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Comment on Games you fell out of love with.

Alright, here’s a long one. Overwatch.

I’ve never been a fan of PvP games, but hero shooters might be my one exception. Even then, I almost exclusively play support because I prefer helping my team to fighting the enemy. But the better I got at the game, the more I realized support was just the damage role but you also attack your team sometimes. A Lucio with only 1,000 damage or with 80% healing uptime by the end is a bad Lucio. I guess what I was looking for was a healer role, not a support role.

This pushed me more and more into just playing my favorite character, Mercy, because she kinda lives in her own world and rarely interacts with the enemy team. Her movement is fun, and I genuinely enjoy playing her. So I’d be more than happy to pick OW back up as a Mercy one-trick, but that brings up several other problems.

First of all she’s straight up ass in high-level play. Which is fine I guess, I don’t need to play comp, but the more consistent matchmaking than what shows up in quickplay was appreciated. Secondly, people expect you to switch if things aren’t going well… the game’s been called counter-watch for a reason. This is also fair enough, I understand my team shouldn’t need to baby me if I’m hard-countered, but like… I don’t want to. At this point I’m here to play Mercy, not OW, so I’d rather just lose than switch. Which can make me a useless teammate.

The biggest issue though is their expensive and greedy monetization and abusive use of FOMO. Anybody that has played the game before knows Mercy is one of a few characters that gets beautiful limited-time skins every season, because they sell extremely well. Most of them cost $20, and some can only be bought in $45+ bundles. Unfortunately I’m a sucker for pretty Mercy cosmetics and struggle to stop myself from buying a lot of them. So I stopped playing entirely, because hating myself for spending $20 on pretty Mercy skin #37 is bad for my health and wallet.

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HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Oh yeah, 100% I played for the first ~3 years OW was out and had a blast for the first two

It was after that where I started getting good and saw the flaws of the game. As you said, too many characters counter other characters, and the constricted 6v6 (and later 5v5) made individual performance stressful in many games

If you’re looking for a similar (but imo much better/laid back experience) then TF2 is a great game, where the medic supporter is the strongest class in the game

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Nefara@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Same, but I got out before OW “2”. I was a platinum Symmetra main in the 2.0 days and adored her. I’ve never done much head clicking in games and don’t have the precise mouse control needed to do it well, so I really gravitated towards being able to play a fast paced pvp game as a strategic, lateral thinking problem solver. I have so many fond memories of my team-mates groaning when I picked Sym only to later sing my praises after a clutch teleport or a shield saved them. I collected screen shots of enemies cursing me and calling me horrible things for my devious turret placements. It was just fun and I just had a blast playing.

Then came her 3.0 rework and they basically deleted her. Her new kit played nothing like my skinny legend. I think what made Overwatch originally such a viral game was how welcoming it was. It had characters for seasoned pvp fps vets but also a bunch of low skill-floor heroes that you could get your girlfriend or your dad or somebody who had never played the genre before, in and having fun and contributing. I think each subsequent update after that felt like they were steering the game away from being fun for everyone, and towards being just another head clicking game.

I heard they tried walking it back, and that they added a mode in OW2 that’s like “vintage” Overwatch. Unfortunately the trust is gone now and I lost touch with my community. It’s nice that they realized their mistake in killing it completely but for me it’s just too late.

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- Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  They added a temporary mode called Classic Overwatch that was basically just launch OW1. Then later on they added a permanent 6v6 open-queue (2 tanks max though) gamemode. Funny enough, my friends tell me they even removed the “2” from the game again and restarted back at “season 1” as of a few days ago. I guess it’s no longer a sequel anymore somehow.
  
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JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I feel this one. I was a Mercy main too. I picked up Zarya as a second but couldn’t really get into anybody else. Then the game just stopped being fun after a while.

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- Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Haha, that’s funny, I was also a Zarya player on the off chance I did play tank. Bubbling others was always fun.
  
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