I hate Overwatch (+ why I quit) 

ALSO sorry if like my mic picked up on some gross mouth sounds (idk how else to describe it) and if it was unevenly sound balanced I tried ;-; But I hope you all enjoy nonetheless and lmk your own throughts/experiences towards overwatch! I will probably still make some ow content from whatever ANCIENT left over clips I have!

It sucks seeing so many small creators come out of nowhere all explaining their disappointments with the game

I never got the chance to play overwatch 1, I was so excited to finally get to play 2. I think Overwatch 2 is one of the worst multiplayer games i've ever played.

I think the mainstream reason people don't like OW2 is the fact that 6v6 is gone. Because once you lose your one tank, you WILL be at a serious disadvantage and it's just not fun at all.

I feel ya on the love and loss of OW1. OW2 felt...off for some reason. It wasn't until recently I put the pieces together. Without that 2nd tank, every roll has to be a "shooter" more. I was a support main and it was nice being able to contribute to the match without having to aim well like you said. You can still get that feeling a little with Mercy in OW2, but everything else feels more FPS driven which I'm terrible at. OW1 was nice because you could still contribute to your team without being a McShooty master.

I hate OW but my timeline of getting there happened so much faster. I started playing OW2 around April 2023 after Lifeweaver was released. I had always been interested in the game back during its release but I heard how toxic it was and was scared to try but with OW2 being free to play and PVE being in the works I was excited to try. And then not only did I find out that PVE wasn't happening but Lifeweaver was considered a throw pick for awhile and even today isn't considered that great competitively and people still constantly make videos about how bad he is. He's the hero I joined the game to play because I liked his kit so much. I have hundreds of hours on him, more than any other character and yet just bc of how he's valued and his kit I can't even feel comfortable playing competitive without being told Im throwing. As such I ended up playing characters I was unfamiliar with in the beginning of my competitive journey and as a result I fell in rank really hard. I slowly climbed back up but I was so discouraged I just gave up comp immediately. What's the point of playing something if I cant even play the characters I like? I have long since muted all chats aside from group & whispers and I exclusively play QP now. But when a game feels like this what's the point of playing it? I've resolved to play through the Battle Pass on each new season but other than that I don't play. I've gone back to my WoW roots and tbh it's so liberating. Dying in WoW for the first few times actually gave me anxiety and I realized it was bc of OW. Mount farming and daily quests are so much more relaxing lol

I relate so strongly to your experience. The exception being that I only started with Overwatch 2. I genuinely don't know how the developers think that this game is even remotely okay. I have nearly 1,000 hours in Overwatch 2 and a good chunk of that is me just gritting my teeth and hoping that it gets better. The game I loved died a few seasons into It's lifetime, and even then it is clearly worse than the original. Even I can see that. Anyways, my life has dramatically improved since I stopped playing. I still think about the game nearly every day, and I'm genuinely sad that I can't play anymore. But Overwatch 2 is literally unhealthy for itself and it's players.

OW1 was such a unique experience, you could play one character in OW1 for years and never get bored cause there were so many variables and situations to get into . Even with characters that have a simple kit, it allowed people who didn’t even have an fps background to express their skill in more ways than just raw aiming . OW2 killed this concept in attempt to make the game easy for everyone .

It sucks huge when a passion dies. The thing with games is like it's usually some change that comes along and it feels like we were forced away.

hey i hope you're well. i must say,this is a very good video. overwach for me is love and hate. im currently trapped in high silver/low gold because whenever i win a game i end up either getting worse teamates or i get rolled by the other team. ive put hundreds of hours into the game and ive gotten better,but the matchmaking system for lower ranks just doesnt help in any way. i look forward to seeing more of your videos.

I don’t really know any other shooting games like overwatch so that’s really the only reason I keep playing.

I think the best way I can put it is that overwatch 2 just feels directionless and hollow with random change for the sake of change. Directionless in the sense of pointless character redesigns, time of day changes that ruin art direction, how uncohesive hero select animations seem now, the new ranked system, 5v5 and game direction as a whole. Hollow in how the monitization changes removed basically all forms of progression, the loss of PVE and any progression of lore, skins for the sake of a battle pass theme instead of things that fit the character. I know most of these things are "trivial" but the game has slowly ship of Theseus's itself into a compelelty different experience I want no part in. I guess that's what happens when most of the old dev team leaves blizzard. Comparing it to a similar shooter I love and still do Splatoon and how that series progressed foreward while maintaining the soul of the series makes me sad to see the state of OW.

