Overwatch League Reviews

by Goofy Hoot

Two things I’ve noticed so far:
1. When you exit full screen and go back into it, the frame sticks as the smallest form you view it at. For example, if I was watching theater mode (horizontal phone) and then put my phone vertical, and then went back, it will stay in the smaller vertical form even in theater.
2. Every time I exit OverwatchLeague but leave it open, my account stays logged in, but once I close OverwatchLeague , I have to log back in every time.
Easy 5 stars if this was addressed, it’s just these small things that make it difficult to want to watch on this platform.

by Mat56-2012

OverwatchLeague has previously worked mostly like a charm for me. But for some reason this version crashes almost every time I use it. I'll open it, load a stream, and switch to another app briefly. When I try to switch back to the OWL app, it reliably crashes at that point. Same if I start a stream and then try to go back to the home menu of OverwatchLeague . It has also started resuming audio when I leave the OWL app but then open another app. I'll give this the five star rating I think it deserves once these issues are fixed (hopefully soon!).

Also, in case the devs are reading this, please make match notifications happen when the match is actually going to start, not just at the "estimated" time. Thanks for all your hard work!

by Mike9419

Very nice to be able to watch the games and get all the Overwatch League content in one place. I had a couple ideas that I think could work. I think the scoreboard tab could be better, like maybe the current days matches could be at the top of the screen. Then if you wanted to see previous games you could scroll up. Also if you could g As a developer great job getting this out to the fans I know how hard the devs had to work. Great job guys! Maybe even showing the players stats when you go to the team page.

Can’t wait to see how OverwatchLeague keeps developing!

by Garumx

Hey, blizzard developers, after using OverwatchLeague I’ve found out few unpleasant things I want to share with you.
1. While you watching a video, the phone os doesn’t understand it, and if you have timer, when your screen is shutting down (eg. 30 sec in my situation), the phone will automatically lock while you are watching video. It so annoying, that you have to tap time to time.
2. Settings menu on iPhone 5s (not sure about others), is not adapted, so the broadcast language selector is cut, but you can’t scroll the page, it’s static, and have the full iPhone 5s screen size.
3. And it would be great to create some button or filter when you are opening a stage menu with schedules, and you have to scroll until you find the actual game and time, especial in case of ending stage games. And if you open info about certain game and then go back to previous menu it starts from the top, and you have to scroll 10 thousand years again to find the game.
Thank you!
Regards!

by Anonymos65

First of all, I want to say OverwatchLeague is ok for streaming live the games you like. But, i’ve seen that the scores show 0-0 even after they finished(and yes I turned spoilers on). Another thing is that they log you out for no reason if you close OverwatchLeague , but you can’t really do much with your account when you are logged in. Another glitch is when you want to play something back, like a game, it crashes and doesn’t fix it’s self on the scores. Finally, this is a good app but blizzard needs to fix these or OverwatchLeague is useless. The website for Overwatch League is 10x better.

by Peterhilborn

What about a stats page? We should be able to click on each player and view their stats (just like in game). Then there should be team stats. How much dmg they do in wins vs losses would be great to look at. When on a team page why can we not click on the players and see a bio, their most played, and their stats? Wouldn’t that be great? You guys compile the stats because you show them on the feed ALL THE TIME. Please make them available to us.

Now that multiple weekends have passed, when we press scoreboard, can it start on the current week? 90% of my time in the scoreboard tab is scrolling to find the right week.

Lots of people I talk with still don’t understand how OWL works. Can there not be an info button in the standings tab? There’s a wildcard tab but no explanation.

I think it’s a great start to OWL and OverwatchLeague , but the potential here is just insane and OverwatchLeague is very underwhelming. ESPN just reposted a Fleta Pharah play, so if someone random decides to download the OWL app, they would be lost. Just my 2 cents...

by Mariazebra47

Ok, so, I’m super happy to be able to get OWL tokens again - that’s fantastic! Cannot be understated how big that is, and we know the team’s been hard at work to make it happen.

