PLEASE CHECK OUT MY SECOND CHANNEL! @Levin_Two www.youtube.com/@levin_two I'm going to strictly keep this channel Overwatch only for now. I know I just uploaded a few Marvel Rivals videos on here but I think it would be best if they were on my 2nd channel. If you want to watch me play literally anything that isn't Overwatch, PLEASE SUB TO MY SECOND CHANNEL!!! ty guys i love youu
your problem is thinking blizzard care about comp at all, its pve devs, they have no clue how to create true picks diversity, all they know is change numbers and do some silly changes
And lowkey I’ve been losing interest too, but it’s like I hate not playing games I spend money on so it’s hard to leave it completely alone, I just play it here and there
Don't let the sunk cost keep you playing a game where the devs literally only care about making money. I bet you'll feel a lot better if you just uninstall and make room for something new and fun or a super awesome single player game. Ow is cooked
@@avianjones4886fr i cannot complain about anyone, even jeff ult being overpowered im like its fine id rather use luna snow and be unkillable (or almost) with ult etc i almost want more buffs than any nerf as of now
Although I still enjoy overwatch it really annoys me that the only.character getting skins are kiri mercy juno and rein like I play alot of venture sym and moira and its like I have nothing to look forward to in the form of skins and its further disappointing when the skin surveys come out it its it literally just kiri juno genii cassidy mercy and rein its beyond ridiculous
I currently have zero desire to ever return to Overwatch after playing marvel rivals. Not only are the cosmetics superior but I feel like I can play anyone I want and still have value. Not to mention supports are able to get MVP when it’s so rare for supports to get play of the game in Overwatch.
In Marvel Rivals it feels like every character is so OP that they ended up balanced each other out 😂 You can do so much with just one character. All tanks are unique & not just big meat shield, Most dps don't require much skills & many don't rely much on team. All supports have insane healing & utilities. The game currently has less heroes than overwatch but it feels like you got so much more choices to choose from
@desubysnusnu I think it's because they didn't add heros that play for you entirely. Like they added a moira, but scarlet witch still has an aimed projectile, a more stragegy based form of escape since it's slower and you can see her as a red orb but also she isn't a support, and it feels like moira has the same kill potential, while keeping the entire team up while scarlet witch is a dps and is supposed to kill you, yet somehow feels more fair to fight even as iron fist than moira does as genji. There's no tank I can even compare to mauga or oirsa, they all seem to have skillful mitigation since they all have some trade off or timed interaction. This allows marvel rivals to make all the heros feel strong without the super high skill hero feeling as cheesed by the brain dead one, like there's no interactions I can find like doomfist or ball playing into sombra and her insta win auto aim button she has vs them 😂 There should be easier heros but you gotta have a limit, and overwatch just never cared, theyd add a hero entirely comprised of auto aim or one that's got stealth, auto aim and cc all in the same kit and than wonder why everyone's mad lmao
we’re really feeling these layoffs Blizzard has been doing, these devs are under such horrible pressure bc this company hates the time this team needs and it’s disheartening hearing season meetings have finance driven people just making so many decisions for this team there’s still people working who want to make the effort but the amount of work they are under is just sad to see this team be rushed so much i still love overwatch and i hope one day it sees a better day and i understand why anyone will walk away i hope something makes these players come back again to the game they love
nah they're just cost-cutting dude. They don't wanna keep the senior artists and are hiring juniors so they can pay less. And every month they are making millions and can't afford to hire more artists?? If they really want their game to do well they would put in the manpower no matter what, they just don't care. Doesn't matter who decided on this decision, it is how OW is now and they really can't blame their players for leaving. If they were really losing money they woulda shut down the game years ago but they realised they can milk tf outta their whales (hence the insane prices and new gilded mythics)
I am genuinely so sick of Ashe/Soujorn pocket every game destroying the lobby while all I can do is watch my team get destroyed and die before I even charge my first orb (which is useless against a pocketed character)
When they first started with recolours like in s8 recolours didn’t take away from the amount of original skins. They were a bonus. Recolours aren’t a problem themselves I love some of them it’s the way they do them. The fact u still don’t get a discount if u own the og is wild imo.
Going off of the point about stale Meta, I think the Dev team is too preoccupied with balancing Overwatch in keeping with the standards and expectations of an FPS shooter. They’re listening to a lot of the wrong people, and that’s why heroes like Mercy, LifeWeaver, Symmetra etc aren’t ever allowed to be good. The *mEchAnIcAl sKilL* crowd hates those heroes, and are an unfortunately very loud and influential group in the community. People forget that Overwatch is half moba, and the players keep convincing the Devs to nerf and water down some of the most fun heroes to play based upon how well they fit into a conventional FPS and how well they have to aim to get value 🙄
I still play OW but I've never felt so bored... I really wish that sparkle of enthusiasm comes back someday, Symmetra will always be my most loved hero ever created in a videogame.
i've been feeling this same thing, too. as a mercy main i have kinda grown to hate her more and more over the past few months cause i can feel the lack of impact my character has even when i'm playing well and it's just not fun anymore. it's gotten to the point where i have to ask myself why did they even release her as a character and she's been in the game since release 😭 i've been learning how to play other characters like illari and kiriko and bap and it's crazy the amount of value i have in a fight with less effort and how much i can actually influence the game. idk it's just sad i used to love this game and playing it but when one of my favorite champs has been in a shit state and has been for so long it kinda just makes me wanna give it up
btw , we don’t watch u exclusively for sym gameplay , we watch u for u because luv u. like that sounds so cringe but like , at least for me , the reason i watch u is because ur funny and i love ur reactions and gameplays and personality , not because of the game u play. ILYYY
Also in marvel rivals, everything is in the Blue currency which is the currency you can EARN in game. the gold currency, that you buy, is used for the battle pass, which is 5 bucks base, and to convert into to blue to get the bundles/skins. so if you want the legendary bundle, you dont even have to pay for it. and they give out blue currency for things like doing the achievements, free in the battlepass, doing missions for the season. i got some cool looking recolors for nothing but playing, and i really liked the battlepass and got that too for 5 bucks, the skins in that are really cool too AND they also give you mvps, emotes, sprays, and namecards. AND there is no fomo from the battlepass because you can do past ones you have missed and get that content you maybe missed out on,. it's a freaking healthy form of a battlepass that i just havent seen before that makes me feel like my money and time is respected. OW2 doesnt do that anymore, the skins are a joke, cost way too much, and I feel disrespected for even playing the game anymore.
What Blizzard fails to do, is realize that focusing on popular hero skins only, will chase the other mains away. The same players that fill their lobbies. Either way, I quit months ago, and even though I miss Sym, I really don't miss the game anymore whatsoever. And if you ever needed a reason to quit, or another game to replace overwatch 0.2, Marvel Rivals is exactly that. The esthetic and 3rd person view isn't my thing exactly, but its so extremely well balanced compared to OW, that you legit can't go back after playing..
playing support in marvel rivals is genuinely the most fun i've had on support, they're allowed to do so much and have strong utility while still having strong damage and healing. in overwatch if you play mercy, lifeweaver or moira you just have no impact cause they don't allow them to be strong
Picking the only 3 healers with low offensive utility to prove your point is hell of a manipulation. You just ignored all other supports to because otherwise your words have nothing to do with a reality. Good job, keep it up!👍
@@BabaYa9a That's the issue. I can only compare them to Jeff in Marvel rivals and let me tell you, Jeff has more agency than Mercy, Lifeweaver or Moira in offensiveness despite all of his kit and utility is about just more healing and big displacement ult. Yet why is it that Jeff felt like he is allowed to be played but not the three that this comment mentioned in their respective games?
