I’ve been playing this game for years and I still wonder why. The first friend group left this game about 5 years ago, and I still see tons of people leaving.
You say that general discussion is for feedback on our experience of the game, so here you go:
Every game I see Hanzo and Doomfist. Some variations of way too buffed Bastion, the occasional Orisa, a Genji with a Mercy living inside of him, but mostly those 2. Doom punches me from miles away to make me fly miles away, all while he is allowed to hit me around corners, hit all my team at once and being allowed to block whatever. I get one shot around corners by Hanzo that apparently will only ever get pseudo-nerfs and never anything to make him actually alright to be in this game. You deleted Widow by nerfing her range and one shot capabilities and you nerf Hanzo by taking away 5 damage? Like, what is that?
And Mei isn’t underperforming, normal people just don’t want that thing in their games. She is not fun. Hanzo is not fun. Doom most certainly is not fun. Orisa, Bastion, or just anything you decide to powercreep-buff for no reason: not fun. (And no, I don’t want to hear some whiny one trick crying about how fun it is to play x, it’s not fun to play against!)
How about making a meta where you can play what you want? Maybe even make it map dependend? And then just not touch the balance? Let people create their own metas? You gonna bring out new heroes on a regular anyways, that will bring enough change. You don’t have to try and force overpowered bs down our throats. The only thing this is doing is making us longtime players not want to play and new players just not even start. I hear more and more people saying that they are uninstalling again, cause its just not fun.
Overwatch was my first game I played, maybe that’s why I’m still here. But it actually is making me angry to play this game. It annoys me. And it bores me to death. That is actually not healthy and I don’t know how long me and a lot of other people will take this before we all leave.
So, yeah, I love this game and I absolutely hate it at the same time. Please just make it fun to play again. Get rid of the things that were alright in 6v6, but absolutely should not be a thing in a 1-tank-setting. As someone that has the most playtime on Mercy (from ow1 still): put her damage boost on a resource meter or something. She is just making too many other heroes OP by sitting inside their behinds. And there are others too that could use a rework, since they just don’t transfer nicely into 5v5. There is still a lot to be worked on and in the meantime the game fun is suffering.
Right now I feel that the random overbuffs are getting powercreeps in the game so much that it will just be oneshots everywhere on everyone and it just gets more and more boring. If I wanted to play Valorant, I would. But I want to play Overwatch. And Overwatch gets more unfun with every patch.
