Blizzard directly addresses the Overwatch 2 review scores in developer blogpost
>We also launched on Steam last week, and, although being review-bombed isn't a fun experience, it's been great to see lots of new players jump into Overwatch 2 for the first time. Our goal with Overwatch 2 has been to make the game more accessible than ever for more people than ever before.
>Many of the reviews on Steam mention the cancellation of the much larger component of PvE that was announced in 2019 as one of their primary reasons for dissatisfaction with the game. I get that. That announcement was about an ambitious project that we ultimately couldn't deliver.
>If we can’t turn back the clock, then what can we do? We can keep adding to and improving Overwatch 2. That is how we move forward. This means more maps, heroes, game modes, missions, stories, events, cool cosmetics, and features - an ever-expanding, evolving, and improving game. This is the future of Overwatch. One where we will continually create and innovate on what is making the game great now for the players who are playing now.
>Overwatch is such a unique game and world. When our heroes are all working together to complete an objective, there is really nothing else like it. Jump in--there's more to come!
>As always, thanks for reading, and I'll see you in-game.
https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/23988667/director-s-take-looking-beyond-overwatch-2-invasion/
You need to have a positive score to get "review bombed"
Holy damage control batman
There is no such thing as a "review bomb"
Yes there is
>game has been out for almost 10 years
>everyone finally gets the opportunity to review it
>they review it poorly
>REVIEWBOMBING
would you have called it a reviewbomb if it was mostly positive? why is that only a thing if it's negative? why is calling a game bad less valid than calling it good? is it impossible for a lot of people to just dislike a game?
mass 0/10s from people who can't even play the game != "they reviewed it poorly"
There is, but it didn't happen here. They're just coping with their game being openly called a shitty product.
>There is no such thing as a "review bomb"
let's find out
>we can’t turn back the clock
>why?
>BECAUSE!
Where's your big pve project?
give me 79 billion bro i can do it
in my pants
your mom will see it tonight 🙂
alright, guys, let's bet. How long will this game survive?
blizzdrones are next-level fanboys. the game will live as long as a small dedicated audience keeps buying skins.
I don't expect them to pull the plug for quite a while still
Oh yeah, I know one of them. He's a mexican who just insists people hate the game because it's the popular thing to do.
Dile que es puto
I keep playing it for some reason
play tf2
Same.
This is literally Blizzard's entire business model now. They don't give a shit about player retention, it's all about the whaling expedition.
Why bother with 20 people when you get more money out of one lonely chink who will spend $2000 on pokedex autism to own every cosmetic in the shop.
>although being review-bombed isn't a fun experience, it's been great to see lots of new players jump into Overwatch 2 for the first time
LMAO
They still made over 20 million dollars off of this.
>They were all new players who hated the game! there's no way that those who play on battle.net but have no way of telling us their complains are also on steam! It is simply impossible!!!
>I know a single skin is $20 now but you have to believe me when I saw OW2 is better because...uhh because we can take more of your money and do less!
>also buy the battlepass
>If we can’t turn back the clock, then what can we do? We can keep adding to and improving Overwatch 2. That is how we move forward. This means more maps, heroes, game modes, missions, stories, events, cool cosmetics, and features - an ever-expanding, evolving, and improving game.
You can always add PvE you fricking slimy pieces of shit
>an ever expanding evolving and improving game
Wow...more $15 skins that I used to get for just playing the game and ugly woman heroes? SIGN ME UP!!!
/misc/ website, Black person
Black folk
The amount of seething this pic causes is crazy.
you just replied to yourself didn't you
More like the amount of seething that emanates from it kek
Samegay, but also
>filename
>3
Uh?
this is number 1
2 is the same image as 3 but without the trannies part because it was made before everyone on this wesbite had some weird obsession with trannies
saved
>NOOOOO YOU CANT POST ABOUT THAT ONLY WE CAN
>NOOOOO STOP POSITING
>NOOOOOOO ONLY WE GET TO MAKE FUN OF YOU
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
have a nice day and your sniveling helpers homosexual
posting it anyway
what are you gonna do about it?
sneed your seed all over the place?
