Title pretty much sum it up, group people i play with where talking about it last night just thought id bring it into a bigger group.
Myself i’m unsure who in blizz could run OW if he did go. Yes ok some of the ideas / ballance we gettign atm are very questionable but at times its better to stick with what we have atm then to get worse
Nah, it’s the playerbase that needs to move on. Y’all ruin the game for everyone.
How can you even do worse?
I do not agree. everyone praises ow1 with great nostalgia in its 2016-2019 era, but in reality even then the game was not something still. Not at all: it move on because it was a live service that did its job.
Now, it’s true that ow2 has really changed ow1 a lot… but the approach that ow1 took in STOPING after 2020 shows how it actually isn’t a good idea to stop for this type of video game at all. each feature will ALWAYS be a reason for change to adapt to, there is no denying this for the live service game genre. OW1 had the exact same criticisms for having stops in its last years of life by always manipulating the same 32 heroes in the numbers. OW2 however has the advantage that it is walking forward. sometimes positively and sometimes negatively, just like OW1 also did (double pick, hero bans, brigitte 1.0, do we really want to forget that ow1 ALSO made his errors in judgment?).
I am completely against the philosophy of “now that these heroes are here, take your time to balance the entire roster” since NO ONE actually ever agreed that we achieved a good degree of balance with 32 heroes in ow1 for 2 years of development stops. So you might as well accept that this is something that becomes more and more from patch to patch. the only improvement they should give to Overwatch is the introduction phase to new players who are understandably disoriented every time, and Overwatch is certainly not a game that explains the in-game values well apart from in the patch notes. only this.
That’s what I said last week, but yet here we are.
This is what I’ve been saying for a long time and is the issue with the devs ‘Muh Data’ based analysis.
They are getting feedback from user data about a system where most do not know how to play… because they do not teach them how to play. So their data is incredibly flawed.
They need to work with content creators… for free… to get in game guides, analysis and workshops in the “Training” menu. Yes, the menu that has no useful training. The content already exists, they just need to make it easily accessible from the game.
It’d have to be someone who isn’t deaf and blind to all of the problems that are plaguing OW. The problem with the “industry veterans” running the show is, they all want a participation trophy and a pat on the back. They get their feelings hurt too easily by the player base and do stupid things out of spite.
How does that make any sense? If there are no players there would be no need for the game.
I feel like A-Aron has finally just been unleashed. Since Microsoft took over, he’s sounded more genuine and has surprised me in interviews with clear, direct answers that don’t sound like they were scripted by RoboCop. He actually seems like he’s having fun.
More importantly, he announced a new direction for the PVP gameplay. Whether or not it’s a good direction remains to be seen, but an actual concrete PVP direction is probably a first for OW, so I wanna see what it’s all about.