The absolute state
https://www.dexerto.com/overwatch/overwatch-2-players-now-getting-more-coins-doing-bing-searches-than-playing-game-2023826/
The absolute state
https://www.dexerto.com/overwatch/overwatch-2-players-now-getting-more-coins-doing-bing-searches-than-playing-game-2023826/
>overwatch continues to be mismanaged and suck
Is water still wet? Did anyone check if the sky is still blue?
Oh frick the sky is grey! It’s over.
Hello fellow Londoner.
I’m in the Deep South US, shits just cloudy.
Honestly it's kind of amazing that the game was at it's peak in open beta before the fricking release
This, beta and shortly post release was peak Overwatch. It started going downhill fast with bad balance changes but it was the addition of Ana that sealed the games fate as being shit forever.
Ana was and is still great to play as and against. The problem was always Genji, who Ana helped enable.
Early Overwatch was incredibly fun, when people were still playing it to actually have fun instead of to increase their MMR by two points before the end of the month.
>Is water still wet? Did anyone check if the sky is still blue?
Neither of these is true.
Wetness is a property of being covered in water. Water itself isn't wet, for something to be wet its default state needs to be dry.
Sky is not in fact blue, it's clear, the blue you see during the day is refraction of sunlight, it can be red, orange, purple, pink, black at night, or grey during clouds.
This guy gets tons of pussy
It's not a pussy-getting thread. Water is wet and sky is blue are the dullest most overused turns of phrase in existence, nobody asked you to be the least original sack of shit to walk on this earth.
Is the pussy wet and blue though?
Ask your mom.
>nobody asked you to be the least original sack of shit to walk on this earth
>your mom
From webster: wet: [adjective] consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (such as water).
Wetness is property of liquids. There are plenty of liquids that aren't water and one would agree they certainly qualify as wet.
I wont even go into the other remark because I know you're just playing clueless. Take a seat and let the adults talk, b***h.
all things you see are reflection off your fricking eye bits you israelite. nothing you see is the correct color because our eyes only use red green and blue to see killyourself plz end your fricking stupid fat frick moron life you stupid fat pseud b***h
>Mutt thinks he's being clever
>Ends up sounding like a typical mutt
typed with shaky hands
to be fair you have to have a very high IQ to understand Richard and Mortimer. The humor is extremely subtle and shit.
I've got like $200 worth of Bing bucks from searching porn over the years since Bing doesn't filter anything.
>Bing doesn't filter anything
I doubt that
well keep doubting b*tch
So you're saying I can lookup dicky on bing? That's why that statement is false.
>he doesn’t know
>he doesn't know that bing is another censored search engine
>Bing doesn't filter anything
he doesn't know
I do not understand why this game is collapsing. How does blizzard even frick up such an easy game? Even overwatch 1 was playable. They removed most of the maps so you now play the same shit. Why are they even pushing an eSports scene for a game that has never gotten anywhere with its eSports scene. It feels like the current CEO is trying to destroy the company so it can get sold
>How does blizzard even frick up such an easy game?
because they're fricking incompetent, Black person. how the frick have you not understood this?
You can't get skins from events anymore. You have to pay $20 a skin in the cash shop during the event period. That's why. There's no incentive to actually play the game unless you like sprays.
If playing game isn't incentive itself then why even bother?
it used to be grinding coins and collecting skins
now? no reason to play this shit, and arguably before ow2 even
So they did the same thing as fall guys did when it went f2p
>coomer ape brain has no reason to play video games without being rewarded with pixels on a screen
have you ever considered playing a game because it's fun?
moron
I eagerly await the day Phil gets control of Actiblizz and roams through the office with a shotgun with his purge.
>shotgun
>not a rocket launcher
Some of the action is still visible through the particle effects and shields which is causing players who prefer yellow and purple tornados of chaos to quit.
Don't worry Blizzard has them covered
I see we got a visual clutter sequel clip for OW2. Bravo Blizzard
Jesus someone post the OW1 one
I got you
people use this as a snub on the game but the fact that someone who actually plays can tell exactly what's going on here is a testament to how good blizzard is at visual design
It's easy to tell what's going on, everyone's shooting at each other through three layers of bullshit to minimal effect.
A vaguely bipedal shape was partially visible for a few frames there. Hopefully they'll patch it.
>both moiras, zen,echo and both rammatras ulting and bad players are all focusing tanks
>symm walls and gets flux'd and then shoots at bob
if any of these are overwhelming for you then you're too old to be playing videogames, and should try something more suited to your ability, like bingo
>thinking reaper counters winston
confirmed for noob
Reaper was a much more viable pick vs winston in year one when this game still had players. Unless you were playing GM dive meta which (you) definitely weren't.
reaper is garbage because you can't kill tanks in OW2, and he's only viable on KOTH or some specific points, and basically feeding on some points
he's also way more team dependent, even on koth you can potentially feed if your team doesn't have decent brawl because most teams play poke
reaper never countered winston, you're just speaking out of ignorance, damage boosted soldier counters winston harder than a reaper
why do you
double space
your posts
for no reason
reaper is garbage because you can't kill tanks in OW2, and he's only viable on KOTH or some specific points, and basically feeding on some points he's also way more team dependent, even on koth you can potentially feed if your team doesn't have decent brawl because most teams play poke reaper never countered winston, you're just speaking out of ignorance, damage boosted soldier counters winston harder than a reaper are you happy now b***h?
because cares about your ow1 game literally doesnt exist anymore
Are you trying to come off as an idiot??? Why are you suddenly talking about OW2 heroes when we were discussing you being clueless about year 1 OW? You just listed off a bunch incoherent statements that has nothing to do with late OW having no players or Reaper's viability in past OW. Log off noob
also i played year 1 b***h
yeah all the moronic garbagel ike double winston 2 tracer 2 lucio or 5 tanks + ana ie. all the reatard shit you larpers love to larp about when talking about ow1
it was garbo
ow2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>ow1
also goats
triple tank
launch brig
brig in general
doomfist
triple/double shield
mercy hide meta
2cp garbage and every map belonging to it
dogshit game deserves its eternal death lol
Why are these dyslexic children allowed on Ganker?
