hi uh my name is Big Citrus I'm not really doing too much of an intro for this one because I don't really think this needs an introduction but I'll be sure to explain things for those who need explaining this is more so just going to be a From the Heart video that kind of just explains my current state of affairs when it comes to how I feel about this game that I myself and many others used to love and hold near and dear is like their favorite game of all time I managed to say after the most recent patch for OverWatch 2 in the most recent update with the new Transformers collab I think it's officially time that most people agree including myself um it's time to go back to OverWatch one it's time to rewind the clock as much as we can play the [ __ ] song of time and go as far back as we can and try to fix this game that many people love and cherish look I've made a hundred videos where I've kind of flip flopped my opinions when it comes to OverWatch 2 I love it I hate it I don't know I'm going to Outsource it to my therapist this video is more so going to be about love than anything else some people are going to say oh it's just a video game there's no need to be as melodramatic as you're being yeah it it is but you know even then I've met friends that I've had like really good friendships with through this game and as dumb as it sounds you know some of my happiest days were just coming home from work or school and hopping on OverWatch and just having like a 6-hour comp grind like it legitimately those memories to me will always be precious people have been ragging on OverWatch for years now and a lot of it has been undeserved and a lot of it has been deserved but with this most recent update that fails to address the problem of tank being really unfun or tank being really overpowered and you know the balance team at blizzard not being able to find a balance between those two gameplay Styles it's it's really just hit it home for everybody that yeah maybe OverWatch one was actually better definitely not in the later stages of OverWatch one I think the latter years of OverWatch one with triple shield and goats was [ __ ] miserable you could not pay me a million dollars to play that game I would rather skin my nut sack with a carrot peeler I think it's time for blizzard and Activision to stop with the trend chasing stop with yes the greed and it's time to admit that the reason OverWatch one was losing players in its latter years had nothing to do with the fact that this game wasn't free to play like all these new games coming out oh there isn't a battle pass oh we're putting too much time into the PVE and not the live game the main reason people were quitting OverWatch one was because the base updates for the game were not fun the drought of content for 2 years after Ekko came out while they were mainly focusing on the PVE that yes was ultimately scrapped and came out and was a shadow of what we were promised that was not the reason OverWatch one was mainly losing players it even maintained a steady player base during that time it lost huge chunks of players for things like the roock update the r q update Vita's release moira's release Hammond's release doomfist release all of these Heroes slowly dwindled the popularity of the game because they weren't fun overwatch's biggest strength was always fun and how you could have fun by working together as a team I feel like blizzard themselves forgets that sometimes overwatch's biggest inspiration was a little game called team Fortress 2 I love that game to death and it helped me really you know discover what kind of games I like I've had my issues with it in recent years and I'm not here to talk about those things there I'm just here to say in Team Fortress 2 even to this day even though it's made so many changes that I haven't really been too much of a fan with in terms of its balancing teamwork is always the strongest thing in that game actually working with the people on your team and using the unique skill sets each class provides pushing an objective defending an objective by you know using your [ __ ] brain it's always the most fun way to play those games OverWatch really did used to be built on those fundamentals but now it doesn't feel that way at all the teamwork OverWatch 2 consists of is mainly just keeping your tank alive as much as you can while they just steamroll through the enemy team on OverWatch 2 it feels like if all five people on your team are not shooting at the tank on the other team they're never going to die especially after this most recent patch I've been one of the people who've been saying well if there's only going to be one tank in OverWatch 2 because they made the change from 6v6 to 5v5 well then guess what the tank needs to be the strongest role in the game and I still agree with that but they made the role too strong with this latest update certain tanks are just straight up unkillable with certain healing abilities it's just created a gameplay Loop that feels incredibly unsatisfying it doesn't even matter if you're playing as the tank on your team because you're still going to be bullied for 95% of the match and honestly just with the way OverWatch 2 operan tank is the least fun role in the game and I'm just talking about the gameplay side of things I'm just ranting right now I haven't even gotten into the main reason that OverWatch 2 is currently failing and that's because where's the excitement where's the passion OverWatch always had updates that were questionable back in the day but there were other things for the fans to Feast on oh look a new event just came out time to grind arcade mode play the new game mode and and grind some loot boxes and try and get these new cool skins and emotes but they've completely taken that away and you might say well that's a small materialistic part of the game I'm I'm working on a huge video right now that I'm I'm excited for and has a lot more editing