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I'd almost entirely stopped playing Overwatch for a couple years, but I got back in recently and feel like the tone is overall better than it had been. I think a lot of the toxic players may have actually just moved on?

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As someone whose been playing regularly for the past 4 years, 2-2-2 role lock was by far the biggest reduction in toxicity. It removed an entire class of bad communication like “switch off DPS” as well as the stress of convincing 5 strangers to use a particular comp at the beginning of the game. Before role lock it seemed like every single game was a freaking argument.

They also released player reporting and endorsements though it’s harder to say what the overall impact of those are.

I was super hyped for Overwatch, I loved my time with the beta. I thought Overwatch was going to be the new Counter-Strike, Quake, or Halo. One of those games that just defines its time period.

Then it launched and I got bored after 1 month. Too few maps too few variety.

And whatever algorithm they use for match-making should just be completely scrapped so they can start over. It seems like most games are really lopsided - you're either stomping on someone or getting stomped on. Maybe it's different in the high-ranked competitive play but the hard-fought matches that go back and forth until the very end are infrequent, in my experience, and those are the best part of playing!

this is a nature of the game's design: ultimate advantage snowballing

short of reducing the power of the ultimates: I'm not sure they can do too much about it

I mean there's been a huge number of updates since it launched and quite a few added maps. You should give it another shot.

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