Why is that the sportmanship in Overwatch 2 is at an all-time low?
Especially on Youtube, Tiktok and Reddit, the discussion about the game is horrifically bad and unconstructive.
People blaming each other, thinking that playing a certain role in the game makes them the most important person in the community. You have DPS players trash talking Supports, Supports trashing Tanks, Tanks trashing DPS…it’s just a cesspool of toxic indivualidty in a team based game.
Seriously just go into the comment section of any discussion video about Overwatch and there are dozens and dozens of comments trashtalking a certain role and reducing whatever achievements people have made playing that role to nothing. And this 100% spills into the actual game itself, almost every single game sees “[role] diff” comments and people just being hyperfocused on themselves.
Maybe time has somehow made the memories more sweet but I think I never saw this kind of elitism in Overwatch 1 days. What happened?
Because content creators like Flats exist and encourage this type of bad sportsmanship and so their audience, especially the younger ones, see them act that way and go “This must be the reason why I lose that many games and suck with this hero!” so it becomes normalized in their daily routine.
Obviously this doesn’t apply for every case but it still plays a huge role in toxicity and role elitism.
I honestly am gonna chock it up to the 5v5 meta, it adds and extra stresser on people that I feel makes people want to bicker and choose favorites among roles. It adds alot of stress onto tank now that their isnt another helper to pick up their slack if they arent performing at 100% for a game. And all that stress and anger build and builds until it bursts finally. While i think 5v5 has made the games feel less like a stalemate i think dropping the tank was just not a good idea. Agree with me or not, but they should have kept 6v6 and just adjusted the hero roster to help better reflect the type of games they were wanting.
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I think it’s because everyone secretly hates each other. I honestly blame the state of the game. They don’t want counter-swapping to be a serious thing but they purposely make characters to diff other characters. The matchmaking is ass. And the people who play this game refuse to believe it’s the game but want to blame it on each other. It’s unfair to everyone and I feel bad for everyone who plays this game.
teenagers are the ones that I run into occasionally saying slurs or cussing me out bc I’m not constantly nanoing them
Long ago, the four roles lived in harmony. But everything changed when the Damage role attacked.