-No hero bans
-Ana
-Widowmaker
-Lack of meaningful cosmetics (yes the skins are nice but who cares if I only get to see 1/3rd of the arm and the weapon.
I could really be here all day, but these are the main ones
It trully feel rng sometimes.other time they see ppl complaining and they give a problematic hero the most inconsequencial of nerfs sometimes a buff just for the salt
What makes OW bad?
The same thing that makes it good… it’s whiny playerbase lol
For me it was a few things.
1.) Match quality.
2.) Leaver Penality in QP.
3.) The vast number of incels who could not take a hint that I did not want to send nude pics of myself to your phone.
4.) Making Mercy weaker and weaker.
honestly its great when i get to play my heroes and style i like as example dive.
its terrible when i get pushed out of my comfort zone.
Ideally We could get matched with people that fit our playstile and not find something that roughly works with 4 other people every single game. it feels like gambling which it kinda is. hoping for the huge jackpot of a insane redit lucio, a god kiriki, a doom goat that can’t ve stopped and a smurfing ball. coupled with a genji otp…
its interessting that other games like MR have shown me how much I take overwatchs Fluent engine for Granted and especially the smooth movement and crosshair movement or rather the lack off.
Map picking will increase queue times. so I am not in favor of that
Hero bans have already been tried in this game and were an utter and colossal failure. I know of no good reason - emphasis on good - to ever bring them back, and I know of several good reasons to NOT bring them back
Nice summary, although I disagree that hero design is a problem in itself and is a separate issue.
I’m just so frustrated they removed tons of features that people enjoyed for seemingly no reason other than maybe “iT’s to DisCOurAge toXic beHaVioUR”
sry but it’s a competitive game and people are just angry there by nature, i don’t think those things really were the culprit…
and even they were, taking away level borders and edorsement cards but implementing a scoreboard of all things does not strike me as wanting to fester a more positive community??
to me it’s the little things and details that matter in a game, and especially these little rewards and things to achieve, even if meaningless on the surface, gave me a motivation to keep playing
now I just have the hero progression to hold on to… sad
(battlepass doesn’t count, it’s so bad it’s honestly just mocking the players)
Really?
https://imgur.com/a/1V6GH1f
no solo queue - my main issue, and one that they fail to address since day 1 and isnt overwatch 2 related.
as for overwatch 2, 5v5 is a failure, 6v6 2/2/2 needs to come back, solo tanking sucks and the game is infinitely more interesting and fun with two tanks. I mean even from a lore perspective, having the tanks be able to talk to eachother is amazing.
lack of change in the direction/leadership for team4.
need a fresh face to bring closure to the failed sequel and take the fall for those steam reviews, playerbase collapse, and revenue drop.
A little disingenuous this
Hero bans weren’t tried. Hero pools were.
Yes, hero pools was awful and they quickly stopped it. BUT hero bans with a similar execution to MR where above a certain rank you can, would work well. Especially given the constant tank balance conundrum.
Recently play tested a game (a game that gets an annual release on Steam (and Gamepass) one of the better sellers on Steam.
They’ve been getting some negative reviews because of their decision to delay the 2025 edition of the game.
So while play testing I asked them what they thought of the reviews, did they impact any development… In short, they didn’t really care what reviews said. When the community has an issue they have better sources for that feed back. They also said, they don’t know of any studio that takes Steam reviews seriously.
On the other points, there is no evidence to suggest a collapse in player numbers or revenue. Even your beloved Steam, the numbers have barely changed in the last month or so. Overall they still have far more players than OW1 had at any point in it’s last 3 years
These micro buff/nerfs we keep getting that change very little. “Oh wow Hazard’s jump was nerfed by ONE sec.” " OW is back baby"
its eomm rigged and needs to be restored to ow 1
imo the match maker is developed and maintained by idiots. i don’t mean that as an insult, i think the devs of match maker are actual idiots. might be wonderful people but idiots non the less 
the match maker DOES NOT WORK. it is 100% broken imo and should just be scrapped, the match method of qp produces much more enjoyable games imo but sadly theres no reward from playing those.
but its also the progression is soooo slow that if someone is stomping either because they cheat or because theyre a smurf who deliberately threw their placement games then why arent they immediately escalated to a higher level?
and this is definitely why throwers and leavers should probably be immediately banned outright imo
lol so true … its evennworse than the 100% broken match maker.
they need to cull their design team i think. they clearly have a lot of dead weight in there.
thats an actual fact, qp games are 100% more enjoyable and a lot of the time closer, more intense games.
This is also a problem i gave up on playing comp on this account after i realized if i make a new account i get placed in diamond playing around off of the stats alone and losing a bunch of placements. Do the same on this account even if i win its plat, ended plenty of seasons in diamond on this account but the games are legitimately 100x harder for what ever reason. Its been this way since this account passed 1000ish hours.
Hold your horses mate. Comp for sure. QP im going to always have to say no, think that’s part of the reason why the games are good; the bad people leave and get filled with better people.
heh fair point. qp doesnt matter but its still pretty frustrating if you have a whole night of people leaving esp. when i feel some people are gaming the system (sad they have to do that in qp but ).