OverwatchLeague , on the whole however, is too sensitive if that makes sense. It bugs when you shift your phone from vertical to horizontal too many times, and any time you exit OverwatchLeague , even to make a setting change like disabling portrait mode, or making your screen brighter, or checking something on another app during game breaks, it treats the stream like you just entered the video again. That’s kind of annoying. It’s not a very responsive way of interacting with the video stream. I wish it just stayed on and OverwatchLeague just tracked whenever you were actively on it or not. Idk if that’s possible, it just is annoying trying to check something real quick and then need to rewatch the 15sec ad just to come back into the may melee.

by Sillyniecy

As I recall, you used to be able to use OverwatchLeague to look at players on teams. Now I can’t seem to find that information anywhere. This was a huge part of the functionality for OverwatchLeague for me. It should be easier to get to each teams ‘splash page’ which should have the players listed. I would also really like OverwatchLeague to be able to have player profiles- so their names are clickable and we could see personal stats.

With the newest update it seems to crash a lot, and has trouble loading pages. I’m having these issues on both WiFi and off.

Last, notifications don’t seem to be working reliably so that’s kind of a bummer as well.

by Bjorlax

overall, Im pretty pleased with OverwatchLeague but I am bummed that there seems to be a lack in stats other than some general stuff. I wish I could look at profiles and see individual stats. Not only would that make OverwatchLeague feel more engaging but it would make it easier to get to know each player. This is my first time following an E-Sport and theres so many different players to learn and I think that would be a good way to be able to start recognizing them. Also when going to pages for each game, I wish I could see what the map lineup is for each series, exactly how its presented on the stream. just more general information would be nice. other than that, OverwatchLeague works great. I did have one bug where when going to team profiles would make OverwatchLeague crash, but I havent seen that bug in a few days now

by Conward96

It’s clean, it works, it’s for everyone. I currently live in Japan and often miss the live games because I’m working or it’s too early. OverwatchLeague is great because I can find the recording for games without the score being spoiled for me. I love it!

OverwatchLeague should have easier access to players and their stats, similar to the website.. It also should provide links or methods to open up videos of past games directly in an external app... I hate trying to find games and potentially spoiling the score because I want to watch on a bigger screen instead of my phone.

The iPad version also needs a rework. It’s literally the phone app with a zoom button...

by StemMajor

Great interface and news about the league. However the video streaming has some bugs that need to be addressed. There seems to be some random repeating going on during the vods. It’s as if the video rewinds a second or so, but the video timer keeps going forward. I experienced this problem on both the SF shock and Dallas fuel matches and it was quite annoying. Also my iPhone doesn’t seem to recognize that a video is playing and if I leave it playing the screen goes dim after 2 minutes. I do not have this problem with any other video streaming apps. If these bugs are fixed, easily 5 stars.

by TheChiselMan

I love how you can stream directly from OverwatchLeague and how clear all the game scores are, but I have 2 things. You shouldn’t have to log in to a blizzard account to pick a favorite team in order to get notifications for the matches. And also you should definitely be able to click on players in the meet the players section. All we get is there in games name and they’re real name (which is usually cut off for being to long) we can’t even see their roles let alone any stats like average kills per game and that sort of thing. L

by TCal85

Great app, all the updating over the last year has made it run a lot smoother. ONE BIG COMPLAINT!!! I don’t always get to see the matches live so I tried to do hide scores so I can watch later and not know who won. Problem is..... you hit watch video and it pulls up the map list WITH THE SCORES!!! Fix that. Hide scores means hide the overall score AND map scores....thanks.

Edit: Apparently after updating you have to take the setting off then put it back on to make it work correctly. Leaving this up Incase someone else needs that info.

Edit 2: okay I was wrong... if you click “watch” on the right you get map scores. If you click the team names on the left you don’t. Still needs to be fixed if you have hide scores selected...

by 𝙼𝙰𝙿𝙻𝙴 𝙱𝙰𝙲𝙾𝙽

This is overall a pretty mediocre app. Okay layout, fine leaderboards, alright system in general, but there are a couple annoying things. the “earn rewards” button does not do anything, which makes me wonder if I’m earning tokens or not, there is no individual player profiles, and there is annoying bug where if you turn your screen sideways during a live match, OverwatchLeague crashes. Despite all this, it’s a pretty good platform to watch live Overwatch league and I would (mostly) recommend it to any fans

by Erose86

I wanna see the map differentials in OverwatchLeague. The win/loss ratio, as it’s displayed now is awesome, but when 3 teams are about to be tied for a third place slot in playoffs, I’d love to be able to take a look at the map differential to see who has the best shot.

