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Why i won't play for the team anymore

Since season 1 i have been more than happy to play a variety of roles.

I have a few heroes from each role i am comfortable on so i am able to play with the random teams i get. Most of my comp play time is on Ana, Zaraya and 76 with a sprinkling of other heroes like Tracer, Junk and Widow now and again.

Being a flex player has made it much easier to climb as I placed in Plat season 2 diamond season 3 and have been in masters/Gm since then. That being said by season 6 i really wasn't having fun playing anymore. Constantly filling gets old and especially when you play tank and support most of the time it really doesn't feel as rewarding to play as DPS.

For season 7 i decided to decay my account down to 3K (by just not playing) and made my mind up that i would play whatever hero i wanted. I have to admit just forgetting about the rank and playing the heroes i enjoy has made comp a lot better for me. If anyone gets toxic in chat i leave, if they type i block them and if we lose we lose I'm kind of done caring.

I think we can all agree the system needs a lot of work and i would be happy to be a flex player again when it changes. I just want bliz to know that they have forced a lot of people who are willing to be team players the other way by constantly ignoring the player bases request to fix the system. Pointless nerds and buffs, 7 game a week decay and letting one tricks soar to the top of ladder for no reason. Personally id like a meta of 2-2-2 to be enforced and a role q introduced. I really don't see any other solution to the ranked environment.

  • Bill Warnecke
    Posted 8 years ago (Source)

    There have been discussions in r/competitiveoverwatch about this over and over and over again for over a year.

    What does the game need?

    In order of importance:

    • Something to fix the role selection problems at the start of the game.

    • Something to lower toxicity etc. This is probably going to have to be something like cs:go overwatch (or/and low priority queue), where the community helps, because if we expect from Blizzard to police 35+ million accounts manually we're delusional.

    • Something to promote the team aspect of the game, because the game is deeply a team game, and it's a shame that people dont play it like that for various reasons. That probably should be a clan/guild system, coupled with a 6v6 queue and regular in-game tournaments.

    • A third main mode, they all should give rewards the regular casual more rewards! There needs to be seperation between 3 kinds of people: Total trolls/whatever is fine people, normal casuals, and competitive minded people. What's happening now is normal casuals hate quickplay because it's a trollfest and go play competitive which they ruin for the competitive-minded people partly because they want golden weapons too.

    • The whole Overwatch system is made to make people feel good about themselves no matter how bad they may be doing. This is why almost every person has a gold or silver medal, almost every person gets a potg almost every day, a card at the end of the match every other match, elims are nothing more than doing 1+ damage to someone who went on to be killed by someone etc etc. The problem with this is that it often creates people who think they're carrying when they're not, and this makes them both toxic and makes them think that they dont need to improve because it's their team that sucks not them. What should they do? Make it much more serious for competitive mode(s).

    Lets hope that Blizzard is in the final stages of releasing at least something that improves the competitive epxerience, doesnt need to be all of the things that i mentioned above right away. Competitive has seen extremely little improvement since the release of the game, various people are extremely dissatisfied with this.

    Hey Kaidanos, I just wanted to note that I’ve seen your post. Thanks for taking the time to write it up and passionately pursing getting the issues in front of us.

    Our designers (and many other members of the dev team) read r/competitiveoverwatch regularly. I don’t have any specific plans to share with you now, but I hope being acknowledged will do for today.

    Cheers

  • Bill Warnecke
    Posted 8 years ago (Source)

    Fair enough, we do need to see actions taken by the overwatch team to make the competitive side of things better and very soon but i suppose there's only so much that you can say no matter what may (or may not) be in the works.

    Thanks for the reply.

    Cheers Kaidanos

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