Ever since they begun implementing the Role Select, the Hero Bans, whatever else I might be missing; competitive has become a confusing mosh-pit of people jumping in, playing what they play, and sticking with it. I believe Role Select discourages players from being flexible within their own rank, and Hero Bans cause confusion and uncertainty with Competitive. People are too busy trying to figure out what a “Meta” is, instead of focusing on hero counters. Now that there are hero bans, that discourages people even more from playing a counter, since a chunk of the hero pool is banned from the roster. This is a poor decision, instead of looking at which characters are least countered in the pool, they simply remove them temporarily.
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This weeks bans are really noticeable in the lower ranks. People were already unable to coordinate vs. a Pharah when they had the ‘tools of least resitence’. Now you get this overload combination of Pharah + something else obnoxious that makes so many matches an utter waste of time.
Bans are for Diamond+, if that. Drive those chronic people away, not your casual masses - who represent your repeat and future customers.
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Hero Bans and Role Select cause more problems than they solve. That’s what I loved about Overwatch, is it took a step away from that. Sure, the frustration of not playing your best hero, or your teammate not switching to accommodate your choice(s), but this is just an example of toxic people intoxicating the game and it’s developers.
And yes, this is a call-out to the developers. You’re losing to the ridiculous demands of people who don’t even appreciate your game.
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there’s nothing casual about high silver +to plat
you are just scum polluting the ladder and runing our games thinking your good
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Hero bans should be for OWL only.
If the experiment was to see how far they could push us, I think they hit it the past 3 weeks. I’m not sure which “meta” was worse, Pharmercy, no shields hookfest, or the no main healer week.
Please stop.
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If I where playing comp. I be fairly happy. Most of the characters that where banned. While making Phar mercy a issue. Made it easier for Moria and Zarya to fire at them. Mei being the only annoying issue.
The map bans are what really get me triggered, like wtf lmao? Who genuinely sat down and thought that was a good idea?
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Agreed. I hadn’t really thought about it, but the restrictions on freedom do bother me as well.
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how does this statement make any sense? how can you focus on hero counters without trying to find whats meta?
Hero pool is like a joke. Stop it PLS .
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Hero pools, role queue, map pools…
HEY GUYS WE REMOVED A LOT OF THE GAME. WE HOPE YOU LIKE IT
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People ask, en masse, for features like role queue and hero pools for literally YEARS, Devs do it, people hate it and complain about it.
So who was right, the TONS of people I saw asking for these things since like 2018 at least, or you?
But the hero bans literally force ppl to learn other characters.
Surely that’s a good thing right?
Again…
STOP RESTRICTING THE PLAYERS.
Period.
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Not when they’re “learning” in Competitive. All that does is decrease match quality.
Players should learn more heroes, but not because Blizz FORCED them to, in the competitive game. Ruining all of the matches.
There are probably other ways to get players to enjoy other heroes. We could probably brain storm a dozen right now, if we were paid game designers.
But the worst thing is to taint the entire comp experience with these arcade style rules each week. If i wanted to pay “No Snipers” i’d go to the workshop or something.
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Like…in-game rewards for hitting X hours on a hero. Plenty of people would queue up casual and play a variety of heroes just for that.
Or daily/weekly hero challenges where each day/week you can earn a reward for playing a certain hero(s). Probably would have to be a small pool of them so that everyone isn’t fighting over the same hero.
Or something like how the role queue offers rewards for certain queues…If the game notices you’ve played 5 straight games as one hero, offer a reward if you play another hero in your next game
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Well go back and tell the players that instant lock dps and wouldn’t flex to switch to tank/healer to help the team, then Blizzard will never have needed to add role queue in the first place.
-It’s 1 week, deal with it
-Pharah has had a rough time for 2+ years, let the pharah players have their fun
-Is there something stopping you from playing pharah? They have an equal disadvantage dealing with her
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I’d argue quite the opposite. With hero bans, competitive became much more educational and especially with this week and 4 DPS bans, makes it easier to pick counters/heroes.