The awful match making punishes you for being good at the game. You will get sweatier lobbies and go up against more cheaters even in casual modes like quickplay.
The awful match making punishes you for playing with friends. If you are 5 stacking with any bronze-gold player in your stack, you will start to get 1 sided matches after a
3-5 win streak to the point where everyone is gonna want to log off or go play literally anything else.
The awful leaver penalty for leaving 1 sided matches. 20minute wait time if you leave 3 out of 20 matches. 4 hour wait time if you leave any more matches after the 20minute penalties.
The god awful pay to win monetization. Locking new OP heroes behind the battle pass is one thing, but a lot of people have also been reporting match making being skewed in their favour after buying shop skins.
The absolute state of the rank system. Win 3 in a row get 50% progression, lose 1 and get -50%. Also, GM skilled players on smurfs can now party with bronze-silver players during placements to get hard stuck in bronze-silver lobbies now.
Terrible events. We had a rain-forest event in winter… and this new event has some new tentacle noodle horror bs that no one cares about.
Awful skin recolors and pricing. This kind of goes hand in hand with the monetization but the amount of recolors they are selling is amazing. You guys realize that most games just have sliders to recolor skins? They can be manually adjusted by the player. Pretty sure the devs also do the same thing by adjusting HUE, and RGB values for textures.
The terrible report system where you can even get banned for saying hi in the chat and blizzard will refuse to inform you the reason for your ban. If you report someone for chat, or cheating and blizzard issues a ban then they will also refuse to inform you what the person you reported was banned for. Every 2-3 months though you will hear from defense matrix saying they banned 500k accounts despite having 20k players on steam and despite you getting matched against the same 5 players every game. So thats something to look forward to…
Post below if you guys find more reasons why overwatch 2 is bad in 2024 and maybe the devs will fix some of them. Most likely not but one can hope.
You dont understand. Ow2 is such state because they dont need good players like you to play it. They dont need veterans , dont need masters, all they need is endless flow of new f2p players that will buy BP and skins. Ow2 is not a video game as ow1 was, its live service. It will be adapt and changes according only one goal – profit .
We can’t change it, all we(i mean people who play from ow1 preorder and around) can do is enjoy the small things that still left in this game. There’s no hope for changes that will benefit gameplay, but certainty expect changes will benefit new players
was it Activison/Blizzard that was in the game news for patenting this tech or was it EA? I forget which one it was, but someone was planning to implement something like this to generate more sales of skins. Wish I could find the article again now it is driving me crazy trying to remember lol.
Edit: not so much forcing wins but putting better players in games to show off the skin. If I am misremembering, I apologize if it was forced wins, but pretty sure the biggest impact was shuffling around good players with the skin to demo the skin during games.
Literally all of flats, Jay3, Emongg, Samito, W_nted have near 50% win rates at masters-champion rank you. The only one coping here is you if you’re trying to convince yourself that match making should rig games to be near 50% win rate.
Yes the better you get, the better your opponents become, which over time, will make you better and result in better opponents ad infinitum
Win streaks boost your mmr, which matches you against stronger opponents.
What did you want? To be able to bash 5 solo q players of the same rank (because of advantages you get from grouping) and feel good about yourselves and make the game miserable for them?
You wasted 4-5 minutes of 9 other people. that’s 45 minutes of wasted time. If anything they need to double the wait time.
Top part I agree with but I heard they are changing it. Still you’re right.
Bottom part is just cope s***
Minus the gross exaggeration it’s because the three wins you got were against players worse than you and the 1 loss you had was also against worse players.
If you’re talking about intentionally losing to be bronze and doing it as a group then I agree.
It’s subjective but I agree. TBH i dont think I’ve ever played one event game in ow ever so there’s that.
Idk what to say about this one. If recolours are truly awful aesthetically (i agree) then just dont buy them?
I agree but this seems to be a trend in all online video games. Its just in gaming as a whole, the newer audience that were traditionally not into gaming seem much more sensitive about things like toxicity so gaming companies just cater to that.
Dont get me wrong I 500% agree with your last point but I wouldn’t fault blizzard for this, if anything I’d fault the playerbase.
1 and 3 just counter each other out. If you hate the matchmaking. Leaving games is seen as a loss so every time you leave it just makes it worst. Like you did so poorly you couldn’t finish. I’d matchmake you poorly as well.
