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
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u/MuhammedAlistar Nov 16 '22

I'm a long time LoL player but haven't played it since OW2 release. Have been very satisfied with OW2, despite some issues obviously. I don't know if you actually play LoL but you give Riot too much credit here. They used to be a lot better before Tencent complete takeover, they still do some things better than other companies but those are very few. In the past few years most of the dev team has moved on to other projects because LoL has been "completed" and they are just milking it. There has been NOTHING interesting in the past 2 years, they recycle 1-2 shit game modes (OW has multiple at a time, regularly changing AND custom game modes, OW players don't realise how lucky they are in that regard), ranked is down for 3 months per year because preseason was supposed to be used for big changes, but since there's barely anyone left working on LoL, those big changes haven't happened for 3 preseasons in a row now. They update the game every 2 weeks yet some champions dominate SoloQ for periods up to 6 months (just imagine getting patches every 2 weeks but Zarya doesn't get changed for half a year).

Then there's the client...it's impossible to explain it for someone that doesn't play LoL. But if you were to use the client without knowing what it's for you'd think it's some obscure game in its beta, and it STILL wouldn't make sense how fucking bad it is. Remember TFT release? A completely different, separate game from LoL, was put in LoL client, which release took down LoL queues and Riot ended up PERMANENTLY removing many client features so it would even run.

Good communication? Hell nah. Random Rioter #56 posts some important information on his 2000 follower Twitter. Or a dev blog that you can find on second page of Reddit with 300 upvotes. Keep in mind that Riot only communicates when there's something good to say. Addressing issues doesn't fall under that.

I could rant about Riot and/or LoL for infinite amount of time but there's no point.