If you read the blizzard book it was actually a difference in vision for the game between Jeff and Bobby I think, but the layoffs were the final nail in the coffin
Blizzard's only content is releasing skins and most are not creative at all, as you said just a recolor. All the heroes in overwatch feel underpowered and it feels like "I must play" the meta heroes. I can take some of the verbal harassment but verbal harassment and I have to play a character I don't have fun with!? No, will be playing Marvel rivals and cyberpunk 2077. The games are beautiful and their potential is immense. Too bad OW didn't do anything to make their game fun anymore, but kiriko got another skin lol
the main reason i can think of for the recolors issue & the lack of skins for new heroes is due to the layoffs at Blizzard, a large amounts of old devs, artists & concept designers got fired in the process, so they're making these recolors to compensate, it might take a while before we get new skins for each heroes on future seasons...
the layoffs happened a long enough time ago for them to have recovered to a reasonable degree, and it's obvious based on the effort they do put into the aforementioned popular characters that still get skins every season that they are capable of giving others good to great quality cosmetics too. the problem is the same as with other game companies, they just realized they can still make money while doing less, it's possible their new management is also pushing this mindset and that's what is influencing them as well. look at the way they have done mythic skins these last few seasons. reaper widow and rein have no weapon variants. that's because they make weapon mythics now, which gives players the incentive to pay 70 more bucks for a weapon skin that their main doesn't get with the mythic skin. if you buy the bp for a season and you want both a mythic skin and weapon you either have to wait till the next one or just, you know, pay them close to $100. it's just greed.
Legit quit the game... Rivals is massive proof that you dont need years to optimize or fix your game. Theyre nearly perfect at launch, with a boatload of skins. Blizzard will never fix itself. People have been hoping that since 2016
and yet the collab and fomo shop skins are top tier what are you on about.. they just want money, lowkey making bad skins on purpose so the shop ones look like top tier compared to those
Felt this video in my soul! What blows my mind are the players that will drag mercy players through the mud because mercy is 🗑️but complain when if they buff her so she can have impact because she “takes no skill”. They’ll complain that Kiriko, Bap, Juno are so op but be upset if you play anything that’s not that specific meta. I used to have a blast playing Illari and I understand she was really overturned during her prime but since players started crying that a support can out duel them cuz God forbid I can defend myself against a Tracer or genji, or even protect my other support. Now, I feel like I lost all impact on when I play her because of her changes and it’s so unfair 😢
i agree with you everything you said in this video. i also only play sym, mercy lifeweaver and it’s so annoying. i went from diamond 2 to plat 3 between this season and last season and its just so hard to climb, and i used to be high masters support until season 9. its impossible to climb and im always scared that i will lose and just keep going down. and kiriko this season has 2 re colors of her time keeper skin? like its actually insane but overwatch has been going downhill for a while now, maybe i need to get into marvel rivals as well
Lev most of us are here for you, whatever game you're playing. I'm sure some people are here for you only playing specific characters in specific games, but it's ok to potentially lose those people as you could gain other people from the newer games you're playing. At the end of the day you need to do what makes you happy. All love ♥
Hi Lev, Your videos made me so happy with joy to you Overwatch videos to Marvel and to your other games as well. I understand if your losing interest of the game you enjoyed most because I’m dealing with the same thing your dealing with. I really felt a pang of nostalgia from your old videos and now I’m excited for you to expand more to different games. Like Marvel was really fun and I’m excited to see you editing on different games other then overwatch when you finally have that spark again but I can’t wait for you to play different games like choice games: Until Dawn - Man Of Meden - Life is Strange - Little Hope or different games like Minecraft Poppy Playtime and I’m excited to see you editing other games as much effort you put into overwatch. I’m so excited for your channel and how much it can grow.
@@jaedenkhalid They could've just left OW Classic as a permanent gamemode and people would at least have a reason to have the game installed. As it stands, no one likes the current iteration and never will.
lev, thank you for sharing your feelings! things can be hard and i hope you know even though we all aren't IRL friends you have love from us who love your content. I struggle with the motivation side of things and i hope you know youre not alone! and no matter what you do i will be here waiting for the laughs but take care of you
In the defense of the devs, Lifeweaver and Mercy are horribly designed supports for a game that no longer caters to team play. If the supports are not applying damage, then the reliance of damage and tank players will be extremely strong. Mercy's real "game changer" was her Mass Rez, which they removed. Them cancelling PvE, however, was when they went downhill. My personal issue, though, is how much the devs gaslight with Symmetra's role and progress, and dont understand a damn thing about how to play her.
I feel like you forgot one thing mentioning the Sym turret problem. The problem is that console players also play Overwatch, and they balance with that and PC both in mind. AKA some characters get kneecapped for ranked/comp/pro balance, but also for both platforms (console more than PC really).
imho, it's the class-based/hero shooter as a genre. every hero shooter that has come out is trying to be OW with a twist. to me, MR was the last nail in the coffin for any hope i had for this genre to evolve. not to say MR hasn't been fun for the ~3 weeks it's been out, but it's discouraging seeing them be essentially a wackier rerun of OW's initial release, but in 3rd person. MR and every other hero shooter dev saw what roles and designing characters around them did to OW for the past 8 YEARS!!! so the first thing they all do is add the exact same roles but with different name's. call them tank, vanguard and support, strategist all you want but they're anchor and healer respectively. no one plays healer, no one plays anchor, so to have two roles designed around those two roles is idiotic, and DPS as a role is redundant, of course you have to shoot at the other team in the "shoot the other team" game. the biggest proof of this is how OW had to bribe DPS players to queue tank and support by making mauga, tankfist, and junkerqueen for tank and kiriko, bap for support which are dps characters that tanks and support respectively.
Every single season sigma, sou, ana or lucio get a bp skins and heroes like brig just have an epic one, or Dva who only has one from season 1 and it got recolored two times to get sold on the shop
I got banned for a month for defending against racism and homophobia in text chat but those people being racist and homophobic weren’t banned at all so after coming back from the ban I realised I didn’t miss the game at all, it’s just a time passer at this point. Also WHY ARE THEY MICRO BUSSING ORISA AND MAUGA EVERY PATCH?!
Something similar happens to me, since they put in those changes that came with season 9 the game no longer feels fun to me, I feel like those changes came to slowly kill the game (also with the issue of balance to certain characters that end up buffing those who don't need buffs and don't add improvements to characters that truly need an improvement urgently)
The content roll out is too slow and it’s incredibly low quality. Balance is at its worst, nothing dies, too much healing, tanks absolutely ruin games as lobby admins. Marvel Rivals is here and it’s here to stay. It’s doing everything right so far. I tried playing both back to back and it’s even more jarring just how low quality OW is.
Everything you said is true unfortunately because everything is recolors and it’s always mercy and kiriko and Juno. What happened to Lucio, sym, junkrat, hanzo, echo its annoying and the ranking system is so bad it’s really hard to rank up
Overwatch for me has definitely been declining recently, but I can’t seem to let go entirely. There is still a spark in Overwatch for me but Marvel Rivals is really fun so who knows what will happen. BTW glad you are doing well Levin! Do what’s best for you❤️
For me it's the fact that the game doesn't add that much extra content, the events feel reused, the only new things are skins for the 6 heroes that generate value. They laid off so many people and now they're struggling to give us anything new. On the competitive side I feel like they keep changing things that they fucked up instead of reverting changes, for me the season 9 changes felt really awful and now it's like they try to fix the issue that season 9 created and then they make more issues instead of going back and trying something new. As a support player after Juno released I feel like I have less and less identity in a fight, like I can do everything perfectly but I can still be blamed by my teammates at the end of the game. People that play casually are leaving the game A lot of pro players and streamers always have an issue with the "state of overwatch 2" and it can be extremely exhausting watching spectating bronze for the millionth time, so the content I actually enjoy like your videos that make me laugh is very rare. One other ting is I love the characters and the story, and that is never explored in the game, no character was given an arc or a full storyline, so the initial excitement I had when I first met these characters is slowly withering away as I try to satiate my thirst by watching community made animation and comics. Anyway thanks for your videos they're amazing and always make my day!
