this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
139 points (94.8% liked)

Games

31990 readers
4 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

they needed more heroes from the beginning

Imho, the problem is the reverse. The game had enough heroes, it's just that too many existing heroes were boring, underpowered, or (if they got sufficient power) game-breaking, and so they were too hesitent to say "this power doesn't work with our format, we should get rid of it". Instead it was tweaking numbers. There's a place for tweaking numbers, but when stuff fundamentally breaks your chosen format (eg. ana antiheal) you have to take a firmer hand. But they let game-breaking powers like Mercy rez ult or just too damned many barriers sit instead of saying "okay, this isn't working, let's throw this bad idea out completely". But of course, gamers scream if their best girl gets touched, so they're really hesitent to make big moves.

Plus, too many of those heroes were damage heroes considering the team can only have 2 of those.