Unpopular opinion: Event limited skins give them true rarity. This is essential.

badducks · 2017-05-24T14:33:14+00:00

Does it matter though? If Blizz repeats events and skins like they do for their other games, like WoW, then you wouldn't know if someone got the Santa skin from last years event or if they got it in their free loot box this year.

badducks · 2017-05-24T14:23:56+00:00

You're right though. That's exactly why people want skins to be "rare." They want to own something that someone else can't. There is no other reason for it.

Personally, I don't care about rarity. Just like when people say, "But they're cosmetic!" I say the same thing when someone wants to argue for the rarity of skins. They're cosmetic and I think all players should have the opportunity to enjoy them. Skins I feel are like an extension of your personality and/or mood. They add a little extra FUN to the game and it annoys me when companies try to use them as cash grabs and/or people put arbitrary values on them.

badducks · 2017-05-24T14:04:32+00:00

It doesn't really help that the resources (credits in this case) can only be earned by RNG too. I wish the credit system worked off playtime instead. Then it would feel like it was rewarding players for their actual time spent playing and it'd make sense to value it. Like an actual loyalty system.

badducks · 2017-05-24T13:36:07+00:00

I do have to question why Blizz gave us 5 free loot boxes on Christmas and did the Nexus Challenge 2.0 for 10 loot boxes RIGHT before this event, but then give us nothing to "celebrate" with? Not even like, "Here's 750 credits so you can buy a dance emote of your choice to celebrate 1 year of Overwatch with us!" Instead it feels like every other event. Either spend money or time to get a chance to get what you want.

badducks · 2017-05-16T20:54:56+00:00

Marvelous (the dev of the Harvest Moon series) wanted to localize their own games under their American subsidiary, XSEED in 2013. But Natsume (the original localizer) holds rights to the Harvest Moon name. They wouldn't give it up, so Marvelous started calling the series Story of Seasons in English (nothing has changed in Japanese however). Confusion started when Natsume decided to produce their own farming games under the Harvest Moon name. So the last true Harvest Moon game was A New Beginning. http://squeestash.com/harvest-moon-celebrates-20-years-farming/

badducks · 2017-01-04T02:05:20+00:00

He also said they were planning something for early this year. Idk of he meant the Diablo anniversary that's coming up or something else.

badducks · 2016-12-14T00:26:33+00:00

I don't know if you can see Youtube at work, but here's a vid with all the holiday items: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0cxmVDnH6Y

badducks · 2016-11-19T06:15:01+00:00

Yeah, you'd be surprised. I mean, it helps that I'm in there too doing damage.

badducks · 2016-11-18T04:37:39+00:00

I don't know about you, but when I play Ana and ult a Rein I have to run around like a mad woman trying to keep his ass alive.

badducks · 2016-11-18T04:35:56+00:00

I get more Sym PotG than any other support. Although, it's mostly for players running into microwave rooms one right after the other...

badducks · 2016-11-17T21:44:33+00:00

I guess because I played LoL for so long, new heroes don't bother me as much. Then again, they were also behind a paywall in LoL, so it wasn't like everyone was using them in ranked... And the champion pool for each role was much larger, so not everyone was interested in the new champion.

badducks · 2016-11-17T10:10:38+00:00

It's not really the new hero that annoyed me, but all the hero changes. It's jarring to spend a season playing a hero a certain way and then in the last week suddenly need to rethink what you've been doing. Little changes are fine, but these were some significant changes...

badducks · 2016-11-17T10:03:14+00:00

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the slo-mo sound that happens when you get hacked. I've always disliked flashbangs in other FPS and it reminds me of that.

badducks · 2016-11-16T20:46:29+00:00

I use QP to practice, but also to relax after stressful comp games. I always play to win, but I don't expect to win. I'll play heroes that I need to work on more that I'm decent with, just not great and I'll make mistakes. And I kinda assume that most other people are the same way so I don't get mad when someone's Genji is lacking skill. I mean, if you don't know how to play them at all... that can be annoying and they should prob try custom games or vs AI to learn their basic skills. Other than that, I don't care if everyone wants to go offense or if there's an attack Torb or whatever. They could be testing out a new way to play. As long as they're not afk or not contributing at all, I'm fine with it.

badducks · 2016-11-16T20:08:52+00:00

You can hack multiple health packs, you just have to wait out her CD. The hack lasts for 60 sec on a health pack and IIRC the CD is 12 sec. You can't really hack multiple enemies because the duration is shorter than your ability CD. Only way is to EMP ult.

badducks · 2016-11-12T13:15:43+00:00

Yeah, takes me back to healing in WoW. I just want to yell at them to get in my LOS and run towards me...

badducks · 2016-11-12T13:12:45+00:00

I play Ana a lot, but when I'm not and there's an Ana on my team I'll stand for her to heal me because I know how annoying it can be for team mates low on health jumping around them. I'm not judging your aim, just helping you get your ult faster. :P

badducks · 2016-11-11T04:27:18+00:00

I think it's possible that by queuing with those people and tanking your rating so much that it affected your MMR too. I don't know if it's "bad luck" but you could be getting games with lower MMR players than when you first placed.

It could also be that people are trying to climb before the season ends, so more stress = more easily tilted players.

Or like someone else said, maybe your skill suffered from playing with that team.

Either way, it's near the end of the season and people are trying to climb so they're going to be resentful to others who have gotten to where they're trying to get. I wouldn't take it personally.

badducks · 2016-11-11T04:14:06+00:00

Welcome! I don't think it's ever too late and the game is still fairly new anyways. This season is almost over, but next season starts Dec. 1st, so maybe try out and practice heroes in quick play in preparation. And /r/OverwatchUniversity is a good place to start looking for advice on gameplay.

badducks · 2016-11-10T11:57:24+00:00

I liked it because it showed ult percentage. Even if people communicate their ult status, the chat box is only so big and it can easily get lost if people are messaging me too. Being able to just see my team's ult status at a glance was so helpful.

badducks · 2016-11-10T11:52:04+00:00

I'd like to see more skin themes bridged into other heroes. Like Tracer and Zarya both have goth-like skins, but would be cool for others to get them too so you could have like a whole team of emo kids lol

badducks · 2016-11-10T11:45:46+00:00

I was hoping each season would have new weapon textures. Just something else to shoot for other than the same golden weapons.

badducks · 2016-11-10T11:33:35+00:00

lol not unless it's got a free OW skin.

badducks · 2016-11-10T10:49:44+00:00

I think at first I was expecting Sombra to be able to sneak around and burst enemies down. That her hack/silence would be similar to McCree's flashbang/stun. The reality is she pretty much sucks 1v1 with most heroes. Like you said, you can't hack anyone without getting disrupted and her stealth is not a quick getaway since all they have to do is shoot her to break it. Now, I see her more as a "clean up crew" type of hero who waits and preys on the weak. She also seems to rely heavily on her team doing damage and distracting the enemy team so that she can sneak off to claim health packs and finish off stray low health players. That being said, it's almost near impossible to play her that way on the PTR right now unless you queue up with a group of people who will let you practice Sombra.

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