Overwatch is stale af but I’m not here just for that. You could play chess competitively and I’d still be here lol. You’re funny and I love your content regardless..play what you want and I’ll keep watching 💕
2:38 Actually they don’t have the resources. They fired the department that imagined and created the artistic designs in the skin. They shoved the responsibility to the graphic designers who actually make the skin in game.
26:10 aw dude me too! Shoot me a message if you need to. I see a therapist for the exact same motivation issues. You are NOT alone!! Thanks for this awesome vid I really enjoyed listening to it @ work!
The quality in Marvel Rivals is astonishing. My friends and I have been playing it a lot, and we've talked a lot about how none of us have even entered Overwatch since the new season came out. OW is a pain to play, after comparing it to its competitors. Hopefully, this lights a fire under Blizzard' ass. The game, after all the trolling that's been said for years, is actually dying. My faves, Symmetra and Mercy, are unplayable. The maps just don't do it for me anymore. The skins? The skins. Content wise, the game is dried up. The matchmaking is horrible. It really is sad to watch a game that we all have good memories of fade away.
Also I do feel like a big part of it is the numbers that each character has. In Marvel Rivals, health numbers, healing numbers, damage numbers are ridiculously higher than Overwatch. And the focus on buffs instead of nerfs makes every character feel impactful. The problem is with Overwatch is that his nothing to do with skill and all to do with compositions when that’s not why people play - they want to express their hero fantasy. Why are we putting restrictions on characters when we could be focused on making them all balanced but impactful?
I'm totally agree with you, I'm main symmetra and sombra, and look how sombra is now, I'm getting tired of overwatch too, currently playing Marvel Rivals and enjoying it.
thank u for this video, its nice to hear your thoughts! with the issues you listed, i feel like those are problems that most, if not all fps/shooter games experience in its lifetime, but with marvel rivals and other games coming into the scene as direct competitors, it really highlights how these issues arent being addressed by the overwatch devs. ive also been feeling my personal interest decline and ive played since mercy had mass rez😭 they seriously need to reconsider the direction of this game because its getting apparent that the essence of the game is getting lost, but it might be a good thing that people are finally realizing it and its just onto bigger and better things 🤷🏻♂️
To your point about the cosmetics in Marvel rivals, having it be a third person game where you can actually see the skin the whole time also makes it a better deal. Spending 6-26 bucks on a skin I can see all the time and don’t have to hit an emote to see it is so much nicer
I don’t think I’ve ever commented on your videos before but I’ve been watching for awhile now and I enjoy your content primarily for you and not so much on whatever game you’re playing. I think it’s smart to shift focus onto Rivals for both your own enjoyment and for the success of your channel since OW is a dying game. And take as much time as you need between uploads, your own life is more important! Regardless I look forward to your future content :) and your voice is cute
"ana looks in the general direction and presses E" Yea lets forget hitting the sleep darts and the aim needed to heal. meanwhile mercy heals, needs no reload, no cooldown. Can heal for a second through solid objects can rezz through solid objects. Anas movement? ... Mercys movement. Mercy needs to look at the general direction of a teammate and then let the game autotether the peebeam. even early Symmetra didn't have that much luxury. like c'mon are you really trying to say ana gives more value for less effort than mercy? just because anti nade? really? meanwhile kririko can just deny almost EVERYTHING with her suzu. if you would have talen kirko as an example id say okay. but ana vs mercy? lmaoo
Zarya was my favorite character in OW1, her bubbles were a effective way to support your tank and your team. Now it’s only viable to bubble yourself bc you’re the only tank now. 5v5 made me fall out of love with OW and the skins and greed, was the final nail in the coffin. Zarya has gotten maybe 3 skins since OW2 came out. One recolor and 2 basic epic skins. They killed my favorite character for the crime of being a character they made. It’s really sad to see
And the worst part is they penalize you for leaving QP. Like really they are saying “how dare you not like the garbage game we forced you into”. It’s old really really old.
Well.. there was a reason for that. That decision was mostly player-driven and was backed up by numbers. Essentially, a ton of players kept complaining about leavers in their games which usually deteriorated the match for the team with the leaver(s) add especially in comp where you will virtually never have a fill-in for a leaver. So, with qp, they gave people up to 20 games, and you have one free leave. I believe with every even numbered leave, you get a harsher penalty. But in comp, you only get 5, but you always get a penalty and they're harsher than the qp ones. Once you leave your 5th game in comp, you're banned for the rest of that season. Hope that helped!
It really saddens me to see what this game has come to, since the day Symmetra was throwing 25 shields onto teammates I really had high hopes for this game. But ever since the GOATS era/OW content drought I feel this game could’ve been so much more. We can all tell when a game is receiving its deserved love and care. Overwatch just didn’t receive the care it needed. Overwatch 2 should’ve never existed in the first place and Blizzard dropped the ball hard. Now other games are coming out with better monetization and high potential cough cough* Marvel Rivals. Making it clear what possibly could’ve been. Maybe Overwatch can recover, I think it will still keep at least some sort of a loyal fanbase but not what it could’ve been.
Yes, absolutely, they can have the fire lit under them for realizing how much they're about to lose just through this game. Great competition is healthy, and if their numbers consistently continue dropping, they might actually panic and do more for their player base and the game. And with the conspiracy about them actually running a script instead of an actual anti-cheat and people being able to manipulate the reporting system to autoban people... and the fact that you're unable to contest comp penalties due to internet issues (you just have to take a loss on top of a penalty)..........
I have spent years playing OW and nowadays the game isn't even that playable. I agree with a lot of your points concerning toxicity, competitive becoming unrewarding, and the skin issue. Bc really looking at an epic in OW and it's a basic skin with some extra details sure, but the epics in MR are like brand new character designs almost. I got the battle pass skin for Dr. Strange on accident bc I thought it was a skin for Adam Warlock but I'm not upset in the slightest bc of how GOOD the skin and highlight reel and everything is! Plus with everyone being broken in MR in some way, I feel more secure in trying characters in good with if they're not "meta", unlike OW where you have to play meta or face backlash from your team AND the enemies -.-
I used to at least play a little to get the BP. Recent season did not even get, said BP even though there was things for heros I play. I cant even play Marvels but other games have been just way more enjoyable than Ow. Which sucks for how much money ive spent on it and the friends ive met on that game.. good luck to you and the Future! I hope it goes well for you :))
I think you summed up my sentiments really well. Overwatch just isn’t what I wanted it to be. (I still play every now and then) but it’s just buying skins and getting mad at comp. Collabs sounded nice at first but it’s slowly just completely taken over. It feels less like a game and more like an online shop
I’ve been playing The Finals instead where if you buy a battlepass you practically get the rest of them free not like ow, also you get a lot of options of customization with the skins!!
i think it's really simple. 1. overwatch is just an older game. it's been out for nearing a decade and it's hard not to get burnt out of a game after 8 years. it's the natural life cycle of video games - very, very few games survive that long, and the ones that do well for a long time (like fortnite) often do gigantic updates that keep the game feeling fresh and new. overwatch does not do gigantic updates. 2.overwatch got its budget slashed and employees laid off so the effort that goes into it is obviously less than it once was. pair that with the first point and it's just going to feel very, very stale.
i have 3k hours on overwatch gm many times, 1000 hours on sym and widow and i stopped playing a full year ago because of how boring it got. everything was a money grab, nothing was quality.
Completely understandable tbh, there's no use in forcing yourself to play something you get no enjoyment out of :c I hope you enjoy the other games on your list, I'll be looking out for those vids!! 🌸
I am gladd you are doing alright Levin again always gotta take your self first before you do anything then when you get ready to upload more i will be there like swim where. With Overwatch i already pack that game up as well again i was the same boot as you because it was like mann Kirko is really fun trying to get every skins the best I can then realize she gets them soo much soo i hella stoped because this is bad for them to always use the same characters for collab skins. BIllzard needs to take notes and get there shit together.
