What is blizzard doing nowadays

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over the last few years blizzard has really failed on a lot of aspects regarding his own games especially balance and thought

idk what is it but is sad to see the titans fall

let me share a something with you about the sad place blizzard has taken in my heart

I recently found myself playing TF2 and at the end of it I ask myself
Why did I came back to this game?

apparently, I still found it really fun, there are very few servers and the menus have changed a lot and are kinda confusing and also I do not know anyone on the servers anymore, but that doesn’t seem to affect the great amount of fun I was getting, I found myself laughing my butt off at some point.

then I had to leave my home for a few hours, and when I came back I remembered that I own overwatch and decided to play a few matches, but I found myself on the main screen looking at the menus, and I didn’t want to get in a game, something stopped me, Idk what it was, but something on my head didn’t want me to play.

on my tf2 games, 12% of players were actually trying to win, the rest were just having fun in their own terms.

I know I really loved overwatch when I bought it, I played it a lot on my free time and had good fun, but that was before competitive play came around.
is it possible that the competitive nature they jammed into the game made it less fun?

why did I come back to a game over 10 years old that none of my friends play anymore?
has this game lost his fun factor?

are there any answers to this questions?
am I alone on this?

TL:DR
I found very sad that TF2, after more than 10 years, brings me more fun than overwatch, a game made by one of the greatest titans on the industry, and the competitive play is to blame, even when I do not play competitive, it still affects me and the rest of the game

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I think the game is a bit light on content, and also needs some systems at that it’s easier to have a more reliably fun experience with teammates in Comp and quickplay.

A new map is probably coming early 2019.

But it should be interesting to see what system the devs come up with, to make it easier for teammates to work together more and tilt less.

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I’m not complaining about team comps or lack of cooperation or anything like that

I’m just saying that I believe the fun on this game has been stripped out of it in order to make room for the seriousness of competitive play, to the point that even non-competitive games are affected, not by teammates or trolls or such a thing, but the path the game took

this game did not need to become anothe E-sport

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Yeah, i know what you are talking about. The game went full competitive and more and more leaves the fun behind.

The game becomes more of a rank grind than a fun game. And this path ends up affecting qp and arcade at end of the day.

And, what is blizzard doing this days? Well if the reports are true; there is supposed a low morale and various other problems behind the scenes all over Blizzard; OW, Diablo, Warcraft etc.

This ends up damaging the games.

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Mr. James Blizzard is my favorite game designer

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oh crap the grammar police

… YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE

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One thing I want more than anything I this game: 10v10

It turns most games into a more casual playstyle, therefore less toxic.

I’m tired of the competitive feeling, I want to go back to having fun.

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I’d love for Overwatch to have a map editor or similar, even to be able to host dedicated servers with a lot more customization. They (at least used to) have a very creative fan base and it’s amazing to see what creative people can accomplish.

But… that won’t happen. Sorry. Can’t monetize that!

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Actually, the Blizzard Dev wants to create a map editor for player to create their own maps and such, but it’s not up on their high priority. Well with how things are going, I am honestly not that surprise since they are getting so busy to the point where we’re not getting new holiday event content, or other pve content.

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More than likely preparing for season 2 of OWL while masking the lack of content behind “faster” balance patches.

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Here ya go:

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TF2 has seen a few major patches. They only come out twice a year, but they get most things right.

The game has improved since you quit, while Overwatch has gotten worse.

If you like Tf2, keep playing it. Unless you main Spy.

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I’m stunned by that,
how an old game is still thriving while the newer prettier and with way more press is going down

I’m pretty sure there is some idiot on a very high power place on Blizzard right now making stupid decisions that affect the games, and we have never heard of him/her

and my main is pyro or suicide demo

actually, let’s compare that right there

there is a way in tf2 to get a set of items that allow you to go running head first into an enemy player and kill yourself and them due to an explosion with a melee hit with a grenade

now that is fun gameplay

I can’t think of a similar thing in overwatch

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Maybe experience plays a big role. Do you know about the Jungle Inferno and Blue Moon updates? The Pyro is quite different now.

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TF2 hasn’t added much in over a decade but you’re upset that OW devs aren’t adding more?

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:thinking:

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no no no no no

what upsets me is that having a fun game doesn’t seem to be on their priority list, and i believe that should always be the number 1 thing

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Found the guy whose never played Tf2.

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I left the game when the tickets arrived, or at least around that time

I just thought that, the moment when tf2 went f2p, was a very controversial time for the players

yet, I feel like that would be the best thing that could happen to overwatch right now

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No, I haven’t. It hasn’t interested me at all, and the fan base seems constantly annoying as they quickly out themselves as such.

But I still play plenty of other video games to compare and I can still look at see what they add and I have watched streamers play over the years:

teamfortress_com/history.php

An average 2-3 updates a year, some solely minor visual updates or some map changes. Balance patches that occur every other year or so.

Anyway to Bes7ia
I think Overwatch is a lot more team dependent due to the way its designed. Characters are often restricted to 2-3 abilities and many are situational dependent. I think that is a lot less freedom than TF2 or most other FPS games offer so it can come off as more frustrating or less fun. I think the devs are doing better with the recent balance patches, but I think inherently it’ll continue to feel that way for a while. I think maybe it will feel better once the game gets more characters to add more variety or game play decisions to the game.