The "they listened" thread

I’m just tired of seeing the “don’t listen” threads…so an experiment…I’m making a block list of text with changes that were made thanks to community input (though my memory is terrible)…you guys add in replies…I will periodically add them to the block list…curious how big we get it…it can be small things (bugs)…it can even be bad decisions if we suggested them, don’t have to limit yourself to 1, no order to this


  • Scatter is gone
  • genji deflect adjusted
  • COMP mode
  • deatmatch mode
  • custom games
  • lfg
  • role queue
  • torb being reworked
  • sym throws her turrets
  • adjusted lunar colony
  • changes to 2cp
  • mass Rez is gone
  • mccree ult adjusted
  • widow grapple adjusted
  • 2nd blizz world objective adjusted
  • Doomfist hitbox
  • Winston bubble adjusted
  • ironclad instanerfed
  • rotating arcade mode (albeit just one)
  • zen has health bars for orbs now
  • they added dvas MEKA room
  • junkrat self damage gone
  • orisa shield size adjusted
  • avoid teammate
  • tracer actually had a nerf
  • Brigitte shield slam nerfed (how many times now?)
  • price changes for numerous items (paywall stuff)
  • vulnerability during res
  • bastion heals on the move
  • Zarya grav nerfed
  • gave us back the simple geometry line
  • hook was nerfed
  • rein bug fixes
  • sombra can cancel translocator
  • ana damage buff
  • teammates’ silhouettes through walls even if you’re not playing support.
  • skin select (still looking for that random skin option btw devs :P)
  • skin suggestions
  • adjusted how loot boxes work
  • reaper can cancel wraith form
  • lucio can wall ride backwards
  • hanzo can shoot after climbing
  • highlight system
  • sped up riptire
  • roadhog/reaper spread/crit change
  • sombra stealth detection revert
  • sombra doesnt need to look at translocate
  • busan skybox
  • keybind for acknowledge
  • console keybind changes
  • ana ult insta heal
  • lucio wallride changes while on ptr (taking someones word for this one…dont recall it)
  • matchmaking penalty changes
  • console aim assist changes
  • hero gallery filter
  • scion hanzo hair fiasco
  • tracer butt fiasco
  • mei has a normal spine now
  • hero gallery whats new button
  • heroes never die
  • objective marker opacity
  • doomfist (still feel like he would happen anyway)
  • increased sym primary range
  • ana self ult in deathmatch
  • report a player console
  • mei piercing freeze
  • lucio right click no ammo
  • kept mercy’s bunny hop
  • colorblind mode tweaks
  • brig shield nerfed
  • mccree can roll more often
  • mei ult visual change
  • someone other than rein does karaoke (hammond and now torb and McCree!)
  • game now has an overheal mechanic (person suggesting didnt say who so im going to assume brig?)
  • 1-hero limit (before my time…someone verify)
  • pharah addressed for her console issues (wish they hadnt also applied to PC but thats a different story)
  • transformation ults also reload
  • junkrat multiple mines
  • replay system in beta now
  • mercy healing buff (specifically going to mention here that this isnt the place to discuss which changes she needs)
  • symmetra beam charges faster
  • buffed mercy’s valk healing
  • adjust reapers spread pattern after people said the new one was a nerf
  • roadhog chain optimization changes
  • symm beam charges faster
  • removed unlock all option from hero gallery
  • B.O.B. now has a gold tint (gold weapon change)
  • the big brig shield bash nerf
  • the big doomfist nerf
  • tac visor helix rockets no longer lock on
  • buffed torb molten core
  • buffing mccree ult/fth nerfed
  • doomfist rebuffed
  • orisa movement buff
  • pharah explosion buffed again
  • soldier buffs
  • widow ult counterplay
  • wrecking ball shield buff
  • junkrat buff
  • lucio nerfs
  • reaper nerf
  • another sym ramp up buff
  • zen discord nerf
  • Shadowstep buff
  • Random victory pose
  • male support hero
  • visual changes to amp matrix
  • countless workshop updates
  • REPLAY SYSTEM
  • Baptiste buffs (ammo, ult)
  • Orisa reload buff
  • Sym teleporter interaction range
  • Further changes to assault maps
  • Subtitles (accessibility)
  • Brig rework
  • Sym teleporter changes
  • Ashe reload
  • Storm arrows nerf
  • Moira CC invulnerability (j/k noone asked for that)
  • Rein boop resistance
  • Orisa barrier nerfed (that lasted long)
  • Sombra nerfed even though she didnt need it :wink:
  • Pulse bomb buff
  • Torb bikini (the most important change of all)
  • and something about a role queue and 222…
  • endorsements in arcade
  • MH heores reset between rounds
  • nerfed storm arrows
  • gave rein knockback resistance
  • reworked teleporter (though players have since complained about this version)
  • nerfed syms beam
  • tried then revered changes to how placeable objects interact with edges
  • expanded the arcade (7 slots)
  • buffed DM
  • nerfed sigma’s grasp to not block chain hook or whip shot
  • undid lucio goats nerfs
  • doomfist nerfs
  • immediately adjusted Ashe’s halloween skin scope
  • map pools (which indirectly eliminated paris and HLC)
  • while you wait
  • global armor/shields change
  • nerfed widows hook
  • more DM buffs
  • moira nerfs
  • multiple role select for queue
  • immortality nerfs
  • mei nerfs
  • more storm arrow nerfs
  • reaper nerf
  • fortify nerfs
  • hero pools
  • experimental card (an actually useful PTR)
  • 132
  • qol changes to stats screen
  • replay sharing
  • changes to round timer (2cp in particular)
  • more mei nerfs
  • sombra primary spread change
  • achievements in QPC
  • open queue
  • ashe buffs
  • nerf to reins steadfast
  • echo actually released (and as the class everyone wanted! :rofl:)
  • reverted the genji dash changes
  • CC nerfs
  • mercy healing buff
  • moira nerfs
  • zen goats partial revert
  • comms wheel options
  • in game patch notes
  • tried and reverted moira changes
  • countless workshop updates
  • several changes to hero pools (basically undoing them)
  • paris/hlc officially taken off comp and planned reworks
  • redid echo’s singalese voice lines
  • Priority Requeue
  • immediately nerfed echoes beam
  • storm arrows buffed
  • Junkrat/DVA buffs
  • MORE brig nerfs…
  • super genji nerfs
  • changed lucio ball j/k
  • nerfs to double barrier (sig/ori)
  • Buffs to roadhog (you know what happened next…)
  • EVEN MORE nerfs to brig (girl kept coming back from forum death)
  • widow nerfs
  • baptiste nerfs
  • ashe nerfs
  • nerfs to roadhog
  • ranked leaver penalties increased (though not clear how exactly)
  • comp no limits
  • symmetra/zenyatta lore
  • ability cancels after death
  • ana nade now passes through full hp
  • rein/dva buffs
  • further nerfs to baptiste
  • adjustments to replay viewer
  • priority passes
  • tracer falloff partially reverted
  • zen discord nerfed
  • further echo/ashe nerfs

