Why are these forums so negative?

[Add390-2195]

Why are these forums always so negative all the time?

[MrWallygator-1196]

most of the people on here just came on after a frustrating game of overwatch to rant and blow off steam, so negativity thrives here.

[Star99er-1436]

And others will simply be bias and insult you for suggesting balance changes for heroes that aren’t doing so well.

[SpiritAnimal-11912]

Cause the community is immature and negative in general. Most people have a poor understanding of the game so they think balance is bad.

[bananafish80-1304]

I try to stay positive, or at least neutral, even when in disagreement.

is hard tho

[Neopets-11146]

Many people will only talk when there is something bad happening

[kosaba11-1218]

Forums tend to be places for people to vent about their frustrations with whatever game the forum is about.

[anon60183492]

Cause the devs stop listening, so the forums were no longer a place to actually discuss things in a way that could affect change

[MagyTheMage-1534]

Others are burnt out of giving ideas to fix a game they like but keep getting ignored

[Clonedpickle-1983]

On one hand, I’m glad the devs don’t listen to the forums cause the game would just be CoD: Overwatch edition but on the other you do get good ideas sometimes which they choose to ignore.

[silenthill-11701]

As what most of the forumers above me have mentioned right until after kosaba11.

Human nature to points (a) finger(s) when they are feeling bad, unawares that there are three fingers points back when they do so.

That said, there are a fair number of good people here in the forum trying to raise some positivity.

Here are some really positive threads:

Thank You, Overwatch

Hello, My wife wanted to express her thanks to Overwatch and its developers for helping her through some of life’s most difficult challenges. She had a rough time last year and wanted to share her thoughts and feelings with the rest of the Overwatch community. Thank You, Overwatch It was a cool November evening. I was watching play-through videos on my phone as Overwatch installed on my computer. I had never really played a first-person shooter before, but I wanted to give this game a shot. I…

I'm Playing Bronze And Loving It

I’m usually high silver. My wife is bronze. For awhile, we had to stop playing comp together because our SR was too far apart. But last night I had one of those REALLY bad losing streaks and I dropped a couple hundred SR. The silver lining (no pun intended) is that tonight I could play comp with my wife again! YAY! But here’s the crazy thing that I discovered… I was often the only silver player, with all 11 other players being bronze. So I was playing at a lower rank than usual. I found myself …

I love Overwatch. Do you?

So… since we don’t see many such threads… I love Overwatch. One, the art has the art community so delighted that there’s never-ending paintings on major sites like DeviantArt, and whatever character you like, there’s probably professional-grade fanart of that character on the internets somewhere. My only gripe is, none of them are allowed to SELL prints of the art due to Bliz being the copyright owner, or my walls would be very full. Two, the game is fun. There, I said it. I play Overwatch bec…

Rallying the Positivity Troops! #1

This will be my first in a new series of RtPT threads, dedicated to celebrating all things positive about Overwatch! And seriously, let’s try to keep it positive, people! So let’s go ahead and kick it off! Let’s start with a simple topic, and I do mean simple! Say something really nice about any hero of your choosing. Want to compliment someone’s skin? Gush over how much fun a certain character is? Do you think Reinhardt is a smashing singer??? Sound off…

My "Thank You" post has ended up getting me in trouble with youtubers and players. Yikes

First of all I want to make an apology for my thank you post. I didn’t realize that my thank you to the devs and employees would end up landing me in the pit fires from hell. Like Youtubers slamming my post or people commenting that I was a “brown-nosing” and so on and so forth. I’m sorry. I didn’t know it would make everyone so upset. I just wanted to make a nice post about my favorite game I didn’t mean to take the spotlight away from the Mercy posts or other bug reports. I hope you can all …

[GenoyTexy-2496]

Because the game is broken and Blizz don’t give a damn

[Sinzh-1450]

There’s no way to make suggestions in the game or on the site any longer. Like there used to be bug reports and feedback regarding UI in other Blizzard games. Now … nothing.

[Fruitslayer-21286]

ok do you really not see the problem with your premise?

generalizing an entire community as some sort of grumpy grinch of a monolith is so profoundly negative that i can’t begin to describe the dread and anxiety i feel just reading these ‘y u so negative bro’ threads all the damn time

[garbage-11555]

Because if garbage is in it, it has to be bad…

[silenthill-11701]

lol XD

[GoatOfLegend-21728]

Dropkick Rein into F tier and people will be a lot more positive.
A universal hitscan counter in a game that tries to sell itself as a fps is just…

It’s sad i can’t use curse words here… downright sad. Because no ordinary word can describe how i feel about mouse2hardt. Though what’s even more sad is how people are blinded by the character’s charisma to look at what he’s actively doing to the game.

[FoxxyNerd-1710]

People like to express their opinions be it negative or not, and want to be heard and justified.

[SunDragon-11945]

There are some positive people and threads in the forums. The negativity is largely because people express their opinions or vent and often times it is negative