this one trust me that kind of just goes over the fact that Gamers we're we're very materialistic we're shallow [ __ ] we like being cty we like being girl pop we like popping out and flexing on people it's what we enjoy doing we're just human and blizzard has completely taken that away they dropped this a new horrendous update that basically makes tanks unkillable unless a very specific set of parameters are met and they also dropped this [ __ ] overprice Transformers collab at the same time yeah this shit's really cool I guess but it's just a transactional exchange I'm not having to interact with the game in any unique way to earn these skins like it was in OverWatch one people would log in to OverWatch in droves to come play the new events the free-to-play market making it aware oh yeah everything is locked behind the battle pass everything is locked behind the in-game store it it has honestly just 100% killed the game they've tried making changes by putting premium currency in the battle pass and making it earnable in game but it's not enough it's not the same and also it doesn't help that on top of it the events just are no longer that good or interesting I don't even like really like fortnite anymore but I see why it's successful they will be roping in people's favorite franchise and making a cool and fun and unique game mode with it for people to play and also the design of these skins always goes hard it's something that OverWatch 2 has tried to replicate and copy and they just haven't been able to that the [ __ ] skins don't look nearly as good as fortnites or other games and these game modes they try to add are just are not good crossovers are great but they shouldn't be the sole focus of a game's entire content the content was supposed to be the new PVE stuff which has just been completely scrapped and according to leakers who worked on the OverWatch 2 campaign there is so many hours of unused content that we will never see because the initial PVE sales were bad Activision Blizzard has always loved to do this I get it at the end of the day it's called the gaming industry not the gaming have fun world it's a business I understand that and the shitty thing is is that OverWatch 2 is still gaining new players because at the end of the day the core gameplay the characters and the world is so fun and colorful and vibrant and inviting that people keep coming back to the game despite the poor handling of it it plays better than every game on the market from a gameplay perspective and a design perspective it is the best PVP game ever made you might not agree with that and I am okay with you having your own opinions but look at the numbers look at the numbers throughout the years none of these games have been able to match this even remotely it's been 8 years in over Watch 2 is still this popular despite all of the controversy so what do we do now I made a video in the previous season OverWatch 2 dropped just kind of saying I'm done I've given it my all I tried everything the gameplay Loop of this game had become unfun and there's no real reason to come back to it and I still feel that way and more and more people are feeling that way every single day OverWatch is probably too big to ever like die games don't really die anymore people get way too caught up in the sunk cost fallacy and just think they have to keep playing the same game forever but there's so many people I know who even agree with me that they don't love this game anymore they're not excited about it because what is there to be excited about we're not getting new cool seasonal events and new skins and the new Heroes that come out honestly aren't good I'm sorry it's it's someone had to say it someone had to stop being so nice like 90% of the OverWatch 2 heroes suck it's because they're designed for the overly complicated 5v5 gameplay Loop that's that's why they all feel very clunky and they just don't really feel like they were designed to have like a skill ceiling or a skill floor all these newer characters kind of feel hard to learn in an annoying way but once you've actually like learned them you've taken the like two-ish hours to master all their abilities that's it you're never going to get better at those Heroes outside of like aiming and mechanical skill OverWatch needs a return to Simplicity and what made the game popular in the first place what made the game popular in the first place well back in 2016 there were not a lot of games like OverWatch and now we have a lot more games that you know are like OverWatch and we're getting this new game called Marvel Rivals and I'm going to be really with you guys Marvel Rivals [ __ ] sucks this game looks like [ __ ] it was not that fun and now that the beta has stopped I have heard basically no one talking about it this game blows chunks and it just it feels so soulless in a weird way OverWatch felt like it was at least made with soul I don't mean to offend anyone currently working at blizzard but back then it felt like the team felt more impassioned they were creating something that they knew was going to last a generation people around the entire world were going to tune in to see the new updates for this game the new patches and people were going to be obsessed because they had created this world that was familiar yet new characters that yes were basic but full of life and relatability colorful sets and designs to draw you in but weren't like a [ __ ] optical illusion on the eyes we just we're not getting that anymore it doesn't help that now we get essentially no new real OverWatch like lore and because we're not getting PVE we know we're not getting PVE any new like lore or World info we get doesn't matter because we know that it's all external and I'm not saying it needs to be a base part of the game back when it was something the developers were focusing more on you know it really meant a lot of those casual players some of you might not