RIP Overbuff and other stats sites

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As you all may know, on the PTR the profiles are automatically set to private. Which I do love, I love the option of choosing whether you want to hide it, or keep it to your friends, or public.

But I think the “default” (for people who do not care) should be public. Because as it is right now stats site that showcases to us which heroes are underpowered, overpowered, extremely picked, extreme low picks are all going to not have any data to take from.

Basically, the new feature is awesome, but don’t let the private be the default feature. As there is no API that Blizzard provides for us to see stats, so we have to rely on those websites for the time being.

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a shameless disgusting bump

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Those numbers can be quite misleading anyways, Rein has the highest pickrate and a 52% winrate in general. And i don’t think anyone would call him OP.

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Blizzard doesn’t listen to pick-rates or what is overpowered already with those stats. If they did Hanzo wouldn’t be the only viable dps, you wouldnt be shooting a wall of shields every game and the other 20 heroes outside the meta would be playable.

I don’t think it will effect much.

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Are you sure this change will affect the stats sites? This is a user interface change. It doesn’t mean that the actual way the data is accessed has necessarily been changed.

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You’re correct it wouldn’t affect much.

You’re wrong that the stats would have such an accurate and spectacular effect on balance if reacted to.

50% credit is an F in America unfortunately.

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Isn’t profile data from sites like overbuff already private (from Blizzard’s end) until the user agrees to allow their data to be shared?

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Wait, does the feature affect stat sites too?

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Okay I forgot Hanzo isn’t in an absolutely disgusting state right now. You can continue to think its your skill not your hero.

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Rein has the highest pickrate because he’s meta pick with brigitte. and the other off-tanks are not optimal. Pickrate=/= balance state. but yes it is not misleading that rein is a “must pick” tank due to the meta.

OP=/= must pick in a meta

off-meta=/= underpowered

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Is anyone sure that this will NOT affect such sites? they don’t have API to draw from.

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Don’t play Hanzo. C o n t i n u e ?

I didn’t say Overbuff was 100% wrong, I’m simply pointing out it’s not the paragon of accuracy and balance that you were giving it credibility for. There’s a distinct reason Blizzard doesn’t listen to the forums, they aren’t perfect either but hoo wee would this game be a mess if some of these memes of balance were taken seriously.

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I agree with you on that 100%. But there are certain heroes or abilities that are so blatantly overpowered currently that players from every rank are talking about and Blizzard ignores it.

Hanzo is literally broken right now, top 500 say it, professional Hanzo players say it, yet Blizzard is pretending to not see any posts made about him.

So all I said is Blizzard doesn’t listen to anyone outside themselves, so websites like that even though they exist now don’t matter and won’t matter after.

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This won’t affect much those sites will still get a large enough sample size