Overwatch 2 is taking a HUGE Risk...

The Overwatch community hasn’t been begging for 6v6 this hard since OW2 launched.

The game used to be simple, now Blizz is just throwing passives on everything to try and address issues in the wrong way.

Feels like a last resort before biting the 6v6 bullet

Glad to see the 6v6 movement gaining traction

Tank is a 2 person job. Just like DPS IS A 2 PERSON JOB. JUST LIKE SUPPORT IS A 2 PERSON JOB. SINGLE TANK WILL NEVER WORK BECAUSE ITS A 2 PERSON JOB.

I'm on the side for 6v6, the amount of balancing, tweaking and reworks they have done for tanks is way more work than fixing "double shield", and one of the tanks that was egregious of "double shield" doesn't have a shield any more. Every change they have made has not made the tank roll fun imo.

I miss 6v6

Sorry, but 10 Seasons in and they still cannot find a baseline to balance the Tank / DPS / Support triangle - because the game still has the ghost of 6v6 at its core. I'm not pretending 6v6 was balanced. But OW2 has never been able to find a steady place. Add to that the years of bullshit from Blizzard and removing PvE. Getting tired of this now and losing interest in gameplay changes.

I'll return to the game once 6vs6 is thing again.

I’m screaming into the void here but it just seems like they’re basically making the tanks into raid bosses that have essentially the staying power of the old 2 tanks without bringing back 6v6. Overwatch 2 has been a mess of “emergency” patches and while I’m not against them at this point I’m asking myself why I should be engaged in a live service game that hasn’t figured out what it should be after almost a decade.

They will do everything but put the second tank back in the game

"Cause remember, all this stuff can be changed" indeed, 5v5 can indeed be changed ;)

6 v 6 was fun once. Maybe they could give us the game we want and stop all this stupid “ risk taking.”

Problem is not wether tanks are good, bad or op. Problem is that the tanking role falls on one player alone - so it does never feel good to play tank - cause you have to shoulder that burden alone. Imagine there only being one dps - and youre playing widow, imagine the pressure beause there is no second dps to help with a different firing angle or pick up the slack if you are just not hitting at the moment. Imagine being the only support and if you fail no one gets healed cause there is no second support to lighten the load. Why dont they get that? Why are there so many people not getting that? Mindblowing..

I took a long break when OW 1 was still on. Returned at the end of season 9 and took the Blizzard survey they offered. My instant reply to them was: I liked 6 v 6 better. Just give the players what they want instead of forcing systems they don't like. Why not start an arcade 6 v 6? If it turns out to be successful bring it back to qp and comp.

Just bring back 2 tank gameplay.

Overwatch "Oh we'll give you pve and 5v5." "Ok no pve." "Ok the 5v5 was a mistake but it's too late to backpedal so we'll keep flipping levers." "Please continue to give us money despite this."

I’ve been playing overwatch for years now and since playing OW2 overwatch 2 it’s tank design just doesn’t work. The core gameplay loop of tank is always going to be miserable to play or play against as long as there is either A. One tank soaking up all the damaging and exploding or B. Tanks being unkillable and no one else is having fun. I think it’s time to start testing some 6v6 changes…

I doubt Bobby had literally anything to do with game balance when he was around. He only cared about monetization

JUST. ADD. A SECOND. TANK!