Maybe Blizzard will actually care about the backlash of 2-2-2 and hero bans now that their MVP quit before his Zarya skin was even released and left them with their pants down.
Blizzard has had to find unorthodox solutions to work around the pros (they don’t want to upset them), which makes balance 10x worse. Take when they added Brig because they didn’t want to nerf Dive heroes.
The calculation is probably a giant pain, actually. On Youtube, it’s not just a click that matters, since they use disruptive ads. It matters how long you actually watch as well. Twitch does the same thing, but since we see instant snap shots of how many people are watching at any one time, we get a better idea of how many ads are being viewed. Youtube’s total views hides this. 500k could be amazing, or it could be absolutely terrible.
I bet there is a marketer out there that knows how to estimate this.
I think blizzard needs to fix this, is even pros are tired and bored with 2-2-2 (hero bans will probably dissapear next season) why not just try 1 season with open queue and max 3 picks of one role and atleast 1 of each other? I dont know
Mei is just one example. You can’t claim that DPS heroes aren’t impactful when there are multiple examples of DPS heroes that are impactful.
There are plenty that aren’t impactful, because healing is too strong (just like how plenty of tanks are basically unplayable because of burst-damage and CC powercreep) but to say the Damage role in its entirety has no impact is just dumb.
I just hope Activision-Blizzard takes a good long look and give us the attention we needed. Instead of shelling and wasting lot of money & resources into esports crap.
I’ve never been shook like this for a retirement ever. This is the (I would say equivalent but they are most certainly not equal) of Kobe’s death for the overwatch community.