Would hate too what happens to OW gamers that get into a long term relationship.
Both there, doing basically the same thing, day after day, the slow realization that movies, games and tv are not like real life relationships.
Not realizing the constant pestering is pushing them away.
Them not even replying to their texts at all anymore.
Being totally unwilling to realize that their insecurities are what started this, because each time they tried to do something nice, they just got crapped on for it.
No, it must be them, itâs deff them.
Now that I am typing this, itâs kinda suspiciously 1:1 how OW has played out.
blizzard/activision are killing themselves practically. very slowly like a lobster or frog in a low simmer boil and i doubt they are gonna jump out. looks grim
Horrid balance changes, lack of content for a âsequelâ that doesnât even know if itâs gonna be released at all, recycling events with barely any changes, poor story writing since Chu left the company. The list goes on. Blizzard is literally just digging their own grave.
Oh please. Itâs really, really easy to push all the responsibility on the players and ignore the faults of the game design. The game makes the rules and the players follow them. Why do you think FF14 is perceived as way less toxic then WoW? Because of game design. There is nothing different here when you have very little team building in this game, allow smurfing and have no problem allowing for multiple accounts, the lack of enjoyable tanks and supports while pumping out DPS, map issues where they put sniper perches in every map and the main objectives barely have any cover.
Yes, please continue doing the same thing over and over while blaming the community. Maybe weâll eventually get to 0-5-0 or maybe enough people leave to a rival game before they clue in.
Right now, Iâd say the main issue is necrosis of the playerbase. Weâre doing the death spiraling thing where genuine players are leaving because there are too many smurfs and trolls, which leaves the remaining genuine players with an even higher ratio of smurfs and troll, which makes them more likely to follow suit, putting match quality in freefall.
Iâm not pushing all the responsibility on playersâŚ.OP asked for whatâs really killing it and I gave you my chief reasonâŚ
Blizz isnât blamelessâŚ.but all the stuff I listed is far worse than lack of content, or perceived bad balancing, matchmaking etc etc
We do far more harm to the game than blizz doesâŚ.remove the stuff the player base constantly does and youâd have a pretty decent game (despite blizzâs flaws)âŚand I know this because thatâs how I tend to approach the gameâŚ.remove most of the player influence (itâs why I mostly play MH - it does most of that)âŚ
Iâve thoroughly enjoyed this game for 5 years now
I would bet thatâs the toughest ELO to match because the players are so inconsistent. But also, if you have one season of experience it probably wouldnât take much for someone to appear to be a god to you.
Those are all good and recommended things, but you also need game sense - for most people that comes with experience and honing it into instinct. That takes time. Lots of it for most people. Hard to teach per se because matches can be so dynamic. âdo A when B, unless Câ becomes a giant unwieldy mess of things to consciously recall.
Iâd wager it on both of these mainly. I already foresee a lot of people saying âget over itâ on the first part, but the game would be a lot more fun if it was just a pleasant thing to do. Yes, you can turn off chats, leave vcs, etc. etc. but itâs a bandaid on a bullethole it feels like.
Following that, repetitive events⌠I doubt anyone is looking forward to SG for the 7th time next year (since I doubt OW2 will be out by then, now), much less with how theyâve changed Lucioball.
I think this is strongly to do with the reduced playerbase in OW. Iâve noticed the same thing over the last year or so, matches are FAR and away more one sided than they used to be. Which makes sense when you realize a lower playerbase means even slight changes in MMR are more pronounced with less people playing.
And with OW being abandoned for the time being Blizzard is giving zero incentive to stay, honestly best course of action currently is to stop playing OW until OW2 lands.
If most of your players tend to lean towards playing the game a certain way then itâs not the players who are at fault, itâs the game. Theyâve failed to make a game that guides the player to playing how they want the game to play. I donât see how in any capacity that is not a failure of design. Maybe it was the lack of experience with FPS games that caused this issue, particularly when you choose a brand new subgenre for your game design.
If I make a board game with set rules and 95% of the player base plays the game differently then I want them to while still operating under those set rules, how is it logical for me to go up to those players and say âhey, your playing my game wrongâ.
But the biggest issues the game has in order are: DDA going haywire, player behavior is very toxic (gameplay-wise, comms not included) and no hope for a better future for the game
The first issue with DDA is horrible. Ever feel like a game is a complete stomp? Thatâs DDA going a bit haywire to cut your, or at least some DPS playerâs, queue by a few minutes. Thatâs the system cutting edges during the queue process by deviating from the 50% estimated chances of win by matching higher MMRâd and lower MMRâd players in the same game. Oh you thought the system just made a mistake? Nope. No mistake. The chances of it being a âmistakeâ is very low. Mostly itâs just DDAâd teams with the other team getting even near 30% estimated chances of winning vs. the 70% that the opponents have which translates into 1-2 players in your team having to teamwipe the opponents multiple times in a row without a counter sweep or itâs GG. Otherwise you just get stomped
The second issue is what highlights the worst out of the game and makes the games not just very polarized, but extremely polarized. Players keep dying off cooldown without doing anything or really playing the game and never changing anything. Going in and feeding because??? who really knows ADD kicked in or they wanted to troll. Reddit Lucioâs who arenât good at it dying constantly. Players farming priority passes on Ball/Hog. Typical stuff like that which cause games to be extremely polarized. That is because while OW in itâs game mechanics is at a stunning balance, it also causes the issue where on even grounds 5v6 is almost impossible to win, but having a feeding teammate makes it a 5v6,5 rather. And this type of behavior is all around the game because well⌠itâs dead so many players donât take it seriously
The third issue is just⌠heroes still not being balanced around their realistic potential in the highest tiered gameplay regardless of what that hero is. Certain heroes are just outright gatekept from viability and this will 100% kill the game even when OW2 comes out. This was the biggest flaw the game had during release and itâs one of the biggest inducers of toxicity there can ever be. Play wrong hero that is bad because devs decided to make it bad? Youâre in for toxicity every second game. Balance devs have been just awful in comparison to the glory that the other teams like graphic design team have managed to do over the years, carrying the game. Other issues being 5v5, bad hero redesigns, not that stunning graphic updates, the insanely late release time of OW2, nerfing tanks across the board to be the weakest role, controversies in the company, terrible leadership, sinking stocks, whatever goes into this massive downward spiral of the greed company
But the saddest part is that OW is still the best FPS game out there. Thatâs the real joke here
Two things namely; lack of content, and the fact that an entire role is in the dumpster right now. The balance isnât in a sustainable long-term state and its showing.
I donât knowâŚ.How much handholding do you think is necessary?...plenty of people do seem capable of playing as intendedâŚtheyâre not being forced to do anything by blizzâŚâŚwhy cant others do so?
Thereâs too much blame deflection in the communityâŚlike I saidâŚblizz is NOT blamelessâŚbut around here theyâre ALWAYS âTHEâ guilty party