Overwatch, things change...

I can't play multiplayer games for long, I often get tired of them and if I keep playing them I start to resent them so I have to take breaks. Even with a fun game like Overwatch I have to take breaks because it's just not fun anymore if you play it for too long. Normally I would be happy to jump back in the game after a month but now I can't help but feel like I'm completely done with the game. Why? Well there are multiple reasons...

Things get repetitive.

I didn't mind that Overwatch has no single player mode and that there aren't that many different maps, Hell I usually didn't complain if I would play ten times on the same map in one evening. But now after almost a year it's starting to become an issue for me, because I keep getting frustrating maps I can't seem to get rid off. I have evenings where I keep getting matches on Hanamura and Temple of Anubis and I don't like those maps, as an attacker it can be a nightmare to capture the second point when you have a bad team and as a defender it can be a long drawn out fight that you might lose in the last minute when your team makes mistakes. Also the lack of different game modes is starting to annoy me, because playing the same three game modes for almost a year isn't fun for me. Sure there is now a capture the flag mode in arcade, but arcade mode is pretty much a toxic hell hole I wouldn't want to go to. I wish you had more maps and game modes, but the things you get for Overwatch arrive super slowly. In almost a year we got three new characters and three new maps. Maybe that's a lot for you but I think for a popular game like Overwatch that's not a lot. The only good thing about it in my opinion is that they're for free.

Toxic community.

This might be different on other platforms, but on the Xbox One there are a lot of toxic players. I'm not going to pretend I'm such a nice guy but I try not to make the lives of other people miserable for my entertainment or bitch and whine to team mates over every little thing. I don't know if this community got so toxic because of the amount of immature players or that this just happens over time. I can't remember things were this bad at the beginning. Now I can't even play arcade mode because the scum of the Earth seems to roam there and every second you spend in arcade mode is a year you lose of your life, at least it certainly feels that way. Ranked mode is something I only did for placement matches so I would get some points to eventually buy gold weapons but ranked mode is almost as bad as arcade mode. You either get people that take things super seriously and can't handle anything that deviates from their perfect team composition or you get people that deliberately want to lose by picking characters that are pretty much useless in a certain situation or just refuse to play the objective. So even if you would have the skill of a diamond player you will probably end up in silver or gold because you lose so much because of bad teams. This makes you as a player also toxic, I won't deny that. Why? Because if you keep getting teams that ruin things for you then how else will you feel than miserable. Oh I can't get my nine wins in arcade mode because I keep getting people in my team that rather waste your time than win or in ranked nobody wants to communicate or work together. Yes that can make you quite toxic over time and why I need to take breaks from Overwatch otherwise you turn into someone you would hate yourself.

Unfair situations.

The amount of times I had to join a match where my team was losing is just ridiculous, this doesn't happen once or twice on an evening but this can happen twenty times if not more often. Then there are the situations where you have to face a group of friends and I'm in a team of randoms, oh this wouldn't happen says Blizzard and yet I see it happen a lot! Half your team either leaves the match at that point or just pretty much gives up most of the time, this makes playing these type of matches even more frustrating. The worst is when something like that happens during your placement matches, when someone who isn't ranked yet has some friends with him in a group that are placed (sometimes even diamonds) and I'm there with random people on my team that got silver rank last season. Oh yeah totally fair! Again this doesn't happen once or twice, this happens a lot and so far has happened to me every time I play my placement matches. It also sucks if you keep facing groups when you want to win your nine matches in arcade mode. Nobody on your team wants to be the tank, nobody wants to be the healer and nobody wants to really play the objective. But it seems that everyone gets the blame from these type of players when things go wrong. I try but fail so many times because your team pretty much abandons the objective, the roles we need and they abandon also you. At that point who even wants to play?

Solution?

I don't know, I honestly don't know at this point. I loved playing Overwatch but things get more grim with each season and I just can't bring myself back to Overwatch anymore. I tried playing a bit as Orisa yesterday but the amount of frustration you endure is just extremely big. At that point you just have to realize that Overwatch isn't the right game for you anymore and so I quit. Maybe not forever but I just can't keep going with this for now. I need a long break and preferably forget the game exists. Maybe then after several months things will be better or a fun event, that would be nice. Maybe this is also because of the disappointment I have for the new character, I honestly don't like Orisa and I wish would've gotten Doomfist. Maybe I'm just not that much of a multiplayer guy, this becomes more and more clear the more I play these type of games. Maybe you still enjoy Overwatch or things are better on other platforms, I just know that I'm done with Overwatch.