Should I buy Overwatch?

Wasn't the last weekend a free weekend to try it? If you think you will enjoy it I'd say just go for it
According to your blog post you're not very convinced to buy it either. Don't let people make decisions for you, not even the smallest ones... Idk, just my two cents in the matter

Its only 20 dollars and recently a lot of toxic players have actually been banned from Overwatch and you can actually report toxic players for being toxic so blizzard is making sure it stays good.

It's not in a good state at the moment. First I gave up on competetive, then I gave up on quickplay, and now even the arcade can't keep me interested.

The game is flooded with trolls and quitters, and toxicity everywhere.

Finding a match isn't hard, but the quality is poor.

It may recover, but in it's current state I'd say no.

I would say no. My son played it for a week when it first came out and hasn't touchex it since.

The game itself is something
It is beautiful, full of events, more than 100 combinations of heroes (i mean support+tank+sniper, support, tank and stealth guy and so on), pretty fun to play even without friends during the discord voice chat, updates from time to time
BUT
As one wise man said:
Ned Stark(c) Everything before the word "but" is horseshit
The community is soooo toxic there
The devs are trying to hold them off and ban from the normal people but they do not succeeded (as far as I see till that moment i post it)
So If u will decide to buy it prepare to meet all the negativity and toxicity from all the Westeros, my friend :D
Edit 1: some starks wisdom moment :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DvbqmJokKw

I actually love first-person shooters. Especially arena-shooters like Unreal Tournament or Quake. But I always preferred to play them with bots (long time without Internet make me like that). But I bought Overwatch back in february and had a great time even with live people. Rarely encountered any toxicity. Now I'm playing it once at a month or something. Never played competitive mode though.

If you want to play for fun I would say buy it its a really fun game and for the current price is a good deal.
I'm personally not a big multiplayer fan but I'm somewhat addicted to this game!
However I had a bad experience in the last 2 competitive seasons going solo. Blizzard says that many trolls, leavers and smurfs got banned this season but that previous experience left a bitter taste in my mouth so if I wanted to play comp I will wait and play with someone I know.

There are a lot of MP games out there, why Overwatch ? If it really appealed to you, then go for it.
I play Paladins myself (was going to buy Overwatch, but lack of regional servers, no support for payment methods in my locale and no friends playing it pretty much made it impossible to buy/play properly/socialize further with friends).

I hear a lot of good things about Overwatch, its far more polished and stable game than many MP games, so if you don't face any of the issues i faced... Ya know the answer.

Hi, Overwatch player with an extreme anxiety disorder here!

I definitely understand what you mean by finding online multiplayer stressful. It is for this reason that I've never been able to work up the bravery to try competitive yet. However, I hope I can help to reassure you a little, because Overwatch is my favourite online multiplayer and I absolutely recommend it.

1. I find that playing online either with a friend or with somebody in the room with me helped a lot with initial anxiety. After the first couple of matches, once you've loosened up, you'll completely forget anyone else is even there. I do, anyway!

2. There are several different types of games, which I'm sure you've explored. One is the arcade, which has lots of fun modes that rotate, and not all of them are intense combat: for example, in the summer, Lucioball appears (think Rocket League but with Lucio!) and I'm pretty sure they're going to bring Mei's Snowball Fight back for this winter (everyone plays as Mei shooting each other with snowballs!). They also have the mode where you respawn as a random hero every time you die, which is really good because no-one is ever good at absolutely everything and I guarantee that there's a good chance the terrifying Genji that's kicking everyone's butt will get respawned as something like slow-ass tanky Winston and get taken down with ease. It's also a really good way to learn to play heroes you don't usually play with. Sure, some of the arcade challenges are generally more difficult that a regular match, but you can always leave those ones out.

3. In terms of easing yourself into the game, I played my first ten or fifteen levels with PvB matches, and initially on easy. Sometimes I still do if I'm feeling particularly anxious that day. Honestly, when the whole team is just murdering the bots and pushing the payload like champs, it's hard not to build confidence and camaraderie. Then I moved up to normal difficulty, and found that it was just the perfect amount of challenge for me -- and again, with no players on the opposite team and no real pressure to succeed, nobody has any reason to get sour. Be warned though, you gain experience much slower.

4. The fact that you can only pay for loot boxes -- aka, four random cosmetic items per box -- is amazing. Can we talk about how great that is? I hate that so many online multiplayers shill character upgrades or access to different characters etc. etc. etc. This way, there literally is no way to pay your way to power or exclusive gameplay, so if you want to improve, all you can do is practice. That takes a big reason for animosity between players out of the game already, since you can't be accused of being a "casual" or a "cheater".

