Overwatch and the issues in the community a competitive review

Overwatch's competitive play has been reduced to a toxic wasteland, speaking from the position of someone who plays solo queue often it is probably one of the worst gaming experiences of this generation. While the game itself is incredibly polished and robust, the community is mainly filled with radioactive sewer rats that you are forced to play with, this ruins the experience. I took down some notes while I last time I was playing a few competitive matches, I kept track of how many games I lost due to someone throwing, refusing to switch, general toxicity and terrible comps.

Out of 20 matches, 9 were lost due to the aforementioned reasons and 3 were lost due to poor play/unskilled teammates. This leaves a very small margin for error on your part if you happen to be playing solo, the game works at its best when you have a group of people you know will make the right choices to play with. Otherwise, you're going to experience the impetuous decisions of people who have the slightest semblance of an understanding of how to cooperate with a team.

The toxicity issue is so bad in fact that the overwatch developers differed funds that would be going towards the progression and further improvement of the game, to now being dedicated to dealing with players that are disrupting the community.
(you can learn more about this in the video below)

I'm not too sure that the measures that blizzard is taking are going to truly have an impact, they cant just hand out a ban or a temporary suspension to someone that mains Widowmaker and gets reported a lot. It is not a good idea to punish the player base for playing characters they enjoy even if they are a nuance in game. My solution would be to balance the game to a point where it's possible to have more influence over the match as an individual player. This way it would be a little more feasible win even if your team comp is out of whack, but im no game devloper.

The heavy emphasis on team cooperation that Overwatch has, functions perfectly when you have a squad to back you up, other than that, in my mind solo queue is dead. at least for the time being .