a controversial opinion, but i genuinely enjoy playing Overwatch 2. When I am actually in a match, whether I'm winning or losing, I'm generally enjoying myself.1
But the Battlepass grind is what makes me want to quit. For years I was able to login to OW1 about 3 times a week and play for an hour or two, and be content with that. NOW I login and after every game I see a little experience bar barely move. when it fills up, 90% of the time I get nothing. Helpfully, I am provided with a greyed-out preview of the thing I would have gotten had I handed over 1000 overwatch coins (this is $10 US dollars), presumably to instill a ravenous desire to acquire a flowery banner for my gamertag.
Anyway, this is having the opposite effect; since I am reminded, every single game, of how far away I am from unlocking Ramattra, and how little I will get for grinding out many more games of OW2 than I want to play, I think "it's time to stop playing for good, I cannot do this every time they put out a new character" and I stop for a few days. Inevitably, though, I start thinking of all the Good TimesTM and login again, and I have a few more delightful games that leave me loving OW again--a feeling that is lost completely when I leave the queue and am very forcibly reminded of all the ways I can give Acti-Blizz money.
So anyway. I am not entirely immune to FOMO; I've committed to unlocking Ramattra even though committing to that has not made anything more enjoyable. But when the next BP starts (in about a month) I think I'm just going to bow out of OW for awhile, possibly forever. It hurts because OW played such a huge role in helping me meet people both on and offline, it was one of the games that kept me connected to others during the pandemic...more often than not, my time with OW has been wonderful. But now, it's only exhausting.
1 yes yes everyone is toxic all the time but that was true of OW1 and, frankly, every multiplayer online game i have ever played in my life. i do not find OW2 to be an outlier in that sense.