Overwatch team PLEASE DON’T do this.

I will proceed to try the changes right now and might have to do my 2nd POST (as this is my FIRST) just to express how outraged this has left me.

Please, I have 380 hours on Sombra and she is literally the only character I play. I don’t mean to be offensive, every game has an audience and perhaps Overwatch just isn’t targeted to me, but Sombra has ALWAYS been the only character I find myself having fun with ever since I bought your game to play it with my cousin. Ironically, the reason why I do not really enjoy playing this game if I’m not playing Sombra, is because i hate ULTS. I find them ridiculously unnecessary. So No surprise I love a good hacker, and although the EMP always feel hypocritically successful, at the same time is an ult that is easily wasted making it more of a “when to use to be effective” kind of skill, as opposed to just being a “Free kills” kind of thing.

Nowadays I play Overwatch around 2 hours a day, and 90% of the time I do it as Sombra. Why? because unless it’s really needed for me to change, I won’t go the route of “not having fun AT ALL” with the game I bought.

In the 380 hours of Sombra that I have under my belt now, I can tell you that ALL of these changes feel like HUGE NERFS. I have no problems with the duration of the invisibility NOW. I have 0 problems with duration of the translocator as it is NOW. EVEN 15 SECONDS WAS OK!!!

Everything else you introduced really DESTROYS the nature of her character. She will have to stick more to her team now and become a “normie” dps. I know you will argue that as developers, it is ultimately your decision. However we all know 99% of your crowd hated Sombra for literally more than a year. I remember just how quickly people dropped out of a comp Match just because “I was throwing” as Sombra. Before the match even started. And this happened on around a third of my matches in comp.

Do you know what it’s like to play a character like that? You get shamed all of the time. I’ve had to grow a thick skin because I had never played multiplayer games online to this degree, and I’ve gotten some massive insults for playing “YOUR” character. Honestly, 380 hours playing on her, should make her MY character too. Particularly because I’ve invested that time “PERFECTING” one of the DEADLIEST characters on YOUR game that apparently NO ONE UNDERSTOOD.

Now, I am not the greatest AT ALL, but there are A FEW SOMBRAS out there on the highest ranks that have literally been through the same. I don’t know about Fizzy, but I guarantee you Worst Sombra WILL reduce the time he spends playing Overwatch dramatically because of this nerf.

The truth is, I will not play the game if the current changes go through. She will become, as all the other characters - boring TO ME. I was attracted to Sombra because of the depth of how her mechanics interacted with each other. Her mechanics were based MOSTLY on her timers. ALL OF HER TIMERS.

I can safely say that I keep on getting better at using HER TIMERS to be deadly by using them as effectively as possible, even after 380 hours of gameplay with her.

And you guys want to pretty much STRIP her away from that? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!!

Please I urge you to reconsider. I invested 380 hours on a character that seemed completely abandoned for years. U’ve done great work getting her to be more viable until now and it simply seems like this huge change will DRASTICALLY change Sombra. I understand the perspective that you want her to be more approachable to newcomers and stuff, but what you are doing is also destroying the community of actual Sombra “PROS” who know her to the bottom because of how much they have played her. While being more approachable should be a good thing, it shouldn’t come to the expense of one of the most complex characters on your game (if not the most complex) becoming SIMPLEX.

I honestly have no idea how much the testers spend in particular with “A CHARACTER” but I would be a bit surprised if there were many testers that have invested as much time as the people I mentioned before or myself ON SOMBRA ALONE. I seriously feel a bit “betrayed” and although I can’t blame you as developers I do hope you will consider the perspective of a VERY LOYAL “FAN” whom ironically wouldn’t play Overwatch if it weren’t because of what SOMBRA HAS BEEN until now.

As I said before, if the current changes go through, I will probably stop playing the game and although I do not mean this as a threat, I hope you understand that I mean this as a “warning” that could possibly come from several people in my position - particularly because I would imagine most “Sombras” TODAY are people that just like me, have invested terrible amounts of time “perfecting” the WHOLE KIT you are now trying to strip her away from. Please understand how many of them will feel like the game is now entirely different, and how many of them will consider it worth it to even start back from 0. That is, if they still like the character you are now turning into Sombra.

Sorry if the words seem harsh, but my “feels” are quite low right now.