OWL ruined Overwatch

Once again capitalist greed ruins something that was once great. Instead of balancing your game around an incredibly niche activity that literally less than 1% of the playerbase partakes in, how about you try making the game fun and original like it was on release? Mercy and symmetra, two of the coolest and most unique characters DESTROYED in the name of balance for the top <1%. Is this a joke?

Your lust for advertising money has driven more players away than anything else. Shame on Blizz

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Has been said for years, Blizzard saw a potential fat cash cow in the E-Sports marked and decided to obsessively focus on it to the exclusion of everything else. 4 years later and we’re in a hot mess of a game that deters new players from joining, and a developer that still hasn’t caught on to the fact that their E-Sports have failed miserably.

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You do realize Sym was considered a troll pick from the start, right? Well before OWL was a thing?

But sure, OWL forced her to be changed because… Reasons.

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now im worried about OW2…with OWL still exist

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Can you put sombra ASAP?
Broke her hack
Didn’t even last over a week
Her patch didn’t even go through PTR

I think OP meant the double shield nerfs and maybe the infinite TP change because the infinite TP is not really fun and the double shield nerfs were completely unnecessary

She countered double shield
Let’s gut the counter I guess 🤷

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tbh i wil lhave to agree with this owl has ruined the game pretty muchand some of them guys in owl ive heard can be hostile when they arent in a recorded stuff like they have been sene using wallhacks and other things

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Both heroes were considered meme picks at launch, and it took five buffs to make people play Mercy over Ana or Lucio. The sixth buff, the one that got rid of mass res, made Mercy so good she ruined the game’s balance and meta for a year.

In what universe did Mercy get nerfed for any reason other than “Blizzard doesn’t know what to do with a hero that can undo stupid mistakes”?

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so your saying we shouldn’t have OWL in Overwatch. When other games like Fortnite, DOTA, have leagues??? Yeah Yeah overwatch will die even more without a league

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realize were listening to a 7 post player LUL

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OW will rose even better withou OWL.
i know the game still lose twitch uhh stream views thing but that doesn’t matter when you have healthy game

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Sym was much more a problem in average ranks than she ever was in OWL.

Ironically, if they were strictly balancing around OWL, heroes like Sym would have been buffed years ago.

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yeah but if you think about it. Most people watch OWL for tokens. And if we remove OWL people are gonna complain about tokens saying “5 dollars for one skin NAHHHHHHH”

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I agree that they are being greedy, not because they’re catering only to OWL but because they’re trying to cater to EVERYONE. More people playing your game = more money. More people watching your competitive gaming league = more money. BOTH? = LOTSA CASH!

They reworked Torbjörn and Symmetra drastically because people really like the heroes in this game and more people prefer to main a few heroes rather than switch to the best possible one, so they had to make them viable outside of their one specific niche.

They had to nerf Mercy because during Moth Meta she was nearly 100% pickrate at all ranks. That’s a MASSIVE problem.

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because mercy was broken duhhhhhhhh. ez farm valk. 2 rezzes during valk. Plus Immediate rez. Really broken hero back then. dont you say thats a problem

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or like 5 man rez hiding in a room waiting for your team to die.

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By that logic wouldn’t bastion have been changed too?

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Actually release Mercy was ridiculously good because her ultimate at the time charged so fast you could potentially get two mass resurrects in a single fight. They promptly nerfed Mass resurrect shortly after release of the game and than hit the game with a global ultimate nerf, where she laid dead until Mercy 2.0 landed.

If this game has a competent dev team that understood how to properly tweak numbers then you could have both the league and base game be fine. But the devs don’t know how to balance or design hero’s that aren’t pure cheese. The last hero we got that wasn’t cheese is wrecking ball and he is considered a troll pick below diamond with how many people lack the ability to not feed with him.

CC, burst healing/burst dps are among the main problems that need to be dealt with and after that throwers, Smurf’s, cheaters should be dealt with. But that will never happen.

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Let the forum people hate thats all they can do. I and many others enjoy the owl and there is nothing wrong with that. Its quite fun how all the forumplebs are witchhunting owl (like they did with dps mains).

No matter what it is its always the fault of owl (or the satanic dps players of course).

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they nerfed cc a lot. Burst healing well theres only ana thats good burst healing. Burst Dps have their own weaknesses like junkrat gets killed by hitscan or flying heros