>be a casual that maybe plays arcade once a month at best
>be surprised when a deep, intricate and complex game confuses you
Ganker is fricking moronic
genuinely fricking made me laugh out loud
HOW DID IT BECOME BATTLEBORN
>server closed due to unexpected error
it will never cease to make me laugh how they removed one player touting "less clutter" and then decided to up the sparkle effects to impress shareholders and look cool in the trailers, leading to somehow even more clutter.
also, playing the game on sunset maps makes enemy projectiles blend with the skybox. that's how little anyone cared about making a good game
>server literally closes unexpectedly and sends everyone to a different map due to all the clutter
Blizzard was absolutely mindbroken when they lost out on DotA. No really, they told the map creator 'icefrog' to get lost when he proposed to them an actual game be made and they laughed him out the door. So he went to Valve instead.
Since then they have completely destroyed themselves chasing the lightning in the bottle that was Starcraft Brood War and Dota. Think about it long enough and you'll realize that every single problem Blizzard games have stem from this forced esports bullshit.
Ah yes, the nickelodeon effect
Shit games usually give you dailies so you keep playing forever with an incentive you're getting a new skin eventually
In OW2 there's no chance of that the new skins are cash shop only you're leveling and playing for some sprays
Twitterposting diversityhires are the current devs
Because the homosexual in charge had the Everquest handle Tigole Bitties and spent more time complaining and shittalking the EQ devs acting like he knew shit than he did playing the game. His "expertise" shines through with his contribution to WoW and his thorough mishandling of OW.
Kaplan left before OW2
>Everquest handle Tigole Bitties
The ironic part is this name alone would probably get you permabanned from OW2
5v5 is even more boring than 6v6
most people don't want to play competitive shit like that
>I do not understand why this game is collapsing.
The game would be fine if they weren't so israeli at monetizing it.
OW1 was an exploitative fricking game but nobody could say it wasn't fair with its pricing; Pay 60 bucks and you get all the heroes and most of their best skins. Theoretically you could get everything for free, because you got enough currency to get a steady stream of crates
You can't do that anymore and the game sucks without it, so why play the game?
Yep. The only thing holding OW1 together the last two years were events and event cosmetics. OWL was dying, blizzard was completely silent about OW2, barely any balance patches, etc. Barely anyone played outside the events. Now that you can’t get any skins for free save some shit ones, what’s the point? Balance is still shit, queues are horrible, blizzard remains silent about their intentions, PvE pushed back. Their main audience are collectors then they shit them out making the game F2P. Immediately killed their audience
i hate blizzdrones that go "well the game is free to play"
no i paid 40 bucks for that game and it got a f2p model patched over.
then they hit you with "you got your money's worth" and "the tos says they can do everything they want"
>I do not understand why this game is collapsing
Simultaneously trying to force a competitive meta while all of the maps are either 2CP attack/defend or KotH. The better question isnt why people are leaving, its who should blizzard be appealing to. The most active portion of the playerbase fricks around in meme gamemodes and custom maps because blizzard cant make a playable game out of their game platform.
They removed 2cp from OW2
They are still there.
Just relegated to arcade and custom.
Did Overwatch 1 have capture the flag? I just started playing 2 last week and I haven't had a single round of CtF come up
Yes, but they were only a limited time thing during lunar events.
It's in the "arcade" section, they can't make it a real mode because capture the flag just doesn't work in a game with speedboosts, wall climbing, characters with 1000+ effective hp, etc.
There's a permanent competitive CTF in the ranked queue but it's not part of the main rotation
Blizzard was always fricking moronic and just got lucky with WoW.
Incredibly zoomer take. Blizzard used to be the kings of PC. Starcraft, Diablo 1 + 2, Warcraft 3 and WoW were huge successes. They had an incredibly loyal fanbase. Then they became pozzed and fell apart, been downhill since then.
Blizzard is still the king of PC though. They just don't make games for boomers anymore.
>They just don't make games anymore
ftfy
ok boomer
By large part Balance, Roadhog was/is a pub stomper for years. He can hook some one and if it's a dps/support one shot combo them. This by itself isn't to a big a deal but when you factor in its a team game they are probably dead in that hook alone. This would be similar to pudge in DOTA from the start of the game able to hook and kill some one with out being fed. Sure high skill levels he balanced for the most part, but people will always be out of position lower elos. So this is a negative balance issue for lower skill levels.
Now look at something like Souljorn, they "nerffed" her but actually the changes were a huge buff especially at higher elos where she already dominated and slightly nerffed her at lower elos where people can't play hit scan heros worth shit.
Blizzard can't balance worth shit, especially when it comes to skill/elo levels
Went woke.
jews
>It feels like the current CEO is trying to destroy the company so it can get sold
Sounds like Nokia again.
Greed and stupidity do not pair well.
unfortunately many are that pair
profit-growth oriented business model clashing with the nature of the games market
same thing that's happening with Hasbro and WotC too actually: these companies get taken over by sociopath investors looking for constant brutal year over year growth paces that inevitably lead to predatory business practices and a reduced userbase as people hop ship to a better managed game.
Rather than adjust, the #1 goal is to still make more money than they did last year, so they squeeze the shit out of the most profitable cow still giving milk, inevitably wringing that one dry
then they realize there are no living cows, and the company suddenly implodes when the investors drop it for being used up.
Welcome to modern capitalism in general, really. There is an obvious solution, and that is to support those who treat their "cows" right, but inevitably those will attract the attention of the sociopath investors.
There is also an obvious solution to that...
this dude gets it, we're heading into late stage capitalism in just about every market
(You)
(You)
reddit. now.
>That argument is from a different website so I don't have to respond to it!
Pathetic. Next time just keep your stupid mouth shut, that way people will only wonder if you're a moron.
how do we kill these sociopath investors? without being labelled as commies or antisemites?
>how do we kill these sociopath investors?
That's an easy o-
>without being labelled as commies or antisemites?
Oh well, never mind.
>that is to support those who treat their "cows" right, but inevitably those will attract the attention of the sociopath investors
Game studios still have to accept these investments for the arrangements to take place, it's ultimately the fault of blizzard or hasbro or whatever if they decided to become the b***h of a sociopath investor.
Just gonna have to go back to studios comprised of 4 bros doing what they love and subsiding off game sales and shit they do themselves.
