As long as newbies can ruin ranked games as long this game will lose core community. They throw, leave ranked games, do not care basics, objectives nor counters. Wasting others’ time, they sabotage gameplay and kill everything that was good in this game. I think Blizzard sabotage own game by lame coded matchmaking and wrong decisions about putting everyone into same bag. I feel like cannon fodder or a bag with money - they will not get from me and trust me I planned to buy all battlepasses and everthing else (dlcs etc). Thats it.
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Just remove QP and ranked completely
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Just did and bought a new game. GG .
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250 games is unreasonable.
No other game asks ppl to play 250 matches before ranked.
You have to look at what other games do .
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Reading this forum, I get the impression that Blizzard doesn’t give a sh1t about the community and doesn’t know anything about games at all, but also how to live well with their fans. They are probably just a bunch of random people who got into someone else’s work, changed their own way and screwed everything up. They don’t listen to the people who are actually playing the game and keep f***ing things.
I already stop playing this crap, game is not enjoyable anymore.
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You are the reason that this game is considered to be one of the most toxic out there. How about instead of plaguing the forums with toxicity and complaining about NEW PLAYERS coming to a DEAD GAME you instead take a deep breath, help these new players in your ranked games, and actually care about something for once. Or take a break from the game. It went free to play, which makes it pretty clear that you will run into new players.
and FYI, they are in YOUR ranked games, so clearly your skill level is equivalent to that of someone who has never played Overwatch before. That says a lot more about you than it does new players.
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Hehe, I am still reading this forum but I quit over week ago. I wonder when someone from magement will decide to read all forums hottest topics and start using his brain ‘how to make game cool to play and not to lose community’. To be honest they are not able to keep us with some skins when gameplay immersion will be like this.
Even Paladins have better skin content (different skin = different samples, different colours and design of gun fire etc, they are a lot better and there is a lot more and they do not a big deal about making a new skin). I was playing for 6 years, I quit, now i found another game of competition where I don’t feel pounded by the publisher.
I hope You all will found this game awesome one day… maybe in 5 years but at least…
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Reading any games forums is going to give you that impression. The only reasons people come to forums is to either report bugs or to whine and complain like you.
I do not perceive it as toxicity. He is clearly frustrated with how grouping works nowadays, which has a huge impact on the gameplay itself. It’s frustrating, and I agree that new players shouldn’t mix with veterans, as new players should learn the basics of maps, the basics of teamplay, the basics of reacting to opponents, and picking champions. Due to the fact that currently everyone plays against everyone in ranked matches, the game is hopeless. Read other people’s posts.
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I don’t need to read other people’s posts. I’ve had new players on my team and I’ve had new players on the enemy team. I knew it was going to happen and it’s not an issue. It’s the same type of “problem” as smurfs/throwers/cheaters. You can get them on your team and you can get them on the enemy team. They’re going to be there no matter what.
“and FYI, they are in YOUR ranked games, so clearly your skill level is equivalent to that of someone who has never played Overwatch before. That says a lot more about you than it does new players.”
You know what, me and my friend are in diamond and we play together. We are adding players to the team who confirm that they have just started playing and it shows. For example, they have 4/15 k / d and they die in a stupid way. We talk to them, we teach them, but I admit it is already starting to annoy us. So I cannot agree that we are on the same level.
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I can understand that having new players on your team can be frustrating, but that’s going to happen. It’s nice to hear that someone else is treating them like actual human beings instead of a disease.
The influx of new players was a pretty good sign for me not to play ranked/take it too seriously for the first month or so. New ranking system, new players, new characters, reworked characters, etc.
A lot has changed and that means a lot of fluctuation in the ranked ladder. People are going to move all over the place.
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This game has always been emotional. This is her strength. I understand you and you are right, I also understand the author of the thread. I hope the developers will make some small adjustments and it will be easier to believe that we are playing with people with a similar level of knowledge about the game 
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im at 900 hours after like 4 years on and off on pc. 100 games would be more reasonable, also forces you out of the new player pool before you get to join comp.