Cortyn’s joy for Overwatch is clearly declining. The “special” aspect of the game is gradually fading away.
Honey, we need to talk. Over the last few months, I’ve played a lot of Overwatch – even before the official release, I was in the beta. With a player level beyond 300, I can certainly say that Overwatch was worth the money and has provided me with many hours of fun, but it’s slowly declining.
In the ranked game mode, I believe I have reached my peak – with a skill rating of just over 3000, I am very satisfied and I don’t think I can rise much further. At least not if I don’t want to invest more time into the game than I’m comfortable with.
But the real problem for me is the Quick Match mode. The fact that they have taken away the opportunity to play multiple identical heroes has restricted my fun more than I anticipated.
Every few games, there was a “crazy” round where one side decided to play 4 Torbjörns, 5 Bastions, or even 6 Reinhardts. That was not the norm and usually only one of the two sides opted for such a “stacking” strategy. It was funny, it was absurd, it was relatively rare. And even if you got “hammered” – hey, it was just a single round. But that’s no longer the case because multiple heroes have been banned in Quick Match for quite a while now.
Sure, there is the “No Limits” game mode, which should actually match my expectations since all heroes can appear multiple times. But that is not the case. In the “No Limits” mode, every round is “Let’s stack hero X” – it is not special. It is not a fun surprise. It is boring because “group consisting only of X” faces “group consisting only of Y” – every time.
Even worse is the “All Brawls” mode. There are a few really fun brawls. But there are also infinitely boring ones. If I have to play the “Only Mercy and Pharah” brawl one more time, I’m going to bang my head on the keyboard until it’s over. That you can no longer filter here or at least “exclude” 1-2 brawls (like in battlegrounds in WoW) is terrible.
Don’t get me wrong. Overwatch is still an outstanding game and one of the best games of 2016 (at least for me), but the recent changes have ruined the fun for me in most game modes.
Sure, one might say that Overwatch has bigger issues, like matchmaking or problems with cheaters. But none of those things are as acute for me as the dwindling enjoyment that many modes can no longer provide me.
What do you think?