Black person
Ironically, (You) should go leave.
some drawgay needs to make a pic of a moron making a shitty post that gets attention and then replying to himself saying people got le upsetti
i was pretending to be moronic just doesn't cut it
he literally posted a collage of in-game screenshots of characters from overwatch, he didn't image these characters existing you fricking buffoon
Why do they all have pedosmiles?
you know why
Frick off, Sombra a cute
Also Junker Queen is white aussie. She's just got a tan from being in the sun from being in the outback
>Sombra
>ugly
idiota hijo de puta
i have a question for you Ganker
is PvE in overwatch something you REALLY want?
is the lack of PvE in a fricking PvP game really the factor that drove so many people to hate this game?
It's not so much the literal PvE. It's that Blizzard said they were making Overwatch 2 ONLY so they could expand the story with PvE missions and do something with the lore. Then the game comes out without that, removing the entire reason for Overwatch 2 to exist in the first place.
yeah I get that, that's a valid reason
but tons of people seem to be really on edge because they aren't gonna get to shoot hundreds of mindless zombie AI bots with 3 other random people in co-op??
that sounds so fricking boring and lame in a PvP game especially
Have you seen blizzards other products?
not really lol, I only dig PvP games
but for me a PvP game is a PvP game, not a weird hybrid of PvP and PvE
L4D2 is one of the best games ever made. Of course blizzard could never make something that good even if they tried their hardest, but perhaps a reasonable facsimile
well anon I don't really mind L4D2 succeeding, its a game designed for PvE, im happy its good
it's just... I find it highly annoying that in a clear cut PvP game that was Overwatch, the focus shifted completely from the core design to a shitty thousand-bots-shooting-gallery
Left 4 Dead is a PVP game, too you know. It's even semi-class based (as the infected).
>it's just... I find it highly annoying that in a clear cut PvP game that was Overwatch, the focus shifted completely from the core design to a shitty thousand-bots-shooting-gallery
Overwatch's core design was an MMO, it was rejiggered into a PvP shooter so they wouldn't have to toss out all the assets
sc2 coop was amazing
COD WAW/Black Ops zombies was fun as frick.
>is the lack of PvE in a fricking PvP game really the factor that drove so many people to hate this game?
it was the straw that broke the camel's back.
I don't play Overwatch I'm just here to dab on Blizzard
They pretty much nuked OW1 so they can add PvE, and now they are not even adding that after reworking the game to make it worse.
They nuked Overwatch so they could change the monetization to something more exploitable, literally the only way they can prove the community wrong and save face is to add PvE lol
For me it ain't. But those lazy scumfricks spent three years not adding new heroes "because they were working on PVE" for OW2. Something they said was really fleshed out and way better than the stupid event garbage they'd been churning out, so a certain group was definitely anticipating it. And PVP players? Got stuck with their dicks out in the cold waiting and then it turns out that mode got cancelled a year before they officially announced it AND they'd been lying that whole year saying it was definitely coming? Blizzard is garbage and they have earned their worst reviewed game on steam
They spent 4 years putting the game on life support while claiming they were making PvE for it then didnt make it. They deserve to get shit on. Semi related for hero shooters I think TF2 should also get some shit as well since they did the same thing but worse and it never got any shit for 6 years of bots ruining servers but everyone just lets it go.
The old TF2 fanbase who may have critisized it left long ago and is replaced by autistic furries who think playing TF2 is a personality trait. Any criticism of the game is a direct attack on themselves. Just bizarre. My autistic nephew was like this with the game when he was 11, and he's 20 now and still plays. Weird to think the game has been in the same untouched state for this long and no sequel or expansion pack or new classes or fricking anything to speak of.
Brainlet post
At least TF2 is fricking 15 years old. Overwatch was what, like 3 years before it got thrown in life support mode in favor of a later cancelled feature? People were already tired and annoyed with Blizzard by then regardless.
