What can I say about this game…?
I have more than 1000 hours (not in steam as you can see but in Battlenet), I’m writing this review thanking valve to FINALLY let me leave an opinion of this game.

I started playing OW in 2017, specifically in September and stopped in 2023 (May)…so I can say I lived the best and the worst in this game.
The game was amazing, a hero shooter pretty balanced (in characters’ synergy, not players), a lot of fanbase etc, but the lack of content (and I believe the OW League’s decay) started to dent the game, I think we can agree there were 3 major nails in its coffin:

1) Brigitte: Blizzard always overpowers its last chars/skills etc in every game, but this char broke the game, it could kill healers, dps, tanks no matter what, if you encountered Brigitte in a small corridor, you were dead, eventually they nerfed her, but still, she destroyed the synergy only by herself.
2) Role queue (ranked): An attempt to revive the number of players BUT did the opposite, this thing made me leave overwatch back then, you had to choose BEFORE KNOWING which map you were going to play in, what role you wanted to be…this had 2 cons: first you couldn’t balance your team if you had a noob or a troll, taking his role and helping your team, and second, in some maps I played better for my team in one role than another, for example: defending Hanamura/Rialto with tank, but attacking oasis/nepal with healer or dps.
3) 2 types of Ranked (Role queued or free): when Role queue didn’t work, they made some changes in quick play and arcade, but the important change was the free ranked, what happened? Well, if you have less players AND more ranked modes, surprise! You had a worse matchmaking so…
Doing the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥ pve content (Halloween, winter games, lucio ball) over and over again destroyed it as well.

BUT A LIGHT WAS AHEAD: They were going to give us a “new” game, at least a reworked game with FINALLY a good multiplayer pve content: new stories, maps, skill trees, etc
2-3 years of development later they gave us overwatch 2 (removing OW1 which I PAID), with no pve content BUT with season pass and the promise of the future pve content. By the way they changed Mccree for Cassidy, that didn’t solve anything... On May 16th the head staff CANCELLED the promised pve content making the number “2” in “overwatch 2” lost its meaning. THEY LIED, DECEIVED AND MISLEAD US. July 19th Blizzard offers 6M to every team to not renew in Overwatch’s Leage. R.I.P.

NOTE: I bought OW1, I played a lot with friends, I believed in OW2 so I bought every battle pass (with euros or coins if I had) till May (2023). I was platinum (all role queue)…so I wasn’t a god but at least I know what I’m talking about…I started this game on steam ONLY to finally tell the world my humble opinion, and my (and probably other’s) story of love and hate with this game.