>There is also an obvious solution to that...
You can't have Stalin in our day and age, so no, there is no solution.
whoa now, cool it with the antisemitism
>these companies get taken over by sociopath investors looking for constant brutal year over year growth
As someone who has attended several board meetings, I can at least attest to this. When they hire someone for this position, you either figure out a way to do this for them or you get replaced by the next big time CEO who can get them that growth.
>Why are they even pushing an eSports scene for a game that has never gotten anywhere with its eSports scene
because they did the same with the first one? blizzard is desperate to generate another e-sports "community" like they had with starcraft or warcraft. Of course, this means injecting money non-stop to an scene and, surely, other companies will do the same with their own money organizing tournaments because the community is so huge you see. In reality, of course, once blizzard stop throwing money, every single person involved moves on to another scene and the ones behind play for scraps because no one cared at all about the game.
it's soulless garbage
It's strange they are pushing esports when the original devs publicly stated they wanted Ow to be a game which your granny could play if she wanted to. That's why it was so slow and casual etc.
>I had 32,000 pts just sitting there
It's crazy more ppl don't take advantage of this, imagine wasting them on OW points when like 23,000 gets you $25 credit to buy better games
Is it usable on actual cash or credit towards physical products?
Yeah you can get Amazon credit and then buy stuff for e.g. I personally used my credits on the Microsoft store to buy a fancy new keyboard
The what? OW2 shop prices are extremely stingy. I could use some coins.
I forgot bing was even a thing.
I started using Bing once I learned about the points. I've bought a bunch of games on Xbox from it.
Why doesn't microsoft just give up on their web ecosystem? They have the number one OS, word processor, spreadsheet, email. and slideshow software, plus a successful gaming console. Do they really need to pay people to use bing and internet explorer over a decade after people stopped using them?
It’s just corporation doing corporation’s things
Profit will eventually get stale, investors aren’t happy so they have to branch out
Investors push for some genuinely moronic shit. As a joke, a friend of mine and myself who co-own a small mobile game production company responded to an impossible-to-fulfill language-learning app request with a proposal to utilize "artificially intelligent blockchain-derived deep machine learning" and they were ecstatic about the idea and wanted to know more.
Investors are fricking stupid and love buzzwords, what else is new.
I always got the impression that investors rarely know anything about the thing they are investing in.
and you'd be correct
>you now remember that one nintendo investor meeting where one guy was complaining that they were talking about consoles and games
qrd?
what a moronic homosexual
Consider that a snap shot into the minds of the people who've ruined every major game franchise you've ever enjoyed. Them and whatever mongoloid farm vavle set up to breed play tasters from.
This motherfricker sounds like a villain from an 80s kid's movie. Like he's gonna concoct a plot to get the Nintendo factory out from Old Man Iwata and it's up to a gang of kids to foil his plot with lessons Nintendo taught them.
A person rich enough to be like this has probably never seen a movie in their life. They're too busy spending their leisure time murdering people and fricking child slaves.
>why do they keep talking about videogames at a videogame company?!
According to some people, things like products and customers are entirely incidental to a company.
>invest enough money to be invited to shareholders' meetings
>don't care enough to even know what line of business you bought shares in
How fricking rich do you have to be to reach that state. Or just stupid
proof that being smart is not a condition to become rich
>Profit will eventually get stale, investors aren’t happy so they have to branch out
pretty much every socioeconomic problem can be traced to this
yep, capitalism kills everything it touches
why profits have to go up? can't they just be satisfied with stable profit (not going down or up either)
Legally companies have to pay shareholders. Companies can literally get sued and destroyed if they don't seek more profit for shareholders. Capitalism is literally feudalism 2.0 but those in power have done a marvelous job of brainwashing the masses into thinking it's a good system.
That's the fault of the company for selling out their own shares, it's very easy for a figurehead to retain majority ownership and dictate whatever they want.
Doesn't matter, this is how companies under capitalism work and why games are shit now.
All games ever made have been made under capitalism, you seem to be quite deluded.
Communist China has the biggest video games industry in the world
it's not relevant outside of china aside from a couple of breakout hits which are fundamentally clones of non-chinese games
>communist country absolutely mogs capitalist company in video game revenue
>t-that doesn't count!!
I accept your concession
>"Communist" country using market economy (capitalism)
Fixed.
I accept your concession
Me too.
>state capitalist country that bans imports sells to itself
ok
Are you going to somehow imply that Communist China is not a capitalistic regime?
>communism is actually capitalism
What is it with brainwashed Americans always trying to twist the definition of capitalism so they can close their eyes and pretend it does no wrong?
US corpo law doesn't actually state that a for-profit company has to seek profit above all else.
Obviously it does not, that would go against ownership rights.
People seem to misunderstand the capital process and how investors affect the development process. If a company sells most of its shares to minority shareholders, then of course they have a say on how the company should be managed, as they are part-owners.
However, it is also entirely feasible to sell shares or take out loans to finance your company without actually giving away ownership rights, such as by diluting share votership rights. Companies where investors are blamed for mismanagement are mislabeling the blame - the real blame lies in the inept upper management that not only has sold out the company ownership, but also fails to correct the shareholders on their misgivings or, more likely than not, share in those misgivings themselves.
no they don't. plenty of companies don't pay dividends for a long time, if ever, due to either reinvestment or losing value instead of paying out profits.
I got a laptop the other day and went about doing what I needed to and got no less than 3 "pleeeeeeeease senpai don't use chrome, I'm so much safer you can trust me" messages downloading chrome including having to take the S mode off.
>Chrome
KEK
contrarian loser
>Posted via Chrome browser
Still kekking
either all your data is being sold to microsoft anyway so it doesn't matter if google has it to or you use linux and are therefore a virgin
Still kekking
I'm using a Mac
>paying $2000 when you can buy a far better windows computer for half the price
>Windows
>Far better
Pick one you disgusting poorgay
>shitting on him when you signed your rights away to a worse corporation for 4x the amount of money on a device you can't repair
Are you moronic or something?
>Posts made by poor and seething chrome users
>I-Its okay because I have money to waste!!!
iToddler moment. So do I but I spend it on shit I can actually fix lol.