The prices in both games are ridiculous. Like yeah some of these bundles in MR are $16 but that’s still crazy expensive and that’s only the low priced bundles smh
the second they announced Overwatch 2 I knew it’s gonna be the reason of its demise or death, like literally why? just to add new characters and maps? blizzard killed their own game. It became boring af I literally quit ow1 in 2019 and came back on ow2 played for like three seasons and quit again and there’s literally no fun playing it! currently I’m enjoying playing Marvel Rivals and I really reallyyy hope NetEase don’t ruin it just like what blizzard did to ow. Thank you for your videos what makes them joyful is actually you so for me I’ll keep following you even if you played other games so good luck!
When I started playing Overwatch back in 2020, every hero was insanely broken, and it was fun. Now, the game is just a reload simulator with way too high sustain, boring recolors, garbage competitive drive events, raid boss tanks, overbuffed support heroes, stale metas, and it's just not fun anymore, AT ALL. I deleted the game a few weeks ago and I don't miss anyone but Tracer and dps Doomfist, but that's a thing of the past.
its sad , i like the game , but its obviously just a cash grab . they dont add enough substantial content . its obviously just meant to make a bunch of money in order to fund their other projects , that we know are in development . i dont wanna play / pay for a game that isnt investing in itself .
It’s kinda overstimulating playing both games and Overwatch has been something I always wanted to play when it came out in 2016 but i was broke and still in college so i couldnt afford to buy it. Yet I have been a fan of the game so getting the chance to play it and knowing it’s f2p hooked me further despite the negative reviews. It’s fun really, and the lore is so good but then again how the management tend to dig their own grave from how they’ve been handling the game is kinda disappointing really.
im a console player on switch for ow and ive been DYING to play marvel rivals. i agree with everything you said and I honestly blame the layoffs over at blizzard. its so saddening to see (as someone who wanted to be game artist) these workers getting laid off and immediately seeing the downgrades in the game itself. sometimes i look at those recolored skins and im like "do they really expect people to pay for this???"
Personally, I just like supporting queer content creators because I love my people and I just enjoy your videos in general. I couldn’t care less what game it is tbh, I enjoy the humor of the videos 🤷🏻♂️ Also I haven’t touched Overwatch since MR and I haven’t missed it one bit so…
What's really draining me is the characters who get skins. Im a mercy main, but i only have her mythic skin. Why? Because she hasnt had a battlepass skin a VERY long while and it pisses me off seeing these skins that look good but if i want a decent skin, i have to pay money and that's such a turn off. Not to mention kiriko literally hasnt had a battlepass skin in over a year. Yet these characters constantly get skins and decent designs into then but god forbid they throw them a bone in the battlepass for a good skin. AND WHAT MAKES THIS EVEN WORSE is that these crappy skins in the BP are the same heroes who keep getting them and they could be used for more heroes who need them. A system where they cycle characters who gets skins would remedy this problem so well but screw us ig
what drove me away from OW was the wide match. I could be masters 2 for example and there could be a plat or gold in my game. It’s one thing to allow a diamond but to have a plat or gold and if your tank is the plat and the enemy tank is masters then thats a gg.
and also the algorithm to winning 2 - 3 matches to then losing the rest 6 - 7 matches is annoying. i keep getting put with people who don’t even try to counter at all like that’s not competitive at all. it’s annoying and just tiring. they should base points off of how well we do because basing it off of teams is ridiculous. that’s what’s making me want to leave the game tbh. plus marvel rivals.
I think the quality of the free Hela skin from the BP is proof enough that there's so much quality and love that goes into the art design of Marvel Rivals even if the example I gave is for capitalism purposes like a skin. Whenever I look at Overwatch cosmetic news, I just get so like "huh? that's it? they're charging you that much for that?" likeee Also setting aside MR, Overwatch just doesn't feel worth playing even for me, there's not a lot of characters to love, I'm always just stuck between Mercy/LW/Moira/Kiriko. Also, from a noob standpoint, locking Comp behind soooooooo many "won" games for Overwatch 2 is crazy to me. I basically have to play for millenia in the bowels of Quickplay just to be able to try any Ranked.
I am so sick of overwatch (Again). All the characters i like to play are so bad that it feels almost impossible to grow and improve. Even when im doing good, i get flamed while everyone hits EZ mode on other characters op in the meta. Or im *sweating my ass off* just trying to play. I even started playing Ana more and saw INSTANT changes on how crazy she is and even kiri, and it makes me sad cuz i dont like these heros and theyre pretty easy to play. Im tired of the terrible OW balance changes, especially the recent one, im just tired of the game. Its sad cuz ive played since day 1, but honestly, Ow can die off and shut down if they continue to be horrible. I've been saying for years that Overwatch needs to nerf everyone in the game and add back in counter play not counter heros. Theres no personality and expression cuz they keep dumming it down. So yea i am gunna leave lol And quickplay is just as toxic and sweaty as comp. Unfun all around. The shop stuff is also really bad and lazy. The October patch was pretty good, but what does it matter? The game isn't fun to play. Marvel rivals has been breath of fresh air and i feel like im making impact, growth, and having fun when i play even when im frustrated. All they have to do is make some MINOR tweeks and not follow the path of OW with role lock and heavy nerfs and buffs. Just leave the game alone and double down on what's working.
the only thing i hate is as a support player, people tell me to get off lucio or mercy..... like dude you cant use your favourite heroes because "it doesnt fit the team"
Marvel rivals balance so far is great casually (and i really enjoy it) but in diamond+ level comp its dr strange magneto hela/hawkeye winter soldier mantis luna snow on both sides like every game lol
forgot namor cloak and dagger and psylocke are also good but my main point is that im a tank player and you have to either play those two or be wayyyyyy better than the other team
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mama a girl behind you
I want better for you sis drop this game no more toxic relationships
your problem is thinking blizzard care about comp at all, its pve devs, they have no clue how to create true picks diversity, all they know is change numbers and do some silly changes
And lowkey I’ve been losing interest too, but it’s like I hate not playing games I spend money on so it’s hard to leave it completely alone, I just play it here and there
Sunk cost fallacy! It’s why I stayed with my loser ex too long 🙄
U r addicted . Prove urself wrong and quit
Don't let the sunk cost keep you playing a game where the devs literally only care about making money. I bet you'll feel a lot better if you just uninstall and make room for something new and fun or a super awesome single player game. Ow is cooked
Can we talk about how the last tier of the OW2 Battlepass is a WHITE RECOLOR CASSIDY SKIN??!!!
I know right? Like why is skin purple
its not a recolor lmaoo its a lore skin
Lifeweaver skin is just a lazy recolor too, Blizzard is phoning it in at this point
like who tf is asking for these polar skins... sorry but the lore is dead 😭
@user-fo1qh7vt3o a wild shill in the wild. Fascinating specimen.
Currently addicted to marvel rivals lol
It is causing me issues. I think the utility of every character is soooo well done. Every hero feels good.
@@avianjones4886fr i cannot complain about anyone, even jeff ult being overpowered im like its fine id rather use luna snow and be unkillable (or almost) with ult etc i almost want more buffs than any nerf as of now
@@avianjones4886scarlet witch sucks though shes terrible
When all the heroes feel powerful, none of them feel underpowered.
I can't marvel rivals cause I'm on ps4 ;-;
seeing your old unranked to gm made me tear up a little, like what happened to the game we once enjoyed?
i know right… i was watching it back as well thinking how much we took symmetra for granted. she somehow went from worse to worse-er.
Although I still enjoy overwatch it really annoys me that the only.character getting skins are kiri mercy juno and rein like I play alot of venture sym and moira and its like I have nothing to look forward to in the form of skins and its further disappointing when the skin surveys come out it its it literally just kiri juno genii cassidy mercy and rein its beyond ridiculous
First stealthhacker now levin...
girl... 😭
I currently have zero desire to ever return to Overwatch after playing marvel rivals. Not only are the cosmetics superior but I feel like I can play anyone I want and still have value. Not to mention supports are able to get MVP when it’s so rare for supports to get play of the game in Overwatch.