5. I have never, ever encountered anyone being a jerk on Overwatch. Not to me, not to anyone else. Granted, I'm not a really high level player, and there are horror stories floating around out there on the net. However, my husband is a significantly higher level player, and I'm not aware of him ever encountering trouble either. Take our testimonies with a pinch of salt, because every single online game has a whole bag of dicks in it, and I'm sure other people could elaborate on that. When you play online, you have to prepare to meet idiots at some point.

6. Overwatch matches you with players that are close to your skill level. I know this works pretty well in regular matches, because I have never had a problem with it, except sometimes when a poor little level 1 gets stuck in with us somehow and bravely soldiers on. I am not the best player (partially because I learned to play on the PS4 and haven't even tried to learn how to use a mouse and keyboard on my PC copy yet) but I don't find myself out-of-place. I generally win more matches than I lose and very rarely feel like I'm not pulling my weight in the team. However, bear in mind that if you do decide to play competitive mode someday, I've heard that the matching system for that can be really shifty. I don't believe the stupid rumours about it being rigged, but my husband has had his butt kicked by teams who were hundreds of levels above him and clearly a professional or aspiring-professional team. Just to repeat, though: even watching him play those matches, I've never seen anyone being a twat about it. Maybe a few sore losers, but yeah. Expected.

7. Dude, you've played 54 HOURS of a game you don't own. You clearly like playing it! Why not get a game you like playing? I know a girl who literally just plays bot matches on her own or with her sister and she's as happy as a clam that way. I'm positive that you can find a way to play it that suits you.

Hope that massive deluge of wordy words helped ease your worries a little! Don't fret over it, whatever you decide to do. I can't currently play the game due to circumstances, but once I can get in again I'd be happy to play with you and form some kind of protective anxiety wall. Us wallflowers gotta stick together.

Can we get a "Rather than asking us again, make up your own mind" poll option in the future?
I honestly think there's enough information out there for you to decide if the game is worth it to you, and even free weekends to try it.
If you've played 54 hours you should know if that and any future play time is worth the asking price.

So I guess my question boils down to if there's enough traffic in quick play mode even after that's not the only option?

Yes.

Is the community toxic/mean/etc? Would it be better for a fragile weirdo like me to stay away until next free weekend?

Toxic. Stay away since you apparently don't have the balls in my opinion.

Quick Play rarely has anyone too toxic in it. If you go in with friends especially, you will rarely find any jerks. Plenty of games at any hour of the day (or night). As for comp, it's definitely not required. But in my experience, it's not too bad. You'll get one or two toxic people here and there, but that's true for nearly any competitive game in this day and age. The best thing is you can simply mute them if they get on your nerves.
Overwatch is fun, however, I'd highly suggest playing more with friends, as randoms can get boring to play with (and most of the time, they won't talk to you in voice unless it's a competitive match).

sure thing, it's pretty popular right now and i don't think it will die any time soon.
unless you're not into co-op games or idiots insulting you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
and it's competitive if you want to play it that way. i bet there are groups that play for fun, or game modes that are casual.

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If you have enjoyed it, by all means - buy it. If money is an issue and can hold off for a couple of months, wait until Blizzard has their Black Friday sale in November.

I really don't understand why you are even asking this. You got 54 hours so you should know exacltly how the game is. Do you wanna play more of it? Buy it, if not don't. Don't wanna deal with people? Disable both voice and text chat and call it a day.
Everyone seems to say the community is toxic but I really haven't seen all that much toxicity in my +300 hours, I might just be lucky tho. As for traffic - my longest queue for a game was like 3 minutes trying to queue a random arcade mode at like 3 or 4 in the morning.

Yeap, go for it. Seems like you're already hooked, there's no reason to finally jump in. I've played for almost 300 hours and the game still feels fun, especially with friends.

I’ve very very recently bought the standard after trying out during this free weekend briefly a couple days ago for like 40 bucks my country’s money TT but so far haven’t regretted so it’s pretty cool if you see yourself wanting to play it more than during free weekends

Nope, donate this money to the people suffered from hurricanes.

Nope,I paid 20 euros for it and regret it. The competitive meta is stale as hell and the community there is absolutely toxic. I saw less salt and shit talking when playing competitive CS:Go out of all things[tho I did played CS in like 2014,maybe things are worse in comp there now].

You should go for it if you had fun playing the different heroes and game modes. If you don't mind winning or losing that much I don't see any problem with your team mates or enemies as you can just mute them if they are being rude and toxic. You can also be sure that you will get a lot of free new content in the future.
Speaking of myself I almost never get in contact with just pure toxic players that just wanna troll and insult you...

Buy it if you have friends to play with.

I recommend it if you have some friends cuz it makes it better.

My answer still same like last time someone asked whether should He buy PUBG

One thing that I always asked to myself when I'm in this kind of problem
"Did I really want to play this, or I want to play this because of my friends tell me to play it?"
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because most of my friends who nagging me about to play certain game always end up leaving me alone after they bored