That’s 100% what will happen. OW players are an addicted and delusional bunch, and Blizzard needs to feed players into their PVP, so they’ll just accept that happening. I cannot stress this enough-
There are infinitely better games out there with better PVE, better balance, and better devs.
It’s just that the OW crowd has wholly forgotten that other games exist.
I haven’t forgotten, I came to Overwatch as a PvE specialist. I took time off of Overwatch 5 months after OW launched so I could spend like 6 months focusing on a PvE game. The problem is, and I can’t stress this enough, that those other games don’t have Ana. Ana is the light of my life. She alone makes Overwatch worth it to me. If she didn’t exist, I would spend like 75% less time on Overwatch.
I get this as a Rein OTP, but as far as PVP is concerned the game has shifted into a direction where he is wholly unplayable, and I expect him to be worse in the sequel. The same could happen to your “chosen hero” but at that point the PVE will exist and hopefully be fully accessible every day so it won’t matter.
But I’ve been leaving OW since there is currently no PVE and most of the heroes I like (Rein, Lucio, Winston) feel wholly unplayable ATM and moving forward with PVP.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It is what it is, I suppose. I’m still hopeful that with Volume 2 and 3 we’ll get original silhouette skins, rather than just recolors, but I’m also fine with these recolors.
Do I prefer recolors? Absolutely not. But it’s better than what we had with the previous event “Here’s 2 Legendaries that’s it, bye”.
And if it helps get OW2 out faster, as predicted to be August, then I’m fine with it.
smurfs smurf because they enjoy off-balance matches and like to exploit the ability to fool said matchmaker to feel better…truth is im sure EVERY smurf in existence lives a sad shallow-hollow life and this is the only way to fill the void within
the 5v5 thing theyre pushing is just overwatch that theyve been keeping from us for the past 2 years.
trying to think that blizzard is somehow giving us “overwatch 2” with this 5v5 balance patch is a joke… theyre giving us heroes, maps, a new mode, new cosmetics, new balance… thats exactly what overwatch was 2016-April 2020.
So why most of players that are still playing the game right now have smurfs? Maybe because the game made every player that really wants to play a good game just lose their hope? I’m sorry, but this is what happens with every game that start dying ,people are going to do everything they can to still have fun with this game
having fun with the game does not = ruining the experience for others…that is a toxic way to deal with the lack of new. no matter how many EXCUSES you use, making a smurf account is downright toxic and should be dealt with.
You see the big issue I have is Blizz seemingly playing both sides. They want to fast-track OW2 without giving OW1 zero content.
So they go halfway and give OW1 bad content, then only slightly increase the dev speed of OW2. Pick a side Blizzard, either give us nothing and get OW2 out as fast as possible, or give us more OW1 content and delay OW2 more.
Now i have to agree with you, smurfs ruins the experience of other players, but i’m not gonna try to change the ideals of the players. I don’t know what is the region that you play, but in my region i even say that the game would not even find a match if we didn’t have smurfs, because most of people is smurfing now. GMs smurfing at plat and plat smurfing at silver