In Marvel Rivals it feels like every character is so OP that they ended up balanced each other out 😂
You can do so much with just one character. All tanks are unique & not just big meat shield,
Most dps don't require much skills & many don't rely much on team.
All supports have insane healing & utilities.
The game currently has less heroes than overwatch but it feels like you got so much more choices to choose from
@desubysnusnu I think it's because they didn't add heros that play for you entirely.
Like they added a moira, but scarlet witch still has an aimed projectile, a more stragegy based form of escape since it's slower and you can see her as a red orb but also she isn't a support, and it feels like moira has the same kill potential, while keeping the entire team up while scarlet witch is a dps and is supposed to kill you, yet somehow feels more fair to fight even as iron fist than moira does as genji.
There's no tank I can even compare to mauga or oirsa, they all seem to have skillful mitigation since they all have some trade off or timed interaction.
This allows marvel rivals to make all the heros feel strong without the super high skill hero feeling as cheesed by the brain dead one, like there's no interactions I can find like doomfist or ball playing into sombra and her insta win auto aim button she has vs them 😂
There should be easier heros but you gotta have a limit, and overwatch just never cared, theyd add a hero entirely comprised of auto aim or one that's got stealth, auto aim and cc all in the same kit and than wonder why everyone's mad lmao
My 1st MVP was Jeff :D
comp rewards in ow1: golden guns, comp points at the end of the season, lootboxes.
comp rewards in ow2: name tag
we’re really feeling these layoffs Blizzard has been doing, these devs are under such horrible pressure bc this company hates the time this team needs and it’s disheartening hearing season meetings have finance driven people just making so many decisions for this team
there’s still people working who want to make the effort but the amount of work they are under is just sad to see this team be rushed so much
i still love overwatch and i hope one day it sees a better day and i understand why anyone will walk away
i hope something makes these players come back again to the game they love
This team ye no, still part of the problem.
nah they're just cost-cutting dude. They don't wanna keep the senior artists and are hiring juniors so they can pay less.
And every month they are making millions and can't afford to hire more artists?? If they really want their game to do well they would put in the manpower no matter what, they just don't care. Doesn't matter who decided on this decision, it is how OW is now and they really can't blame their players for leaving.
If they were really losing money they woulda shut down the game years ago but they realised they can milk tf outta their whales (hence the insane prices and new gilded mythics)
I don't get why blizzard releases so many recolors when they have so many skin surveys with so many cool skins. Why not release those instead?
Prolly because there’s not much people left for certain areas or just straight up greed. It’s like they do stuff on purpose 🤷🏾
I am genuinely so sick of Ashe/Soujorn pocket every game destroying the lobby while all I can do is watch my team get destroyed and die before I even charge my first orb (which is useless against a pocketed character)
When they first started with recolours like in s8 recolours didn’t take away from the amount of original skins. They were a bonus. Recolours aren’t a problem themselves I love some of them it’s the way they do them. The fact u still don’t get a discount if u own the og is wild imo.
Going off of the point about stale Meta, I think the Dev team is too preoccupied with balancing Overwatch in keeping with the standards and expectations of an FPS shooter. They’re listening to a lot of the wrong people, and that’s why heroes like Mercy, LifeWeaver, Symmetra etc aren’t ever allowed to be good. The *mEchAnIcAl sKilL* crowd hates those heroes, and are an unfortunately very loud and influential group in the community. People forget that Overwatch is half moba, and the players keep convincing the Devs to nerf and water down some of the most fun heroes to play based upon how well they fit into a conventional FPS and how well they have to aim to get value 🙄
lev we will support u no matter what, play what u want, do what u want. i will watch u till the end lol
I still play OW but I've never felt so bored... I really wish that sparkle of enthusiasm comes back someday, Symmetra will always be my most loved hero ever created in a videogame.
i've been feeling this same thing, too. as a mercy main i have kinda grown to hate her more and more over the past few months cause i can feel the lack of impact my character has even when i'm playing well and it's just not fun anymore. it's gotten to the point where i have to ask myself why did they even release her as a character and she's been in the game since release 😭 i've been learning how to play other characters like illari and kiriko and bap and it's crazy the amount of value i have in a fight with less effort and how much i can actually influence the game. idk it's just sad i used to love this game and playing it but when one of my favorite champs has been in a shit state and has been for so long it kinda just makes me wanna give it up
btw , we don’t watch u exclusively for sym gameplay , we watch u for u because luv u. like that sounds so cringe but like , at least for me , the reason i watch u is because ur funny and i love ur reactions and gameplays and personality , not because of the game u play. ILYYY
Also in marvel rivals, everything is in the Blue currency which is the currency you can EARN in game. the gold currency, that you buy, is used for the battle pass, which is 5 bucks base, and to convert into to blue to get the bundles/skins. so if you want the legendary bundle, you dont even have to pay for it. and they give out blue currency for things like doing the achievements, free in the battlepass, doing missions for the season. i got some cool looking recolors for nothing but playing, and i really liked the battlepass and got that too for 5 bucks, the skins in that are really cool too AND they also give you mvps, emotes, sprays, and namecards. AND there is no fomo from the battlepass because you can do past ones you have missed and get that content you maybe missed out on,. it's a freaking healthy form of a battlepass that i just havent seen before that makes me feel like my money and time is respected.
OW2 doesnt do that anymore, the skins are a joke, cost way too much, and I feel disrespected for even playing the game anymore.
What Blizzard fails to do, is realize that focusing on popular hero skins only, will chase the other mains away. The same players that fill their lobbies.
Either way, I quit months ago, and even though I miss Sym, I really don't miss the game anymore whatsoever. And if you ever needed a reason to quit, or another game to replace overwatch 0.2, Marvel Rivals is exactly that. The esthetic and 3rd person view isn't my thing exactly, but its so extremely well balanced compared to OW, that you legit can't go back after playing..
playing support in marvel rivals is genuinely the most fun i've had on support, they're allowed to do so much and have strong utility while still having strong damage and healing. in overwatch if you play mercy, lifeweaver or moira you just have no impact cause they don't allow them to be strong
Picking the only 3 healers with low offensive utility to prove your point is hell of a manipulation.
You just ignored all other supports to because otherwise your words have nothing to do with a reality. Good job, keep it up!👍
@@BabaYa9a That's the issue. I can only compare them to Jeff in Marvel rivals and let me tell you, Jeff has more agency than Mercy, Lifeweaver or Moira in offensiveness despite all of his kit and utility is about just more healing and big displacement ult. Yet why is it that Jeff felt like he is allowed to be played but not the three that this comment mentioned in their respective games?
They gave Sym’s tp 50 hp and calling it’s a massive buff. So what r we thinking about
Sym is really underated she's strong idk why peoples want more damage to her.
When ur good ur instant master 3+ with her
The layoffs really fucked with the game
If you read the blizzard book it was actually a difference in vision for the game between Jeff and Bobby I think, but the layoffs were the final nail in the coffin
Blizzard's only content is releasing skins and most are not creative at all, as you said just a recolor. All the heroes in overwatch feel underpowered and it feels like "I must play" the meta heroes. I can take some of the verbal harassment but verbal harassment and I have to play a character I don't have fun with!? No, will be playing Marvel rivals and cyberpunk 2077. The games are beautiful and their potential is immense. Too bad OW didn't do anything to make their game fun anymore, but kiriko got another skin lol
the main reason i can think of for the recolors issue & the lack of skins for new heroes is due to the layoffs at Blizzard, a large amounts of old devs, artists & concept designers got fired in the process, so they're making these recolors to compensate, it might take a while before we get new skins for each heroes on future seasons...
the layoffs happened a long enough time ago for them to have recovered to a reasonable degree, and it's obvious based on the effort they do put into the aforementioned popular characters that still get skins every season that they are capable of giving others good to great quality cosmetics too. the problem is the same as with other game companies, they just realized they can still make money while doing less, it's possible their new management is also pushing this mindset and that's what is influencing them as well.
look at the way they have done mythic skins these last few seasons. reaper widow and rein have no weapon variants. that's because they make weapon mythics now, which gives players the incentive to pay 70 more bucks for a weapon skin that their main doesn't get with the mythic skin. if you buy the bp for a season and you want both a mythic skin and weapon you either have to wait till the next one or just, you know, pay them close to $100. it's just greed.
