I bet this winter event will help players realize how utterly broken tanks are in arcade. There’s literally no point playing these modes when tanks are balanced around the dreadful role queue mode.
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I wonder if they did any changes to yeti hunt. Mei is nerfed, Winston buffed. Doesn’t sound good.
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oh noes the game modes that are supposed to be goofy and dumb need to be balanced for the sake of the sweaties!
oh no!
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I hope they go through with those tank changes in S3. Better late than never.
Really, it was too easy to trash Winston in that mode before. So maybe it’s his turn to shine? 
Blizzard does and should prioritize balancing role queue over arcade. Arcade is the fun, mess-around game mode and role queue is the standard that everyone else, including the pros, play. Balancing around arcade would be silly
Nah, she can still freeze him (or trap) and it’s not difficult to beat. He does hurt when enraged but its doable.
By the weekend the wait times will skyrocket for these modes.
People barely played them when we had 9 wins/27 wins weekly cosmetics unlocks.
3 years working ng on the sequel and nobody thought about updating 6 yr old events? I’m failing to see the “Live” of this Live Service game when it’s modes are stuck in 2016
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You people say that but then wonder why this game loses more players than it gains. Despite what you think, Open Queue and Arcade players made up quite a chunk of the playerbase.
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RQ was the best change this game ever had. Never once have I wished I could go back to the days of 5 DPS on every team. The community likes RQ much better as a whole
You mean the 5% of the playerbase still playing? No sir. A majority of the 50+ million OW players enjoyed 2016-2018 era overwatch more which is why they don’t play anymore. Do yourself a favor and look up the definition of survivorship bias.
Awful roster balance and a dev team that didn’t tutorial players how to play their game were responsible for the frustrating 5 dps teams you claimed you had on every team. Perhaps you should have been complaining about certain tanks and supports being must picks, or for more supports and tanks added to the game. Role Queue killed the game, as you can see from the lack of players and how over three years later the devs still can’t make it work.
Lol this is all made up “data” you’re referencing. I think if you took a poll, the majority of the playerbase is happy role queue exists. Sorry you don’t have 10 second DPS queues anymore and apparently have this long standing vendetta aginst RQ lol
Nice cope. Blizzard is welcome to email surveys to everyone who ever played OW and a vast majority will tell them that 2016-2018 was more fun. Because that’s what they stuck around to play. But of course you are talking about giving the small pool of existing players a poll because, like I mentioned before, you can’t comprehend what survivorship bias is.
By all means you are welcome to do the math. A few hundred thousand active OW2 players is less than the former 20 million peak. If role queue is so superior then how come it never matched even half of open queue’s popularity? Why didn’t Overwatch take off and become more successful after role queue instead of less successful? Really makes you think.
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Google “correlation versus causation”
You claim that yet you spout that RQ has been the best thing added to the game anyway. Despite fewer player numbers and a growing list of problems suggesting otherwise. RQ literally created more issues than it solved. I’d be happy to link you a list if you disagree.
Look around. OW dissatisfaction is everywhere and most of the community, including these forums, evaporated.
I find the opposite to also be true.
I see a lot of people try goofy stuff, but the enemy goes like 5 Hogs and we barely get to touch the point. I don’t really care about winning, but I still want to play some semblance of the game.
One full Hog team is fun and goofy, but it gets a lot less fun and goofy the 20th time in a row.
Not at all saying the game should be balanced around Arcade modes, but I would appreciate if some tank stacking system were implemented with relevant modes.
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Correlation does not equal causation. You’re on a bizarre mission to convince everyone RQ sucks and I don’t care to engage with you any more
I’m just sharing the facts as they are. The direction the devs took the game was clearly a bad one. This tangent was my way of expressing that your wish to sacrifice non-RQ mode balance for the sake of RQ would be a disaster.
It’s also not a “bizarre mission” given a majority of all OW players (50-60 million) over the past seven years think RQ era OW is worse than classic OW. Try leaving your bubble one day and asking them yourself. Good bye.
it is pretty miserable that every mode outside of role queue is just tank, tank, tank.
Lmao sorry your queue times are 10 mins now. You’re hilarious