"Overwatch Your Way" - Directors Take Feedback - Your Input

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WHAT YOU PLAY
‘Player choice starts with deciding which kind of Overwatch experience you’re looking for’

For me I primarily play unranked 6v6

Despite being a tank one trick I do feel as though I have some say in how the match plays out, whether I play well or choke.

HOW YOU PLAY
‘Perks, Hero bans & stadium armory … These kinds of systems allow more room for creativity, strategy, and personal expression.’

Again, as a 6v6 open queue player, the perks are what I primarily interact with, and I think they’re pretty fun so far. I wouldn’t say they’re game changing, but I wouldn’t get rid of them, either.

WHY YOU PLAY
'One of the most meaningful areas of player agency includes all the ways you tailor your experience outside of active matches … rather than overhaul big systems like progression, we’re looking to build gradually by adding more ways for you to earn cool stuff’

I’m definitely down with the end of match voting cards coming back. I admit a bias here… I remember first playing OW on console at a friends place, and seeing those cards at the end of the match and thinking ‘wow that is really cool, I’ve never seen that in another multi player game before’.

In other words, that is a feature that is likely geared to OW old timers, but I’m here for it, and I hope other players might come to appreciate it as well.

At any rate… if you had to list your reasons for What, How & Why you play, what might yours be? If you need more context/inspiration, here is the original post:

‘Director’s Take: Overwatch Your Way - News - Overwatch’

I know I gave a very limited/biased view, but that is why I’m curious to hear about everyone else’s experience. If you made it this far, thanks for reading :dove:

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Unless I run into some skill issue support players who ban Genji, that is.

Oh, yeah, totally. These change everything. Not.

Sounds great. So when’s the rewards?

I just want Genji to somehow beat my bugged play time. A big they said they would fix. Years ago. That’s about it.

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if you dont pay the battle pass there is no much reason to play, there is no progression, there is no new pve story missions, there are no new events with new limited time modes with free rewards, there is no sense of anything happening, stadium sucks, sucks so much, is the anti ow fun mode, perks did nothing to make the game better, a lot of bad new modes and maps, playing quickplay gives you nothing, playing ranked only gives you coincs to buy the most ugly weapon skins you will ever see, what else?

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More like “overwatch somebody else’s way” seeing as how you keep adding ways for people to tell others how to play

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That was great! :smiley::+1:

I also play 6v6 OQ, in addition to Stadium. My responses are very similar. Why do I play Stadium? Cause I love the variety and progression the mode has. Its both Wild and Controlled! Chaotic yet Organized! Crazy yet Plannable. Quirky yet Adaptable. And I really enjoy when these 2 concepts are combined into one mode.

My only gripe about Stadium are the Stomps, which feel amplified compared to other modes.

I really hope voting cards return! :pray::flower_playing_cards: That would be splendid! :smiling_face_with_tear:

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What:
At the moment I’m mostly playing quick play - open queue, though the max. 2 tank limit + map voting has left me feeling a little sour about that mode, so I’ve been putting more time into 4vs4 team deathmatch in the arcade. I would play no limits, since it’s my favourite mode (along with tdm), but the queue times are just waaay too long (40+ minutes usually).

I primarily play all the tanks, though if the tank slots are filled I’ll play support, usually Lúcio or Illari. I don’t play DPS very often, but there are a few heroes I enjoy every now and then; Reaper, Mei, Venture & Symmetra.

How:
I play to have fun. I always try be an effective teammate, since I enjoy the feeling of having been helpful to other people. But I do also engage in the occasional ‘tomfoolery’, if you will. ‘Shenanigans’ even. Things would just get a bit too serious and stale without the occasional silly moments I feel, and I’m fortunate to have friends who agree and going along with each others’ dumb ideas have lead to some of my favourite moments in this game, such as this one.

Why:
It’s just a familiar activity at this point. ‘A habit’, I guess. I do still find it fun…sometimes…
I also play it to achieve a goal I set for myself a while ago now; to reach 100hrs of playtime on each tank hero. I already did the same for the support role before Juno got added, and since tank is my main role now, and I enjoy playing every tank hero, I figured why not.
Sincerely doubt I’d ever do the same for the damage role since I don’t enjoy it as much as tank & support, but… never say never I guess :woman_shrugging:

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Sombra prevents half the tanks and supports from being playable so complaining your crutch is getting banned is a massive testament to ur hypocrisy. Hopefully blizzard reworks her to be a support or removes her garbage kit entirely and make her a tracer skin.

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lol thanks for the feedback y’all :dove:

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Which half? I’m a zenyatta main and I’m still playable with her.

If you don’t want to play against sombra this isn’t the game for you. Or at least it shouldn’t be. It shouldn’t be the game for anyone who genuinely hates playing against the heroes in it.
If you genuinely hated sombra you wouldn’t have been playing to begin with, now that people that do want to play her really just can’t. Like that’s not my overwatch. My overwatch has 44 heroes not 40. Bans are just so stupid. Making people who love the game miserable for the sake of the people who apparently hated it but played it anyway is just mind boggling dumb.

“Play the way you want”
I want overwatch and I want to play against every hero in overwatch. These comps are so so so so boring anymore. There is basically no variety, it just sucks so bad. Like honestly it’s just reaction after reaction to the loudest dumbest people that has kept the game from being it’s peak over and over. It almost feels like they are trying to kill it so they can go all in on the stadium stuff and just call that the real overwatch 2 or something.

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The data on people not wanting sombra in the game is clear, ur forsaking the enjoyment factor of the entire game to let one troll character be obnoxious.

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• I only play QP in 5v5 role queue as DPS. I can’t touch comp. I’ll get flagged as a smurf and banned for cheating. And another reason, I just can’t stand the current unkillable tanks compared to OW1.

• I play like it’s my last game ever and I’ve only got a few minutes left. Only tracking/aim heroes. Widow and Soldier.

As Widow, I take sharp shots without tracking, I quickly flick the camera by 30 to 90 degrees and shoot purely on intuition and experience.
As Soldier, I run around the entire map like I’m Tracer 76.

• Because I like it. It’s the only game I really play. I’d say it’s my favorite online game alongside WoW, and for offline, TLOU2.