Legit quit the game... Rivals is massive proof that you dont need years to optimize or fix your game. Theyre nearly perfect at launch, with a boatload of skins. Blizzard will never fix itself. People have been hoping that since 2016
@@Shadefreeze i've been playing since 2 years & im enjoying the game, im not forced to quit just because old players dont vibe with it.
@@sylphredo No you don't have to, I just don't see a reason to stay IF it's for hopes of improvement is all.
and yet the collab and fomo shop skins are top tier what are you on about.. they just want money, lowkey making bad skins on purpose so the shop ones look like top tier compared to those
U can get those blue thingis actually for free by playing so u don’t have to waste real money
I think that we all lose interest in this game a while ago, we were just waiting for Marvel Rivals to show up lol
Felt this video in my soul! What blows my mind are the players that will drag mercy players through the mud because mercy is 🗑️but complain when if they buff her so she can have impact because she “takes no skill”. They’ll complain that Kiriko, Bap, Juno are so op but be upset if you play anything that’s not that specific meta. I used to have a blast playing Illari and I understand she was really overturned during her prime but since players started crying that a support can out duel them cuz God forbid I can defend myself against a Tracer or genji, or even protect my other support. Now, I feel like I lost all impact on when I play her because of her changes and it’s so unfair 😢
Omg I felt your Sister Symmetra energy from the start of the video
i agree with you everything you said in this video. i also only play sym, mercy lifeweaver and it’s so annoying. i went from diamond 2 to plat 3 between this season and last season and its just so hard to climb, and i used to be high masters support until season 9. its impossible to climb and im always scared that i will lose and just keep going down. and kiriko this season has 2 re colors of her time keeper skin? like its actually insane but overwatch has been going downhill for a while now, maybe i need to get into marvel rivals as well
I said this before and I will say it again Kiriko ruined this game
Lev most of us are here for you, whatever game you're playing. I'm sure some people are here for you only playing specific characters in specific games, but it's ok to potentially lose those people as you could gain other people from the newer games you're playing. At the end of the day you need to do what makes you happy. All love ♥
Hi Lev, Your videos made me so happy with joy to you Overwatch videos to Marvel and to your other games as well. I understand if your losing interest of the game you enjoyed most because I’m dealing with the same thing your dealing with. I really felt a pang of nostalgia from your old videos and now I’m excited for you to expand more to different games. Like Marvel was really fun and I’m excited to see you editing on different games other then overwatch when you finally have that spark again but I can’t wait for you to play different games like choice games: Until Dawn - Man Of Meden - Life is Strange - Little Hope or different games like Minecraft Poppy Playtime and I’m excited to see you editing other games as much effort you put into overwatch. I’m so excited for your channel and how much it can grow.
more marvel rivals content 🎉
The way i just deleted the game today…
I was gonna wait and see how 6v6 was gonna go and I’m just like. I can’t lol
@@jaedenkhalid They could've just left OW Classic as a permanent gamemode and people would at least have a reason to have the game installed. As it stands, no one likes the current iteration and never will.
@@jaedenkhalidheyyy my names khalid tooo
Nah you didnt. Lies.
@@inplane9970 OW classic was great but why dont they let us use our skins in it so dumb
lev, thank you for sharing your feelings! things can be hard and i hope you know even though we all aren't IRL friends you have love from us who love your content. I struggle with the motivation side of things and i hope you know youre not alone! and no matter what you do i will be here waiting for the laughs but take care of you
i wish i could play marvel rivals. never mind that girl i’m js happy to see you upload i hope u get well soon and this game gets its shit together
why can't you play? it's free
In the defense of the devs, Lifeweaver and Mercy are horribly designed supports for a game that no longer caters to team play. If the supports are not applying damage, then the reliance of damage and tank players will be extremely strong. Mercy's real "game changer" was her Mass Rez, which they removed.
Them cancelling PvE, however, was when they went downhill.
My personal issue, though, is how much the devs gaslight with Symmetra's role and progress, and dont understand a damn thing about how to play her.
The only thing keeping me from playing more Rivals is it's not as potato PC friendly as Overwatch. Unreal Engine 5 eats the 5600G for lunch
I feel like you forgot one thing mentioning the Sym turret problem. The problem is that console players also play Overwatch, and they balance with that and PC both in mind. AKA some characters get kneecapped for ranked/comp/pro balance, but also for both platforms (console more than PC really).
imho, it's the class-based/hero shooter as a genre. every hero shooter that has come out is trying to be OW with a twist. to me, MR was the last nail in the coffin for any hope i had for this genre to evolve. not to say MR hasn't been fun for the ~3 weeks it's been out, but it's discouraging seeing them be essentially a wackier rerun of OW's initial release, but in 3rd person. MR and every other hero shooter dev saw what roles and designing characters around them did to OW for the past 8 YEARS!!! so the first thing they all do is add the exact same roles but with different name's. call them tank, vanguard and support, strategist all you want but they're anchor and healer respectively. no one plays healer, no one plays anchor, so to have two roles designed around those two roles is idiotic, and DPS as a role is redundant, of course you have to shoot at the other team in the "shoot the other team" game. the biggest proof of this is how OW had to bribe DPS players to queue tank and support by making mauga, tankfist, and junkerqueen for tank and kiriko, bap for support which are dps characters that tanks and support respectively.
Every single season sigma, sou, ana or lucio get a bp skins and heroes like brig just have an epic one, or Dva who only has one from season 1 and it got recolored two times to get sold on the shop
I got banned for a month for defending against racism and homophobia in text chat but those people being racist and homophobic weren’t banned at all so after coming back from the ban I realised I didn’t miss the game at all, it’s just a time passer at this point.
Also WHY ARE THEY MICRO BUSSING ORISA AND MAUGA EVERY PATCH?!
Take care of yourself Levin! Burnout and loss of motivation is real but your community will stick by you!
Something similar happens to me, since they put in those changes that came with season 9 the game no longer feels fun to me, I feel like those changes came to slowly kill the game (also with the issue of balance to certain characters that end up buffing those who don't need buffs and don't add improvements to characters that truly need an improvement urgently)
Hazard is fun...but the game going free to play killed it. Now no skins are affordable and only popular heros get skins
The content roll out is too slow and it’s incredibly low quality. Balance is at its worst, nothing dies, too much healing, tanks absolutely ruin games as lobby admins.
Marvel Rivals is here and it’s here to stay. It’s doing everything right so far.
I tried playing both back to back and it’s even more jarring just how low quality OW is.
Everything you said is true unfortunately because everything is recolors and it’s always mercy and kiriko and Juno. What happened to Lucio, sym, junkrat, hanzo, echo its annoying and the ranking system is so bad it’s really hard to rank up
The balancing is the main reason I left for marvel rivals.
SPEAK LOUDER, thank you for this, I hope more creators bring this up bc Blizzard will not give a f**k to us, It's soooo sad
playing ranked in Rivals feels fun, in Overwatch it feels miserable...
Overwatch for me has definitely been declining recently, but I can’t seem to let go entirely. There is still a spark in Overwatch for me but Marvel Rivals is really fun so who knows what will happen. BTW glad you are doing well Levin! Do what’s best for you❤️
I've been enjoying playing both games! ❤❤
i’m so happy rivals came out not only because it’s an amazing game but also in hopes that blizzard will actually stand tf up (doubtable tho)
For me it's the fact that the game doesn't add that much extra content, the events feel reused, the only new things are skins for the 6 heroes that generate value. They laid off so many people and now they're struggling to give us anything new.
