW2 is an even smaller %
You won’t need us in Overwatch 2. If they try to make tanks like tanks, it will fail miserably, with 30 minute queues for everything else. If they make them brawlers, you all can enjoy what will basically be a deathmatch/battle royale type game compared to the organization that was required in OW.
I’d honestly rather they just shut down the servers than have it overwritten. “Thanks for the great years. Try Overwatch 2!”
WoW is a subscription game though. I still don’t think they should do what they did, but it makes more sense there than doing it on a purchased game model like Overwatch.
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OR just ask for an arcade mode in Overwatch 2 that has current Overwatch before it was turned into OW2. Kind of like we have No Limits and Quickplay classic. No Limits for launch Overwatch and QP classic for Overwatch before role queue.
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It won’t be much different gameplay wise. It will just feel worse to play from what I can tell.
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Why not? You act like thats necessarily a bad thing.
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Yes…an arcade mode…where everyone always tries their best.
Very true. Take 2/3 of the DPS players away from OW so they can run around in the chaos that will be OW2. Leave me with the ones that will play around their tanks.
It literally is when one of the biggest points of 5v5 is to make queue times better? LOL?
Y’all need to ACCEPT that
a) 5v5 IS coming
b) OW1 PvP IS going away
c) the game is going to be just fine if some of you guys quit over it
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The long queue times are because of an imbalance in whos playing what role, not total player count… wtf do you think 5v5 is FOR lmao? 
Bill Gates called me, he said no.
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