Why can't we get 4:3 aspect ratio support?

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I expect this question has been answered but i cant seem to find a response from anyone at blizzard. I have 1000’s of hours of FPS experience using 4:3 aspect ratio and it would be a real improvement if this was supported in overwatch.

I am interested in hearing what blizzard’s reasoning is behind disallowing 4:3 as it wouldn’t hurt anyone.

thanks -ej

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Probably the same reason why they don’t support ultra wide aspect ratios.
I remember Kaplin saying that it gave the player an advantage which is why they didn’t add it in.

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All the good shooters accept wide screen gaming, Oh only blizzard skips it. Mayb they ask money for it as a widescreen DLC only 60 euros.

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Oh, that makes sense. While widescreen gives you more horizontal FOV, a 4:3 aspect ratio would give you more vertical FOV. The unfair advantage is also the reason why you can’t change your FOV that much.

But what if a widescreen/4:3 apect ratio would be programmed to give you less FOV than usual? The only thing that needs to be added is a warning that changing to those mode decreases your FOV, causing a disadvantage.

It would be basically a cropped version of the deafult aspect ratio.

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I don’t know how aspect ratios work thus I don’t know if that is possible or not.

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There are 4:3 resolutions, but they are broken and also can’t play stretched.

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I don’t know how aspect ratios work thus I don’t know if that is possible or not.