TF2 went on life support after like 5 years. MvM was almost completely abandoned after it came out.
I mean, there were tons of people calling out Valve for not working on TF2. THe difference is that the drought was so fricking long, those people left and stopped caring. No one HAD expectations for the game anymore, which is one of the reasons that seal update did so well, since it genuinely surprised people.
>Make game about wacky abilities
>Also, after the first player in a teamfight dies, 11 others have to enter a boring clean-up phase
What the frick were they thinking?
>Need a sequel just to put PvE content
>Fricking TF2 from 2007 add PvE content just fine
There.
stop comparing overwatch to tf2 people actually play ow
I mean me personally I don't frick with the game anymore because Blizzard's scummy monetization practices have neared their peak.
Live service games are a blight and have harmed gaming more than any benefit they provide.
I liked some of the OW1 pve missions
They actually required some strategy and communication, almost like a raid
I figured OW2 would have something like mmorpg raids without the grinding
🙁
but arent you invading on the identity of OW which was PvP?
Shut the frick up shill
?? im not a fricking shill, Black person
im asking you a simple question
MW2 unironically has better raids than OW2
I know people hate cod here but it's actually shocking that fricking cawadooty has better PvE than OW2 at this point
>blizzard hypes up PvE for months before the game is even set to release
>people are hyped
>PvE is canned the minute before the game launches
>fans are understandably pissed and bombard the reviews
>blizzard is shocked as to why
That should explain it. If somebody promised you would get something special after a few months, only for them to say "erm, actually no, frick you, you get nothing." you'd want to punch them too.
Overwatch 2 was a grift designed so people who actually bought the first game would no longer be entitled to free characters as well as to introduce a larger array of monetization so they could bring it to Europe. They claimed the real reason it HAD to be a new title update entirely is because of the big paid Hero Mode which they gutted but are still perfectly willing to sell to you piecemeal as glorified Archives missions in order to play them for longer than the dedicated FOMO window.
Overwatch 1 doesn't exist anymore, changing to 5v5 only made the meta worse and the only possible justification this downgrade titled as a sequel could give they walked back, claimed it's "too hard :(" then went back to the skin shop mill
>is PvE in overwatch something you REALLY want?
I don't want a dogshit game like Overwatch in my face at all.
pve is in it tho
the difference between overwatch 2 having negative reviews and something like modern warfare having mixed reviews is that I hate zero desire to play ow2 and so do a lot of people including normies but people still want to play cod or apex despite the "issues"
blizzard suicided warcraft and overwatch IPs and not many people care anymore
they could release warcraft iv tomorrow and nobody would buy it even if it was good
it's not about them being greedy, diablo iv is gacha tier scummy $70 but it sold well because the game itself is solid and the IP isn't ruined yet
sooner or later blizzard will ruin all their IPs and people won't buy their next game that is a new IP
i stopped playing ow cause it just makes me angry and i suspect that might be the case for everyone else also
Same for me.
>play game
>feel nothing after winning
>get annoyed after losing
>end every session irritated
At least in OW1 you could end every session with opening the loot boxes you earned while playing. It really lessened the blow on bad days.
Now, for the same time you spend playing you might level up the battle pass and get a gay voice line. spray, and some coins instead of like 9 things opening a few boxes.
This game's not fun enough to play without earning shit, and OW2 is even less rewarding to play now.
This game was already barebones now it's a husk of a husk, what a shitshow
it's amusing how the bar is so low people want loot boxes back, which were cancer when ow1 came out
I dread of a time when people will yearn for battlepasses
whatever will come after battlepasses will be even worse, I don't want to imagine it
>>As always, thanks for reading, and I'll see you in-game.
You won't see anyone in-game lol it's already below 25k
Why couldn’t they deliver pve in overwatch? It’s not the Manhattan project.
I played for an hour or so and it seems alright for what it is especially as a free game. The problem is the entitled pathetic fricking blizzdrones who act like every release they put out is a direct attack on their personalities. I've played enough blizzard games to see this every single time. It's been this way for two decades, no other "fanbase" is like this. And then they eagerly lap up next thing.
battered wife syndrome. it's really fricking bizarre they are always like this. "liking blizzard games" is not a genre.
