So if World of warcraft classic is possible based off of them selling servers and such…Why can’t they have Overwatch classic for the normal/old school players…to me it would be fair and make sense…wouldn’t it?
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My guess is that the event is, in part, to judge popularity. It’s a lot easier to run a 3 week event of Overwatch Classic than go through the whole process of trying to do that for WoW Classic. 3 weeks is barely any time at all in a MMO like vanilla WoW so if you’re gonna do it, you might as well do the whole thing.
Though now that I’ve gotten a taste, I want it here permanently.
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I mean, its ow “classic” it’s kind of more like overwatch no limits back when overwatch first started and it’s just really bad not many people actually found it fun outside of a small minority and it got annoying stupidly quick for the community which is why it was changed. especially with how the community plays nowadays even in quickplay people will literally stack the most obnoxious annoying hero’s possible to make it just not worth playing for anyone unless you do the exact same thing.
I tried it once and it was atrocious feeling. If they made it so it was like right before ow2 released where there was some semblance of team coordination and not spamming just a thousand of the same hero I would have given it more of a go and that’s my honest opinion. If it wasn’t the no limit’s Bullcrap I would have enjoyed it more but since it is it’s kind of just a joke lol.
the game I “backfilled” into because others constantly left was 90% widows and pharah’s with a winston and sym on point, my team tried other stuff and it was just… not good feeling at all.
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First logistics of what OW to pick. This is just 3 of the “classic” Overwatch modes rotated weekly. Compared to WoW with 3-4 major tiers there are about 40 Overwatch patches to rotate through. Furthermore, unlike in classic WoW, the existence of a balance patch makes it impossible to go backwards.
Next up there simply isn’t a great to justify long term support. For WoW there is a monthly sub which justifies continued dev time. We saw OW1 dying with a lack of content updates, basically only surviving because people knew there was more in the pipeline. In this case though there would be nothing in the pipeline beyond the preset balance patch rotation.
Basically this is best done like the April Fool’s patch, in small doses before all the little annoyances build up.
Wow has a monthly subscription.
Overwatch is a free to play game.
Try it again in a few days, they have already confirmed that no limits will be gone soon, so it will just be the OG heroes with OQ.
It will be better then.
Tho the Oct 2020 patch would be great to go back to for another classic event at a later date.
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for sure, I will def because I hated the whole no limits thing on release even, I can tell you I still hate it with a passion and I played it for about 5min and it reminded me of the scars once healed 
. #being overly dramatic but truly if they do it up till ana release or something SURE would be dope along side bringing back our darn border levels and other stuff.
#lootboxes when??? i know it ain’t happening but I can dream right to earn skins free again? 
Yeah I hated it as well, and then I got in a game where I convinced my team to go 4 reins Lucio and mercy and it was glorious
It’s good if you don’t take it seriously and you have a team that will put up with your ridiculous ideas, but I definitely couldn’t play it for the whole 3 weeks.
Hard to really judge popularity on a bad version of the game they didnt even give us any of the season 1 fixes. They gave us a broken launch version.
What I don’t understand is that they seem to intend to go back to the height of the worst metas imaginable, such as moth meta, GOATs, and of course the launch before any patches. I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist but it seems like a malicious way to shine a bad light on the games’ history.
I probably just have bad taste, but I loved all three of these periods of time. Perhaps they polled people with equally bad taste and this is what we wanted…
At very least there is healthier sections of these metas. If they go back to release Brigitte or just after Mercy’s rework then it’s hard to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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The version of OW1 with the worst balance is still in a completely different league to OW2. Played it all evening and didn’t get frustrated once whereas in OW2 it’s every game.
The event is to test it out first and foremost. OG OW release version was basically the worst version of the original game. They’re going to add role limits and more in future seasons, which means more heroes from the old roster, and eventually i hope it’ll all culminate with them adding the current roster with, albeit tweaks (Mostly nerfs) to it in a 6v6 RQ mode.
I also think its them testing 6v6 with the new engine