This trend seems to continue since from beginning.
They complained about mercy got us moth meta
They complained about moth meta gutted mercy and lost a huge amount of mercy playerbase.
They complained about dive relentlessly and got brig into the game.
They played caricature comps like goats while rest enjoyed the game and whined and got role q implemented and ruined q times.
They kept whining about tanks and got them nerfed.
Then they whined about q times and removed one tank.
Then they got back to whining about dive and gutted them again
Then they whined about hog and gutted him
How long will this go with them ruining the game for 99% when they don’t have one fun bone in the body to enjoy the game.
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They also do it in real life too
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there is this ill-conceived notion that people who are incredibly good at a video game and capable of showing it to the world/appealing to enough people where they are “relevant” in that space relative to its general audience size must also be good at game design and changing their consumed medias characteristics so that theyre more fun for the most people
its kinda like if i equated someone who got incredibly into my poetry to the point they spent enough time and effort that they can spend literal days telling me their thoughts about it to tell me how i should write it and then applied that feedback. it wouldnt make a good book or a book most people enjoy, it would make a book that sold a lot more and thus made me more money)
they have nothing to do with one another. of course the geniuses in the marketing department determined that because games tend to be popular among children and game franchises have been the pinnacle of profit in the gaming industry, keeping your incredibly good-at-your-game popular people is important to keep getting more people in + they are not only incredibly good at your game but also incredibly good at keeping eyes on it. so obviously if more eyes leads to more players and more players leads to more money it makes sense why they listen to the top 1%
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I was under the impression the 1% liked dive. It was everyone else tired of tracer, and wanted her nerfed. The top players said no, so they made brig to reign her in.
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There’s been a disturbing trend lately in which Blizzard nerfs and buffs disproportionately to appease complaints. It’s all fun and games until someone starts complaining about your favourite hero.
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yeah thats basically what im saying if a ton of people watch someone whos streaming your game having a worse time with it its gonna make people think your games getting worse and so its not worth playing/paying for
just to point this out: the other ranks were too bad at the game too figure out how to play goats. it wasnt from a lack of trying
but most of the things you are attributing too gm players were actually because of metal rank players.
it was low rank supports complaining that gave us brig, everyone complained about long queue times, everyone complained about hog, and low rank players were the one’s complaining about genji/dive in season 1.
i cant speak on the tank nerfs since i have no idea what your refering to, but lets be honest. nerfing moth meta was a good idea lol
Lmfao what? It’s the gold support players crying that they can’t hit a flanker to save their lives.
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Losing mercy one tricks is a win in my book 
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Of course we all knew this.
Dafran in his earlier days streamed and eas lazy about OW. He eventually got fired. XQC rodr the OW train for a while and he quit, but not after constructing a lot of heavy clout amongst his professional peer.
Players whom shall not be named came out as radical idealists who would win a tournement and spark such a harmful spotlight on the game it began to leak players.
Then several others who were found to be cheaters, toxic influences with bad takes, or just bad people in general.
Even the most popular streamers for Overeatch have revealed themselves to be politcal heavy in influence or have such bad personalities that its not wonder the game is so gross feeling when you enter any such community.
Heros are so divided among who should be buffed or nerfed or even meta that it auses massive flamewars here and on reddit or discord dedicated to OW.
We as a community cannot come together because our role models who gamblr on this game for money bte are just bad people in general kids who never had a career whom continue to act immature because we as players, fans, and a greedy compy all support and enable them to be horrible people.
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In the ranks without a constant and reliable 40 range oneshotter there was zero reason to play GOATS. They get shredded by Reaper and Mei without said 40 range oneshotter being a free pick against other DPS heroes in the 1%.
GOATS was literally just a symptom comp, it was not overpowered on its own.
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which follows my point, it wasnt meta in the low ranks because they were bad.
meta comps dont form in the low ranks because they dont know what they are doing. those only form when players arnt making a thousand mistakes a second.
which again: was my point.
Nope, Blizzard put it in to change the meta.
I’ll give you a hint, the dive meta being a problem was not something happening below masters.
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Please, you see people crying about Genji in hard-poke metas. I’ll give you a hint - Genji wasn’t meta in season 2, season 3 and yet was still one of the hero the low ranks cry about most.
Right, but Blizzard isn’t putting out Brig to deal with that.
Blizzard has gone on record saying why they make Brig, it was to break the dive meta which had been going on for years at this stage.
And dive wasn’t a thing below masters so, Brig wasn’t built for low ranked players. She was built to solve a problem in high ranked play.
You don’t build a hero to stop dive happening in gold, because dive wasn’t happening in gold.
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This one thing in particular ruined OW2 , and lot of players left .
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I doubt “Oh poor Timothy was shaking too much to hit the evil ninja man and the british woman jumping around” looks good on an article. If the higher ranks had their way, Dive would almost always be meta but poke has to be kept overpowered to be usable for the lower ranks.
They were talking about breaking the dive meta before Moira dropped. They were pushing balancing patches out to try to stop it. And then they released Brig stating outright that was their reasoning.
If you can’t understand that Dive was a high ranked problem at the time, then you will never be able to understand why Brig was released.
Hell Brig wasn’t even played much in the low ranks AFTER she was released, because she wasn’t all that good there.
She was SPECIFICALLY for high ranked play.
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And if you can’t understand that releasing low mechanics characters instead of high skill tethering or grounding options is catering to the lower ranks that wouldn’t benefit from it this conversation is pointless.
They went over her design in DETAIL explaining why each part was like it was.
It is a matter of history. Not your 1/2 baked theories.
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