Nothing lasts forever

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In some ways it’s sad, I haven’t played in a week, and Overwatch was my go to game for years. The last few weeks instead has been spread out between Warzone and Forza Motorsport 7 for me.

I really wan to play Overwatch but with all these locks and restrictions, it feels like we’re just being cornered by Blizzard and forced to play the game how they want us to play is, as opposed to us experimenting and changing metas on the fly like the old days.

I’m going to try to play soon and see if anything’s changed if not I doubt I’ll have any incentive to keep playing.

It’s also weird that in a month of playing Warzone, I have not seen any toxicity. Quite the opposite, a lot of friendly players and team mates. of course in QP you get the typical end of match 10 seconds where both teams can hear each other in lobby and like the old days sometimes a few players from both teams will start ripping each other but it’s mostly just banter and for laughs because it’s cod, but in game, I’ve not noticed anything on the level of Overwatch which made me think about this subject a bit. How a fun cartoony looking game like Overwatch can attract more disturbed players than a COD game. Quite a contrast.

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Map Pools got removed again after around five months. Maybe come back after that time and see if Hero Pools are gone too. There is a lot of negative feedback for it as well.

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sadly, the postive feedback is also common. i hope more people start disliking it so that they dont keep it in s22

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I have the philosophy that everything bad has something good in it. The good thing in quitting OW is that you are widening your horizons, playing a tons of new games and one day you might come across some which will keep you addicted the same way. You will only regret playing too much OW after you quit. This whole game feels like an inside joke with all it’s toxicity, broken matchmaking system, constant revamping, new restrictions which just keeps you playing does not matter how bad it gets except you will never see this until you are at the inside.

That is the reason why I not just limited my time spent on the game but put it down as is 8 months ago and never logged in again except on PTR when Echo come out, had to try her. Still wouldn’t make me come back because Blizzards policing and ruining the game like the role lock was not enough, hero bans, REALLY Blizzard, REALLY, you will tell us which heroes will be banned and now the discussion on the US forums about banning voice line spamming which was absolutely fun (and be rest of sured they will be banned this is not even a discussion it is decided).

This is how they managed to screw up WoW as well to get to the level that more people play classic WoW now as they play with that 65GB 7 expansion monstrosity which gotten worse with each new releases.

Since I put OW down I played through a lot of great single player games like Hedon, Black Mesa, Dungeon Siege 2 Broken World … while only playing 2 games poe and csgo online, although none of these 2 games felt like being part of some “great” online community as OW used to be until I recently found Guild Wars II (yeah a 8 years old game I never paid attention to) and realized what a great community it has especially compared to wow and it is even free to play until lvl80. I think the devs of Arenanet learned from all the mistakes of Blizzard and they managed to create an anti toxic environment. For example in GW2 if you die people will always come to rez you, because if for not other reason they get lots of XP for doing so. There is no constant argument (need/greed) and ninjaing of items on any kind of drops because everyone gets the same items from a drop. You don’t need to look for a guild, guilds look for you. You don’t need to spend half year to gear up for PvP because in PvP everyones stats are the same, a lvl2 cloth wearing character has the same stat as a lvl80 with full gear, making only your skills matter. You don’t need to look for dungeons because there are just world events everywhere where other players nearby can join in to kill a boss, no more hours of organizing some 6 hours raid which then falls apart due to bad dps, morale, ppl quitting etc. You get XP for everything including mining, cooking, gathering, rezzing people, discovering the world, watching vistas, if you buy the expansions you even get daily XP just for that.

I could go on and on but this forum isn’t GW2 and not even WoW. I just wanted to share this experience with others that you have to widen your horizons because GW2 makes WoW soo soo bad like every minute you spend in WoW is jail time compared to GW2. Same will be with OW when Valorant and similar titles come out. Blizzard is finished, those who leave OW will never come back for OW2 because there will be better alternatives by then.

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