It’s nice that they go over this on the broadcast, but it doesn’t help me when I’m sitting around with friends through the week discussing matches and playoffs and want to reference the map differentials while we’re discussing.

That’s the only reason I rated this 4 stars. I feel like that’s a critical piece of information that is missing.

by Hdhdjkkkk

I really enjoy OverwatchLeague as I find it sleek and it’s nice to see what team are playing and when, their wins and losses, etc. Yes streaming it has some minor issues but I have faith those will be ironed out. I’m more concerned with the frequent crashes I experience when trying to navigate OverwatchLeague . Any time I click on a team I’m subscribed to I have only three seconds to view their page before OverwatchLeague crashes, and crashes also happen whenever I’m on a part of OverwatchLeague that’s not viewing a series/video. Fix this and five stars, for sure. I’m excited to see the OWL succeed.

by Old And Green

I really enjoy OverwatchLeague and enjoy being able to watch VODs when I am unable to watch live. However, there are a couple of glaring issues that may make me delete it altogether. There are times while watching where it will briefly rewind and the same frame will replay two or three times in a row. There are also more recently issues with the video completely starting at the beginning. It has done this multiple times and it is very frustrating. I love OverwatchLeague honestly so please fix these issues. Thank you and go NYXL!!

by DeeJayZippa

Pretty solid app — clean UI and simple to use. I like that I can tune in to matches while on-the-go. But I give it 4 stars because there are some improvements that could be made. Would love to be able to see a score breakdown for each map during a live match. Would also love it if there's a way to toggle an audio-only feed of the matches, and be able to put OverwatchLeague in the background without disrupting the stream. Why? Because several of the weekday matches happen in the evening when people are just getting off work. It'd be nice to be able to follow the live feed while driving.

by Arthurrrrrrboii

I think this is a great app so you can watch the Overwatch League on the go. I just have a few problems. My first problem is that a couple days ago, I was logged into my Blizzard account and I was watching the league live, for an hour and a half, but I never got my league tokens. I was confused because it says you get 5 tokens per hour of watching the league. Another problem is the button in the menu that says ‘Earn Rewards.’ When I click on that, nothing happens. You would think it’s how you get your tokens, or it says how you do, or some sort of explanation on rewards, when really, it does absolutely nothing. My last problem is that there is no option to be able to check how long we actually have been watching the league for. Because I could’ve been wrong how long I was watching, but I don’t know, it doesn’t say! Please fix these problems asap so no one else has to deal with them.

by -shadow75-

I love OverwatchLeague and it is well made! You did amazing on overwatch as well and you’ve got me hooked, but I have a small request. Can you guys make a thing of which you can view hero’s damage, health, abilities, bios, and all customizations? That would be so cool and useful! I’m trying to get my little brother into playing overwatch and I want him to be able to know everything about the heros before he gets the game. Thank you so much for your amazing game blizzard and bringing me so much joy, and keep up the good work. Thanks for considering 😁

by Mcpickettks

I’ll have to start by saying I can’t believe how undeveloped most esports following apps are, given that the thing it follows is a glorified web application. This one is ahead of the game in terms of content it provides, but is very slow to load, and has many cases where it crashes or has bugs. One of those times is when you return to OverwatchLeague when coming from an external link, it produces an error. When not connected to WiFi, OverwatchLeague will crash instead of saying “No Internet.” Finally, OverwatchLeague is always so slow to load when opening it. I wish there was a loading screen instead of watching content appear piece by piece. I hope OverwatchLeague can make some improvements and Happy Holidays!

by Eriback

I really like OverwatchLeague ! Easy to see schedule. Easy to watch previous matches. Nice and simple, and I bet more features will come as the league evolves.

I am giving this only 4 starts cause there is currently a bug, as well as a feature I would like to see. When I watch a video on OverwatchLeague , I noticed that around every 10-30 seconds, the video would rewind a second or two. I noticed it because I would hear random things get repeated. I then got annoyed and looked up the videos on the Overwatch League website and had the same issue. Is this going to be fixed? I had this issue on my iPhone X.

I would have liked to report a bug on OverwatchLeague but there is no way to report app issues from OverwatchLeague . As an iOS developer myself, this is a must have feature, in my opinion.

Otherwise, awesome work Blizzard! Go NYXL!!