Here before this blows up

I remember how fun the game used to feel like when I first started playing it, grouping up with my friends and pulling all nighters, now I see myself hoping for that glimpse of the past and logging on every day just praying that maybe, just maybe, that fun that I used to have would return somehow. But deep down I know that is over, I'm using nostalgia to cope with the hate and disgust that I feel every time that I open this game.

OW used to be so good. I dont hate Overwatch 2, I just hate playing it if that makes sense. I had to uninstall it or get stuck in the cycle because its addicting but miserable to play.

the way i’ve seen like 5 different people in the comments saying their journey started & ended w the release of ow2 💀 that’s….not a good thing lmfao rip

i have the same feelings as u when i quit something that i could rationalize as why i dont like ow anymore was 1. 5v5 feels like team deathmatch, i didnt like that mode in ow1 and only played qp and ranked. I liked the teamwork and coordination part of the game and 5v5 has taken that away little by little 2. role passives, basically taking player agency away and giving it to the game. This makes it quite frustrating when it comes to decision making, feels like there are 10 wrong decisions and 1 right one. It's ultimately about who you play not how you play. This format and passives is slowly killing hero identities.. That's mostly why it's boring to me now.. hopefully one day we will get 6v6 back with no passives as a game mode in the future

As a tf2 player you have my condolences. 💐

I can relate to this video so much. It actually touched my heartstrings, because I like you find it so hard to let go. I've "quit" Overwatch several times through the years even with OW1 but something always brought me back. It's this thought that one day I might feel that excitement like I used to back in 2016 and fomo with the skins. A part of me is still holding out that 6v6 will return and that I'll be happy I invested my time and money if or when Overwatch returns to those glory days. I wanna play Mercy and Kiriko too, but feel like I'm at a disadvantage so often when I meet a Bap, Lucio or Ana. You know the game is in a bad place when you are "forced" to play heroes you don't want/like just to keep up with the rest of the players. As a support main what I always loved was feeling like I could lift my teammates, enable them to pop off. It just feels great when you get that perfect rez or ultimate and turn the tides of the team fight. I've always gravitated towards supports in games, and I think it's for this reason. The fact that you know they really appreciate having you in their team, that you got their back. When they fall, you are there to lift them back up. Also thank you for the Chrono Cross music

Ya, Overwatch 2 has been the only game in my life that makes me feel unhealthy.

Such a compelling journey. This was beautiful and I support that break from the game. I love overwatch so much and I would step back if I felt the way you did about it. Thank you so much for sharing your experience. It was really interesting.

I Didnt even quit, just one day i stopped playing and didnt launch the game again, its been 6 months now, wild

Thanks for sharing Feenix ❤ can relate to this on so many levels

I loved OW1, i really did even during Goats or 2x Shield i didnt care because i could atleast play what i wanted into that OW2 ruined it, 5v5 ruined it and everything around the game just feels so dull, let me list things that made OW unfun for me - Biggest one 5v5, less Teamplay, Tank is miserable, more Counterswaps, more Stomps, 1 Raid Boss tank that cant be 1v1 and just insane Cooldowns - Ranked System switched from SR to Divisions, SR is way better imo because you can actually see when you will get the next rank or if youre Top 500 you can see how much SR you need to get there, it was also just mroe fun to see the Number go up everygame - Removal of Account Levels / Portraits, OW2 currently gives the players 0 incentive to play besides the BP, but after 80 BP Levels youre done for the Season. OW1 always gave me an incentive regardless of what Season we were in, i could get free Rewards by leveling up or increase my Border Level, and i think OW2 really still misses something like that to keep players grinding - The Soundtrack and the HUD are to "generic", OW1s play of the game theme is iconic, the trumpets and the epic feeling hitting was so amazing, OW2s theme isnt bad but its just a bad remix of the Original. Same thing with the HUD, its now so "modern" and has sharp edges which i dont like, or the Killfeed used to be bigger aswell, now its more compact and i sometimes dont even notice it tbh. - Events, new OW1 events only really happened in its first year, but those original ones were miles better than a fucking Porsche Collab, Battle of Olympus or the Le SSarafim event. Lucioball, Junkenstein, Uprising, all felt bigger to me, they felt like the whole season revolves around them, they even changed lots of maps to fit the design, but now they just dont do that anymore. - They removed our OW1s Ranked Statistics from our profile, this just shows you how little Blizzard cares about the Original Game that actually was good - They turned Quick Play into a sweat fest, enforcing penalties for leaving 2 Games, banning people for saying "fuck" or "shit" and just overall removing Social Features like Global Chat or LFG - Speaking of Social Features, them removing the End-Game Lobby and the Card Voting System made the game less fun to me, be it the occaisonal trash talk in ranked at the end or just connecting with other players, you cant do this anymore because Blizzard shoves the BP in your face after a game ends - Some minor things, the new Ranked Icons look ugly and they dont even display them in your border when playing ranked I dont know, this was my favourite game from 2016-2022, this was the best Mulitplayer experience i had and they ruined it. But even after saying all that stuff, if they would go back to 6v6 again, nerf Heroes correctly and make it work, i would be all over it again, i would grind like crazy. So I hope Aaron addresses 6v6 and says they will consider it

