If you think the only way anyone can have an opinion on things is by having been exactly in the chair to make such decisions, then I don’t think I need to listen to your opinion, because I doubt you’ve been a triple A game developer and you just happen to be here sharing your knowledge with us on the forums this fine day. Your own judgment parameters are, frankly, ridiculous. Anyone with a brain can make logical conclusions if they so choose; they may not be right, but it’s kind of a part of being a human with a brain to use it to make educated guesses in life. This whole childish movement of ‘if you haven’t done exactly the thing, you can’t speak on the thing’ is about as smart as a box of rocks.
I hear a whole lot if ‘you’re right, but here’s a wordy way of saying it, and then I’m gonna insist that somehow I know what may have been best for the game and imply that maybe Blizzard’s choice wasn’t best, even though I earlier said that you shouldn’t speak on things if you haven’t personally been in the decision chair about those things.’
Yeah I’m not trying to be a jerk either, but the second someone starts saying ‘Hm, I don’t think you should have an opinion on this thing’ you bet your butt I’m gonna give them a piece of my mind about it.
Everyone deserves to have an opinion; debates are what happen when people have differing opinions, and they are good, and normal, and a part of a functioning society. Stop telling people that they can’t have opinions or thoughts, it’s just crummy behavior.
I also didn’t see a better idea on why they added role queue back; you think they only put it back due to a vocal MINORITY and yet it’s not proven to be worthwhile? Why would they do that? Why would they keep it? If RQ was really so popular, Blizzard would have the numbers that it was popular and have stood by it. Instead, they aded OQ so that the numbers were split even further between those two game modes because they couldn’t let their own idea (RQ) go despite it blowing up in their face big time.
My evidence may be anecdotal, but I also watch a crap ton of gaming news channels and stay pretty up to date on what’s going on in general; the numbers for Overwatch after RQ dramatically dropped, both in twitch viewership, average content online (youtube videos, fanworks, etc) and also the people I played with. So between what I saw out there online and what I saw in my own games I drew the (rather logical I think) conclusion that RQ was not some great savior of the game that drew tons of players back to it, but instead yet ANOTHER thorn in Overwatch’s side, of which it already had several others driving players away.
And THAT is why it’s a ghost town now. Not because RQ was ~so amazing~ but underappreciated, but because of poor management and poor presentation decisions on Blizzard’s part.
If they wanted it to be two game modes from the start then it should have been RQ and OQ from the get go.