Time is money, So instead of fixing my mac I can just bang your mom.
apple software hasn't been superior for a long time. It was true 20 years ago and companies still go with apple, but for the average consumer you're just paying for the brand and nothing else
Windows being filled to the brim with ads in system applications makes macOS better than this pos
>Mactard
>Laughing at anyone else
Now that's a good one.
Mac is a meme
You are paying more money to get less control over your own OS with worse hardware.
Literally the only thing Mac is good at is marketing 2 year old parts as cutting edge technology. That is all you are paying for. Marketing. Idiot.
successful troll is successful
hello Ganker moderator!
Thanks for letting us know you're a giant homosexual. I spend more on computer shit in a year than all your gay apple frickery. Keep coping, projecting, and seething you dilated loser.
>Fortnite
You don't expect me to continue looking at your post right?
At least you can see your own skins in fartshite
AHHHHHHHHHHH IS THAT A FORNITE GIF HP LOVECRAFTS CAT SAVE MEEEE AIIIEEEEEEEEE
congratulations on being even more of a homosexual.
Edge is now Chrome, technically. Just phones home to MS instead of Googie.
Because a shitload of people just use whatever is preinstalled because they don't know how to install things. And then if they use Bing, they get a shitload of passive revenue from ads and referral links.
Shut up, I got a free AAA game each year from them by doing my daily minute spam searching in bing
Is there even still a good AAA game coming out every year?
I bought Hogwarts Legacy Deluxe edition with it, it doesn't hurt if the game isn't good, is basically free
The company could well stick to developing what they have already, but the investment model doesn't work that way. Investors, and Microsoft is a public traded company, need the pretend value of the company to increase. Investors bought shares at a certain pretend value, and they need that value to go higher so they can sell their shares at a profit. As a result, Microsoft has to keep growing.
If Microsoft was a private company, like steam, it could stick to simply living off the existing revenue stream and refining the process.
>but the investment model doesn't work that way
whoever invented this, I hope they burned in hell
>Why doesn't microsoft just give up on their web ecosystem? They have the number one OS, word processor, spreadsheet, email. and slideshow software, plus a successful gaming console. Do they really need to pay people to use bing and internet explorer over a decade after people stopped using them?
What fricking web search do you think powers Duckduckgo? Bing is resold to many outlets and is superior to Google at this point.
>email
lol
every company uses outlook
microsoft azure is bigger than amazons aws, anon.
web is microsofts biggest income sector licensing, advertising and software are below their web endeavors.
Edge is chromium based, its a great browser.
Just set google as your search engine and it is one of the best.
Chrome is in no way better.
The absolute state of neoblizz. Between Overbotch 2, Dragonshite, Diablo Immoral and Warcraft refunded i automatically consider any of you still using battle.net to be at best a homosexual that was abused as a child and internalised it as a need to be abused to feel happy.
I've heard people complain about WoW expansions for 10 years ago, what's uniquely bad about the new one?
Some angry autist keeps making threads about it bombing. I think it's going better than the previous x expansions though.
Isn't Immortal still making bank somehow?
It's making money, but it's trash income compared to most mobile games.
They're going to be losing the China market soon. This means you're instantly a very distant second to those who do sell mobile games in China
How's Tencent doing btw? I was thinking of investing during its next dip
There are far better options. The issue is that if China attacks Taiwan then the value plummets to zero instantly.
Shit. Forgot about that. I'll stick with western tech companies then
What are the actual chances of China attacking Taiwan at all? I don't care about if they win or lose in the end, just what would actually force them to make the decision to do so.
Unlikely, at least at the present moment. For all the PRC likes to thump its chest about how it rightfully owns Taiwan, it's seen in real-time how a "quick and easy" land grab can spiral into a morass. Much easier to simply sit in the background pursuing its economic agenda than try and force the issue and risk everything.
Immediate future: Low
Overall likelihood: High. The CCP says on official media that they fully intend to retake Taiwan. If Xi has nothing left to lose or is in hot water, attacking Taiwan will be an option for him.
I'm not saying you can't invest, just that the possibility of that money you have into them being Thanos snapped is not zero. A lot of other companies have also been trying to leave China, so I just believe there are better investment opportunities in Vietnam/India companies, as that's where a lot of manufacturing is now heading.
>What are the actual chances of China attacking Taiwan at all?
Xin Ding-Dong is, for the first time in thirty years, actually obliging the demands of rioters because the banking structure of China is in the toilet. China's growth plateau'd (as everyone predicted it would) and all opportunity, domestic or foreign, has pretty much evaporated in the state of China itself. The most obvious and feasible way out of this dilemma is taking over Taiwan.
War on taiwan would be about as moronic as them invading hong kong in the 70s. Taiwan being a seperate nation from the mainland is entirely a fabrication of national policy from people who are old and dying.
I'm not playing a game that requires my phone number lol sorry
WAAAA MERCY TOO STRONK
The problem with rez is that if some dies within a 5 foot radius of any cover whatsoever then all the risk of the ability is removed
>unkillable war machine roadhog dies somehow
>mercy trots up and happily rezes him from behind a shrub because it takes no time at all
>roadhog back to being a unkillable war machine
rez and damage boost is fine. bottom line is that this is a 5v5 issue where characters are far too strong
This. On OW2 launch mercy was considered one of the worst healers now after a weapon swap speed and pistol buff she’s considered almost necessary to have her on your team. This is due to poor balance with DPS and Tanks that she just happens to enable with rez and boost. OW players are so fricking mazed by blizzard balancing and of course Eskay the troony demands changes that will break the game even more when simple nerfs to Soj, Road, Orisa would fix most issues
>character who typically uses their gun for less than 20 seconds a match
>buff her weapon really slightly
>she's OP
how
Did you read my post? She’s not OP because of her pistol buffs. It’s because everyone else got buffed or left unchanged in an OP state and mercy enables them to be OP without getting worthwhile buffs to herself.
she's not, they're talking shit even though they 'clarified'. the swap speed and five extra bullets aren't enough to turn a game at all.
Yes. She's right
>she
this is the same moron that played with their streamer friends in a custom tourney a few months back and got carried, while laughing how ez it was. frick them. i don't trust anyone that never solo queues this game.
