“...toss in some random content because they think that one thing will appeal to women”

In 2009 or 2010 women made up 50% of the playerbase of WOW. That came from Blizzard, maybe their annual report that they used to make public. I remember it specifically because it was of interest to me personally, and of course there was a minor fuss about it in places like trade chat.

Yeah, does that actually happen? Because since we’re on the subject of conditioning, women are conditioned to navigate retail WAYYYYY more than men, and are used to venturing into retail environments not targeted to them by virtue of having babymen husbands and sons. That women have been doing this is almost as old…

Yeah, I know how to help in speed boost mode but I mean in heal mode - does the gun even do anything? Should I be aiming at an enemy even if it’s really low damage? Like, one time I passed over a sleepdarted enemy and they woke up, but I have no idea if that was because the healio beat does like 2 damage or if it…

I never really understood this either, and I’m a pretty good Lucio. Or at least not a bad one. Like, I boop people off the map, I speed boost when I hear ult calls and then go back to heals for amp it up, and I don’t leap in front of the tanks to be killed immediately by Symmetra which will then charge up her weapon…

I dunno. Some of those responses are old, he posted them on reddit a couple months before Blizzcon, I was shocked by them then. But shitting on someone in spawn before the game starts is one thing, but the complaint that he never switches mid-match when his team is losing is kind of valid. Sometimes a switch is…

TBF Jeff Kaplan did mention this guy’s situation in the Q&A part of Blizzcon - not specifically but “Widowmaker” “reported” and “punished” and said they were working on a way for that NOT to happen and basically what Blizzard’s statement says. It was an answer to a different OW topic though, so you’d have to dig for…

It’s also a wise decision to switch up team composition in general when you’re on the tie-breaker rounds, because the enemy team has adapted to your playstyle. I get a lot of resistance to this suggestion but it always works, even if it simply means you still have a Soldier 76 but someone else is playing him, and you…

Snipers are great on attack. Ask a pro, it’s a good strat.

You didn’t play in Vanilla.

Mei requires focusing, but DVa can take on Zarya and Symmetra 1 v 1 easily if their weapons aren’t charged, and they shouldn’t be.

Ah I do disagree with that. If they squeezed it smaller that means DVa would have to be lined up perfectly to counter ults and that would be impossible.

I agree. In competitive I mostly play DVa, starting in season 2 before her armor increase and speed while shooting changes came about, and I don’t have a problem with the nerfs. That’s even playing in the lower ranks where you have to make up for mistakes from all team members. (And tbh, half the other DVas don’t…

No, that’s not where we are at. Trump is the worst, but there’s not going to be a nuclear war. Y’all are becoming hysterical over dumb shit.

Nah, that’s not it. Just going off of WOW, Blizz makes major changes periodically to shake things up and keep games fresh. They’ve said they don’t want to set the “metas” for OW, they want the players to do it, and made it sound like there is more than one. Currently the tanks are key right now - the actual casuals…

It’s not a constant. You can’t park Roadhog to keep doing it over and over, and you can’t plan it. It’s a super fast-paced game and you have to react to what is going on at the time. This idea that it happened every time, that it was ripe exploit like the Mei wall, that you could plan out before leaving the spawn…

Huh. I never realized that about Ana’s damage. 0.9 seconds isn’t very long but long enough I guess.

I don’t think this was a thing that actually needed to be fixed. The whining about it was atrocious. I have been a victim of Roadhog’s magical corner-turning hook too, but it’s like, video game walls have always had various holes in them for as long as I can remember. I always found it less Roadhog and just a part…

I don’t even care about this. I never thought to hook someone from around the corner and when it did happen I was so surprised I wasn’t able to take advantage of it. I don’t see how this is a nerf and it wasn’t really part of his kit and how did one even determine, “Oh, time to hook Lucio from behind an obstacle”…

Truly appropriate response.