12:10 this is so so agreable, i really miss overwatch 1, sure lots of cc, shield etc but there was so many thing to learn, and overwatch was my comfort game and same goes to mercy, her movement overall was so smooth, i wished i had more time and chance to learn it better back then, and big part also the fact that every celebration there is skins you can get for free essentially if you have enough coin, now you have to play, it sucks. everything pretty locked behind walls, "new game" but they started bringing back cass flashbang and trying to make rein shield more tankier, like you might as well open back overwatch 1, all they do is lie and lie to make you come back. stressing over stats especially with characters like ana and kiriko is so relatable, i was initially gonna reach gold.. was close in overwatch 1 but didnt happen, i dont know im kinda yapping sorry, just feel unnecessary to hype ow2 anymore, with everything they didnt do.. plus in ow1 you can play qp and actually have fun, where if you see now, its just too many sweat, toxicity at its max, you cant even have place to practice hero you want without getting dump with bucket of crap.. thank you for sharing your opinion and experience feenix, it made me happy to know you not forcing yourself to play this game anymore and do what you actually want

oh my god that kings row game brought me back… i miss it so much. it’s so miserable ive had to quit aswell. now i love playing elden ring with a clear conscience - it’s fun but especially with coop

Tank doesn't feel fun to play, its a big reason why I quit as well.

I can relate to being held back by what you pick instead of how you play and not wanting to grind meta heroes.

My hope for 6v6 is the only reason i still play this game but i made the decision recently to just play a lot less. before it was everyday now its 3 times a week maybe

even watching your old OW1 gameplay makes me feel like the vibe is completely different, like the way the game looks more unique and how much more relaxed it was.

I hate getting matched against 5 stacking losers as a solo player and also hate the servers giving me DC & high ping putting me in middle east, japan, taiwan comeon they just want me to lose grrrrrr........... fk u blizzard

The number thing is so true. . I focused on my stats so much even tho i was fine. I slowly realized they truly didnt matter bc i could have all the kill, the best healing and still lose. I start to question my skill, my enjoyment and everything i tried working towards. The game made me feel hopeless and i start to notice my attitude changed aswell. From easy-goung, carefree and only wanting to have a good time to overly competitive, toxic and harsh on myself. Its so weird how i grew up on this game and how it affected me.

Once OW1 got deleted so did my passion for it. I relate so much to this video and thank you for sharing your experience.

dudeee i feel this!! i main lifeweaver and i literally cannot play him without "throwing," despite averaging high healing and assists. it especially sucks because of how extensive my knowledge is on his kit. you aren't playing bap, zen, lucio, or kiri, youre throwing and it suuuuuuckkkkksssss D:

Your explanation was precise and clear thank you sm hun u did ur best for ur friends and ur teammates but maybe it’s ok to just move on honestly life is about change…even with pink mercy the underlying problems are still there u still won’t be happy after awhile.

You're not alone and you summed it up pretty much same as me. It has lost it's magic. They have gotten rid of so much skill expression for the sake of making it accessible. Heroes are more powerful than ever so much so it feels like you're losing to the heroes and not the player. They completely destroyed a role I loved to play in OW1, gutted so many play styles. Modern overwatch is just a dumbed down shell of the game we all loved and grinded for hours on end.