You just described every Mercy player
wow what an absolute moron, does this troony know that rez used to be way stronger? you could rez your entire fricking team before. the way it is now it's fine. if you can't kill a rezing mercy then you're a homosexual, simple as. as for mercy herself, it's true she has no real offensive ability outside of her ult which is better off used to assist your team, but the last thing we need is to encourage more support dps play. that's dumb. they need more utility, that's all. furthermore, it can be hard enough for mercy to stay alive long enough to have an impact if your team is pants on head moronic. mercy is babby's first character/the gf's character that you play when you don't know what the frick you're doing. she's designed so you can 1) observe from afar the fight as it happens to learn about the game and 2) have some sort of impact while you're doing that.
knowing blizzard they'll listen to this moron.
Congrats on being the stupid person ITT
anon, that's you. you're not just stupid, you're in fact moronic.
I don't know why you need to be told that Mercy being able to rez every single fight is stronger than being able to rez 1,2, or maybe 3 teammates once every few minutes. She can rez anyone who died 6ft near a wall for free.
Mercy also received multiple unnecessary super buffs to her movement since early OW1 so now you need to play hitscan to actually shoot her out of the air. Consider killing yourself dumbfrick
All Mercy buffs exist because she's the most played character for women, once you understand this it makes sense.
Mercy exists because I love women
>can't kill mercy
>is an insufferable homosexual
nah, you should have a nice day for being unable to kill a character whose only real value is their ability to bring other characters back to life once every thirty seconds, while not moving for at least two seconds, heal, and damage boost someone actually capable of getting kills. cry more homosexual.
shill isn't even hiding it. It took one hundred posters sharing unanimous distaste for OW before he showed up to damage control.
>admits in great detail why Mercy is a shit designed character
>"she's fine she is it's you who are bad"
>get gud. just go ranged hitscan bro. just play hitscan and shoot her. play hitscan so your team's mercy can feel useful too.
>mercy doesn't need a rework trust me bro
>admits in great detail why Mercy is a shit designed character
that wasn't the argument you absolute dipshit motherfricker. the argument was that
>mercy doesn't need to have her rez removed because it's perfectly functional in its current state
so don't put words in my mouth you mouthbreathing dicksucking mongoloid. in fact, you can have the last word, but I'm preemtively calling you a homosexual so eat shit. have a nice day.
You will never fit in here
>kiriko invulns the mercy
>a shield/tank is between you and the mercy
Also it isn't about what she does, it's about
>your team doesn't have a mercy
>they get the pick
>they steam roll
>their team has a mercy
>get the pick
>oh wait no you didn't
no steam roll
is it me or its taking more time to find a freaking match? took me 6 fricking minutes to find a match today
strangest mario crossover I ever heard of
This game was never going to live more than a week and everybody knows it.
Who the frick is actually playing this garbage?
I played it up to rank whatever to unlock the new girl because I didn't want to pay for the pass. Stopped playing after that. Shop is gay. People are moronic. Doomfist is ruined. What's the point anymore?
I haven't been paying attention to Overwatch characters outside of porn
Who the frick is this Scooby-Doo villain looking motherfricker
that's reaper before he became reaper
I mean what is the point of the coins anyway? To buy skins you can't even see yourself. I have turned off chat and voice chat as well because of toxic morons so even if somebody wanted to compliment my outfit I wouldn't even see/hear it.
Just skins yeah. Skins in overwatch do pretty significantly change the view model at least but you're still a fricking moron if you pay $20
Holy shit it's the saver of the humens!
JOHN FREEMAN WHO WAS GORDEN FREEMANS BROTHER WAS ONE DAY AT OFFICE TYPING ON HIS COMPUTER
I HAVE TO KILL FAST AND BULLETS TOO SLOW
You stupid fricking moronic zoomer, stop playing shit video games and stop wasting your time investing yourself in drama surrounding them. None of this shit matters, you can't use anything you learn about fricking Overwatch being a shitty video game designed for homosexuals to help you in any way, shape, or form. Learn something instead of wasting your time laughing at pointless shit. Pursue a skill that will make you money in the future, you can even learn something about video game development if you're so hard on for video games.
Just stop fricking being terminally online all the time, it's fricking embarrassing.
Prima copium from a seething overtroon
Is there anything blizzard doesn't drop the ball with?
Frickable Models for SFM
Overwatch 1
The beta was pretty kino.
bing? the search engine no ones heard of for 10-15 years?
thats still a thing? people actually use anything other then google or yahoo?
i quit OW2 after the first 2 weeks, technically second week since it took them a week to make previous owners not need phone# to login
>yahoo
who the frick uses yahoo over bing?
i only use yahoo search
the only thing from google i use is the browser and google maps once in a blue moon
yahoo been around longer then google so its actually more reliable
yahoo is powered by bing
Japan still uses Yahoo as their primary fricking everything.
And the JP Yahoo page still looks like it's from 1998.
Brave has it's own uncensored search engine now... Thought you autists would be using that.
no one uses yahoo anymore grandpa
every search engine is the exact same, google is literally a rip off of yahoo which has survived all these decades
google is for zoomers
I started playing this game because my friends did. I like playing as D.va and kind of like Lucio. I really suck at the game though.
I don't get why they still have it so that you're actually overpaying if you redeem for the 500 and 1000 coins. It's better to redeem 200 because you'll spend less overall.
They claim it's a limited time offer but I wouldn't be surprised if the pajheets running ms rewards forget to change it back
I wrote basic python script that opens up 120 bing search tabs in Edge, each every second searching their index number and I run it once a day.
Since July I got over 100 zł to Media Markt for doing nothing.
Don't worry, bros. They're gonna change everything on Season 3!
OW2 is fundamentally broken without the 2nd tank, but they're too braindead to admit that they only dropped that player slot because it was the only way to make OW2 look different enough from 1 to justify relabeling it and slapping a horrendous MTX system on it.
5v5 was their pathetic attempt to make role queue work and distinguish "2" from the original game.
All these failures because the devs couldn't bother to balance their game.
OW1 was balanced, people were just mad that it was "solved"
It was never balanced. But ironically the closest OW was to being balanced was during year one before the roster kept getting bloated shitty additions like Orisa or Moira. The game never worked during Role Queue. With that format everyone is stuck playing only the most meta heroes and matchmaking goes down the toilet trying to shorten queue times.
