Well, i think i’m done with OW. The matchmaker is the main problem. Rigging up matches to be even, without giving players enough PBSR to actually rank up makes the game pointless to play in the long run.
However…
Role Queue has utterly ruined this game for me.
It’s not just queue times, which are ridiculous for any online pvp game. It’s the way Role Queue has made the game too limiting. Twice tonight, i got a “not my job” from tanks as a sniper was giving us a lot of trouble. Huh… i remember when it was just automatic to switch to a dive tank immediately and get on that. Now? “Not my job”
People pick a hero, queue up, play that hero, figure they’re doing their job.
Role queue is not only frustrating, limiting, with ridiculous queue times, but it’s also made the players WORSE. No one switches to counter. No one helps other roles out.
And the toxicity has gotten much much worse since role queue. That’s because the system is FAR too oppressive. And hey… describing Overwatch as “oppressive” actually makes me kind of sad. Because that is the opposite of the game they originally created.
Anyway. I believe i’ve finally had enough. There are so many problems with the game, that it was actually shocking to see Hero Pools introduced as an answer to one of the communities supposed top complaints. Huh. I’ve never seen hero pools even discussed. It’s the last thing anyone asked for. It’s a waste of time, and will only make Overwatch even MORE limiting.
I just hate the direction they’ve gone with the game. Role Queue, Map Pools, and now Hero Pools are the final straw for me.
But i have to say, above all, the main reason i’ve come to despise this game… The matchmaker, hidden MMR, and SR system. Horribly done, overly frustrating. I believe players have said enough about it, so i don’t need to go on again.
I realize this topic has gone all over the place, but the gist is that the devs have really destroyed this game with the last few changes, and by refusing to address the overly frustrating comp system that seems built to make you chase SR and artificially changes difficulty to cater to you… making ranks almost meaningless.