On the competitive side I feel like they keep changing things that they fucked up instead of reverting changes, for me the season 9 changes felt really awful and now it's like they try to fix the issue that season 9 created and then they make more issues instead of going back and trying something new. As a support player after Juno released I feel like I have less and less identity in a fight, like I can do everything perfectly but I can still be blamed by my teammates at the end of the game.
People that play casually are leaving the game
A lot of pro players and streamers always have an issue with the "state of overwatch 2" and it can be extremely exhausting watching spectating bronze for the millionth time, so the content I actually enjoy like your videos that make me laugh is very rare.
One other ting is I love the characters and the story, and that is never explored in the game, no character was given an arc or a full storyline, so the initial excitement I had when I first met these characters is slowly withering away as I try to satiate my thirst by watching community made animation and comics.
Anyway thanks for your videos they're amazing and always make my day!
Overwatch is stale af but I’m not here just for that. You could play chess competitively and I’d still be here lol. You’re funny and I love your content regardless..play what you want and I’ll keep watching 💕
I feel the same way. Can I ask what games you have been playing?
2:38 Actually they don’t have the resources. They fired the department that imagined and created the artistic designs in the skin. They shoved the responsibility to the graphic designers who actually make the skin in game.
Why would they fire them ?
@ they’re pushing the duties of the concept art department to the graphic designers to save money
Annnnddd no Jeff 😢
26:10 aw dude me too! Shoot me a message if you need to. I see a therapist for the exact same motivation issues. You are NOT alone!! Thanks for this awesome vid I really enjoyed listening to it @ work!
5v5, Tanks power creep and 10 losing streak in QP drove me away from this game. I never had this problem in OW 1
The quality in Marvel Rivals is astonishing. My friends and I have been playing it a lot, and we've talked a lot about how none of us have even entered Overwatch since the new season came out. OW is a pain to play, after comparing it to its competitors. Hopefully, this lights a fire under Blizzard' ass. The game, after all the trolling that's been said for years, is actually dying. My faves, Symmetra and Mercy, are unplayable. The maps just don't do it for me anymore. The skins? The skins. Content wise, the game is dried up. The matchmaking is horrible. It really is sad to watch a game that we all have good memories of fade away.
Also I do feel like a big part of it is the numbers that each character has. In Marvel Rivals, health numbers, healing numbers, damage numbers are ridiculously higher than Overwatch.
And the focus on buffs instead of nerfs makes every character feel impactful.
The problem is with Overwatch is that his nothing to do with skill and all to do with compositions when that’s not why people play - they want to express their hero fantasy. Why are we putting restrictions on characters when we could be focused on making them all balanced but impactful?
I'm totally agree with you, I'm main symmetra and sombra, and look how sombra is now, I'm getting tired of overwatch too, currently playing Marvel Rivals and enjoying it.
thank u for this video, its nice to hear your thoughts! with the issues you listed, i feel like those are problems that most, if not all fps/shooter games experience in its lifetime, but with marvel rivals and other games coming into the scene as direct competitors, it really highlights how these issues arent being addressed by the overwatch devs. ive also been feeling my personal interest decline and ive played since mercy had mass rez😭 they seriously need to reconsider the direction of this game because its getting apparent that the essence of the game is getting lost, but it might be a good thing that people are finally realizing it and its just onto bigger and better things 🤷🏻♂️
To your point about the cosmetics in Marvel rivals, having it be a third person game where you can actually see the skin the whole time also makes it a better deal. Spending 6-26 bucks on a skin I can see all the time and don’t have to hit an emote to see it is so much nicer
I don’t think I’ve ever commented on your videos before but I’ve been watching for awhile now and I enjoy your content primarily for you and not so much on whatever game you’re playing. I think it’s smart to shift focus onto Rivals for both your own enjoyment and for the success of your channel since OW is a dying game. And take as much time as you need between uploads, your own life is more important! Regardless I look forward to your future content :) and your voice is cute
lev you do you hunny boo. i love the energy you bring to the videos and will watch whatever you make. you give everyone a good laugh!
"ana looks in the general direction and presses E"
Yea lets forget hitting the sleep darts and the aim needed to heal.
meanwhile mercy heals, needs no reload, no cooldown. Can heal for a second through solid objects can rezz through solid objects. Anas movement? ... Mercys movement.
Mercy needs to look at the general direction of a teammate and then let the game autotether the peebeam. even early Symmetra didn't have that much luxury.
like c'mon are you really trying to say ana gives more value for less effort than mercy? just because anti nade? really? meanwhile kririko can just deny almost EVERYTHING with her suzu. if you would have talen kirko as an example id say okay. but ana vs mercy? lmaoo
The point isn't that playing her well doesn't take skill, the point is it's easy to climb with ana because yes, it's easy to get value with her.
Zarya was my favorite character in OW1, her bubbles were a effective way to support your tank and your team. Now it’s only viable to bubble yourself bc you’re the only tank now. 5v5 made me fall out of love with OW and the skins and greed, was the final nail in the coffin. Zarya has gotten maybe 3 skins since OW2 came out. One recolor and 2 basic epic skins. They killed my favorite character for the crime of being a character they made. It’s really sad to see
And the worst part is they penalize you for leaving QP. Like really they are saying “how dare you not like the garbage game we forced you into”. It’s old really really old.
Well.. there was a reason for that. That decision was mostly player-driven and was backed up by numbers. Essentially, a ton of players kept complaining about leavers in their games which usually deteriorated the match for the team with the leaver(s) add especially in comp where you will virtually never have a fill-in for a leaver. So, with qp, they gave people up to 20 games, and you have one free leave. I believe with every even numbered leave, you get a harsher penalty. But in comp, you only get 5, but you always get a penalty and they're harsher than the qp ones. Once you leave your 5th game in comp, you're banned for the rest of that season.
Hope that helped!
It really saddens me to see what this game has come to, since the day Symmetra was throwing 25 shields onto teammates I really had high hopes for this game. But ever since the GOATS era/OW content drought I feel this game could’ve been so much more. We can all tell when a game is receiving its deserved love and care. Overwatch just didn’t receive the care it needed. Overwatch 2 should’ve never existed in the first place and Blizzard dropped the ball hard. Now other games are coming out with better monetization and high potential cough cough* Marvel Rivals. Making it clear what possibly could’ve been. Maybe Overwatch can recover, I think it will still keep at least some sort of a loyal fanbase but not what it could’ve been.
Yes, absolutely, they can have the fire lit under them for realizing how much they're about to lose just through this game. Great competition is healthy, and if their numbers consistently continue dropping, they might actually panic and do more for their player base and the game.
And with the conspiracy about them actually running a script instead of an actual anti-cheat and people being able to manipulate the reporting system to autoban people... and the fact that you're unable to contest comp penalties due to internet issues (you just have to take a loss on top of a penalty)..........
I have spent years playing OW and nowadays the game isn't even that playable. I agree with a lot of your points concerning toxicity, competitive becoming unrewarding, and the skin issue.
Bc really looking at an epic in OW and it's a basic skin with some extra details sure, but the epics in MR are like brand new character designs almost. I got the battle pass skin for Dr. Strange on accident bc I thought it was a skin for Adam Warlock but I'm not upset in the slightest bc of how GOOD the skin and highlight reel and everything is!
Plus with everyone being broken in MR in some way, I feel more secure in trying characters in good with if they're not "meta", unlike OW where you have to play meta or face backlash from your team AND the enemies -.-
I used to at least play a little to get the BP. Recent season did not even get, said BP even though there was things for heros I play. I cant even play Marvels but other games have been just way more enjoyable than Ow. Which sucks for how much money ive spent on it and the friends ive met on that game.. good luck to you and the Future! I hope it goes well for you :))
So many of these videos in the same year, not a coincidence, this game needs to get it together.