I'm also an OG player and I've felt the same way. I recently came to the sad realization that Overwatch 2 just wasn't made for me, or OW1 players. It feels like it has been optimised to gather more "classic FPS" players from other games, with a more kill-based fast paced gameplay. What made me fall in love with OW1 is that you could pick nearly any hero and feel like you were contributing something to the team. For example when playing tank, if you weren't an aggressive player you could still focus on protecting your team and be helpful in doing so. The game used to valorize different playstyles but now in OW2, the main goal is just to wipe the enemy team as fast as possible. Tank is miserable and supports are put in a weird position where they have to put their entire healing on the tank or else the tank falls but also they need to help secure kills as well by doing damage. If you don't counterplay you're also pretty much cooked. Mercy is still to this day my second most played hero but I literally haven't played her since OW2 came out because the burst damage is just too strong. I still play for the dailies and weeklies because of FOMO but most of the time logging in feels like a chore, as soon as events and/or battlepasses are done I usually stop playing until the next update. That's gonna sound insane but after years of hating League of Legends I finally gave this game a good shot and I'm actually enjoying it so much. The servers are so much more stable, I don't get sent to foreign servers with 300ms, the updates are frequent and grinding games even outside of an event still feels rewarding. If you don't pay for the battlepass, grinding OW2 gives you nearly jack diggidy squat (I know they've been improving that over time but still). I've also made the decision to put more time into more solo story-driven FPS games instead. With all of that said I hope you find your next favorite game and I hope it helps you move on from OW.

I fully agree with you. I lost my passion for this game completely. I was an off-tank player in ow1 (only main tank I really played was rein) and I loved how tanks synergized with each other. Being the only tank has been absolutely miserable. I will not return unless 6v6 comes back and if doesn't... oh well 🤷‍♂️

The part were she says that she wasn't really needed felt so crushing idk why it made me feel that way. 20:28

I never played Overwatch throughout the franchise's lifespan, but I've seen how once a great hero shooter can be destroyed by bad updates, through overelying on eSports, the pursuit of perfect balance, and greedy monetization schemes. But Blizzard's heinious act is just one of the many things that are ruining all forms of art. I'm a person who saw the bigger picture of the problem that affected not just video games, but music, TV, movies and everything else you loved in a bad way.

Ow2 cured my manic overwatch addiction...and Yes...im mad i cant waste another 5000 hours on a videogame.

I understand how that feels kinda the same but now I only join with certain friends so I'll just mess around to make them laugh. I stopped playing for like a year or so I forgot what year because of multiple reasons.

Started OW soon after launch. I was a bastion/rien/mercy main. Weird set of characters but I was a flex player. Played the game until a bit after the release of Echo. Maaannn I loved this game in it's prime. I had fun doing really dumb things in game and successfully calling out Plays of the gane before they happened. It was fun. I tried to get back into OW2 when it launched but yikes..... It's not easy. I played for like 2 months and I could tell something was wrong. The game didn’t feel fun. It was just too much for a returning player like myself. Queues? Set roles? Getting flamed in QP for playing a character I haven't played in literal years? Ugh, when did the "fun" leave the game? Nowadays, I sit back and watch the drama, the toxicity, the sadness, and the numbing acceptance of other players still hanging around, and I'm glad I pulled out when I did. It's sad. I liked overwatch...

sounds similar to how/why i dropped the game as well. one day i both the game for like 15E and another day i just never opened OW2.

So from what I’m understanding ow1 mercy 1 trick dislikes ow2 because her hero pool was not big enough and now shows stats across teammates, showing how much her team is doing versus her. Tbh, understandable. I love ow but I like playing the heroes I want to play and spent time learning. When those heroes aren’t good I just take a break until they are viable. The stat board has both been a blessing and a curse. Honestly I would be okay just getting rid of it just for the fact of it being useless and a good way to cause tilt amongst players

As someone who has been playing so long I have the pre-order widow skin from 1, I understand everything without you having to say anything. Even the part about mercy being comfy because of not having to aim lmao. I don't play anymore either I'm just watching them try to put out the fire (been a rein mein since season 2 of OG so I felt the pain especially hard). Also did not expect ff8 music when I clicked on the video.

