Agreed
It has been REALLY AWFUL lately. My guess kinda goes with the fact that after “The great purge of blizzard” folks that were working with match maker also got fired OR they quit. Especially after Uncle Jeff left Blizzard and Micheal is no longer there.
I look at the match and take 1 of just a few options right now.
1 ) Avoid the lobby.
2 ) Play the match, but without a Care to the world.
3 ) Try, because the match looks balanced.
4 ) No control, just face roll. The sooner a person crashes into the wall, the faster this can end.
I would give it a solid 71% of matches are NOT playable right now. Period.
My guess is, is that Overwatch has been in a close-out phase, just like WoW was, a few years back. It was a tell-all sign after “Free HK” started and especially after Jeff went and left, and Micheal. Then the Activision HR “harassment” scandal occurred. That was the last straw.
(side note) Which I do NOT blame employees for being PO’D at all, I worked for a company that also was this bad and things like that happened there, and thankfully that company is GONE.
Just seeing how this happened in WoW. My “crystal ball” predicts this:
I will give it a matter of time, before Private servers start popping up. Just because I don’t think Microsoft will be able to handle it any better and they are deliberately trying to hemorrhage the player base into quitting. Sure, they bought the game for 70 billion, but if the company tanks overnight, it is a tax write-off, and the liquidation assets might get some of their money back, especially in the world of NFTs.
Also, I thought of this.
If Morheim plays his cards right. and has enough money from his new company. He could knock on Microsoft’s door and be like “soooo, you have Overwatch, there is nothing left to it, wanna sell it ?” and that could be a power-play on his part, or even JEFF. Depending upon how much money he put in the bank. Which if he did. That’d be freakin awesome!