>only time game was balanced was when the tank class was Rein and a bunch of bruisers
You're right, I just think it's funny.
The funny thing is that 5v5 didn’t solve the queue issues and now they’re forcing much higher ranks into lower ranks to cut down on queues. I have top500 players in my diamond games at least half the time
Indeed. Devs are moronic for not realizing that short queue times are meaningless if matches are unfun lopsided stomps. I think Overwatch is finally done for and will forever be a f2p Paladins tier game for the rest of time.
This has always been the case and one of the major reasons why I quit early on. I'd go from one game that was all masters/top500 players to the next where half my team was in gold or something ridiculous. The MM system clearly favors speed over quality and it's a massive waste of your time when 2/3rds of your games are stomps either way because of it.
>top500 players in my diamond games at least half the time
Really? In other words, forced 50% and MMR is basically naturally being selected against. As it should be. There's a reason a single match should be a representation of the normal distribution of all the skill levels:
>One or two absolute morons, not knowing what they're doing.
>Some people who are better than the morons, but clearly struggling.
>The vast majority of players are here: they're kind of bad, kind of good, not really committed. Them winning is dependent on the rest of their team and other chance variables.
>Now the real skill shows. A bunch of people who know the game and can overcome almost everyone in the above tiers with ease. They're be considered 'good' or professional.
>Very rare if present at all Professional/'have no life autistically good at the game' tier. If you find one of these in your match, they basically can win against their own team.
It would be fine if they didn’t make tanks OP as frick to make up for having only one tank. Orisa is a literal raidboss
They should have just dropped the tank role entirely and made everyone into a DPS Hybrid.
OW1 was broken with two or more tanks, so much so that the playerbase figured out that dps was a totally useless role
Sustain creep caused by idiotic support and tank hero additions to game post launch broke the game with multi tank. That cancer wasn't even viable until dumb Ana was created. All the devs had to do was balance their game but they refused to fix the problem (their own mistakes) every time.
>That cancer wasn't even viable until dumb Ana
Ana came out like 4 months after the game released bro
Yes. Your point? She caused the first triple tank meta
How bad is the PvE gonna be?
>implying it's ever coming out
If they just made it a zombies/salmon run thing where you frick around with abilities you unlock like the new shit in the Olympus event it could be fun. But if they try to make it like a story line and super predictable people will get bored quickly.
or just emulate MvM from TF2 or something
> One Archives-caliber mission per season
> Locked behind the season pass ($10)
> You get one shitty cosmetic reward for clearing it on each difficulty (voice lines and sprays, maybe an emote at the highest difficulty)
> Hero upgrades/customization has been completely scrapped
> Missions themselves are basically hallways filled with bots, with maybe 1 or 2 real objectives and zero replayability
Calling it now. I'm done giving Blizzard the benefit of the doubt.
Bonus:
> Blizzard is confronted about all the broken promises, gives a bullshit response about "focus on PvP" and "muh vision"
> Gets propped up as gaming gourmet despite being perhaps the worst co-op experience of the market
I don't play OW but who cares
One guy said there they got enough points to get a season pass. Isn't that good? That way you don't feel the need to force yourself to grind and win. You can just enjoy the game.
Can someone explain this? How does Bing give you Overwatch coins? I dont use either.
From what I heard it's through Microsoft rewards shit. MS owns both Bing and ActiBlizz and gives out Bing "points" to people who use their site that can be redeemed for credit to buy games or such.
is Blizzard still trying to pretend OW2 is a success? how so you see shit like this in the news and not have anything to say for it?
They barely act like it exists considering PvE was supposed to be on launch and now nearly 4 months after launch we still have zero updates about it. They’re just praying for whales to spend $10,000 each on skins
I'll go out on a limb and say that paladins is the better game.
In that game, no matter what role you play, anything happening that's not supposed to be happening to you (encounter with enemy, taking damage, doing too little damage, shield), you can deal with one way or another.
The problem in overwatch is that the characters are not weak or strong by themselves, but that they only do *one* thing, and if the characters are put against something that they can't meaningfully handle, then you're basically fricked. Imagine just standing somewhere, and a second later you have an echo blasting you with her blobs and another second later you're dead. To avoid that you have to give yourself PTSD just to be able to be aware enough to see it coming. Now imagine not just one enemy, but 9 players on the map who can do whatever they want and if it's something that makes your life harder, well... you're fricked.
I understand the sentiment of it being a 'team' game, and that's why the characters can only do their own little thing, but Overwatch is basically just Stress: the generator.
Doesn't Paladins have out of combat regen too? Overwatch devs are the biggest idiots on the planet for not implementing that like almost every other game in existence did. Forcing two support heroes per team of five is the dumbest shit I ever heard.
Paladongs (I'm not making fun of it, that name just sounded funny) does have out of combat regen. It also has one quality of life thing I attempted making in the workshop (remember that thing in overwatch?) which is that if you don't have line of sight to an enemy, but a teammate does, they light up through the walls. If they added that, overwatch would be so much better.
It does - if you spend a few seconds out of combat, you'll start regenerating health. There's also ways to get vampiric healing, healing on elimination, and healing when using certain abilities. Really, the best thing I can say about Paladins is that it gives you options.
>vampiric healing, healing on elimination, and healing when using certain abilities
Overwatch devs should have added more of these abilities to tanks and dps instead of making teammates dependent on supports with lots of healing. I'm forever mad
They also made healing reduction a baseline mechanic. If an enemy hits you with their in-hand weapon, then for the next couple seconds, you'll receive less healing from all sources.
paladins not only has that but it also has internal rules against stacking. Every buff has diminishing returns if stacked and so does crowd control. There are items and systems that makes it so that stacking shields and healing gets you clapped pretty hard.
paladins, for as buggy as it is, actually felt like it was designed by people woth some modicum of forethought
Blizzdrones are the most loyal/dumbest fans there is.
It won't change a thing.
It won't change a bing*
If anything Blizzard is going above and beyond trying to attract ONLY the most addicted or moronic players as of late. Like those facebook dragonflight ads.
>OW2 Announced
huh? why?
>We want to focus on PVE 😀
oh...ok sounds maybe kind of fun...I doubt people will care too much but whatever
>OW2 released
>you can't play OW1 Anymore.
