The forum is a toxic cesspool. It’s filled with terrible players with horrible biases that cry and rant over any perceived slight even from the Devs. I just got back after a two week leave from the forums and I’m aghast at just how ignorant and sensitive this community is.
All I can say is that it would be incredibly unprofessional for any company to not respond to complaints and, if you don’t respond to them then, of course your feedback channels are going to be full of them.
You just don’t get to ignore your customers in business, no matter how difficult they may be.
Even when the game first launched Devs responded more on Reddit than they did here, heck the eu forums didnt even see a dev, it was some mod who occasionally shared the info, not a great start and a pointless segregation of players. Neither is it a great start when they choose a different platform for their responses…
Furthermore its a culmination of time and disgust, theres chars with bugs nearly 2 years later, fans still waiting, char feedback on the ptr is outright ignored more often than not, char balance changes are made on a dev whim (Geoff and Sombra). It all slowly builds up until the bubble bursts and people have had enough.
The forums could be constructive if the mods actually did something about making it so, instead theres a whole bunch of troll posts and 50+ of the same topic and a dev will respond to “whats Tracer’s fav pizza?” whilst ignoring a thread of bugs. The only time you see them cleaning up is Mercy threads, which just exacerbated the idea of Mercy feedback being ignored.
Theres been no actual lore since Nov and some has infact been removed which leaves people questioning why?
The S.G18 event is incredibly lackluster and is a joke when using Lucioball again, when it was just in the last event also! THey couldnt even be bothered to alternate the title screen when we know for a fact theres mulitple ones.
Is the forum a poopy place atm, yep, but sorry (not sorry) the devs are really bringing it on themselves atm with the poor commmunity interaction and the seemingly main focus on OWL. The whole event fallout could have been subsided with a simple “sorry this one is lacking cos we’re doing xyz for the future” but no, instead they drop some owl skins and emote, ask for more money and ignore everything.
People are rightfully salty and buried within the childish whinging that internet anonymity brings, there is constructive feedback and its lost because forum mods suck at weeding through it. Its like sitting in your fav restaurant that you visit regularly but recently the service stopped and your sitting at a table with your starter you got 7hrs ago wondering when the server is coming over to take your order. Do you sit there and wait or do you complain?
I really get it. People are disappointed about the changes. It is what it is, all games go through this, and Mercy was dominating every game since the launch of OW, and she still is. Devs have to make changes to heroes, nerf them and buff them on a cycle so the game doesn’t get stale.
Literally every game does this. If you want no changes to your game then you should just play single player.
LOL why was Hotaru251’s first post in this thread flagged? They do have a point, Mercy posts either got locked or moved to the general Mercy discussion. Even there people flagged it and caused it to become locked.
This sums up my feelings about the game and Blizzard, I want to keep playing but man does this community and Blizzard keep pushing me away. Right now I only play this game with friends and even that is rare for me.
Only true when you like what they say.
As far as I remember, people were asking for Geoff to be fired because he voiced his opinion on how D.VA should be played.
The devs are ridiculed daily on here. I’m surprised that they ever even look at the forums, much less respond.
and those people were silenced for trolling, you know sub threads would really help out the forums and should have been added, instead we get top topics which givin the list pretty much sums everything up about the state of the game; people are done with the poor choices, there making up there own lore in small or big ways because blizzard won’t do it, there occasional this game is dying with replies being 50/50 on them. Some posts actually attempting to talk about balancing that people like you throw off as trolling because trolls go on those posts and make stupid comments and you act like the OP did that.
and for the final proof go back to the old forums everyone was supportive the first few months but the honeymoon ended and people started to see the lack of any actual effort made to keep the gaming as balanced as possible, other games change more than three things per patch with the same or more patches than what overwatch does, the only excuse they have is that “it’s harder than it looks” but anyone that doesn’t know programming or animation will believe that, well let me debunk this right now; it’s hard for a newcomer into the field of animation/programming these guys have been have had years of experience and somehow have lack of experience, this means they never really bothered to do much of the work and had co-workers do most of it, but that’s not the case the actual case is that it takes a long time to program and animate a new ability and they keep doing it. after the first year they got called out on slow updates with value changes because it was apparent they spent more time screwing around then actually working, value changes are simple anyone can do them if you know what the line of code your changing does.
So what looks worse, devs that have no idea how to actually do there jobs
Or devs that procrastinate and use a rework not to actually fix a hero but as a scapegoat for why things take so long.