>This means more maps, heroes, game modes, missions, stories, events, cool cosmetics, and features
so...the things we were already getting with the first game? nothing groundbreaking that actually justifies gutting overwatch and shoving in shittier microtransactions?
What do blizzard devs do all day?
get drunk and raid the milk fridge
BIDF
WHAT 9000!? THERE'S NO WAY THAT CAN BE RIGHT!
I think it's right.
Nothing, keep harassing them
Lol are they still ignoring that you can't earn back the currency you paid for by completing battle passes like every other fricking game does? Even Call of Juden lets you grind "free" battle passes by maxing out the battle pass, yet OW2 for some moronic reason wants the goys to cough up ten dollars every couple months even if they nolife
>If we can’t turn back the clock, then what can we do?
RELEASE THE PROMISED PRODUCT YOU HACKS???
This is just the same song and dance every moronic ass dev does. Promises X content, never delivers, says "we'll do better", they never do and release paltry amounts of content in its place, then the game dies and they repeat. It's a joke
>being review-bombed isn't a fun experience
How far removed from reality are those people? They censored their own forums to an insane degree and are now getting a taste of what they always tried to suppress. They must've known what will happen if they release any of their newer games on Steam let alone the one that screwed over their fanbase three ways to Sunday.
>How far removed from reality are those people?
It’s California
>They censored their own forums to an insane degree and are now getting a taste of what they always tried to suppress.
This. Steam forums aren't a blizzard hug box run by their corporate approved tranitors paid to run damage control. Where you revoke some morons entire library for daring to say your game is shit on battle.net you can't do that on steam (they'll still find a way eventually)
>I-it was just review bombing, which sucks, but we know most people love our game!
>If we can’t turn back the clock, then what can we do? We can keep adding to and improving Overwatch 2. That is how we move forward. This means more maps, heroes, game modes, missions, stories, events, cool cosmetics, and features - an ever-expanding, evolving, and improving game. This is the future of Overwatch.
Live service forever, battle passes and even greedier monetization system than OW1(game you cannot play anymore).
Lootboxes ain't as greedy as Battle Pass + MTX shit.
You can't even trade stuff with other players. I just don't get it, why would anyone play OW anymore? You basically have to pay for new heroes and there are grind limits.
It's a second job now, like all other live service games. You don't play it because you want to, you check in daily like it's your job and so you don't miss on season pass progress.
I'm gonna go to play Doom, bye
>skill trees and hero missions were too ambitious for modern Blizzard
it's not even funny anymore, just sad
like watching a fish out of water
>Our goal with Overwatch 2 has been to make the game more accessible than ever for more people than ever before.
Holy shit how fricking out of touch are they? Do they think this makes them sound charitable instead of greedy or something?
>diversity hires too moronic to make pve
It’s just pathetic.
>shoot enemy
>gain exp
>exp make shooting enemy easier
literally the easiest shit to make and they couldn't do it lmao
>We can keep adding to and improving Overwatch 2. That is how we move forward. This means more maps, heroes, game modes, missions, stories, events, cool cosmetics, and features - an ever-expanding, evolving, and improving game. This is the future of Overwatch.
>but NOT the PvE mode that we promised and killed OW1 for
Frick off.
Deserved negative ratings are not a "review bomb"
>This means more maps, heroes, game modes, missions, stories, events, cool cosmetics, and features - an ever-expanding, evolving, and improving game. This is the future of Overwatch.
they’ve said this same exact line at least twice in the past. this is full damage control. they will change nothing. if you’re still playing blizzard games you are a fricking moron
He’s right though, this is the future of overwatch. Seasonal passes and pathetic drips of content until the profitability become unsustainable.
i just want a game where my self insert lives in a big house with all the overwatch girls and we frick all day
is that so much to ask for
Who cares
Blizzard is peak goyslop
Stop playing this trash
>release broken hero
>reap sales from moronic sweatlords and whales
>break kneecaps with the nerf bat
>repeat next season
Just like with Lifeweaver right?