Jesus this makes me feel old. I was 25 when OW1 came out, and I was HOOKED. For a couple years at least, and then it started getting stale. I came back into Overwatch in 2022 just before OW2 was supposed to to lunch. I feel like I've been chasing that high from 8 years ago, and it just isn't there anymore. I get glimmers of it every once in a while, and the battle passes would keep me grinding, but after almost two years, I feel like it's time to let it go again. RIP to what could've been a game in the GOAT conversation, if it were taken care of the way it deserved to be from day one.

As a mercy main I feel your pain

Being a “Mercy main” has a bad connotation for some people, probably because of Blizzard having things like mass rez, moth meta valk, etc., but what people forget is that Mercy takes skill. Just a different kind of skill. You don’t always need to aim like a Tracer or Widow to be good at OW. Your positioning, cooldown usage, determine who/when to heal/dmg boost, ult usage, ult tracking, etc all played a part in how good a player is. It’s why Monkey/Reinhardt are high skill heroes even though they don’t require aim yet they’re also easy to pick up and play- they’re amazing hero designs because they’re easy to learn hard to master. Then OW added things that skipped this learning curve and had no downsides, the first sign of this was Moira but she “had no utility” so it wasn’t too egregious, but we let it slide so we got Brig and then a steady crash in the game’s quality for years after that. The game is now about denial, standing main instead of making plays, and counterpicking. Every hero now is a Brig with a kit so complete without weaknesses and button press for free value abilities. Mercy is a big loser in 5v5 and I feel bad for those that mained her. Hopefully they turn it around one day. Bring back 6v6 and save the game!

I didn't get into ow until a few weeks before ow2 was announced. I enjoyed the small bit of ow1 I played with friends. Ow2 came out, and I started having to learn the game, so playing with friends became less and less. I tried the "i'll play comp to get better, and to also grind up to play with my friends" (not knowing they were meaning never playing comp with me, not just because new to comp). But comp made me hate the game more. Playing by myself now, I outright despise the game. I only force myself to play the game so I get on my computer. If I don't, my computer just sits and collects dust since my single friend group has drifted apart. I may just hate the game because playing it alone sucks, but the thought of Overwatch is nice, but the game isn't worth it anymore

I might commit crimes if we go one more season without even CONSIDERING that “certain” changes from OW1 to OW2 were HORRIBLE. And besides me blatantly referencing 6v6, even UI changes they made were dumb. Why did they remove level borders? Why did they remove leveling in general? Why did they remove ranks showing? Why did they remove ranks being on the borders? Why did they remove medals? Why did they remove end game cards? And dear lord, white UIs are disgusting. I will always say that Black UIs>White UIs. The borders literally look like the Overwatch BETA borders. They made changes so they can say it’s a new game but people still say it’s the same exact game so why did they even bother? All they did was remove any trace of culture or enrichment that existed in the game.

I play the game casually only quick play and taking months long breaks . Which is why I am not exactly burned out, I think that's most people enjoy it now. Not a serious game

one day i met this mercy player than said she was top 10 for a couple season because of this guy she met and dated but then he left her for someone else (typical mercy kitten experience :/ ) and she dropped to like diamond or masters (i was boosting an acc when i met her so idr what elo it was). she was telling me how her mental dropped like a rock bc she used to take this game so seriously and equated her real life value to her rank on top of how players just are towards women and mercy players. im more or less known throughout the cosmos as the most toxic brig player (mostly just bc i wont let people slur me) but that shit had me feeling TERRIBLE for her. its so sad to hear that youre also a mercy player who has quit overwatch because to me mercy players ARE overwatch. i hope you guys both find a new passion either in or outside of overwatch.

As someone who had been playing since ow1 beta it feels like the small nunaces of ow1 are gone. It feels like the solution to everything now is just hard swapping ,especially as someone who used to play alot of tanks. I haven't been able to bring myself to care about the game ever since mauga came out, and they decided to make projectile sizes bigger. Nothing makes me sadder than feeling apathetic towards a game i used to mainline.

Crazy how much I can relate to this video Great video

I have been barely playing recently and the other day I just uninstalled. Until I see positive changes I'm just done. Been playing since 2016

have not watched the video yet but congratulations! also, mandatory insert team fortress 2 steam page link

considering no support peels for the other support we wil miss u.

