couldnt there also be because peoples favorite heroes arent added to the pool? like???
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also maybe balance is all over the place. i would try widow if it ever happened, i also find stadium kinda confusing so thats a thing for me
i should give it a shot again sometime (only did like 4 games) but i rather play the base game
Oh don’t worry, it’s probably less to do with Stadium and more to do with diverting resources. Basically saying they would rather invest their time elsewhere because Stadium is not going to profit the company. I’m sure they’re gonna use all of that incredible developer talent to make more ultra skins instead.
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It’s more likely the playerbase has eroded due to series of bad decisions they’ve made with the mode. Adding an unannounced mandatory no mirror draft, unannouned changing the mode length, adding gadgets, adding spawn turrets limiting small map play areas, crippling popular builds without alternatives, letting hitscan WP builds run amuck, bad UI redesign, etc.
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I think having the hero draft at all made Stadium worse. They should have removed the draft function forever ago. People just want to plug and play. Not have to sit through a screen and watch people pick what they want to play. That’s true for QP and Competitive versions.
Matter of fact just remove it from the game entirely. People pick their bans and start the game.
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There is one issue tho, if we do wish to add more heroes to stadium then not having a hitscan against flying targets can be ab issue even with all the aerial items. I don’t think draft is a bad idea but I also dislike the whole counterpicking one after another. So I wonder what could be done here?
Do what they did for QP Hacked 132. Both teams have ONE opportunity to swap heroes after the game starts. Not two. Not three. One opportunity. For the whole team
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That sounds better but what if a hitscan player decides to switch to flying character last second knowing there’s no hitscan to deal with them? Or is it not how I imagine it to work? I never tried the QP hacked.
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I tried Stadium but found it wasn’t for me, so I unfortunately don’t have a ton of insight on it. But I don’t think it’s that uncommon for a company to try something, not get the results they wanted from it, then start setting it up to fail to justify not continuing it.
Saying they aren’t adding in any new heroes or maps just made me feel like Stadium’s going to be a dead mode now. Which of course isn’t going to get more people to play it, so they’ll use that to justify not using resources for it. The alternative is just that legitimately no matter how much they tried to push Stadium is wasn’t going to take off, but again I don’t have enough experience with Stadium to tell if the mode was doomed from that start like that.
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There’s only so many ways to help the team. And the one of the worst ways to help is by having zero hitscans on tank, dps or support. If someone swaps off of hitscan that is their own fault. Nothing can be done about that. People should learn to be more mindful of their team.
First mistake was splitting the player base in ANOTHER queue. Second was not pushing newer heros on release. I personally stopped playing it constantly when they added 5 new heros to core and it felt horrible going back. Stale hero pool made it so much less interesting.
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Safe to say most people who have played Stadium have already played all of the current maps so this makes perfect sense. They should really throw some of the regular maps into this game mode
If I had to take a guess, I’d say it’s poorly populated for the same reason most arcade modes are poorly populated: People play Overwatch to play Overwatch. I’m honestly impressed that the mode’s novelty carried it as far as it did.
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Not enough heroes, not properly spotlighted in updates. Plenty of reasons why it could be failing. But you know what makes a mode fail for sure? Not giving anymore updates to it aside from balancing.
That will kill it for sure.
Way to go blizzard.
DO BETTER!
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Lack of hero’s, poor balance changes, adding the most annoying hero’s before adding others, splitting the player base with BO5/7, adding a QP.
They have been trying to kill it for months now. The simple reason is that it’s not worth the effort of trying to balance it. They make all their money after bringing everyone back with the stadium announcement and screw everyone who actually enjoyed the mode.
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Arcade modes have the self-reinforcing problem that you might queue for 10+ minutes for a mode that’s a sidegrade from QP.
This could be mitigated by letting us queue for multiple modes at once.
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It just has a really high threshold. The first time I tried it I was completely overwhelmed with all the added screens, the strange map layouts, the long runtime and the countless decision making in terms of what abilities to use and what the actual meta was for each individual character.
In many ways it feels like anti-matter. It looks like Overwatch but doesn’t really play or feel like Overwatch. For better or worse, of course.
Most of all it seems to ask a lot of dedication from the player and I’m not sure the average player is looking for that with a game like Overwatch. It didn’t surprise me (or anyone really?) to see that unranked quick play was the most played format. It’s a pick-up-n-play game, first and foremost. It’s initial design concept was even to stray away from the complexities of modern RPG styled games where there’s too many skills and upgrades to keep track of.
The stadium devs are horrible, ended up with the gamemode being basically unplayable
Truth be told, people don’t want to learn how the cash scaling works, what items and power-ups do, how they work with one-another, and what to buy on what round and against what character. On top of all this, they still have to effectively play the game.
Stadium demands more than what most overwatch people are looking for and thats why the matchmaker just throws people together from all ranks.
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I was so excited to try Widow (even if she was really bad for balancing sake) and Anran 
my friends get frustrated with it so easily especially once they added the cat, so this is heartbreaking I can’t win them back to my favorite mode