Dbd is reminding me why I left Overwatch.

pemberley

I used to love playing Overwatch. And then they started balancing around what looks cool in esports and what’s “unfun to play against.” They had a large, growing cast of characters but they repeatedly ignored lower tier characters in favor of buffing the same small group of heroes over and over - who did NOT need buffs and were a meta defining favorite. Then you had characters like Symmetra who were unique and accessible, but in need of buffs, and were gutted for the favor of the very meta heroes she countered and played against and the players who HATED her and her players - and when she finally finds a place with her watered down and incongruous rework, they nerf her back down because god forbid if the meta be genuinely shaken. And the parts that previously made her unique were stripped from her and tacked on to other characters (who were more popular, necessary, or who countered her - or all of the above.)

After a while, it became clear that the Overwatch devs had no interest in having a healthy fun game for everyone - just the esport geeks and those who played the same core meta heroes who dominated the game since early days - all while asking for more and more money (sometimes even stooping so low as to use a cancer charity as a blueprint for future micro transactions.)

I’m starting to see similar patterns with dead by daylight, and I don’t like it one bit. I don’t understand why the devs would even fathom alienating a vital and necessary part of the base because if I have no confidence, potency, or teeth as a killer or as a survivor, I’m waiting in the queues FOREVER because nobody will actually want to play killer or as a survivor, I’m just BORED because it’s so EASY to succeed - a) why would I keep playing and b) why would I even bother spending money anymore?

You would THINK happy, satisfied players would mean more players playing and more money going into the game. Seems to work for CDPR and the Witcher. I bet they made a hit off Cyberpunk with just preorders alone with the amount of care, trust, and support earned and reciprocated from Witcher.

Bhvr, be more like CDPR not greedy Blizzard!

Ksoni

Oh yeah overwatch. New champion once every 5 months and the only new content is skins.

LordGlint

I was a Mercy main...I know a thing or 2 about nerfs... Apparently if you spend the entire game healing, the other support characters who spend a good part of the match killing ppl will think your healing numbers are unfair and have them nerfed.