No more sneaking around on profiles anymore.
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Say what you want about Blizzard, and I’m sure I’ve had moments of frustration where I might have expressed negative feelings towards them, but this is fantastic. LFG is much needed and I’m super hyped for it. I’ve been dreaming of “role select” to avoid 5 DPS comps but there are many major flaws with such a system. Never even thought of LFG which would mitigate those flaws.
Also excited for Horizon Changes (hoping that I like the end result) and the endorsement feature is going to be interesting. I often find it difficult to stay motivated to be positive when others around me aren’t, and often I find myself getting sucked in and making things worse. This extra incentive might just be enough to make me (and hopefully others) take a deep breath and get on with it in a mature and positive manner.
Just hoping I don’t have to wait too long to get these features.
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I agree with everything except the locking your profile option. I really want to know how much experience people have on characters, not to complain, but so i at least have an idea. Everything else sounds pretty awesome, also. Locking profiles means you cant get a base idea of possible team comps 
However, i guess new socials might fix this. Should be good!
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Having more control over your game experience is great, but it needs to be gameplay mechanics too and not just who you play with.
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I’m tentatively optimistic.
I asked for a way to form groups outside the matchmaking a long time ago so I can’t complain too loudly about this. This is Blizzard doing what I asked. I hope it works, even though vast majority of players will likely ignore this feature and continue derping on like they do now. I really hope that LFG is not going to be an abandoned wasteland.
I’m disappointed that Blizz makes it so easy to ignore this feature though. This is a worse option than role queue.
Endorsements - meh. There is an issue that this needs to be doable more easily AFTER match is over. Currently information about your last group vanishes the second that “win/loss/draw” hits your screen and match is over. There is the recent players tab, but its not super-obvious who were in your team and who were not. I wish the group window would persist until your next queue so you could commend players afterwards, as obviously you don’t want people to waste time going through menus while the match is ongoing.
I also think that endorsements are meaningless.
Combining defense and damage categories - kind of makes the issues more obvious: this game has too many damage heroes, while tank and support roles continue being extremely important element of success. Does this make people play less damage heroes? Nope, probably the contrary. Defense category never made any sense, but this change doesn’t really solve any problems.
Symmetra rework: I guess picking her will not be automatic throwing the way it is now.
Private profiles: I fail to see the positives in this change.
Well, you could just try talking to your team and come up with a comp 
I talk to my team a lot 
Feel free to read my other thread about issues i have when playing lel and you will understand some of the issues, also half the players on OW dont join voice so
I know, but lacking communication people will pick whatever they want to pick, often what they play the most. You seeing what they play the most doesn’t really change that, and you can just wait until they pick, and then you’ll know 
works less than 30% of the time in competitive.
Sure, but will it work better if you can see their profiles?
Awesome stuff!
One small comment regarding endorsments. I think that decay per time is not very fair, as I believe, that unlike skill rating, good behaviour does not spoil over time.
Imagine if I’m a rarely playing person, who is nice and good, and generally receiving a lot of good feedback. But as my play sessions are rare, I don’t see any benefit from being nice, as all my endorsements will decay anyway.
I think decay is necessary, but can’t you guys bind it to the number of games played? So, if I’m not getting any endorsements in a 5-10 games streak that will be the sign that I’m “turning bad” and should lead to endorsement level decay.
Otherwise — thank you for a long - waited update. Much appreciated!
P.S. Fellow players, you can start endorsing me for this good post by up-voting it.
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What about the MMR? OW is a players of very different skill levels, and as far as I saw in the groups there is no way to tell if someone is Bronze or Grandmaster, so won’t the groups be very unequal then?
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The requirements for queuing for ranked doesn’t change. If the difference is greater than 1000/500/250 or whatever goes for your rank, you can’t queue.
I like the new update. Any idea when this will go live on the regular servers? I think I’ll take a break with comp until the new feature is there since i’m so sick of the group compilations i’ve been getting lately.
Also i agree that the “hiding profile”-feature has good and bad sides. But tbh i’m pretty glad about it. I can no longer count the amount of times i’ve been judged because i have most hours with mercy and portraied as someone who can’t aim, plays only one character and in general is a crybaby. Only because of those stats. It’s annoying. And even worse if I’m using voice chat and it turns out i’m a women.
Hopefully Blizzard won’t have to come up with a way to hide your sex, and instead sexists stop being sexist.
Matches are so much easier with a female or two on the team, as (yeah generalizing, I see the irony) they usually are more communicative, and don’t let their egos get in the way of cooperating and acting on callouts.
Yeah, that was my point there but I think our society hasn’t reached the level where sexists stop being sexists yet. So I’ll take what i can get right now.
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