Why is General Discussion dominated by Comp?

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Hmm like presuming something is a statement of fact is a dumb thing to do…

Ouch caught you out on that one.

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Any time stats are posted, they’ve shown the playerbase is pretty evenly split between the Casual and Competitive modes.

So no. It’s not.

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Quickplay is the primary game mode.

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That’s obviously not what I did.

You either don’t understand sarcasm or (worse) you pretend not to understand.

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I’m still looking for all the posts in general that are discussing comp

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This is clearly sarcasm.

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But it is not an offense asking for your rank. Some heroes are played more or relatively better at certain ranks. Maybe they just want to help you?
(Idk what kind of topics).

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I know it´s not an offense, I just hate it :woman_shrugging:

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You asked a question, and I answered it.

General discussion is dominated by Comp mostly because the game is centered around that game mode.

I don’t have a good reason, because I don’t know the reason. I do know Blizzard isn’t balancing around QPC, or Mayhem, or Lucio Ball.

Blizzard balances around competitive mode.

Perhaps, or you can accept reality and move on.

I am not going to ‘prove’ it. I am going to show you.

You asked a question in your title ‘Why is General Discussion dominated by Comp?’

So you already accepted that General discussion is dominated by comp, you just want to know why.

Well, we told you. It’s the mode Blizzard balances around, so it also becomes the most popular.

You don’t like it. Sure, you can disagree with me. But at the end of the day, do you think you will change anything?

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What does “centered around” even mean?

The Game didn’t even launch with comp, the only data we have suggests people play modes other than comp at a 2:1 ratio.

How can you be so sure of this?

I accept 1+1=2 because that’s immutable.

I won’t accept an arbitrary states that have bad consequences.

But it isn’t so popular that all other modes are insignificant.

It’s non stop polemic on these forums, always snide weaselly comments like that.

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I apologize if you think I’m being snide or weaselly.

I am genuinely engaged in our conversation.

I want to know why you think General Discussion is dominated by Comp. Nothing snide or weaselly, just curious.

Would you like to see something change? Like the mods moving more threads into the competitive subforum.

I am asking because I want to know why you made this thread. Is there a purpose?

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Dude, you have direct evidence I am correct. If you cannot accept that you need help. Do the Google search, look at the thread and the comments by Blizz on it when this was shared. Did you really still not use the Google search for this? Really?

“Weasel words” my butt, it’s right there and a known statistic from Blizzard.

Being wrong is one thing, in denial with direct evidence to a statement you don’t like… that’s a whole different level of wrong.

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LOL , no it’s not based on the official stat put out in April 2020:

https://imgur.com/DAd9zXT

I challenge you to show me a stat that shows that Comp is not #1, followed by QP. Show me.

Oh for the doubters, from Papa Jeff himself where this came from: Blizzard please keep classic comp - #52 by JeffreyKaplan on this very forum.

All ears and eyes for any later stats that can be shown otherwise.

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Generally it’s on the person making the claim to provide the source when asked. Saying “just Google it” is pretty unhelpful, especially when you go on to say something in a condescending way like

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I don’t know if you’ve ever participated in other game forums, but this is ALWAYS the case.

People ignore sub categories and post in the general forum.

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Because humanity is stupid lmao. You don’t need to go far to find further examples, not just on overwatch, but everywhere.

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That’s bs. The game is built around selling loot boxes to kids who want to be an epic ninja dude.

OWL league and all the game modes are just the framework for selling those boxes.

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No you don’t, you condescendingly dismiss whether disagreeing with you will change anything.

You just pretend you didn’t say what you just said.

No, at the time of my reply you did not, you had a completely unsourced graph. That’s not evidence any more than a policeman writing a note saying “the prisoner did it, signed: a witness” is evidence of guilt.

What, like a psychiatrist? I am mentally ill for disagreeing with you. Textbook gaslighting.

I told you it would be stupid to go on a wild goose chase trying to find what you will not give me enough details.

You KNOW that you refused to say where you actually got it from, you just dumped the image with a date and REFUSED TO SAY that it was a forum post when you knew all along.

it not evidence, that could be generated by some blogger who has no idea what they are doing.

I challenge you to show how being number 1 proves you claim:

When this is just one day and only percentage of hours.

Obviously, just because you play more doesn’t mean you matter more. A player is a player, a customer is a customer.

So you DID have the source this entire time but told me to google it.

I was absolutely right not to go on a wild goose chase, you just needed to stop needlessly hiding the source of that graph.

And you had good reason to hide the source as the source reveals that it is from a tiny sample size of just one single day. Is that why you wouldn’t give the source? You wanted to hide that information?

Overwatch is exceptionally bad, the closest analogue to Overwatch - Team Fortress 2 - doesn’t have it anywhere near as bad.

In that community they care about this thing known as, hold on it’s a word you may be unfamiliar with, that term is: fun.

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I am well aware of that thank you. OTOH, I get tired of having to prove things that people who are literally in front of a computer can look up for themselves. Aren’t Zoomers and Millenials supposed to be masters of technology? It took me less than 15 seconds to find the breakdown…

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Obviously balance has to be tailored to competitive. That is the game mode where balance matters most. But that does not mean that there are ZERO balance discussions or considerations granted to the other modes. FFA balance is a regular, if not nearly as frequent, discussion. Mercy starting with her pistol drawn in that mode, Ana being able to nano herself, etc… There are definitely special balance considerations granted to other modes and those discussions belong in general. But so does discussion of comp, which like I said will always have to be the MAIN focus of balance. And if balancing comp effects the other modes, we go with balancing comp and then fix the consequences on other modes later if necessary.