Stylosa goes over private AMA

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Interesting stuff.

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Private AMA? What.

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YESSS manifesting Support Sym :heart_eyes:

I know this doesn’t mean it’s definitely happening, but knowing they’re going to try it makes me happy.

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Why cant they just call it an interview?

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Because it isn’t really an interview? That would mean one person asking questions they themselves prepared I gues.

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This covers some interesting topics, but 47 minutes… yeesh…

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Ummmmm I can’t believe more people aren’t talking about that?

Well, we know they have a private discord server but from past experience we also know that pros and content creators rarely get more info/news than us (other than weekly challenge info)

I think a private AMA is something the devs should at least post about and share what was said so that content creators and pros don’t need to play a game of “telephone” with the community.

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Basically via discord Community Managers, members of the Dev team, and several community content creators got together to have a AMA prior to the upcoming public one.

Note, I did not participate as I am not a content creator.

The TL:DR from this AMA was pretty well…

  • There will be a serious look at all heroes’ balance for the transition to 5v5, especially Snipers, Off-tanks, and Supports.
  • Scoreboard changes in development, no details yet
  • Competitive season changes in development, no details yet, aiming to be more meaningful between seasons
  • No new competitive cosmetic rewards are considered at this time
  • Reimplementation of skill rating decay
  • Looking to aggressively tackle “smurf”/account manipulation behaviors, but not ban alt accounts entirely
  • Tournament system on the wish list, but not in the OW2 short term
  • Pride/LBGQT+ content coming soon
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What constitutes being a “content creator” ? Do you need to make money off of it? I’m pretty sure you made videos displaying patch notes and I consider that “content.”

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Quickly skipping over the phrase “private AMA” - I don’t suppose there’s a transcript somewhere…?

EDIT:

Thank you. :pray:

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Yeah, my approach to creating content is not necessarily geared toward direct entertainment, but more toward creating helpful information that supports our community. In my unique role, I am content to just help players where I can to enjoy Overwatch more. Its what I am for. Also note, it really is not a secret that I communicate with Josh Nash and Blizzard Customer Support, but I use that privilege responsibly as a forum MVP aiming for these goals, and not for my own direct benefit to create content.

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I guess no need to rush my gold rush goals…

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You know I feel kinda sorry for the DPS Sym and Main Tanks if this is a thing…

But just kinda

I am still keeping the other side of that under lock and key…

Because of things it would say.

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This sounds… fine, I guess?
Like nothing to get particularly excited about but at least it’s not objectively bad.

EDIT: also, lots of “we don’t knows”… deffo a whiiiile before release.

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I cannot wait for even more less content!

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I will likely only be happy if that “serious” look on the support side of things is longer then 20 mins…

Because we heavily been avoiding that so far.

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He’s pretending he’s leaking something because it gets more views.

There was a content creator AMA and they are allowed to share everything.

It’s the same one that confirmed the Pride stuff.

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He said grab a drink. I got my whole dinner AND a drink.

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The content creators get a lot more access than that. They are treated as 1st class citizens. Before covid, they would be flown in for AMA/Q&A and go to pubs and stuff with the dev team. They still log 2-way convos with devs in that discriminatory discord channel (the one that, when not talking about top1% complaints, makes fun of low ranks and normies). These guys are algorithmically whitelisted, show up on bnet launcher, and have some of the easiest games I’ve ever seen at ranks 3000sr above what they look like. Sadly, so much of OW2 will probably come from their groupthink. They’ll be the first to have keys, and will be making clickbait livelihoods months before you can even get your $0.02 in with the designers.

I can’t wait for them to wipe the slate clean and create a fresh new A-list for OW2.

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I am surprised about a private AMA, well it does not seem too bad