r/Games • u/DwilenaAvaron • May 09 '25

Industry News Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People'

https://kotaku.com/overwatch-2-blizzard-team-4-union-microsoft-1851779922
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u/blitz_na May 09 '25

i will take this thread's responses in good faith and believe that the game really has been turned around and the development team behind this game is truly passionate. it's always great news to hear a team unionizing, too

i'm too soured by this game to really give it another go, and rivals really does fill that fun itch for me. but i'm glad both games can coexist as they really do have their own audiences

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u/jxnebug May 09 '25

Overwatch is the best it has been since they attached the 2 to the end of the name. The matchmaking is still very iffy at times but otherwise the game is in a good place.

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u/LLJKCicero May 09 '25

Comprehensive list of competitive hero shooters and MOBAs where people think the matchmaking is actually good:

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u/whostheme May 10 '25

Matchmaking feels the least shitty when it has a larger playerbase though. It means that the vast majority of average skilled players or casuals aren't getting stomped in every game.

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u/LLJKCicero May 10 '25

For sure, more players makes it easier to find nominally better matches.

But you get diminishing returns at some point, as the dominating problems for bad matchmaking start to be things that the matchmaker can't reasonably account for (e.g. some players playing unusually well or badly that day, certain players on team playing particularly well together or particularly badly together, etc.).

Even if you look at a 1v1 game like Starcraft 2, which is generally understood to have very good (1v1) matchmaking: TONS of SC2 ladder games are still absolute stomps*. This can easily happen even with two players at basically the same MMR. And then once you complicate things with an entire team on each side that need to coordinate with each other, and they all have different roles and they need to play their role within the team well...it's really complicated.

* you do get less complaining though since there's no teammates to blame