WHAT WHY?
>Cause, you'll play OW2 now it's pretty much the same!
What about the PVE?
>It's not ready
T-then why did you release OW2?...wasn't the whole point to add PVE?...
>...shut up
>OW2 announced
>oh cool
>completely silent for three years
>all hype dies
>were building PvE
>some hype
>silent for another year
>here’s OW2 it’s 5v5 btw xD
>no hype
>btw PVE won’t be ready
>negative hype
>Pre-order bonus if you buy OW2 before launch
>some morons actually do it
>actually...uhh it's gonna be free
OW2's biggest flaw is having an MMO trinity role system in a "skill-based" team shooter. It completely fricks balancing.
This. They thought they were taking the easy way out but it turns out role queue is still shit if you don't bother to balance your game.
>Game is heavily slanted towards having a good support at launch so if you don't tryhard like a twitchgay sweatlord in fricking casual you're not going to have even the slightest of good times since you'll just get rolled thanks to your team being trash
Like seriously the amount of Tanks in the game and how the game basically demands pocket healing it feels like like TF2 with teams full of Heavy/Medic combos while you can only do stock pistol damage.
>play tf2
>12v12 or 16v16 team sizes
>teleporters to get you back to the front fast
>sentries which serve as dynamic player created objectives to defeat
>actually good map design
Look at maps like Upward or Steel. Hell the biggest difference is in koth. Its shockingly apparent how bad OW is when you compare koth in that came to TF2. Imagine Overwatch 5v5 teams playing on Harvest.
>teams too small
>maps are unironically too large because of this
>too many deviations for the same fricking role (imagine TF2 having like 20 versions of Medic it would be ass)
Unironically they either need to cut map size down to Call of Duty sized maps to support the smaller teams or up the team count to make maps less aids to play
the amount of maps in tf2 compared to overwatch is staggering
like, the modding community makes more maps FOR FREE for tf2 than the devs and all their millions do for overwatch
fug image
turbine chads report in
>that helms deep map
FRONTIER CHADS ROLL CALL
doublecross and ctf_well deserve more love
>koth badlands this low
what
hop on any koth server, if you, by some miracle, end up on any map that isn't Harvest, it will only last one round, and every one will just vote it for next one
>turbine
grim
>that massive 2fort pop
You mightnt like it, but that is what peak tf2 looks like.
>2fort has the most popularity
>by far
I don't think anyone needs a infograpgic to know this
i was a dustbowl, harvest and 2fort kinda guy
You know that's weird now that you bring it up. Why hasn't Blizzard made a create-a-map system? Sure it would be likely limited as shit but come the frick on give players SOMETHING
because the engine is that fricked
remember it runs on the titan engine which itself is an extension of the world of warcraft engine
the amount of spaghetti code in there is fricking insane. It's the reason we never had bigger teams because it literally breaks
Source engine maps are largely object-based, so it's relatively easy to make new ones. Overwatch maps are basically one solid piece with object textures painted onto it. As such, the only way to make new maps (or modify existing ones) is to basically draw an entirely new one from scratch.
In blizzard's defense, every map in Overwatch 2 so far has had an impressive level of detail and at least 1 section of a really novel layout
Every push map is irredeemable ass
It's bad detail dude. It's so fricking hard to see what's happening in that game
>1 player dies
>because its 5v5 now you are down 20% of the team
>have to just play passive until he runs back after rezzing or ultimates come up
BING BING WAHOO
Does anyone actually like those moronic robot push maps? Just thinking about having to play one of those makes me want to never touch the game again.
>zoomers seething daily about literal skins and unnecessary cosmetics instead of gameplay for the past 15 years
capitalism was a mistake
How is it capitalism if you got the skins for free?
how is it capitalism if I just steal shitty games made for morons who spill money when you upload jpegs for them
am i moronic if i don't understand why companies that are too big to fail go public?
It's the largest capital raise a company can do. Also exit liquidity for private shareholders.
Because going public is the essence of "too big to fail". It produces at best 0 real value and at worst fricks the management and direction of the company by injecting a shareholder tier at upper mangement. In return, the 'estimated value' of the company increases according to the total price of all shares sold.
>shill finds thread 8 hours later
servers will shut down within 2 years
>quickmatch is down to 1 minute queue times for DPS
jesus frick they must be matching anyone with anyone now
Whoa, almost like quickplay should be
yeah but they're not doing it because they want to regain that old school fps dedicated server style "anyone against anyone" gameplay, they're doing it because their playercount is diving
>yeah but they're not doing it because
why should I give a shit? I get what I want in the end
>their playercount is diving
source?
I was getting 3-4 minute queues in quickplay and ranked towards the end of season 2, now its 1/2 minutes at literally any hour of the day with lower quality matches
So no source? Got it.
The onus is on you to prove me wrong, you're the one making an assertion that the game is healthy. Anecdotal evidence > no evidence.
Source?
you are replying to a blizzard employee. he's wasting your time
what did the game gain by going 5v5?
It made me appreciate Paladins that much more.
sped the pace of the game up by removing a second tank and allowed dps the ability to actually carry
There wasn't even an uptick in sfm porn and that was the only reason half of anyone played the first game
as long as D.Va porn keeps getting made my dick will stay hard for her
Yeah that's been legitimately alarming, there's no way OW2 survives for even half as long as OW1 did.
No new coom characters and by this point what else can you do with the OW cast that hasn't been done already.
more POV D.Va porn
>Game goes Free to Play with the excuse that the way games are released has changed
>Make game 5v5 without actually thinking about how that would impact the game (certain characters like Roadhog are even more lethal than they were before due to 5v5, Widowmaker can now lock down entire lines of sight as no team with a brain is going to switch to Winston to try and chase her down leaving your small team without a Tank or DPS, etc.)
>Skins are fricking $20 a pop
>No one plays or cares about Events due to not actually offering any skins
>Horrid character balance all around (Sojourn is still S+ tier)
>Big selling point of OW2 was the giant PvE campaign, still has no roadmap or information
Can Chris Metzen turn this shit heap around? I don't understand the mentality of developers charging these insane prices for cosmetics and justifying it with "the game is free tho :)"
the justification is that whale Black folk will still buy the skins. people that didn't give them money for gay ass skins still wont, and they will bleed whales of more money since they have no brain.