The game lost its soul. From the worse UI, to missing social features, to 5v5 being awful, to PvE being cut. This sequel was not an upgrade to anything besides the shop. It’s a game to sell cute mercy and kiriko skins now. This team is actually way better with balance, if they just stopped trying to force 5v5 and acknowledge it’s a sunk cost, there would be potential. This game should’ve dominated the industry, now it’s a joke.

this is so sad, i just got into the game and i get recommended all of these videos lol. then i started playing tank and now i understand.

I really do miss the days of overwatch 1. I very recently stopped playing overwatch 2 as it's just not the game I felt in love, I tried to love it but blizzard is just ruining and killing this game and it really hurts to see my once loved game get ruined...

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All they need to do is put a 6v6 game mode. Test it so we can prove it’s better. They are genuinely afraid to admit they fucked everything

You have no idea how relatable this video is to an ex rein main and maybe so many more.

The thing is, the game becomes where the game controls you instead of you controlling the game. No matter how much we try to help or carry the team, there will always be something that hinders your progress. Due to something like role passives or some other balance changes of certain heroes. It's okay to quit btw. Even though I still play the game for me personally there is no point in taking the game seriously or getting better, considering what they did to the game. Cheers.

This sounds a lot like my experience. I was originally an Xbox player who started playing to hide from IRL problems. I met a bunch of friends online and really enjoyed grinding and playing with them as we all learned and a handful of us reaching top 500 (me on tank). I remember those eager days to get home and log on where we would all chat in discord all day waiting for the next bunch of games we would play, we even participated in console tournaments. Eventually during the content lull a few people left the game and it was just me and my tank duo with an occasional support friend mixed in. I eventually made the switch to PC in the last few seasons of OW1 and peaked around diamond. Fast forward to OW2 as a former top 500 tank main, I do not enjoy the tank experience. I used to have a 2nd tank to share the 6 CC’s I had coming my way while now I'm alone to take all 5, every loss no matter what I do I get spammed “tank diff” and I occasionally get suspended for throwing despite typically holding a 55% or better win rate. I just don't enjoy the game anymore, I am expected to do the job of 2 without any help, I get all the blame and most importantly I am no longer able to duo up with my friend where we could control the game place and in comms by having everyone coalesce behind the tanks plans. Now it feels like with how the meta forces team composition and with counterpicking as bad as it is the game has devolved into a 4v4 team Deathmatch with the tanks sitting off to the side in a CC chain for the DPS to charge ultimates on. I am finding myself playing less and less and I just don't see it ever getting better since they basically took a very unique game and highjacked the franchise to make a shop tailored to the lowest players who will mindlessly spend money on skins and will ditch the game at the drop of a hat for a new fad so an ow1 OG tank main like me can screw off since I'm clearly not wanted or appreciated anymore. It's kind of sad with the history of the game and what this game meant to me helping me navigate my trauma years ago. Sorry for the long post

A lot of people talk about 6v6 being the thing that killed it, and while yes, I am team 6v6, I just feel like blizzard sucked out the game's soul in a lot of other ways too. I keep holding out hope that Blizzard pulls a Final Fantasy XIV, admits the game sucks and makes a better one, but I know it's not gonna happen.

Never got to play Overwatch until 2 came out because little kid me didn't want to spend money. I downloaded it week 1 as I always heard about the love the game got back in 1 and I had always been interested in class-based games like Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare. I was instantly hooked on the tank role and later became mainly a Doomfist one trick (they get a lot of bad rep, I know). I absolutely love his abilities, his character, and enjoy watching content around him from other creators like Zbra and Quake. I'm not the craziest player. I still play on a controller despite switching to a PC about a year and a half ago. I only have a little over 100 hours in comp and I'm so close to reaching Diamond 2, solo queueing for the most part. Maybe my opinion isn't as valid because of my lower rank. But something just feels different from when i first started playing in season 1?? I can't really explain it. The more I play my little one trick Doom I start to realize "wow, this tank sucks". Unless I'm some crazy player like Zbra or Quake it feels like I'm FORCED to play Mauga, Hog, or whatever the hell the "meta" is. Again, maybe it's just me. Maybe it's because I'm on a controller and can't hit half my peashooter damaging Doom shots lol. But it just feels miserable playing tank in general. I really hope something changes soon regarding tanks besides of just adding more random passives. This was a really nice video to watch, especially being able to see the game from a support main perspective rather than the usual tank player.

