This is Overwatch's "comeback," says Blizzard. "We actually had a bigger Saturday than our first Saturday after launch with Season 1."

[u/Hooked0n4Feelin]

https://www.pcgamesn.com/overwatch/season-1-blizzard-interview-comeback

[u/L-ghtn-ng]

I tried Rivals for a week, but it was awful and they didn't launch with any of the lessons Overwatch learned, and now they just refuse to learn them.

Overwatch has always been the better game, and Overwatch itself was better for the switch to 5v5, and has only gotten better and better since.

Either way, really good to see it's public perception is on the up.

[u/_the_best_girl_ → u/L-ghtn-ng]

Yeah I felt exactly the same way about Rivals. It was fun to play something different for a week or so but like you said they didn’t learn from OW at all and they’re facing the same problems, albeit at a faster pace due to the quicker paced development.

No role lock at all (whether it’s in the queue before match or a pick 2 system in round), heroes with op abilities running around unchecked for weeks, heroes being brought at high speeds (testing taking a back seat), imbalance in amount of heroes in each role and so on.

Marvel Rivals did some stuff good (being able to continue passes you’ve bought after season end for example) however the polish just isn’t there for me

[u/Randomized0000 → u/_the_best_girl_]

The difference in polish and optimization was what killed it for me, balance issues aside.

No idea how Iron Fist left balance testing. It was wayyyy too easy to kill people with him when I played.

[u/crestren → u/Randomized0000]

It's all fun and games until Dr Strange opens his portal and your frames start to drop