i cant abandon my favorite girls and sadly this ia like a main connection to the outside world for me as outside of doing errands for a tattoo im at home most of the day and dont have really any interactions with people except for my mom outside of the errand stuff
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Me and my static only experience a few of the issues people commonly complain about around here/in the vocal community and itās not really that often we do/it doesnāt bother us enough for us to notice.
We play every Tues/Thurs and off and on other days and we typically always have a good time so 
None of it is really a big deal to us. We do laugh and make jokes about Blizzardās quality as like, a meme, but for the most part we justā¦ enjoy the time spent.
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Iāve made a lot of great friends playing this game. The ones Iām closest with still play, so that makes it fun.
That said, I still have nights here or there where I solo queue in QP and have a good timeā¦ though I imagine that is only because Iāve been playing for so long, so Iām able to manage by myself without every game being a total stomp. Even if it isā¦ again, Iāve enough time that I can usually identify what the issue was and get over it before the next match begins.
If I had just started playing this game when OW2 came about, then yeah, itād likely be a completely different story.
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Because it has Tracer.
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I still play because I have been playing this game with my partner for years.
But the last two seasons we play at lot less and ere trying other games because of the horrible matchmaking in QP ending our evening usually with more frustration than fun.
I play mostly mystery heroes now because that is the only mode that feels the most fair and fun ironically.
I think next season will be a make or break it season for us if this MM doesnāt improve.
I have always been quite passionate about OW and it is the only game I have merchandise of (hats, funko, etc). But my passion has reached it lowest point yet.
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a true classic gem! I love that game and how mod-friendly it is.
The post is asking āwhy do YOU keep playingā
People playing because they find it fun is an acceptable answer lmao itās a video game. Why would anyone have to justify why they find it fun to you fun is subjective.
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I enjoy it and itās fun, even if itās not as fun as it used to be. I love the heroes and the world and the lore they built, even if none of those are perfect.
I also love the workshop modes too, which are a lot of fun to do when you just donāt feel like playing regular matches. Iāve spent probably as many hours playing Uno in this game as Iāve spent playing QP/Comp.
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Simple: I like the characters, lore, and universe.
Thereās just not another game like Overwatch that I can do, or at least be somewhat decent/good at.
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Sunk cost fallacy.
I dont play anymore but I do miss it. I miss the fun and the āone more match!ā Spark it had. The little I tried of 5v5 (or Ow2 as some call it) was a big NOPE for me.
It is a shame, Ow was my alternative/modern TF2, now I only have TF2 to play, it is ancient but gets my fun sensors on. OW2 just stressed me out.
I do hope for a ressurgence, many people here seem to hope for its downfall and are ready to scorn it but I believe deep down they would prefer it to be back on its feet.
This is one of the last sci-fi shooter with crazy weapons and skills. Everything else is a low ttk hitscan borefest of weapon variations of machine gun/rifles.
Although Ow is trying hard to become like this with its low ttk imposed on Ow2ā¦
It is just sad to me that it has been 16 years since tf2 and noone managed to make a lasting hero shooter like tf2 aside from Ow. It had its lighting in a bottle but they let it escape to chase their E-sports endevours and listening to the CoD leet-aim-skills kids.
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Cause all the other supposed OW killers are to overly complicated to what i want in a hero shooter, take paladins i donāt want to buy stuff that may make my character better or worst, then there is the card system that can change how a hero might be played. I just want to play a game with a hero that might be cute or funā¦ A hero out of the box one i donāt need to build as game progresses
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- I got addicted in 2017 and because Iām autistic I like to do the same thing over and over again. I dont like change or trying new things, so unless I burn out hard on OW, I barely play other games.
- a bit of sunk cost because Iāve played for over 2500 hours and want to get my high rank back again
- I want to play with streamers
- its free
- its casual
- despite everything, thereās usually one or two characters that I enjoy playing at a time
- they havenāt taken the servers offline yet for some reason
- Its a comfort thing. I used to love this game and I feel really nostalgic about it. Its hard to let go
I donāt play it unless my friends insist otherwise. They are fed up with it too, but they are bored and we donāt have many other games to play right now.
All it would probably take is a single, good MP game to enter the scene to poach up players from every relevant game right now, killing OW for good. So many existing live service zombie games are lucky that no new competition has shown up within the last couple years.
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I enjoy the general gameplay and currently try to play Weaver. He has a good feel but oh boy are you much less impactful than any other hero in the game. Normally I get frustrated when I die with a hero, because if I has ability X of cooldown or hit that shot, it would be totally different! But with weaver its kind ofā¦ āyeahā¦ I could not do anything anyway so lets just go to spawn and try againā.
Thanks for asking. I ask myself this a lot.
I was a WoW addict, adored early D3, Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm. Blizzard could do no wrong. Then Metzen unveiled Overwatch at Blizzcon. I wasā¦ underwhelmed, when everyone around me was pumped. I hated FPS games, and I think I selfishly wanted something more āmy styleā after hearing rumors of a new IP.
Then I tried it. OW open beta changed me and thatās not an understatement. I was hooked. It was a drug. Even frustrating, I wanted a 30 sec breather and then told the team lead to queue again. I had the perfect mix of friends that ran the gambit of experience, and everyone being new to the game meant it was a little less āskill gapā. I clung to Bastion and Junkrat and had no issue playing Mercy. I tried Zenyatta and he helped my aiming confidence, and Zarya was my first tank.
Then my best bud went on deployment. OW became a bridge to him. He was still a part of the squad so far away. The weekends he could play were the best. He toured for six years and OW was ALWAYS something we embraced when he was away. Iām very thankful.
Now? It is purely habit and me settling for what I know. I have a full-time job, life commitments, etc. and Iād rather stick with the boring beast I know than risk rolling a new game that sucks even worse and losing a weekend to nothing. Itās a mental prison. It hooked me when I was 23 at a very emotional time for me. Iām 30 now and Iām a stubborn old b*stard. I know what I know and I play it. I donāt mean to be cynical; the gameās fine and thereās far worse out there. But I love it, and Iāve seen it go through so much because of corporate greed. And I still wait for the day thatāll never happen when I will feel that spark reignite.
Thanks for reading! 
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Because apparently Iām masochist who enjoys having horrible boosted players as teammates that make me drop 600 SR.
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Because the racing seat for me new sim motion rig is stuck somewhere in transit and so I canāt finish the build. Once I get that I can sign off from OW for a while.
A witch cursed me.
(and Iām still having fun)
Iām not. Free to play games are garbage.