Overwatch

Remember that before IceFrog went to Valve, his first choice was Blizzard.
They didn't even let him in.

Zero mechanical depth paired with trying to be ESPORTZZZ, as well as general Actiblizz retardedness

They couldn't keep up the momentum to save their lives. It's like they announced OW2 and decided OW didn't need anything to keep the existing playerbase.

Also I kinda wonder if they're just letting hackers run amok... But that's just speculation.

I have not played it since Chinese New Year 2018. Did they ever add new events aside from maybe adding a new game mode for a limited time?

I think it was around the time when quick match had forced meta roles. Maybe even ranked

>Fun detected, fun removed

>Hog can't fish through time and space anymore
>McRee's bullet's have as much flight time as penguins
>Removal of the fun minigame: Mercy-Hide-And-Seek
>Hanzo's Corridor Of Fun removed
>Symmetra's had her budget slashed on her turrets
>Ana's had to water down her Super Secret Healy/Harmy dart formula
Inb4
>muh balance
Fuck you, it was fun. And Blizzard can't balance for shit anyway, why not just give other characters a buff instead of removing the fun things from strong characters?

Because they made the mistake of focusing on esports instead of fun.

Also coomers don't have long attention spans and will move on to the next thing to coom over quickly.

I love Reinhardt and Sigma, that's all. I don't care about any other characters. They are both S-tier older men.

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Marketing funds ran out.

Overwatch was unironically a really fun game the first few weeks when there was only quickplay playable

Same thing that happens to most games really.

Faggot

>Hog can't fish through time and space anymore
Fuck off

The only thing good from Overwatch is porn...

*chuckles*

>>McRee's bullet's have as much flight time as penguins
? It's still hitscan

shit updates

years of no new heroes because they are focusing on overwatch 2 plus blizzard poison pilling activision so hard that microsoft had to bail them out means no one wants to touch overwatch

Sombra and Doomfist were shit
The rest of the DLC basically ruined the meta
Also role queue sucks

Fuck you.

With fuck all damage past a metre. I can fucking sneeze further than Mcree's bullets stay deadly.

The new shiny thing appeared

no way the OP is an actual game screenshot and not retarded coombait???

Yeero's done more for overwatch than blizzard has in the last 3 years

Blizzard decided it should chase the esports scene and fucked everything to hell.

Sombra was shit on launch yeah but Doomfist is really good, he just required actual skill to use, which the average OW player does not have so everyone dropped him like a sack of bricks.

There were a few reasons:
>artificially-grown esports scene
>inability to balance
>game become less of a shooter and more of a MOBA with each new hero
>very few updates to make the game feel fresh
>any tactic that was not thought of by the devs was patched out

Things simply happened, OP.
New games were released
People wanted to play something else and so on
No kings rules forever, my son

Every patch went in the direction of competitive play, eSports, a rigidly defined forced "meta" from Blizzard's idea of what characters were supposed to play like instead of what people used them for and what was fun. It didn't help either that characters would sometimes be flipped upside down for no reason, with enough changes to their kit that any practice done until that point was rendered useless.

based and true
Repeatedly adding more and more low-skill-high-reward characters that made the game feel like shit to play.

Because Blizzard cared more about making sure the game was "balanced" to appeal to retarded compfags than adding new maps or characters, or whether or not the game was actually fun to play anymore.

He should have had two big fists.

his name is cole cassidy

They actively made the game not fun but listening to the esports and competitive players.

>any tactic that was not thought of by the devs was patched out
This ruins every fucking Blizzard game. All of the devs are so far up their own fucking asses, that I'm amazed anyone still plays any of their games at all.

coomers moved on, aka the only people that cared.

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Every match played exactly the same until new "update" rolls out. Playerbase majority meta-slaves, got burnt out. No REAL attempt to balance the characters in favor of just switching what was op to bait players back in was what made me quit. It was so transparent with the way they had a buff/nerf cycle. Annoying character design with godawful personality tropes and their posterboy Tracer being a punchable brit dyke didn't help. Gave me a new understanding of the word hate-fuck

this is just like the final nail in the coffin

Is he a new character?

>any tactic that was not thought of by the devs was patched out
Facts

Paladins is more fun that OW.

>majority meta slaves
this has never been true in QP, I know this because whenever I'm DPS I one trick Torb

It says something when the only teching that stayed alive was using a melee attack to shorten the reload animation.
I am still confused why they just let the meta become spamming shields and heals on tanks for the longest time.