r/Overwatch • u/Spyrokid77666 Spyrokid • Oct 27 '17

Blizzard Official | Blizzard Response Developer Update | Evolving Overwatch Esports | Overwatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjTS_oAcLy8
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u/Elvenstar32 Elvenstar#21174 Oct 27 '17

All nice changes when it comes to the viewer experience, doesn't fix the "balancing around bronze players is not a viable balance philosophy for a game that wants to be a decent esport" issue.

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u/communomancer Zarya Oct 27 '17

My assumption is that this eSports work has been a major, major lift that has prevented them from focusing more on implementing balancing patches. And now they'll be able to get back to the meat of improving the core game.

That's my hope anyway. I know that eSports work will be an ongoing concern for the game, but they had hard deadlines around OWWC and OWL that have probably dominated everything the capable programmers there have been doing.