The Support riot is not really targeting DPS players – as a support main, sorry if I made it sound like that at any point in advance.
From my end, its from blizzard poor decisions for us support mains. Examples:
Lowest support roster
We lost a support – Sym
Blizzard decided to ignore us and not rework Symmetra as a healer.
Our current supports need to be adjusted or reworked
This further limits our options.
Echo was designed as a support originally – read link bellow.
– A dps was released instead of a support
Whether you count her or not. Sym was a support and she was taken from us.
They could of reworked her to be a healer. We support mains were pushing for this for years, but instead she was removed and given to dps role.
Geoff Goodman, one of the lead game designers on Overwatch, told [GameSpot] in an interview that developers had originally planned on making her a support hero."
I’m a Support main and a better explanation for this outrage is entitled kids setting their own expectations and blaming Blizzard for not catering to them.
It’ll pass and be forgotten just like every other forum outrage.
It’s entitled to want to play a new hero for you’re favorite role when you only have seven to chose from? While the other role has sixteen? Oh ok my bad
That’s true when something else comes along to take peoples’ minds off it. But there’s literally nothing coming up that will do that for a LONG time so idk about it this time.
i’ve been sharing my voice because thats all i can do in my end. If the community cannot empathize or does not care. then thats that. But i will still share my voice and i would have done it and have done it when the other shoe fits. Blizz is better than this and i don’t want them to fully turn into NCSOFT.
You might not have targeted DPS players, but a whole lot of people did. It was such an embarrassing display of entitlement from those who did.
There’s nothing wrong with voicing criticism about Blizzard’s choice to release a dps, honestly. Posts like yours that aren’t trying to stoke the fire with silly arguments like “dps catering” are respectable and honestly I agree that it was a strange decision to release her as a dps, rather than prioritizing a support or tank (preferably tank). They’ve had quite some time to prepare with the knowledge that they might release role queue, and that it might decimate the queue times.
But sadly to me it felt like these respectable posts were the minority over the past few days. I say days as if it hasn’t literally been only one day
Perhaps… I can empathize with their feelings. Theres a lot of intense emotions ove the air for years over our role, so its natural for humans to blow up at a certain point for things they are passionate about.
I probably have had my fare shares about this too even if not intended. It doesnt help with the amount of apathy people were giving us. And if i did … i definately take it back and apologize for it… this post was to explain this and bring more awareness on my end at least, as well as to the real reason behinde the events.
As for sym… i am glad others a few agree with the way they are treating her.
Uhhh no lmao Kaplan clearly said she was never meant to heal. It wasnt their design for her so they should not have changed her into something she was never meant to be.
Supports got back to back hero releases (Moira & Brig) likely to compensate for the loss of Sym
Dps was up next to receive a hero, after Supports & Tanks got Baps & Sigma last year
the three roles in the community equally deserve the distribution of free dlc… favoring one role over another because of the imbalance of old content doesn’t justify neglecting one role for the other two
releasing a bunch of heroes at once with the launch of OW2 will be best for the community, where they can release quite possibly more Tanks & Supports than Dps as long as Dps get something new as well. Hopefully OW2’s roster will help to correct OW1’s roster numbers.
shes never had a healing ability, shes always been more of a dps hero, so its makes sense she was added to the dps hero rooster. shes never been a true support hero
We need to keep posting and showing them our negative feedback! (Great post btw Diamond)
Nothing is unchanged. If people kept giving up so easily … we wouldn’t have all these in the 21 century. Plus a company can do waaaaay more drastic changes than just change a dps to support if they see their numbers following.
Thas is why we should keep posting (at least the people who disagree with that) and showing them our view.
Yes, its is fine for her to be a dps. I enjoy her design a lot tbh, but they should of hold her off if that was so and given us a support until OW2 releases.
She ad a ton of utlity – 2.0 was her best design yet. Supports arent just healers. She was a support, she just didnt have what people want – healing. A rework would of fixed that.
