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00:00 - 00:03 so i sat down with the overwatch devs earlier to talk about season 2

00:04 - 00:05 we noticed a lot of people complaining about genji

00:05 - 00:07 creating a shit ton of rage posts on reddit and our forums

00:08 - 00:12 we dont want our players to be salty, we needed to change something

00:12 - 00:15 we cant have genjis running around like they own the place

00:17 - 00:19 so we decided to get rid of the animation canceling

00:19 - 00:21 and reduced sword duration to 6 seconds

00:22 - 00:23 6 seconds

00:30 - 00:31 6

00:32 - 00:35 we even got rid of their triple jump

00:38 - 00:39 gone

00:41 - 00:43 we set up the reddit new page to the big screen in our office and waited

00:43 - 00:46 for the tears to start rolling in

00:46 - 00:48 100 new posts in 30 minutes

00:49 - 00:53 and when we watched seaguls stream

00:53 - 00:56 we thought he would ragequit from all the salt

00:58 - 01:00 he had to sit there explaining the changes

01:01 - 01:02 for 2 hours

01:05 - 01:06 and got salty every time

01:07 - 01:09 did they actually think we would leave genji alone?

01:11 - 01:12 oh my god

01:13 - 01:15 {laughing}

01:16 - 01:21 Shadder2k confirmed he is becoming a mei main

01:21 - 01:23 the best part is, most of reddits

01:24 - 01:25 complaints dont even make sense anymore

01:25 - 01:28 cause we nerfed him so hard

01:34 - 01:35 they have to make new shitposts

01:35 - 01:37 i mean

01:37 - 01:39 do you really think a hero

01:40 - 01:41 that can solo a whole team with his sword

01:41 - 01:43 would stay unnerfed?

01:43 - 01:44 but on a serious note

01:44 - 01:46 we knew genji was too strong

01:46 - 01:48 and we had to do something about him

01:51 - 01:53 Someone suggested only nerfing his ultimate

01:55 - 01:56 we deleted his account

02:02 - 02:04 and banned him from the forums

02:09 - 02:11 and then came up with our own idea