1.) You don’t communicate.
I never hear from you. I’ve asked you numerous times to call or text when you want to make plans, but all I hear is silence or vague promises that never live up to my expectations.
2.) You don’t change.
Relationships evolve over time. I’ve put up with every quirk, annoyance, and outright lazy excuse you’ve come up with. I tried to help us grow into a long-term commitment, but it’s becoming increasingly obvious that you aren’t the one for me, because you are never going to change and improve sufficiently. It’s cliche, but often you “take one step forward and two steps back”. It’s not enough.
3.) It feels like the spark has gone out.
When we first started dating, you took me to exciting places and we met interesting people. You showed me some amazing things. Now that barely happens anymore – it feels like all there is now is new clothes and restaurants we’ve visited too many times. Do you even remember the last time we went to the movies together?
4.) You don’t give me enough agency.
Sometimes I’d like to make decisions for myself. But your world is one of control where supposedly I don’t know best. You cite statistics and assert logic arguments to back up your unilateral decisions, but it rarely turns out to be fun and enjoyable. I want to make my own choices, and there are plenty of others out there that are willing to provide that freedom.
5.) Frankly, you just seem kind of shallow nowadays.
At first I thought that your unique talents would keep me happy, but it often feels like this is nothing but an illusion you use to hide your faults. And, over time, even your strengths don’t seem as appealing as they used to. When I’m with you, the highs are oh so very high. But the lows are the lowest I’ve ever been. And those bad times are increasingly frequent. That’s your fault. I deserve better.
So I’m breaking up with you. I’ll still visit, but I don’t think we will ever get serious again unless you make a lot more effort to improve. I’m sorry it had to be this way, but it’s time I moved on and found somebody else to spend my time with. Somebody who appreciates me more. I don’t know who that is yet, but I’ll be on the lookout.
Alternatively:
1.) Blizzard doesn’t communicate with its audience nearly enough. Even before the recent radio silence, the general lack of communication with users throughout the game’s lifespan has been completely unacceptable.
2.) Overwatch is fundamentally the same game it was two years ago. Just with different balance decisions and different bugs. Heck, some day-one quirks and minor feature requests still haven’t been resolved. Quality of Life changes get put on the backburner for years and heroes have bugs for months. Poorly balanced heroes exist as overpowered monsters or underpowered throw picks that plague the game for months before getting “reworks” that often make that hero’s issues even worse. The pace of this game’s development is glacial, which leads us into item 3.
3.) The rate of new content is incredibly slow. I do not consider voice lines, sprays, skins, and rehashed events as meaningful content. New maps and heroes are introduced a couple times per year. Overwatch was designed to be a game with many heroes fulfilling different narrow roles – why aren’t we seeing a continuous stream of new heroes? The quality is meaningless if the quantity is unacceptably poor. On that note, where are the shorts? Where are the comics? Where is the lore?
4.) There is still no map filtering or other basic options for quick play, and even features like LFG actively punish players in quick play when they join groups of significantly lower skill. I can’t see MMR and Blizzard made profiles private by default, so it is difficult for me to ascertain this information until we are in a match and it is too late.
There is still no in-game scoreboard, there is still no persistent filtering for custom games, there is still no expanded avoid list (ignoring the fact that the same feature with a few changes was in the game day one), there is still no queuable skrim / pug mode with the competitive ruleset without SR ego BS involved, there has been no replacement for private profiles that communicate relevant hero choice information, there is still no in-game demo/replay system for personal use or professional game PoV demos (hello easy sell OWL pass feature), there is still no in-game spectating client. This list could probably go on for another paragraph or two if I kept thinking about it, but I believe my point has been made.
5.) Overwatch has great highs when everything works and you have a quality match… but the other 70% of the time, the game tends to have very low lows. The game is so reliant on teamwork and designed to minimize individual impact that the poor balance decisions and long development times don’t inspire confidence in Blizzard fixing it either. I’m not sure if Blizzard does not know who they are balancing for, and their arrogance forces them into iterative approaches instead of rolling back obvious missteps, but this has disappointed me for too long.
I’ll still play Overwatch casually, but I don’t think I’ll be spending too much time / effort on the game anymore. The payoff isn’t worth the frustration.
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