Not everyone has crazy aim, but OW is designed to allow for heroes that don't need that. I love seeing an account in a GM game where they hit an ever-higher season peak, slowly climbing from gold to 4100 - not settling for their most recent peak or playing a single hero they are playing the meta, communicating, finding their strongest heroes and most importantly identifying their strongest weaknesses. Some masters and GMs now started as silver, and played 10 placements with bronzes, but over 10 seasons adapt and learn rather than wallowing in their self-imposed limits.
Good players have climbed out of the lowest ranks. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see people at low rank (rightly) having trouble with a certain hero or change, only to turn around and put zero effort into assessing their own flaws or getting better, being utterly quiet or even worse underhandedly hopeless towards any sort of avenue for improvement. Complaining about these changes while making no effort to do something about it will keep you at your current rank and is ultimately self-defeating. I'm tired of people saying they can't play against a hero when it's buffed rather than utterly give up against a single balance change, make some effort to counterpick, practice, improve your aim, educate yourself and teammates, and coordinate to the best of your abilities.
There's plenty of material out there on how to play around certain heroes. Jeff hinted a big secret thing mid-2019 and ever since then I have suspected that the thing will be a proper conversion of this game to a F2P format.Īll these regular 50% sales they've been doing past few months, with the Christmas sale being 66%, combined with the fact that the player base is declining every year (Which Activision can't be happy about at all, especially cause that directly affects how many people watch OWL, which they've invested in bigtime) and the game's potential to attract the 'really young' Fortnite audience (Online Multiplayer, Western animation style world and character design, cool/crazy skins, ton of weird abilities and weapons to choose from), it all just screams 'going F2P soon' to me. And this is kind of like a last attempt to get the people who are interested in purchasing a/another copy of the game to buy one. This heavily boosts my suspicions that they are planning to make the game F2P this year.