OW is dead, because it moved away from being casual, but never actually made it to competitive side of spectrum. Which ended up pleasing no one.
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Casuals are what built this games success into becoming GOTY in 2016.
Exactly. Making it more competitive only hurt it.
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All the people who call it a noob game likely couldn’t climb out of diamond, to be fair. I think what they mean is that aim is not as valuable in the game and they heavily rely on it in their preferred fps games.
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It not dead everyday they are players overwatch 2 is boring and crazy
Overwatch 2 for cheaters like you
Overwatch 2 for cheaters like you move on
I prefer Overwatch to be casual, can you please call me a cheater as well?
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The real reason why OW is dead is because of the lack of content compared to other games. The other real reason is that competitive is terrible to play. Players don’t really have a big enough impact on the game in a 6v6 world, regardless if it’s Role Q or Open Q. On top of competitive being terrible to play, it takes too long for anyone to climb a rank & a lot of people are stuck in ranks they don’t belong in due to the game being over team reliant. The heroes that aren’t team reliant are also being stopped by 2 barriers (2 tanks) & excessive crowd control (most dps heroes have cc). When that’s not the problem, it takes too long to end fights & get elims.
Comp is a contest to see who gets rolled first, not really who has more skill (whatever that skill happens to be). Everyone wants to play a dps hero & no 1 wants play tank or support heroes. Tanks are too squishy, dps heroes can get easy kills (due to cc only) & support heroes get shafted regardless of them being played properly or not (mostly due to tanks being too squishy). The solo q experience competitive is terrible for all of these reasons. Plus, low impact because of too many players is the other huge problem.
Here’s proof through math:
1 player has impact on a lobby. Everyone else has a possibly of helping or hindering you. Since there’s always 2 teams, you’re job is to be better than the enemy on the same role.
- 6v6 = 1/6 impact, which is 16.67% of the lobby
- 5v5 = 1/5 impact, which is 20% of the lobby
- The smaller the faction the more impact a player has.
These are the true reasons why OW is dead or more so, a bleeding player base. No new content to the live game (Echo was the last hero since April 2020). No balance changes to keep the game afloat. Competitive is bad to play for a myriad of reasons, mostly for excessive cc, too many barriers in the way & squishy tanks. Heroes are over team reliant or can get easy elms.
The only thing left to due is to move everyone forward into OW2. It’s the only way for the game to get more players, or at least keep the current players occupied.
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3 posts… no account history… sus.
Overwatch in 2016 was a MASSIVE success because it was about the gamer.
Then in Q3 of 2017 they BUTCHERED Mercy for the sake of Sponsorships in Overwatch Legue and went back to their dirty old habits that originally strangulated and ligatured our Dear ol World of Warcraft that so many of us were PO’D to see get buried in a pile of rubble.
Activision’s “dirty 3”. That so adamantly step in and DERAIL anything FUN that the Blizzard division makes, those 3 move in and WRECK the game for the sake of some delusional marketing scheme. Which they more than likely SECRETLY work for EA or Behavior Interactive ( I think and assume). While leaving the honest Blizzard employee scrambling for work.
I guess they FTC might block the sale of ATVI to Microsoft from what I hear. Which I hope.
What I would LOVE to see is the company get SPLIT up. ATVI is sold off, Blizzard goes off on its own and the original crew gets back to this game. 
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Micheal M. , Kaplan, Micheal C.
Dead by daylight is another “living proof” of a buy-out game, once good and then bought, BUTCHERED and destroyed. SO one can hope for the better for this game.
Welp, problem with this way thinking is that there is more casual players out there than competitive once, and casuals are those who more offten drop money on microtransactions.
Also main problem of the game is what role q created, wait times.
Most people experience them, and it did make “playing” less interesting since you could wait more than round was played at this point.
OW is dead beacuse its complicated, there is a reason players like derrek couldnt cut it in overwatch but they went pro in valorant, they dont have to think they just need to aim.
Post 3 post using his alt account what a crazy cheater
Mr 3 post I don’t care what you say and will not read Mr 3 post you are a troll and a liar
He a troll and liar 3 posts he think he funny but he a spammer
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The game ceased to be about casual ever since OWL came to being. We once had auto-aim sym and lvl.3 turret but now we have heroes that are focused only for those who can aim. This game is trying to be Counter-Strike. Which the game is not.
I believe it’s worse, they didn’t waste their time
Pretty much me. Grind isn’t something I enjoy.
Those who enjoy aiming, to be specific. As even people, that can aim, not always experience joy from it - it becomes something automatic.
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If anything it’s the move away from casual that lost it players. When they started doing things like deleting old Symmetra to make her more ‘viable’ they lost players.
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What’s the point of competitive anyway? Trying to compare your rank with your neighbour? Do you also do that with your car? Your house? Your family?
We didn’t need a competitive side to Overwatch. Or we needed every game to be competitive, so most players would be less focused on their rank and more on the game.
But making both creates even more problems.
Notably, the “it’s just quick play” problem where competitive players think quick play is actually training mode.
They just had to delete quick play or competitive play. Everyone would have been able to breath better and actually enjoy a GAME. Because it’s a GAME. A video one at that. Videogames, popularised by reclused people who didn’t like to go outside and play sports. And now, they insist their product is a sport and not a game.
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Most people do, yes. Whether they acknowledge it or not, it’s pretty normal for people to compare themselves to those around them.