Only because Blizz is going down a dark road in the last couple of years.
Doesn’t mean EA wasn’t there before and stayed and builded themself a throne of skulls to sit on.
I bet it isn’t even the devs fault. It is the managment breathing down their necks for not achiving the overinflated numbers EA expects these days.
* They add modes that people DIDN’T ask for like Workshop.
* They listen to the community for balance discussions and they act upon it 60~70% time.
No they don’t they listen to pros, but thank god, I don’t want them listening to the forums for this.
* They improve the game by adding free content (although it’s kind of a gambling system), but the game doesn’t lack content any time soon.
Apex also does this. In fact Apex didn’t require a cent from the users. Blizz charged a premium for their game the free updates were advertised back then so they are bound to it.
* They add things on PTR all the time and ask for feedback which is also controlled by the community.
feedback implies things are re-evaluated and changed based on user input. The PTR is more of a QA environment to make sure everything is working, nothing is ever changed based on user feedback, it just goes live.
I mean you just ran out here to say “look at how much our game is better than apex” and it’s silly.
Here’s what the devs said, which again the language may be stronger, but is no different than what Mr. Kaplan did.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/08/18/the-apex-legends-community-and-respawn-are-going-to-war-over-microtransactions/#2f1335d6f1e6
Polygon has an article I can’t link due to title but you can google for it.
I don’t dislike either developer, but at least I am objective.
Gold has around 1/3rd of the competitive player base.
Even if a smaller % of Golds know something than other ranks by sheer numbers you probably have more Golds that know x or y than any other rank.
Sombra’s Emp has been a topic on both the forums and subreddits and plenty of golds read both.
Your points are rather biased no doubt, but of course who isn’t?
I have my own title for things and so do you, so I’m not going to argue how much we need to be thankful for what we get.
You think it’s not enuff, I say otherwise.
But you state that:
No, I’m not here to promote and blow my own butt just to feel superior to another game.
My point is the overall attitude the devs take compared to the ones across are much more mature which is something we shouldn’t take granted.
To a certain degree.
You clearly think that they don’t communicate enough so that means you do have SOME disdain/complaint towards them.
But all in all, there is no right or wrong here.
Since this topic is comparing the development teams for Apex Legends vs Overwatch, it’s pretty off-topic for the Overwatch forum. As such, we’re closing it down.