There’s been nothing but slander on the devs names lately from things like “the devs don’t care” after getting an lfg and endorsement system that was asked for by the community and multiple balance changes the community asked for, to things like “the devs are incompetent” from casual at best players, who lack the game sense or understanding of the game to be talking balance in the first place, much less the credentials to tell devs with 10+ years experience they don’t know what they are doing.
I personally try to keep my self separate from the main mind of the forums, because its embarrassing to be associated with them. I play on a gm team, and when I tell my team Ive been on the forums they laugh and say why? its a toxic cesspool full of players who don’t understand the basics of balance.
This is how you are seen by the outside, much less how you are seen by the devs that are on the forums. From things like videos calling the devs “lazy” because of a change they made on a hero because of personal bias and lack of understanding, to putting forward ludicrous changes that would make a hero way too strong.
If you want a response, you need to change the environment of the forums, because right now, if I was a developer, I wouldn’t be talking either. I wouldn’t want to take insults from a group that barely understands the concept of balance either.
It is in the area of game knowledge and balance, and most threads end up being throwing insults at each other rather than game balance, or insane solutions that would never work.
I think it’s mostly just denying fuel for the fire of Mercy complaints.
Also for Brig complaints, I think they know she had a weird situation of really high winrate and lower pickrate, and was just waiting on meta popularity for that bubble to inflate.
they aren’t insane problems. overwatch has minor balance issues at best. the community doesn’t understand there will always be good and bad heros in a team based game, especially when there are 2 different archetypes of hero.
Meta will always be a thing. there will always be a top 6 and a bottom 6. The only way to fix that is a pick and ban system, but the devs don’t want to do it so you can play what you want.
There are no insane problems in overwatch. only people who don’t understand how games with meta work.
insane problems would be game breaking bugs, which there are none of right now.
Not everything devolves into insults, but when some threads are constantly visited and invalidated by the same people, it gets heated or you stop responding.
Like me for example. Someone I really don’t like entered the thread, so now I’m leaving ^.^
the problem with that is people don’t want to have to play the way you have to in order to be viable. sombra is a really good pick in organized games and pro play, but the sombra mains on forums say that’s not good enough.
Most heros are viable right now with teamwork, but the forums is a solo que mentality.
and that’s where the problem lies. you want the devs to change the game for you, rather than rising to what it takes to use a hero.
People don’t ask for widow buffs because they cant hit shots, its unreasonable, so how is it reasonable to ask for sombra buffs, because you cant coordinate?
the problem is the community. not balance, not the devs.
We have a 250 hp hero the size of a tank that players are crying is invincible, who brings a fist to a gun fight and has damage output comparable to Reinhardt, has the worst performance stats of any Offense Hero but whom players want to nerf.
We have a tank who’s main weapon does not work, who’s main ability does not work, and hasn’t been relevant to the meta for two years, just get a substantial nerf.
We have an entire class of pellet-based weapons that are designed to be terrible at range, are penalized by spread AND damage falloff, are singled out to have a damage penalty to armor, but are only as good or worse in close than other weapons that are good at all ranges.
These are insane problems to have in a AAA title three years in.
they should hold your hand? no. if you want to play the game in a coordinated way that’s on you. you don’t get to blame blizzard who has given you every tool needed to play in a team environment because you don’t go out and find it.
What they should do, is take away the solo que and team que that this game has, and start putting solo que players against 6 stacks. because it will force them to learn the game in a team environment or lose sr