Nah. The event is fun to play, prop hunt was fun to play, the Halloween events always do well, I really enjoyed playing winton volleyball, and the new tentacle horror produced some very cool skins. The events have been doing good in my opinion. They only suck because all skins cost money sucking away 70% of the appeal.
63 wr on Zar, 54 wr on dva, 51 on jq, like 49 on sig.
Rank 7 peak, 4560.
You can’t accept that your horrid at the game. Its ok, but don’t come onto the forums spewing trash because you have tried to convince yourself that you’re hardstuck because of your team.
Christ
Of course a bunch of people would gaslight when there are multiple indicators of getting unwinnable matches in the game. You don’t end up with all plat players on your team vs all masters players on enemy team for nothing.
For example, if a match maker for a card game looks at your deck and pairs you against another player who has the exact cards to beat your deck then there is factually no way to win the game. Doesn’t matter how skilled your strategies are. Win rates should not be forced to be 50% by rigging matches they should get there organically by pairing equally skilled players against each other. There have been multiple quickplay games as a gold-plat player where enemy teams ended up having grandmaster role challengers.
Why did the developers hide the rank info? Stop toxicity? No its to prevent people from realizing how rigged and unfair the match maker needs to be to force the 50% win rate for non-paying players. Once you pay money all of a sudden the grandmaster players are on your team or you have much fairer matches in general. Hmmm must be cuz I’m bad at the game? No, the players who defend these egregious practices are doing nothing more than helping the game die faster. I honestly don’t care tho cuz this is my last post. Too busy playing Helldivers 2. Or literally any other game without this bs.
Honestly, I have played this game for years. Some people in the community know me from my days running Hammer Down Esports and the Organized Chaos tourneys when they first came out (it kinda went to crap and died after I left, but that was to be expected.)
I was mid masters in OW1, but havent cared to play ranked since 1- I am not getting paid to play anymore and 2- I don’t play tourneys anymore.
with all that said, it goes to principle I have a very intricate understanding of this game and I can tell you it’s never been worse. I agree that the matchmaking is the worst I have seen in years especially after this latest patch. Not to mention the OW devs wont stop ripping off high rez and taking every paladins hero and making them a carbon copy to OW. IE:
Ramattra is just NYX from Paladins
Illari is just IO from Paladins
Mauga, besides being a disney rip off that I can’t believe they got away with is also just a copy of RAUM from Paladins.
This new DPS passive? JUST A COPY OF CAUTERIZE AKA ANTI HEALING FROM PALADINS!
And yes, P2W with battlepass heros is very real and I would not doubt they are awarding the big spenders with comp rank and matchmaking in thier favor. To be frank, if you are going to have a tank like mauga in this game, GET RID OF THE DPS PASSIVE and let healers play the freaking game. I am not even a heal main and I feel for them. and to everyone that just says dumb parroted crap like “skill issue” or “cope” etc, by all means, go ahead but saying idiotic stuff like that in the face of people with REAL KNOWLEDGE about the game just makes you look like you graduated at the top of the bell-curve and maybe you may be the more autistic cousin of Sloth from the goonies buddy.
I like how you defended Blizzard’s bad decision and you care about winning than having fun and justifying cash grab and stuff.
If you treated QP like it’s competitive mode, then I guess you were too afraid to losing by having smurfing and cheating purpose to desperately trying to win. So, stay broke if you spend all the money for cash grab.
nah… the worst part is high skills heros be countered by low skills heros and how on ow2 everything is about counterpicks, you are forced to pick low skills heros to win the matchs… is so bored.
The problem is a long lying cancer within the gaming industry: Micro Transactions.
You know when Blizzard stopped making good games? When they realized that a single horse in the wow shop made more money than years of development time in StarCraft 2
Why make good games when you can spend a couple of hours in the shop and make even more money?
Everyone that buys stuff in the shop is responsible for the garbage we have in the gaming industry!
Edit: The person I responded to got ether banned, or deleted the account.
I see blizzard complain about poor financial performance and it’s because they abandoned the core audience for battlepass ftp bs. Any excitement I had for OW2 was eliminated the moment it was announced ftp and no story mode. Game was practically dead to me after that.