reminder that this is stuff ive seen either on here or reddit and that disagreeing with the decisions is not the same thing as not listening…theres a lot more that couldve been on here…but if i dont specifically remember it on here i didnt include it

Edit - changed to list (i listened)

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Don’t forget about Doomfist bugs and they fixed Brigitte shield bash hitbox too

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When Brigitte shield nerfed? Also in case they are listening.
Please buff Reaper. Fix/rework his shadow step.

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Whoops…Shield slam…sorry

Shield bash you mean?

Maybe make it a list so it’s easier to read?

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You are right.

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Needs more white space

I can change it to a list…I’ll need a bit :wink:

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you are confusing cause and effect?

the community asks for lots of things. blizzard could make literally any change to the game and at some point someone probably asked for it. that does not mean they are “listening”.

& I don’t mean to imply they don’t ever listen to us or whatever, I do not really care, this just seems like a tremendously flawed and pointless topic to me.

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They do listen. And to be frank, if I was a developer I wouldn’t reply here either because we are spoiled, entitled whiners who are never satisfied.

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Thank you.

Also add giving Ana back some damage because they finally realized 60 was bs for her

I also hope you don’t become a developer because that response is pretty similar to the responses other game devs gave to their community before they got fired.

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Well if that’s the case then that also applies to the so called occasions when they don’t listen which you see on here all the time…I believe a positive one should get its day in the sun

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Yes, they listened. For some of these, it needed almost 2 years to implement. But yes, they listen.

No offence, but the speed of their reactions on bugs or straight BS in game is… Abysmal.

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I don’t want to be a developer for that exact reason. People like comforting lies over laying the cold hard truth upon them. As a consumer, I feel no fear of the consequences of laying that truth.

If a dev was to read my comment, he would probably thank me with all his heart silently.

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There’s a difference between “laying the truth on them” and just being a big a word.

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• Being able to see teammates’ silhouettes through walls even if you’re not playing support.

•The ability to change skins in games
•Reaper can cancel Wraith form

*They also made fastball Zen which I’m counting as a win cause I (and others, I’m sure) asked for a skin like that

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When does he say this?

It’s a purchasable voiceline, and I also have it.

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