As someone returning to the game after a five year break, I feel like I've got to get this off my chest.

I understand that I've been gone from the game for a very long time. That being said I don't see the reason for completely disregarding the progression of Overwatch 1 players, and the new ranking system seems roughly the same just with uglier rank icons. I get that Overwatch 2 was supposed to be a new game, even though it wasn't. It just feels weird to me that essentially nothing I did in the thousands of hours I have on the game really counts for anything in the current version. I get that I have a lot of cosmetics that a new player wouldn't, and a lot of gold guns and some legacy comp points, and that's great. Those are things I earned and I like that they're still there.

What doesn't feel great to me is that my old legacy boarder is completely gone. It's not even on my profile anymore, it's hidden away in some tab I had to google just to find. What doesn't feel great is despite the fact that I had something like 700 hours on [D.va](http://D.va), my level on her is an 11. What doesn't feel great is progressing characters I've played countless games on and the progression rewards being like player icons or sprays or emotes or highlight intros that I've had unlocked for near of a decade now. What doesn't feel great is that at a glance, there's basically nothing to distinguish the thousands of hours I have on OW1. I look identical to somebody who just downloaded the game.

I don't really have an issue with the new stuff inherently, it just feels like they threw out Overwatch 1, and all the playtime and progress and wins that used to be plainly visible to anyone is now hidden away like it never happened. Feels bad man.