understand that but trust me when I say the world of OverWatch was important to people the characters inside of it the little voice lines the little Easter eggs around the map telling more of the character story and who they are it got people more interested in this world and therefore it got more people interested in the Cosmetics because they would be more attached to these characters they wanted more ways to customize that hell they even made an entire event that was just for new lore themed skins and stuff and that was a huge hit because people who were in charge like Jeff Kaplan wanted to make the game into more like a mobile like World of Warcraft because I guess that's what they thought everyone wanted we got characters like Brig and Moira and orisa and doomfist and Hammond and these characters don't really fit into the game they don't feel like FPS hero shooter characters they feel like League of Legends Champions it feels like you're playing a top down game with [ __ ] lanes and [ __ ] and people weren't playing OverWatch for that if they wanted to play that they would have just played League of Legends I don't understand how the developers didn't understand this but the problem is now is that they added these characters into the game and you know the people spent money on skins for them and stuff and you know they've done a lot of work on them so they can't just get rid of them that's not an option OverWatch legitimately used to be the biggest game on the planet it was the cultural phenomenon of gaming to this day it is the only PVP only game to win game of the year and it deserved it too you might think that sounds stupid now me saying that but trust me at the time it made sense like it does feel like kind of they're trying to go back to the way things used to be with the death of the OverWatch league and them kind of going back to like the old ranking system which honestly I hate the current ranking system and overw watch to so [ __ ] much it feels like blizzard and Activision know that they kind of [ __ ] up but they can't just hit the recall button they have to own up for what they did and they have to own the changes that they've made but it's not too late obviously the biggest thing people have been saying is that we need to go back from 5v5 to 6v6 just two tanks was just better the problem is that they're right two tanks was better before they added too many Shield characters back when the only two Shield characters in the game were Reinhardt and Winston it wasn't an issue once they added orisa shield and sigma shield and [ __ ] giant semetra barrier they just absolutely butchered the game also characters like Baptist whose ultimate was really strong behind Shield like it just it created a game play Loop that was so unfun and felt like if you were not in the most coordinated team in the world you were never going to get anything done they made 222 to fix the goats problem as well they made it to fix triple tank with like three support like that's the entire reason that they made 222 but the problem was that like they didn't need to make the game 222 you just needed to [ __ ] make goats not good you needed to make characters like brigita maybe just not have a shield and really strong AOE healing just come up with something else so blizzard yes it's time to go back to 6v6 you've tried balancing the game around 5v5 and you keep adding characters like MAA that proved that it's not a good system in order for a character like MAA and junker Queen and other tanks like them to be strong they have to do an insane amount of self-healing because they have no other tank to give them defensive abilities or work with them they are the sole anchor of their team and that anchor must be very uh very very durable and I know that there are some casual players who will complain if characters like brigita and Moira and Lucio and malga and Reaper and May and symmetra are Nerf really hard but it's it's just going to be what you have to do you have to make a six Fe six that feels like OverWatch one this game worked better when the roster was smaller because the meta you had designed for that smaller roster was significantly more enjoyable and now yeah there might just be characters that don't get played as much you can't have characters have an equal pick rate it's not going to work this was always going to be a problem with adding like 30 Heroes to the game and now we've finally reached the Apex of it you need to get people excited again and also that cancelled PVE content uncan it hire a new team to you know glue it together and finish it and make it good honestly the PVE content we got the first like three missions we got they weren't awful they weren't horrible they needed to be flushed out more there needed to be like more side objectives and they definitely needed the skill trees there needed to be more cutcenes as well Activision Blizzard you are worth billions of dollars you are worth so much money and now at the backing of Microsoft behind you you guys should have more than enough Capital to realize the vision that so so many people had for OverWatch 2 PvE the OverWatch 2 PvE didn't sell poorly because people didn't want PVE for OverWatch 2 they didn't want a campaign it sold poorly because it came out and it was so not what was promised people wanted so much more you could still Salvage it and earn a lot of people's Goodwill back I know this would be the toughest pill to swallow I know you guys are smart I know you guys can figure it out Bring Back loot boxes make more new event seasonal skins and then put them in the loot boxes don't hide everything behind the battle pass and just make it to where maybe if you buy like a $30 voucher that lasts for the whole year you're able to earn loot boxes every level also bring levels back it may not make sense to everybody but also it gave people a reason to play the game it gave people a something to like kind of be proud of and