I think you summed up my sentiments really well. Overwatch just isn’t what I wanted it to be. (I still play every now and then) but it’s just buying skins and getting mad at comp. Collabs sounded nice at first but it’s slowly just completely taken over. It feels less like a game and more like an online shop
I’ve been playing The Finals instead where if you buy a battlepass you practically get the rest of them free not like ow, also you get a lot of options of customization with the skins!!
i think it's really simple.
1. overwatch is just an older game. it's been out for nearing a decade and it's hard not to get burnt out of a game after 8 years. it's the natural life cycle of video games - very, very few games survive that long, and the ones that do well for a long time (like fortnite) often do gigantic updates that keep the game feeling fresh and new. overwatch does not do gigantic updates.
2.overwatch got its budget slashed and employees laid off so the effort that goes into it is obviously less than it once was. pair that with the first point and it's just going to feel very, very stale.
i have 3k hours on overwatch gm many times, 1000 hours on sym and widow and i stopped playing a full year ago because of how boring it got. everything was a money grab, nothing was quality.
Completely understandable tbh, there's no use in forcing yourself to play something you get no enjoyment out of :c
I hope you enjoy the other games on your list, I'll be looking out for those vids!! 🌸
I am gladd you are doing alright Levin again always gotta take your self first before you do anything then when you get ready to upload more i will be there like swim where. With Overwatch i already pack that game up as well again i was the same boot as you because it was like mann Kirko is really fun trying to get every skins the best I can then realize she gets them soo much soo i hella stoped because this is bad for them to always use the same characters for collab skins. BIllzard needs to take notes and get there shit together.
The prices in both games are ridiculous. Like yeah some of these bundles in MR are $16 but that’s still crazy expensive and that’s only the low priced bundles smh
the second they announced Overwatch 2 I knew it’s gonna be the reason of its demise or death, like literally why? just to add new characters and maps? blizzard killed their own game. It became boring af I literally quit ow1 in 2019 and came back on ow2 played for like three seasons and quit again and there’s literally no fun playing it! currently I’m enjoying playing Marvel Rivals and I really reallyyy hope NetEase don’t ruin it just like what blizzard did to ow. Thank you for your videos what makes them joyful is actually you so for me I’ll keep following you even if you played other games so good luck!
When I started playing Overwatch back in 2020, every hero was insanely broken, and it was fun. Now, the game is just a reload simulator with way too high sustain, boring recolors, garbage competitive drive events, raid boss tanks, overbuffed support heroes, stale metas, and it's just not fun anymore, AT ALL. I deleted the game a few weeks ago and I don't miss anyone but Tracer and dps Doomfist, but that's a thing of the past.
its sad , i like the game , but its obviously just a cash grab . they dont add enough substantial content . its obviously just meant to make a bunch of money in order to fund their other projects , that we know are in development .
i dont wanna play / pay for a game that isnt investing in itself .
It’s kinda overstimulating playing both games and Overwatch has been something I always wanted to play when it came out in 2016 but i was broke and still in college so i couldnt afford to buy it. Yet I have been a fan of the game so getting the chance to play it and knowing it’s f2p hooked me further despite the negative reviews. It’s fun really, and the lore is so good but then again how the management tend to dig their own grave from how they’ve been handling the game is kinda disappointing really.
I believe that Marvel Rivals has showed us what it means for game developers to care about their fans
im a console player on switch for ow and ive been DYING to play marvel rivals. i agree with everything you said and I honestly blame the layoffs over at blizzard. its so saddening to see (as someone who wanted to be game artist) these workers getting laid off and immediately seeing the downgrades in the game itself. sometimes i look at those recolored skins and im like "do they really expect people to pay for this???"
Personally, I just like supporting queer content creators because I love my people and I just enjoy your videos in general. I couldn’t care less what game it is tbh, I enjoy the humor of the videos 🤷🏻♂️
Also I haven’t touched Overwatch since MR and I haven’t missed it one bit so…
What's really draining me is the characters who get skins. Im a mercy main, but i only have her mythic skin. Why? Because she hasnt had a battlepass skin a VERY long while and it pisses me off seeing these skins that look good but if i want a decent skin, i have to pay money and that's such a turn off. Not to mention kiriko literally hasnt had a battlepass skin in over a year. Yet these characters constantly get skins and decent designs into then but god forbid they throw them a bone in the battlepass for a good skin. AND WHAT MAKES THIS EVEN WORSE is that these crappy skins in the BP are the same heroes who keep getting them and they could be used for more heroes who need them. A system where they cycle characters who gets skins would remedy this problem so well but screw us ig
Overwatch has always been the game I’ve kept installed since day one, last month I uninstalled it and I’ve been doing great without it.
i feel the same way, and i didnt know why , sooooo repetitive u-u i hate it.
what drove me away from OW was the wide match. I could be masters 2 for example and there could be a plat or gold in my game. It’s one thing to allow a diamond but to have a plat or gold and if your tank is the plat and the enemy tank is masters then thats a gg.
They ruined my favorite character sombra so im out
Literally. Idk what the devs were thinking when they changed her.
if you became a full time marvel rivals content creator my life would be at peace
and also the algorithm to winning 2 - 3 matches to then losing the rest 6 - 7 matches is annoying. i keep getting put with people who don’t even try to counter at all like that’s not competitive at all. it’s annoying and just tiring. they should base points off of how well we do because basing it off of teams is ridiculous. that’s what’s making me want to leave the game tbh. plus marvel rivals.
I think the quality of the free Hela skin from the BP is proof enough that there's so much quality and love that goes into the art design of Marvel Rivals even if the example I gave is for capitalism purposes like a skin. Whenever I look at Overwatch cosmetic news, I just get so like "huh? that's it? they're charging you that much for that?" likeee
Also setting aside MR, Overwatch just doesn't feel worth playing even for me, there's not a lot of characters to love, I'm always just stuck between Mercy/LW/Moira/Kiriko. Also, from a noob standpoint, locking Comp behind soooooooo many "won" games for Overwatch 2 is crazy to me. I basically have to play for millenia in the bowels of Quickplay just to be able to try any Ranked.
I am so sick of overwatch (Again). All the characters i like to play are so bad that it feels almost impossible to grow and improve. Even when im doing good, i get flamed while everyone hits EZ mode on other characters op in the meta. Or im *sweating my ass off* just trying to play. I even started playing Ana more and saw INSTANT changes on how crazy she is and even kiri, and it makes me sad cuz i dont like these heros and theyre pretty easy to play. Im tired of the terrible OW balance changes, especially the recent one, im just tired of the game. Its sad cuz ive played since day 1, but honestly, Ow can die off and shut down if they continue to be horrible. I've been saying for years that Overwatch needs to nerf everyone in the game and add back in counter play not counter heros. Theres no personality and expression cuz they keep dumming it down. So yea i am gunna leave lol
And quickplay is just as toxic and sweaty as comp. Unfun all around.
The shop stuff is also really bad and lazy. The October patch was pretty good, but what does it matter? The game isn't fun to play.
Marvel rivals has been breath of fresh air and i feel like im making impact, growth, and having fun when i play even when im frustrated. All they have to do is make some MINOR tweeks and not follow the path of OW with role lock and heavy nerfs and buffs. Just leave the game alone and double down on what's working.
OW had its chance. Rivals is feeling good for now.
the only thing i hate is as a support player, people tell me to get off lucio or mercy..... like dude you cant use your favourite heroes because "it doesnt fit the team"
Marvel rivals balance so far is great casually (and i really enjoy it) but in diamond+ level comp its dr strange magneto hela/hawkeye winter soldier mantis luna snow on both sides like every game lol
forgot namor cloak and dagger and psylocke are also good but my main point is that im a tank player and you have to either play those two or be wayyyyyy better than the other team
Listening to this while playing marvel rivals 😂❤