Lifeweaver was them trying to make a "balanced" hero
Clearly it didn't work and they saw a drop in sales, so now we're back to this.
Blizzard's new strategy:
>yeah, we suck, and it's time to own up to that!
>??????
>profit
this is the OW team’s go to shit. they said the same shit in January of 2022 when everyone was complaining they hadn’t released anything or patched anything for months and we’re all “we’re sorry we’re bad we promise to release more events and skins” then promptly released less than normal shit in the next event. it’s hilarious how fricking incompetent the OW team is
Where are the hero mastery missions?
Coming in about 3 weeks in the september patch
>If we can’t turn back the clock, then what can we do?
WHY YOU DON'T START MAKING THE FRICKING INVASION MISSIONS FREE, YOU FRICKING israelite Black folk?
>it's been great to see lots of new players jump into Overwatch 2 for the first time.
>lots of new players
>lots of
Lmao, this cope is surreal now. We can litterally see how many people are playing their trash game and is not good.
>was about an ambitious project
>for a literal multi billion dollar company with 1000 staff
JUST
LITERALLY
CODE
THE
FRICKING
GAME
problem with these morons is 80% of their budget and staff hours is marketing, HR and women posting shit on social media
They keep relaunching the same games over and over and it fails every time. When will the Black person funnymoney dry up?
when microsoft realizes they accidentally bought blizzard with their Activision/King deal and dissolve the company
>If we can’t turn back the clock, then what can we do?
you could make co op
Review bombing is very much real, and i'm tired of pretending that shill bots spamming perfect scores isn't a problem.
It's moronic to equate "a large amount of negative reviews" to "review bombing." Maybe a lot of people just don't the game?
>9% positive reviews after 144,000 fricking reviews
>review bombed
Absolute, giga cope
>9%
how many of these are from fragile TF2 autists who view the game as a "threat" to their livelihoods?
TF2 vs Overwatch used to be a thing when Overwatch came out. Now Overwatch fans hate the game far more than TF2 fans ever could
You can genuinely feel the salt coming out of those words, Jesus.
So how long before the steam page gets the big fat asterisk next to the review score?
so will they now actually make it a good game?
>play victim
uh huh
I will eagerly wait for HOTS to be brought to Steam, just to see it mog OW2 in review scores.
Also witness the eventual DOTA 2 vs HOTS shitflinging.
HOTS is the only fun ASShomosexual, I'm sad it died
I dont want modern Blizzard anywhere near Hots. Dont call it dead, call it witness protection.
how come every single game with overwatch's pastel disney aesthetic is designed to suck as much money as possible from the players
It's not a fricking review bomb if you have under 10% positive reviews. What a surprise that fricking over your players with a lazy cash grab makes them hate your game. Now only is your game on a platform that lets players actually voice their complaints and dissatisfaction
not one mention of all the people who paid for some ingame stuff they ever received? lol
tell that to the tens of thousands of chinks who literally just make accounts on every platform to review bomb developers who spoke out about grorious communist reader, or mentioned taiwan being a real place, etc.
it comes from being a terminally online irrational moron who needs to lose some weight before heart disease sets in
Most obese people currently outlive the average troony. Should you be more concerned about that?
I support OW2 to make Gankercels and /misc/cels seethe.
>I'll see you in-game.
I don't think so pendejo
If they couldn't deliver on the 2019 promises, why would they deliver on their current promises?
>That announcement was about an ambitious project that we ultimately couldn't deliver
can't even deliver a generic looter shooter. blizztroon devs are the worst devs in the industry.
>I'll see you in-game
No you won't. Frick off.
Their best games are those they leave the frick alone and put on maintenance mode.
The sooner Blizzard goes bankrupt the better they lived long enough to become the enemy
>Overwatch is such a unique game and world. When our heroes are all working together to complete an objective, there is really nothing else like it.
Bruh who are they trying to fool with this shit.