Overwatch - Stop Changing This Game

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After reviewing Forum posts and updates from Seasons 5, 6, and 7, and seeing the recent changes made in Season 8, I have yet to see a change that has been made that helps the game considerably. Back in Seasons 5 and 6, people were complaining about Hanzo and Junkrat. Guess what, they still are. Yes, I do understand that the Hanzo rework will be coming very soon, but how long did it take for this to go through? Instead of changing the heroes that make the game unbalanced, its developer chooses to change other heroes, make new problems, and ignore the current ones.

Player: “Symmetra’s beam’s range is way too far, you can go around her and it will still follow you. Jeff, please fix this.”

Jeff: “Oh, how about we give Sombra a buff?”

I hope people understand that Jeff Kaplan is changing heroes that don’t need nerfs or buffs and ignoring the numerous forums posts that complain about those heroes that DO need nerfs and buffs. To be specific about the heroes I have problems with:

Junkrat- Too much damage output
Hanzo- Too unreliable on own team, Scatter arrow too powerful
Symmetra: Can go 180 degrees around her, beam still follows you
Widowmaker: Very difficult to deal with, too much damage output (body-shots)
Sombra: unnecessary buff + Hack very difficult to deal with

I completely understand that many, many people will disagree with me on these points, but please at least think about the future development of this game. However, if you are a main of any of these heroes, I do not want you to respond to this post because I highly doubt that the majority of this forum is supporting Sombra’s change or angry that Hanzo is finally getting reworked.

Jeff Kaplan needs to pay attention to more of the forums and not change heroes that are already well-balanced and start making changes to those heroes that make the game tedious and unplayable.

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With out change, the game will get stale, simple as tht

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Allow me to rephrase the topic. I am not asking for no change, I am asking for necessary changes.

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The devs have stated they have a long term plan to ultimately rework Symmetra to make her viable. It’s tricky for them to replace Hanzo’s scatter arrow because he’s underpowered and off meta with his broken af ability, so they have to remove it and replace it with something stronger that’s not obscenely dumb.

The point of balancing and rebalancing heroes in a video game is to cycle in different metas. The devs want to keep people playing the game, so they change certain heroes to be more meta and others to be less, so that everyone has a point where they feel useful.

Occasionally they screw up big time and do something like the Mercy rework which really shut down variety in the support category, but it’s extremely difficult to predict how changes will turn out until they go live.

They also want Overwatch to remain an esport, and if the meta was always the same the same teams would always win with the same strategies and anyone who wanted to watch OWL could just watch a replay from a stage ago and it’d be the exact same thing.

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Sombra needed a buff. She had one of the lowest pickrates and winrates in the game simply because she was severely underperforming compared to the rest of the DPS and her role was shafted to ‘EMP bot’.

These changes to her are super great and have brought her into the meta. She’s not a must pick or a good pick ALL the time though. Whereas heroes like Genji, Tracer, and Junkrat usually work whenever and wherever.

But it’s still TOO early to really say if she was overbuffed or not, she’s not even been on live servers for a week. It’s too early to call for adjustments.

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Well necessary changes right now is anything that reduces dive heroes. Dive tanks and Dive DPS is taking over and overshadowing the other tanks/dps.

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A lot of people can complain about a lot of heroes, i’m not deffending Widowmaker or sombra or symmetra, I hate those heroes, I mainly play tracer / Soldier / Zarya, but to be fair, in my opinion :

I hate junkrat, not gonna comment on it, cause I know i’ll be biased, I juste hate him.
Hanzo : the problem about scatter arrow is mainly that it’s random af, I agree that it’s kind of " powerfull " but the main problem is the big random factor, you can be in another side of the map and a lost scatter arrow kills you, they need and they are going to buff the hanzo, the best thing to do is to change the scatter arrow, and buff the s*** out of him.
Symmetra : That’s the thing about the hero, she creates a " Zone ", you don’t go near her, and in a 1 vs 1 scenario, you should be able to kill her with any Dps, and every tank but Orisa, I don’t think she needs a change on the beam, my personal opinion is that she needs a complete rework again, she is useful in one case only, and she can be countered easly.
Widowmaker : I hate her, when I play support and nobody cares about her, but common, she is not " very difficult to deal with " and she do not have " too much damage output ", if she had less damage she’ll be useless af, nobody would play her.
Sombra : Of course the buff was necessary, hack is relay easy to deal with, you hear the sound of hack, you flick and damage her, hack stops, befor complaning about hero, try learning to play against it, she is a hard hero to use, Diamond and bellow sombras are ( must of the time ) useless, in my opinion she needs a rework not a nerf.

The thing I noticed about the " Community complains ", is that we complain about the lesser played heroes, nobody compplains about the most played heroes, you’re just used to play against a genji or a tracer, even if she is annoying af, she can one clip you in the back and get out of it as if nothing happened, but you are used to deal with it, and you see a symmetra once in a blue moon, and you just can’t do s***, and then you come to the forum and you complain.

But after all, that’s just my opinion, I can understand your thinking, but my opinion in the end is that : to find a good balance, you buff or rework the lesser played heroes / you nerf the most played heroes, and you do it a lot of times, the more you do it, the more balance you’ll get.

PS : I used to play Dota, 120ish heroes, I played for 5 years, I don’t know what is the state of the game now, but they’ll had this strategy, they’ll do a lot of changes, and they’ll change like 90 of the heroes each time, they’ll nerf the most played, they’ll boost the less played, and about 2 years ago just sometime befor I stopped Dota, it was at a state of balance I never saw in any game, every single hero was picked, the meta was => play any synergy stack of heros in a 1 1 3 Comp, and you can win. it was the first time at a big tournament that 100% of the heroes were picked, and for me, that’s balance.