They wont put hero bans. Sorry to burst your bubble and your fantasy in wanting to control other peoples choices, or that you cant ban heros you think are making you lose.
Trust me, you wont get better or win more games. Sorry.
This is what people thought was going to happen with lfg parties, until they found they are just as bad as they thought they weren’t because of blaming unpopular heros.
This, as it was first stated an announced, is supposed to be a shooter pvp game. Their first one, and wanted a game in that Genre, as they have other Genres already.
Metzen said it when it was first announced at Blizzcon. Not a moba. This is why they are making efforts to bring it back to that.
I know right? This is how you can tell its the ones that want to stop those nasty bad heros from being on their team causing them “to lose”, when its more than likely the other way around.
Youre also wrong there. Blizzard still kept its rights to develop games as they see fit. it was part of the agreement, thus is why its a partnership. This is why do don’t see Blizzard games really in the EA access like overwatch.
From a business perspective, this is much harder to pull off than you are giving it credit for. It isn’t so much as Jeff saying, “this isn’t what we want for the game” and Activision’s CEO overriding it.
Case in point, Jeff literally convincing them that merging OW1 and OW2 together is the right thing to do and to not leave OW1 players behind concerning new heroes and maps. But still having to pay for all the new PVE stuff.
Believe what you want. I’ll remember to get back to you when they come in. Just like RQ did when people didn’t want that and brought up quotes from the devs then too.
Especially now that Jeff literally took it upon himself to flat-out say hero ban isn’t coming when a wave of people were stating that it was because it was a good move for the game.
That’s not to say it won’t come at some point in the future, but you’re so definitive that it will - making it sounds like it’s coming soon - that it’s incredibly off-putting.
Also, role queue and hero bans are functionally, vastly different. Role queue is more palatable than hero bans are because role queue restricts you into one role but lets you pick anyone. Hero bans literally say, “no picking this hero” for whatever reason. And that is something that Jeff has flat-out said is something they don’t want to do and will look for workarounds.
No. It does not. He is just staying politically correct in his answer. If you read his message, they are pretty much saying no. It would only be “as a last resort”, but I am pretty sure they know it will hurt their game as people want to play what heros they want to play.