Prove you listen to your community

Its really painful to us as players that you want to be so supportive of this game that you want us to do whatever you say as developers but have a problem with the obvious when you claim you listen to the community. Of course you guys come up with skins, designs and maps but honestly, let this go down in history

Sombra being as hated as she is and the developers refusing to see it, yet let it continue on proves that either you cant accept reality or you want us to just be quiet and let it be. I have never EVER seen such avoidance by game creators as this when something that can be FIXED in less than a DAY isn’t.

You REMOVED MEI from the game once, remember that?

Yet you claim that sombra isn’t defined by what we think and what we are telling you. I dare say that even as CREATORS of Sombra that you aren’t dealing with what we deal with and I think that is where the connection is. You dont feel the disappointment that we do as players because honestly you developers do not CONNECT with us as players you only see as users of the game and therefore you are ABOVE US since you can wave your wand.

You care to an EXTENT but this is the one moment in history that it proves BEYOND a shadow of a doubt that you clearly ignore what you dont want to do and there are MANY MANY MANY players, people on social media and other platforms telling Sombra needs to be nerfed or even REMOVED but you just REFUSE to do it.

Its not a REWORK that is needed and you know it, its abilities that cause US to be frustrated by a character that can sneak up behind you that you can’t see coming, hack you and mess up your situation like ithe character does.

There is NOTHING , no amount of skill anyone can develop that can make them able to stop invisibility. A hack that actually can’t be stopped or blocked.

Until you remove the hack and remove her ability to walk around invisible then you again do not support your goal of ā€˜balance’ that you keep on talking about.

Remove her hack and invisible or remove her from the game

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I’m not going to look for the list again but we have hundreds upon hundreds of examples of them listening to the community

Need not look any further than 6v6, hero bans and map voting in past 6 months

They can’t do everything the community wants (i have my own list of long time requests that have never happened)….especially when the community often struggles to have a consensus on anything…but suggesting they don’t listen is BS of the highest order

And as it pertains to sombra specifically they’ve already mentioned several times that changes are coming

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To take it a step further on Sombra, she needs large scale identity changing alterations. That takes time.

It means first you need to theorize a plan. Then you need to test out and get the numbers right and make sure it plays how you want. Then after that you need to book a slot with the art and animation team so they can make everything needed (they just can’t take a task randomly thrown at them as they most assuredly have a schedule).

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Hopefully not identity changing…but regardless, yeah, big changes take time…

Sometimes I wonder how people think the development process takes place

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i think it has got to the point where she’ll have to. Feels like she can’t have invisiblity and hack anymore or she’ll just get banned 90%+ of the time lol.

I mean I don’t know that any future version of her won’t get the same kind of treatment (she now has a stigma)….but I don’t think older versions of her get the current treatment she’s getting now….i think there is a place for her in the game

There’s a hundred different ways they can go with her….but i don’t want to see her not be sombra if that makes sense…her name literally means shadow….and a cyber hacker or whatever is baked into the character…removing either is basically deleting the character

ā€œProve you love your community, delete the game you createdā€.

If that’s not a manipulative take, I don’t know what is :p…

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Her OW1 version would have the same ban rate. Nobody who bans ever complains about Virus. They complain about Hack and Invis.

Sometimes the community has no idea what it’s talking about

Mei was removed because of a game breaking bug though right? Couldn’t she phase through ceiling and attack through walls. Like she actually was breaking the game. That’s why she was removed. There is a huge difference between game breaking bug and i’m annoyed by this hero. No hero has been removed because you’re annoyed by it. Changed absolutely. But not outright removed

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The idiots buffed tracer and didn’t touch Freya last map. Like how are they listening?

Sombra needs rework, venture needs rework, freja needs nerf, mercy needs rework and overall damage reduction across the board is what I would like to see happen

If a character needs to be changed it should be changed. Whats the point of retaining identity if no one likes playing her or playing against her. I’m sure Blizzard will come up with a convincing rework and we are sending them mixed messages when we say that we don’t want her changed

I guess it depends on what people mean when they say identity….the game has had a lot of reworks but I don’t think any of them have actually removed a characters ā€œidentityā€ (even though we’ve had roles changed….i don’t want to see her kit changed to the point where she’s no longer recognizable as ā€œsombraā€ā€¦.and there’s plenty of room to work with there imho

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Alternatively, they need to stop listening to the community. They never really get it right regardless. The difference would be negligible. BUT it would be their vision.

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Doesn’t matter what they do to sombra. The community will still whine and cry that she needs to be changed.

Hell they cry and whine about every single character in this game. If they started listening to the community.
Genji would one tap
Doom would be back in dps
Pig would be bacon
Mei would have all her skills they took out (even though they took them away for a reason)
Mauga would still be overly broken
Hazard would have more
Sojourn would be useless
Widow would be a sniper no more cuz u all cry about headshots
Dva would no longer have her mech
Zarya would be buffed for no reason
Orisa would be buffed for no reason
All supports would no longer self heal or damage. they would be straight healers but even that would still make people cry saying Supports are to broken
Dps would have more dps passives
Tanks would be like a piece of paper

I mean I could go on but u get the picture. Sometimes they devs really need to stop listening to the big streamers and this community sometimes.
Because games like this will never be balanced.
Everyone is never gonna be happy about characters
There will always be favorite characters in game. (get over it if its not urs)

Might as well get over it. Sombra is annoying we get it. But she is so easy to deal with no matter how u want to spin ur victim card

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Why wont blizzard listen to ME specifically? Why do they not cater to my every whim?

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I mean they should listen to the community on what it wants for fun game mode ideas or arcade or what to bring back like treasure hunt.

What I wish they knew in their own heads is how to balance this gam

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Im complaining about virus, but only this stupid AoE perk version they added…

I wish they would bring back the April Fools Patch with tiny ball and projectile Mercy… That mode for me was the most fun.