Yeah honestly I miss my tank duo we did so well together and we had fun now we both barely play it sucks these devs need to open their eyes this game won’t last without change and new stuff or bringing back old stuff that people loved

It’s been so sad to watch the soul get taken from this game. I loved this game and it just keeps getting worse. When they changed the hit boxes/health pools it really let me know they had just given up on making the game that I really loved. Maybe they’ll bring it back one day. I’m totally not huffing the copium.

I’ve never played a game that genuinely made me feel better after I quit. I have like 500 something hours (started OW2) I’ve never taken Ow very serious. I really only play qp. If I get mad or go on a losing streak I just get off and play something else. I usually only play like an hour or two a day basically I’m trying to say how is the game taking that big of a toll on peoples mental health?? I genuinely don’t get it.

I'm super upset about pve getting canceled the one this I was so hyped for overwatch 2 especially playing it with friends to make youtube videos on but looks let it will never come along :(

Bring back October 2020 6V6 with proper balance and in game incentives

That’s actually insane knowing a lot of kids grew up on overwatch. I remember grinding the beta when I was 21 lmao now I’m 30. 8 years came and went. Pretty cool knowing so many people loved this game I’m just glad it did happen because I had 5 years of fun tell the dark age took over in 2021 and it’s still going 😢

Drinking as i watch this. Mainly because my dad is an Incomplete-quadriplegic and I take care of him solely, but he's so self-destructive nowadays that. I can't even reason with him. I feel like he's not right mentally and I don't know what to do. He's been like for this for 12 years and I've been taking care of him for 6. I'm 21 years old and it happened when I was 8. I don't know what to do. It seems like if I say anything besides the perfect thing.He gets mad at me and then contradict himself because he's that mad.

Same here honestly, I was playing casually overwatch since 2017 and I stopped playing as often cuz of the gameplay loop. Started playing competitively on season 8 of ow2 and yeah… I’m a rein main so your thoughts as a mercy main is very similar. Rein is just dreadful, not fun, and requires a gigantic skill sealing to be remotely viable against an orisa 2 ranks down me. It’s just not the game I’ve played on my ps4 with my classmates for fun

Had this mercy last night saying they finally hit endorsement lvl 5, o swapped to rein and they fuckin left after two 4 man shatters and the mercy left after I solo shattyed her while nano 😂😂😂

im pleasantly surprised there are support players and even dps players that don't enjoy ow2. I thought it was a complaint coming from pretty much entirely tank players. I think my biggest gripe with ow2, is that it just feels like a worse product from things beyond the format (UI, HUD, the gameplay not feeling as fluid, and that "plastic-ey feel" the game has now). Even if they do bring back 6v6 which i much preferred, its still ow2 so the game wont feel exactly like ow; which to be completely honest is kind of what i truly want.

I also feel the same as you although I have never been as good at the game as you are although I only really play dps and tank. IDK if you like marvel at all but that marvel rivals game coming out soon looks like its gonna maybe one of the best overwatch alternatives I have heard really good things about it and the gameplay looks awesome.

People played 4 years without an update on Overwatch 1 yet they’re flocking like sheep when this shit at least gets an update every few months on Overwatch 2 lmfao

Honestly I couldn’t agree more, overwatch one was so much better and I hate how everything costs money now :/ Great video btw

I wish 5v5 and the changes that came with OW2 never happened. I really do believe OW1 had some sort of secret formula about it. Whether that was it's format or what idk, but I too have largely quit playing since OW2. I've tried grinding out a few seasons in OW2, even one tricked zen to GM a couple times. Just doesn't have the magic it used to anymore.

I miss Overwatch 1 so much :(

I really get the comfort of one tricking and being addicted to it since i was a doom one trick in ow1 LMAO OW1 was like no other game I've never been so addicted just playing one character but OW2 is just so meh imo..

As a onetrick main doomfist i understand that hipperfixation on trying to reach peak performance with one character and with ow 2 and the rework see how it got to the point that it felt bad because it wasn't the same plus the cointerpick meta and 5v5 making the character practically unplayable and unfun to main for the fact of putting triple the effort on every match just to get steamrolled cause your character just can't do more... Ow 2 sucks and it's horrific in many ways really sad to see i just miss being happy playing doom dps ;-;

Overwatch isnt the game it was, i just want overwatch 1 back at this point i really hate 5v5 its not fun its a job not a game

is that ff8 music?

