I feel like no matter what opinion you have of this game it’s immediately downvoted and hated on, LITERALLY any. “Hey we should let the dev’s cook and test our 6v6” nope. “Hey DVA is pretty strong right now, maybe she need to be tweaked” nope! Play Zarya.
I get we don’t agree on thing’s here, but over there is a whole different story.
once upon a nightmare, blizzard forums had a downvote feature.
Huh, so my mind wasn’t screwing with me. I could of sworn this place had a downvote feature but I thought I was losing it.
Redditors are a different breed. That’s the nicest way I can put it. Nobody knows what is wrong with them. Something in the water, I imagine.
Coupled with something in the air.
Seems like the OW community is all the same everywhere then.
Downvoting has been the Reddit meta since forever.
Even if you write “I love you all”, you will get downvoted.
Yet, the forums get a bad wrap for being bad. Reddit is very blatant with their biases and they moderate pretty much everything that doesn’t align with their thoughts over there.
A literal hive mind.
My headcanon about reddittors is most of them being so socially unadapted and craving human interaction so hard that they actively pick up fights and get into heated arguments just to have something to talk about. Oh and they also jump in whatever bandwagon and downvote everything someone downvotted before to join the cool kids club.
The OW subreddit is no place for discussions and rather to show your PotGs and post some cold takes that have no discussion points, with a few news in between (if there are official news).
Soooo… like the forum?
Sub-par POTG’s at that. Seen better in the OWmeme subreddit compared to the main one.
Reddit has a negative view of the forums as well
Blizzard fans and star wars fans are the same: they hate the media they consume so much and also defend it without a second thought.
Reddit is a hivemind. If you post and opinion even slightly deviating from the general concensus, they downvote you until your post is gone.
It’s reddit.
I mean are you shocked that a platform known for being the most brain dead echo chamber on the internet has the combined iq in the double digits when they take adhd meds?
The OW subreddit is widely known for low elo people crying because they can’t figure out a game that’s a dumbed down version of the first one.
It is more of a “each subreddit is it own entire thing” more than reddit itself.
The main OW subreddit is useless. It’s mainly dominated by quickplay highlights and people who hardly play the game anymore and only keep up with updates via the subreddit. It’s pretty on par with the forums in terms of negativity but at least the forums has a higher likelihood of having users that keep up with the game.
Everyone on the main sub has Overwatch wayyy in the back of their mind and only interact with the game via article headlines.
r/competitiveOW is better… but the bias there skews towards the upper rank and pro scene. Even if you want to discuss the pro scene, dissenting opinions lead to downvotes super easily.
Don’t even get me started on discussing balance, it’s crazy inconsistent but usually leads to downvotes unless your very neutral on anything and everything (or you just parrot what the first person replies)
Both subs are also pretty strict on what can and can’t be posted, meaning the feedback loop is pretty high.
Funny to see people complain about redditors when in reality they’re exactly the same but on the forums.
It’s hilarious because if you made a post on Reddit but asked about the forums, the opinions would be identical but with the names switched, lol
Reddit users and forum goers, the venn diagram of demographics is a circle.