u/Imzocrazy

Was just thinking about OW at 10 years, and i was curious where we wouldve been had development not paused when OW2 was being made

If you recall OW launched with 21 heroes and was releasing 3 heroes each year until the pause happened in ~2019ish. If none of that had happened and we had gotten 3 heroes every year consistently for 10 years, we would be sitting on exactly 51 heroes right now. Last i checked, Sierra is Hero 51. Hero 52 (or perhaps you prefer to think of hero 53 isntead) will be the first hero thats "ahead" of schedule

Unfortunately the same cannot be said for maps

The original game launched with 12 maps and initially started releasing roughly 3 maps a year as well. if that had continued we would be at ~42 maps right now. The game currently sits at 29 standard maps meaning we've only added about 1.7 maps each year (if you count Assault and Clash then its 36 which would be 2.4 maps per year which is better but still not up the early standard). Then again we also have map voting which means we only see maybe a third of them regularly :P

More maps blizz!

Also, final tidbit - kinda annoyed that looking through the info means im constantly shown 3 different “histories” of OW. i hate that we’re about to have the third “season 3” in OW history…get it right…its season “58" :P

Every season its the same noise about how everything is forced (68/32 in this case) and how you cant win, and doing so means youre about to get slaughtered by the evil EOMM. Meanwhile ive never really had an issue playing this game (this is all QP btw which is supposed to be "the worst").

Theres nothing special about me: I play unranked. i play solo (very rarely with friends - they all play apex now - theres like 5 games in here with friends). i play in gold/plat lobbies. I have occasional streaks (like this one), i have occasional stomps (theres some in there). But generally speaking my matches are ok and nowhere near the apocalypse everybody always describes. Can it be difficult? of course - in the last 20 matches or so ive been playing with a bunch of plats and diamonds that i normally wouldnt play with/against (and even then the matches have been fine). But i dont know, could the increased difficulty possibly have anything to do with winning like 50 of the previous 70?? Nope - "forced EOMM, the game keeps targetting me", even though theres thousands of people that climb and fall each season and arent hard stuck anywhere.

Anyone else not have an issue with the MM? Cause im having just as much fun as i have any of the other previous "worst seasons ever" (the previous 57 seasons)

Was watching the recent Spilo interview with Gavin Winter, and Gavin made a comment about quickplay having day to day decay. I’m really not sure how to interpret what he was saying there. What does day to day decay even mean? My mmr the following day is lower than where it was the day before? Or maybe im taking it too literally? Gavin if you’re around could you clarify perhaps?

It happens at around 2:17:34 mark

https://www.youtube.com/live/qDSS6iKqIcI?si=-G1EfCoyT8ASJ9VV