I still like the game because I'm not a tryhard. I play every once in a while and have a great time. It sure sucks to lose passion for something because you love it too much 😢

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I play Overwatch because of the people and to get my competitive fix, otherwise Id do my weeklies with mixed emotions (all role queue weekly is just instant tank queues and it SUCKS!). I wanna hope that they will talk about 6v6 cause I feel that format was better, but if its confirmed that its never coming back maybe that will be the final nail in the coffin for me. Its not like I don't exactly hate the game I just hate the experience of giving my 110% and still lose :/

kinda went through the same stages as you but with apex legends

I subbed because of blamb garden but stayed for the good take

Plat peak for 3000 hrs some of us just don't have the gift

2016 OW1 beta here. I'm a point where I just hop on Overwatch every now and then. I've been playing my other three games that I also play often: HSR, Genshin, and Destiny. At the time of this comment, community creator patch is still going on. And I went back to playing OW and having so much fun, after not playing it for a month. It felt refreshing and gameplay loop felt so much fun for me. Too bad it's limited time. At this point, there's just nothing for me to look forward to. - 5v5 gameplay loop is more stale compared to 6v6. 6v6 should just come back. It's clear 5v5 cannot survive long term - On top with 5v5 issues, tanks feels even more worst to play. This also leads to supports and dps not feeling satisfied to play. - 90% of OW2 cosmetics are expensive and locked behind paywalls where before we could earn them by playing - More skin recolors but still locked behind paywall - no level borders - no new lores onto Overwatch universe and heroes - PvE, the biggest reason of OW2 exists has been officially scrapped - No lfg feature - Workshop being neglected more Overwatch 2 is your typical free-to-play live-service game that is design to milk as much money as possible. The only update I see comes from the monetization which that kills the rewards by just playing the game. And it sucks because Overwatch 1 was not like that. There were more care being put onto the Ip and players were the main focus. I would rather lootboxes to keep earning rather than what we have in Overwatch 2. But apologies for the long comment, just want to get these thoughts/experiences towards Overwatch. I have tried other games like Apex and Valorant but it still feels like there are no games like Overwatch. There's no Tracer, no Kiriko, Doomfist, no Winston, all of my favorite heroes I play. The universe in Overwatch is beautiful as well.

Yeah, that's what growing up does. Stuff you enjoyed as a kid becomes less enjoyable.

I feel this

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i used to play ball soo much in ow1 and literally i played a few games on him at launch as well as his rework patch and i lost all desire to play him. Its so crazy to me where ball was a character i loved playing so much because it felt like you could do anything if you were good enough, i took it really seriously and peaked t500 on console but they completely changed the identity of him. I felt this way with most of the tanks in overwatch 2 where they dont feel like they have individual characters anymore. Its such a shame because they wrote of 6v6 because they were too prideful to admit they were wrong, overwatch 2 is objectively a failure and the pvp is a glorified shop, they changed a game i loved sososo much and replaced it with this weird corporate simplified look. The pve is a whole thing but i think its such a joke that ow 2 pvp was supposed to release with more than 3 characters but didnt and weve basically been getting backlogged releases up until now Overwatch 2 released with less features than the first one and adds stuff we already had but done worse (like the level borders being replaced with progression levels) all the charm and care of the game feels stripped out I cant say this enough but overwatch one wasnt unfixable they just didnt try, nearing the end of overwatch 1 patches became so infrequent and the balance of the game was left in such a mess and sure 6v6 comes with some issues but i feel that blizzard would of been too ashamed to admit they ran the game into the nowhere because of their horrible working practice, we basically had 2 years of content drought then given a reboxed version which nobody asked for. Im sorry if all of this is just waffle i could talk for hours over this, i was very passionate over this game as it was the first game i ever really got into and to see the state its now hurts

We seriously need an OW2 killer, and I mean a REAL one. We need a new game that thoroughly understand what & why OW was successful, what sucked about it, and what could it learn from it and other games alike. It then needs to be just enough of a replica to attract OW2 players, while standing just enough on it's ground to do/be something unique to it. 24:07 It won't.

Sadly yeah the experience isn't fun its just tedious now.