Lol. I’ve been playing online video games for decades, I spent over a decade on WoW… that game used to have some of the most abusive team chats one would ever see in their lifetime, especially in the raiding scene.
It (like OW) has a report feature, and yes, Blizzard is pretty good on following up w/ reports. I’ve had to replace raiders due to them receiving lengthy bans for deciding to be a toxic troll in General Chat.
If “GG Ez” triggers you that badly, maybe you’re a little too sensitive to be playing online multiplayer games. Also, again… having a positive attitude/being courteous to your enemies and teammates is just basic gaming etiquette. It shouldn’t have anything to do w/ "e-sports’’ (which shouldn’t even be their primary focus regarding OW to begin with…)
Many popular OW streamers currently play Battle Royale titles because they are not happy with the current state of Overwatch or just need some variety due to the very stale meta with the same 5 heroes picked in GM comp matches all the time: Reinhardt, Zenyatta, Mercy, Zarya, Hanzo.
The changes to Junkrat, Mei, Reaper and Sombra did not help at all. They all are below 1% pickrate on GM. 21 Heroes have a pickrate of 4% and below while the top 5 stay around 10-14% and Widowmaker sitting in between at 6%.
Next patch could change things and OW’s popularity e.g. on Twitch will grow again.
It’s because Blizzard has never, will never, and can never admit they are wrong. It’s always “did not work the way we intended,” never “the way we intended was wrong.” They will not admit to messing up with Brigitte, would not admit their faults with Horizon (just reworked instead of removing from comp), and refuses to acknowledge many of the heroes in need. Doing any of these would signal that they are wrong, which of course can not happen.
I’m not sure what your point is. Everquest is an MMO that was launched almost 20 years ago. It’s not “dead” but it’s certainly a shadow of it’s former self. Listing a bunch of old games that are still played doesn’t mean that Overwatch participation isn’t in decline.
But I thought nobody cared if multiple big OW streamers quit?
Lmao, I was watching Wraxu play Persona 5 a day or two ago and enjoyed it a lot. Kinda sad, because I only really follow OW streamers aside from Lobosjr and Shroud.
Dafran left, or is having a break, so I have little reason to watch anymore.
The game has bored me to death. 2 years to finally start putting in some matchmaking functions to PTR. Ridiculous.
Balance changes that reward not improving at harder heroes and just going to pick up and play spam heroes.
The game isn’t competitive, it’s grouping functions have been awful, the updates are slow and sub optimal.
Why is anyone surprised people don’t want to watch it?
Enjoying RS:Siege, CS:GO and Realm royale way more than I have ever done for over a year in Overwatch.
Most of those games are bandwagons, just released or a better to watch from a spectator perspective (CS for example). It’ll be back up there soon enough.
This type of outlook runs literally counter to what Blizzard’s vision for the future is, and also where they’ve already put down their bets.
Blizzard wants as many people to play and follow OW as possible.
Doesn’t matter if you’re a 14-year-old in a Korean pc bang, or a 89-year-old in a nursing home (a really expensive one).
They want everyone to play OW, and they want MANY MANY folks to like OW enough that they’ll follow and watch the OWL, which has hundreds of millions of dollars invested in it from various major international corporations at this point.
We can’t just go back to an “artisan” game that only appeals, caters to and attracts a specific subset of hardcore gamers.
Nailed it on the head.
I for one am happy the game is seeing a huge exodus of popular streamers leaving and pro players contemplating quitting. Its a sign the game is not in a good spot and needs to be changed.
My one major argument is look at the correlation between income and state of the game. Blizzard is probably one of the biggest gaming companies out there. Overwatch is a monumental hit bringing in billions and having an esport league ( i wont even touch that monstrosity). If a game is this successful and bringing in this much money why is the balance and condition of the game so bad? How do you have the money coming in yet the ambition to create a great game? Its honestly reaching D2 levels of disappointment. People have given great advice on changes in the forums that was not biased at all and they do not take it at all. This LFG change is like a last ditch effort that i think is too little to late for the game.
No I think that quite a few of those OWL players are in-fact Twitch streamers, and their fans possibly don’t like watching OWL because they don’t get to see their favorite person pull off 1v6s every 30 seconds because OWL = fair skill differential (usually)
So if we assume that most of them have views in the thousands- then that’s a couple thousand per person who streams, that’s quite a bit.
