I’ve played this game since release in 2016 and as of probably around august I’ve barely played the game relative to the past. Ive maybe played 30-50 competitive games and some custom games in between in the last 3 seasons which is still considerable but I used to play ~200. Maybe I’m just finally growing out of this game but I had always played this game even when I absolutely hated valence changes or other issues and just stuck with it because a part of me found it enjoyable. But now I’m just not interested in playing it, I’ll still hop on with friends and very seldom jump into a solo queue game but I’ll usually quit the second I finish one game. In short idk if I’m just finally getting bored of the game or if the changes are what’s burning me out but whatever it is I feel like this game is just not as fun anymore
For people that played OW1, this game will anger you. It is different. I LOVED OW1. I was sold on OW2 – PVE, 5v5, battle pass, and a few premium skins here and there to support the F2P style. THAT was what was PROMISED.
Then little by little it was stripped away.
Now? It’s just a cash grab. Newer players can probably still find fun. I still find fun playing with buddies, but the game itself isn’t why we’re having fun. We’re usually just laughing at how bad it is, and since it is all we know and we’re getting too old to find another game that we all love and can pickup, we just play this pile of trash.
But it really is just one colossal screw up after another on the OW teams’ part. For every positive there’s about 10 negatives. They’re super slow to shake things up and initiate hotfix buff/nerfs, leaving gameplay to stagnate HARD during seasons. They release soulless skin after soulless skin that some poor concept artist worked months on just to have it become a Blizzard asset that’s sold for bloated, despicable prices. The battle pass is filled with junk, repetitive, and slow, and even the coveted mythic skins have dropped off in value. 5v5 is taking forever to “balance” properly. New heroes are power-crept to hell and back, just to sell battlepasses and every one of them has a mobility move and its so horrendously overdone. Old skins are sold for despicable prices and a lot of old cosmetics are gatekept. The promised PVE mode is scrapped, and what we got was even worse than nothing; a $15 sell-off of what they were working on, which split the community and now has less than a handful of people ever playing it due to no replay value (even Underworld, the Free PVE, hasn’t returned, and it was pointless to remove it). Holiday events double-down on cash grab opportunities and offer very little “new” content; it is usually workshop-built modes even a novice could create. Matchmaking is, by far, the most problematic and shameful display ever, sporting an algorithm that cannot keep up with smurfs, alt accounts, new players, returning players after a break, old accounts placed high, new accounts placed low, playing in stacks, etc. The competitive scene is laughable and the integrity of the leaderboard is gone. There’s been zero incentive to even play competitive mode since its gone without reward updates since the game’s inception, and high rank players still cannot play with a group they’d like to. Its current director is reluctant to even get on camera like his predecessor and deliver us meaningful updates, instead hiding behind a condescending news article every so often, and the team favors stats over reason when balancing.
Mauga’s just a big nail in an already hammered and re-hammered shut coffin. OW1 is gone and the devs haven’t done much to ensure OW2 will remain for a bright future. This game’s legacy should and will be studied in college courses as a crash course in what NOT to do when creating a video game.
100% I’ll still have fun playing with friends but that’s just cuz it’s like something to have in the background while hanging out. If I play by myself I can’t stand the game for more than 30 mins and most the time it’s not even tilt or anything usually it’s just I’ll play a game, feel bored, and log off. I’d honestly prefer if I got tilted and rage quit then id still care about rank or care about the game but now I’ll play a game and just not find it entertaining whatsoever. I fully get I could just finally be outgrowing overwatch or games in general but I feel like it’s just a series of awful changes that have led me to not finding the game I’ve played for nearly a decade interesting anymore
There’s very, VERY little content. Just skins. It’s sad.
Sad when a 8+ year game plays like it’s unfinished.
Even sadder when they deliberately made it play that way, when it didn’t previously.
should tag along with me Roly! no game is ever the same! butt, talking about the chat, obusely! i stoped chating now, its hard but hey! roly ca do it! ADHD can spice up anything!
Its because its ran by a dull community of people who lash out at anyone else for being different with a report button. When mediocre players run the community the game is destined to be mediocre. Theres literally no social aspect of this game outside of the friends you already have in a discord because everyone left playing this game is a cry baby who thinks karma points on reddit matter.
roly not dull! but i think you not ment roly, roly was in teraphy once, wel let rolya sure you, roly wasent dulll! it was a clasic roly experience! roly evenbroguht cake & soda! treu story!
think that was me a smost hyper in my life, i leleched poeple energy in the room, the room had 4 poeple, roly had a blast! it was very very very extreme! one of my very most tresured memorys in my life at a very seriues teraphy sesion, but roly spcied it up! ROLY SURE DID! a moment you whould like to share a video from, but its very private and there are no cameras
roly not agrees with anything anybody sayd here, roly just walk out and finish his cold pitza! you guys have no energy! you al should be ashamed;(!
be hapy!
you know? roly reuqested data request from battlenet! it was a criffing 155 megabites big! save to say Roly make shis own content! sit back & relax!
Roly should either update his autocorrect or go see a doctor. Take care of Rolyself, Roly
Felt the same way, then I started playing open queue recently and it’s a whole different experience.
It’s like playing classic OW again, role-locking was needed for 6v6, but for 5v5, it does not work.
Not to mention there is absolutely literally no single aspect of this game left that is pleasurable besides the control/gameplay of heroes itself… and it’s nowhere near enough to justify the rest of the off-putting garbage it has become, in fact it’s completely overshadowed by it.