I dropped the game after 2 days, you should do the same.
This crap is soulless woke propaganda and each character have awful gameplay. I would rather just play Doom instead.
THE BOYS ARE FIGHTING
https://twitter.com/machinaxflayon/status/1614815364453634048
were the servers always this fricking bad?
feels like every game someone gets disconnected or I’m the one that gets disconnected I don’t remember that happening every 5 goddamn games
Apologize.
Fricker ruined the game. Now business suits run it
No, he was still in charge of the game during Triple Barrier, I owe him nothing.
Sorry for what, it's obvious he was the only one who not only knew what he was doing, but had the seniority within Blizzard to push back against Activision wanting to aggressively monetize the game.
You know he left because they wanted to turn the game into a far worse skinnerbox and he saw the writing on the wall.
He should have been honest and said they would break their promise to stop releasing content to release a real sequel and not this sequel add on they kept promoting which broke down into a generic F2P mess. Not sure why he's being silent now, is he under NDA or did he commit a bad act himself?
They were very slow with updating then. It seems they can do it faster now with their hotfix patch because they don't have to go through Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo etc. just to synchronize a patch, but taking 3-6 months to balance adjust and letting it rock in the OWL was too much.
He's silent because he quit, and it's literally not his problem anymore.
not that anon but Jeff Kaplan was a part of Blizzard early enough to get some good stock options and also while they still did profit sharing (massive bonuses for leads based on profitability of their releases), and he got in on that for both WoW and Overwatch 1
hes worth 8 digits easy and he can just play/do whatever he wants from now on until some shitter company offers him a shitload of money to put his name on their crappy game ala David Brevik
>ala David Brevik
hey Marvel Heroes was unironically a good Diablo clone that deserved better than being neutered by Marvel when they were still being anti-Fox babies
Man, I had an amazing gunner Rocket build all set up, then the big update made half my uniques useless.
really wish someone would bring that game back somehow, it's just completely gone now and it sucks
Literally me
God I miss it so much every fricking day
For me it's pre-rework Cyclops and that laser that ricocheted between enemies and just spamming that
oh yeah I know I played it a lot anon but he doesn't get a pass for hellgate london. I almost bought it until they announced a subscription
very likely got a cushy package to shut the frick up
the man with no taste
> Kaplan
I know when I see one.
>quad/triple tank
>stun CC meta
>goats
>entire existence of ow1 brig
>moth meta
i hope this talentless moron homosexual never works on a game in his life
>entire existence of ow1 brig
t. genjigay
For what?
He was the one who ruined the fricking game and left the boat to sink in the end
F to spit on this gay
>Ruin the MMO genre
>Ruin the "Team shooter" genre
No, I hope he never touches another game again
The skins is a big reason. It was fun for those few weeks I played with my friends though.
>HEY GUYS LOOK AT THIS THING BLIZZARD DID! SURELY THIS TIME IT WILL BE THEIR DOWNFALL!
Meanwhile their games continue to be among the most played in the entire world.
but 2 more weeks! 2 more weeks and blizzard will fall!
>all these overwatch trannies coming out of the woodwork
do people actually play this trash?
despite blizzard's best efforts, it's still a pretty fun game at its core
so do you get payed by post count or by the hour? or (you)s?
Not that anon but I only play payload maps on attack. They took out mystery heroes so the game's shit but the gunplay's still nice.
>tfw Bing is 10% of the market share
How? I thought it was dead.
When bing beats google in search result, you know modern web is fricked.
pajeets trying to scam bingbux and privacy schizos trading one megacorp for another
if bing actually folds in chatgpt like rumored it might end up winning
You can get free game pass with ms rewards, a couple of bing searches a month gets you it.
qrd?
>giving a frick about video game cosmetics
Only if they're cute.
Nobody does skimpy outfits anymore so I don't give a shit about cosmetics. They can suck my free to play dick.
bing bing wahoo
If you didn’t jump ship after the 2017 shit, it’s all your own fault
we broke him
i did as u asked and now ur mad?
Why play Overwatch when you can just jerk off to its art?
Why masterbate when you can just get fricked in the ass?
>the game was actually always dogshit up until right now when the same six heroes are picked in every game and skins cost over twenty dollars!
>the game was actually always dogshit up until right now when the same six heroes are picked in every game and skins cost over twenty dollars!
skill issue
is there fricking aim assist on the PC version lmao
good, get fricked
Imagine being be a blizzcuck
Seriously have a nice day if you still play blizzard games. Do it now
Starcraft and Starcraft 2 have no equals. I hate blizzard but there are no other good action RTS and these games havn't been pozzed like WC3 (because what the frick are they gonna do to a generic space setting)
Don't even start with Age Of Randompires Random Map Generator 23497057
Starcraft is just WC2 for speed addicts and Starcraft 2 isn't even worth talking about.
do i still have to kill myself if i play pirated copies of WC3 and SC1
no these games are based
how can you even get a pirated SC1? b.net always seems to update EVERY sc1 install on my pc when they first brought the remaster out. my wc3 stayed seperate
you can find torrents of 1.16.1 or 1.17 floating around
obviously you can only play LAN on those and the resolution is dogshit but sacrifices have to be made
No, I don't think I will.
your neo vegana is going to burst if you seethe this much troony.
Reminds me of back when Bing first came out and MS was doing that promotion where you do a bunch of word games for points you can buy crap with while bing spat out results below to show you how well it could search in real-time. Made a shitty script to rapidly solve known puzzles and got a free 360 out of it, though it didn't take long for more talented people to make not-shitty scripts that completely raped the promotion and emptied out all the prizes.
People who buy bl*zzard games are moronic paypigs who deserve what they get
Was OW1 the one that started the trend that every two dime shooter out there has to have a super serious comp mode and prioritize it over everything else? It even bled into TF2.
I'd say that was counterstrike, but Overwatch started the trend of shooters that really really shouldn't having competitive having it
Meanwhile I am enjoying Splatoon 3 when are you going to make the switch to Being a squid/octo kid?
Man, and somehow TF2 is still kicking.
Thats just fricking embarassing.
Blizzard was a mistake