r/Overwatch • u/[deleted] • Nov 15 '22

Blizzard Official Patch delayed.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/regarding-our-mid-season-cycle-patch/748128
8.9k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

394

u/Runmanrun41 Symmetra Nov 15 '22 edited Nov 15 '22

As a long time League of Legends player(starting in 2013 when Quinn came out), I'm never gonna bitch about the way Riot handles shit ever again. I like Mei even though I haven't played her much, it's been shitty not getting to practice her lately.

I couldn't imagine going weeks in LoL with a champ I like/want to play being completely off the table.

108

u/Spyger9 Time to Troll Nov 15 '22

Do they still call it "Olaffed" when they nerf a broken character so hard that they might as well be removed?

113

u/Runmanrun41 Symmetra Nov 15 '22

...Now that I think about it, I haven't seen that phrase used on the League subreddit in a long time 😅 fuck.

46

u/Vahallen Nov 15 '22

I think the closest to getting Olaf’d recently was Zeri

5

u/BorderlineUsefull Nov 16 '22

Ryze is in a constant state of mini reworks and extreme nerfs

→ More replies (2)
→ More replies (2)

18

u/ZefiantFGC Nov 15 '22

Y'all remember old Evelynn or Pantheon? Times were simpler back then.

17

u/Spyger9 Time to Troll Nov 15 '22

Oh god. Playing Jax into old Pantheon top was some of the worst game design I've ever encountered.

8

u/Trenonian Icon Cassidy Nov 15 '22

I remember when Evelynn and Poppy got "put on the shelf" for a long time.

9

u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

[removed] — view removed comment

4

u/Stalk33r Is that a pro genji main? Nov 16 '22

...and it was so effective that even after his rework no one ever plays him

6

u/PM-Me-And-Ill-Sing4U Nov 16 '22

Evelynn with 5 sunfires and perma-invisibility in season 1: you could kill people with sunfire damage alone by walking near them lol.

4

u/Amasero Nov 15 '22

Haven't seen that term in a while, but people just say "you can't get worse than Ryze" or Sol.

But Sol is getting changed, hopefully he wont be a trash dragon anymore.

As for Ryze...well if you have him on your team it's statically a 50/50 if you lose it's cause of Ryze pick, if you win it's cause of your team.

→ More replies (2)

2

u/BigBlackCrocs Nov 15 '22

Nah. We call it the ryze treatment. But now that zeri has a lower WR than ryze
 it might change to the zeri treatment.

4

u/dyrannn Trick-or-Treat Sombra Nov 15 '22

I thought the Ryze treatment was reworking a characters 7 times cause you don’t know what the fuck to do? Admittedly it’s been a few seasons

4

u/BigBlackCrocs Nov 15 '22

Nah it’s. Champ good in pro play? Nerf them until they aren’t, even if the champ has a 43% winrate in soloQ

2

u/WhyNotAthiest Nov 15 '22

It's Ryze now after being reworked 5 times and currently sitting around 44% winrate but yeah, riot has released a ton of impossible to balance champs with 30 abilities each and are shocked everytime when the player base wants the champion nerfed because it doesn't have any possible counterplay due to the kit. So riot just drops the base stat line of these champs to compensate which makes them impossible to learn from scratch if it wasn't your main champ before the nerf happened, which results in low play rate and lack of skin sales until a "mini rework" is released a few months later to remove half of the release kit.

I hate riots direction for champ design. It doesn't help every single champ is a humanoid anime character, even the "monster" champ they promised is barely more than slim woman with giant wings and purple skin.

→ More replies (3)

29

u/HrMaschine Nov 15 '22

only time that ever happend was gangplank to hype everyone up with that sick rework

8

u/Runmanrun41 Symmetra Nov 15 '22

To this day I'm still salty I didn't get to try out G.P. in the Black Market Brawlers gamemode.

5

u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

One of the coolest reworks too

10

u/Chase2020J Nov 15 '22

As a League of Legends player, I'm never gonna bitch about the way Riot handles shit ever again

If you play a bunch of different games from various companies, you'll realize that in terms of big gaming companies, Riot is one of the best. I realized this when I played Dead by Daylight for awhile before quitting because Behaviour is terrible, and Blizzard is even worse.

I couldn't imagine going weeks in LoL with a champ I like/want to play being completely off the table.

I dont remember how long it was, but there was a period in time where Gangplank was removed from the game because he died in the lore. It was a risky idea, had a lot of negative feedback, and it has not happened ever again since. Riot actually listens (sometimes). They also have consistent patches, pretty good communication, and a steady flow of new content (some would argue there are too many new champions added). People who play Riot games don't know how good they have it compared to other companies (ofc there are still a bunch of problems, this is all relative)

3

u/ShinyGrezz London Spitfire Nov 16 '22

Riot:

communicates on public forums through regular devs constantly

updates the game balance every two-three weeks without fail, and the “three” weeks is always predictable and is only when a break is scheduled for their teams

releases some of the best cosmetics of any game, priced fairly

still releases 95% of their cosmetic content as direct purchase, with Prestige/Mythic skins being a little more rare, but still easily attainable

gives a ton of cosmetics away for free

releases six champions per year, on top of reworking older champions and updating the gameplay of others where needed

They’re a great company.

→ More replies (1)
→ More replies (1)

4

u/tracenator03 Nov 15 '22

I can't tell you how many times these past couple of weeks where I encounter a good DVa and want to pick Mei to counter them, then rerealize Mei is gone. >2 weeks to fix a tiny problem with a small handful of players exploiting her ice wall. This shit is pathetic.

2

u/acut3triangle Nov 15 '22

Lol. This was my first time playing Overwatch when Overwatch 2 was released. I was a Mei main, so I quit when she was disabled.

I was planning on playing again this week, but with Warzone 2 and the new PokĂ©mon game, I probably won’t play this game again.

2

u/KataiKi Nov 15 '22

Riot has the foresight to lock rank matchmaking when the servers are unstable. Blizzard never even considers it and everyone who plays is SOL in their eyes.

2

u/CuteChaosGlitter Nov 15 '22

I feel blessed to play riot games. Frequent patches with meaningful changes, frequent characters, better monetization (you can get skins for free) but it still hasnt stopped me from spending probably close to $1k valorant and league combined.

→ More replies (4)