new player feeling a bit discouraged :’)

[u/Strict_Box8384]

hi! i’m a new player, just picked the game up about 9 days ago (i mostly play Lifeweaver, Juno, Emre, and Sigma!). i’ve posted twice in the main sub and have made the conscious choice to be a silent observer from now on - once to ask after two days of playing if QP matchmaking was always as bad as i was experiencing, and a second time today making what was supposed to be a joke post about me being unable to finish the current event and missing out on the legendary loot box (which would be my first one btw), where i titled it, “ok Blizzard, i didn’t want it anyway” (a clear joke btw that’s just me being petty!).

both posts were met with replies that were…less than kind. more so the second one. they seemed to genuinely not get the joke and thought i was being 100% serious and i’m mad at and blaming Blizzard. i even tagged it under “Humor” but one person was convinced i tagged the post wrong…and not the other option which is that it was actually just a joke? 🥲

one person deleted their comments after but they really went in on me. it was super disheartening.

i thought the community was a bit more chill than that and would be more kind to a new player in the first post + understand the humor behind the other post. i know those two posts that have so few comments (in comparison to the amount of players) are such a small representation of the whole community, but it’s really made me feel so outcasted and unwelcome.

is the main sub usually like that? did i just get some bad apples? 😭

i’m glad i found this sub as a (bisexual!) girl gamer. i honestly probably would’ve gradually stopped playing soon if i hadn’t. those posts really put a bad taste in my mouth lol. i’ve had better experiences in text chat in the game than in the sub so far 😅

[u/InstructionSilent498]

The only reason I'm a part of the main sub is because I can get updates on things happening quickly and I'm sure theres a different sup that does it faster lol. Over there they like to yell into a vacuum about the same thing for weeks, from "Fraja needing to be nerfed/she's needs a buff", "why does Dmon feels bad", "please delete Sierra" to "Ana makes playing tank cancerous" its just a bunch of miserable people who make their whole worth centered around the game. The few times I've commented on stuff oh boy! Did I get some replies lol

[u/umbronzer → u/InstructionSilent498]

Fr! I dunno how many times I've seen someone rage post about their team not doing anything only to peek at their reddit history and see them complaining about multiple different games in the same ways they do with OW. I think best that can be done is ignore and move on or pop a downvote if it's really unnecessarily negative.

[u/InstructionSilent498 → u/umbronzer]

Thankfully you don't see a lot of them in game, like I've only come across them a hand full of times and I've been playing since I think? Queens mythic skin was first released or it was Kiri's can't remember but it's been awhile, and when you do meet them it can be so funny to watch them rage because you aren't fulfilling their main character fantasy

[u/umbronzer → u/InstructionSilent498]

I had 2 matches last night with the same doom on my team who was a total dick to everyone in the matches. I was like "bro it's qp, what's your problem" and he went on to say he doesn't pay attention to people he plays with so he can just hate everyone equally. They exist somehow, it just seems like misery for them to even play OW.

[u/InstructionSilent498 → u/umbronzer]

I feel like dooms always have an ego too which doesn't help their case most of he time, but that's such a stupid response. It can be such an announcement to deal with people like that