show off and it just gives people more identity that's the reason people like skins because of personal unique player identity that that's something OverWatch really had in a strong way oh yeah uh bring back the endgame cards because that was super cool I know that they always didn't show how well someone actually played during a match but when you would see one of the really cool ones like Winston like jump jetpack kills or like Echo duplication kills it was super cool to see the rare ones and to see that 10 votes go and like hear the legendary start making new Comics that aren't with like just crossover [ __ ] start adding new lore you can fix this game it will get people excited when a new event comes out and oh my God I can actually just play the game earn loot boxes and get these new skins without having to pay $25 for singular ones I know what some of you are saying OverWatch 2's in-game microtransaction system has been very successful and they've made a lot of money but here's the thing I don't care the player resentment towards the game is still very high in the long run from more people coming back to the game introducing more casual fans in the long run you're going to have a better company reputation and you're going to make more money and honestly [ __ ] it if the game has to be shut down for a month you will make people miss it even more absence makes the heart grow fonder and when you come back with 6v6 some new maps help [ __ ] bring back the two CP Maps even though I hated them maybe don't bring back roll queue maybe make it to where people can at least queue for two rolles every match and swap between them willingly just in case you like you load into a match you're like ah I thought I wanted to play DPS but I'm just really not feeling it I'd rather swap to support right now I know that creates toxic situations sometimes but OverWatch has always and will always be toxic it's just the nature of people who play PVP video games toxicity in OverWatch 2 has honestly been like worse than before especially if you're a tank player I know there are tons of people in the comments who are going to agree with me when I say that there's nothing worse than playing an entire match breaking your [ __ ] back but because you're team wasn't willing to support you the entire game and keep you up and the enemy team was sucking their Tank's dick off and giving him a rim drop at the same time he was able to [ __ ] stay alive just a bit longer than you and was ultimately able to push an objective that you need to defend and then you lose the game and then in the [ __ ] AME game chat someone types tank diff and it's you you just pulled off this herculan feet un breaking your [ __ ] spine sitting there in your gamer chair sweating down to your [ __ ] ankles the room smells like musty Taco Bell armpits stink and then someone has the audacity to type that on your team after doing nothing the whole game it's really bad it's create unfun scenario we need to go back to OverWatch one guys yes there will be articles that say wow blizzard really finally admitted that OverWatch 2 is a bad idea have you ever seen gaming company take a bigger L than this what a bunch of pathetic losers yes those people will you know chase their clicks chase their articles but they're not going to be the ones laughing when the game has a huge Resurgence because you brought back these features that made people fall in love with OverWatch in the first place the external factors of the game are not that good it's okay to admit your mistakes everyone [ __ ] up sometime even major conglomerates worth billions of dollars with consumers and shareholders interests at heart every makes mistakes guys I just wanted to get this out they might even revert the horrible patch that made tanks Invincible hell they might have already reverted it by the time this video comes out I have no idea but the damage has been done people have like little to no faith in the balance team to make a good game anymore but this is how I feel right now we need to restore like the magic and the passion and you know what I bet it's not going to happen I don't think that the people who ultimately call the shots at these companies are going to be able to make the big call to say all right we were wrong the freeto playay model was wrong the battle pass model was wrong 5v5 was wrong canceling PVE and not hiring a separate team for it was wrong and you know what maybe this is just it and I'll never ever enjoy my favorite game the way I used to I mean I've already come to terms with that but maybe it will just never be quite as good as it used to be and I'll go move all in my life [ __ ] jerk off work on some other [ __ ] video for 900 hours I really would like to read the comments on this one I would like to know what you guys think is it even possible to go back to Old OverWatch at this point would it even fix things I don't know this is one where I actually would appreciate it if you guys maybe went on like Twitter or Tik Tok or whatever the [ __ ] app use and maybe added some people who work at blizzard because I really want them to hear this heartfelt message I'm not trying to make anyone blizzard feel bad I'm trying to just let them know that we are as fans as dramatic as it sounds or hurt and we just want the game we love back there have been good points for OverWatch 2 there have been a lot of points in OverWatch 2 I really Jo when it first dropped it was really exciting and I was willing to stick around because of the simple fact that we had promising things on the way and then those promises were not delivered or made good on uh thank you guys for all the support on all the music recently I have a lot more stuff coming from the heart genuinely and I appreciate anyone who is just helping me realize my dreams and just make it out of the [ __ ] depressing life situation I'm in think you guys I've been big Citrus and have a damn good one