>We're working on pve so we can't keep doing frequent updates.
>We will release overwatch 2 with bare minimum of new content and it'll be heavily stripped down compared to OW1 but don't worry it's all for pve and it will be worth it.
>Sorry we are completely canceling pve even though it's almost ready (trust me bro) because it doesn't meet blizzard quality.
This is probably one of the biggest frick-ups and scams in the gaming industry ever.
The worst part is that original pretty decent overwatch is gone, all we have left is p2w unplayable pile of shit.
Is anyone surprised that Overwatch's legacy is nothing but frick ups?
The game was helmed by Jeff "I'll finish Titan" Kaplan.
And once he jumped ship, someone had to pick up the pieces of the mess he left behind.
If you still give money to modern Blizzard games then you are akin to a battered housewife.
And hot damn do you deserve another five across the eye.
No one gave Blizzard money for 2, it's F2P
You forgot that they are now releasing the PvE that is finished for 15 dollars. They even had some Youtuber shills to play it but even they said it was a "6 out of 10 experience" that has no replayability (the main point of the original PvE)
Si it's literally the pve event but worse?
Yeah
God I regret falling for the hype back then
>invite the biggest overwatch shills to internal testing of pve
>they get asked how is it
>all they can say is shit like "cut the devs some slack its been hard for them"
there's no point in pitying them, all you can do is laugh at blizzdrones even streamers being paid to shill it cant say its good
>bare minimum content
It had as much content as the original OW1. My only annoyance is them cutting out all the revived ancient egyptian religion references because "muh muzzie goat fricker theocratic imperialists need to be respected :("
>It had as much content as the original OW1.
3 heroes and 6 maps...
Less content than game would get if they kept working on OW1 instead of working on pve.
this
lol no
I remember they had super ais with Egyptian gods names but this was forgotten like many other things.
Are you sure about that.
Ow2 removed a game mode
removed 6v6
removed free character customisation
removed equal ground for every player by introducing paid heroes.
It seems to me that ow2 actually has less content.
>removed free character customisation
they only had full skins in the first place
what was there to remove?
>removed 6v6
changed it to 5v5, which is better, more fun, more balanced.
>changed it to 5v5, which is better, more fun, more balanced.
does anyone on earth actually believe this
i have to think not even blizzdrones are this stupid, are they? or is it a never-ending pit?
6v6 enables harder meta stomps. Also, a good player can do less for the game with skill itself. OW1 was absolute dogshit shield stalemate fest for most of the time.
You mean they made it into dogshit shield shit wella fter the game came out, because they are blizzard, and they have not made a single good thing they did not immediately frick up in nearing some 20 years.
>It had as much content as the original OW1.
moron
And people still play this game.
JUST FRICKING BRING BACK 6V6. WHY ARE THEY SO STUBBORN ON KEEPING SHITTY 5V5?
5v5 is objectively better than the braindead clustefrick of 6v6
Ever play large scale TF2 servers? That shits fun. More players tends to be more fun. The fewer the players there are, the more tryhard eSports it becomes. I always had a feeling that 3v3 mode was a bad omen of things to come.
This was my line of thinking too, they should've gone to like 8v8 with a new class subset or some shit, would've been more exciting, fun and warranted the 2 more.
They tried too hard to appeal to tryhards who live for ranking up and winning rather than having fun
>tryhards who live for ranking up and winning rather than having fun
why would anyone do this?
I can't speak for everyone since I don't watch people play it, but I've got friends who play OW and similar games only for ranked, and if they lose they are raging, flaming eachother and sounding depressed as frick, I don't get the mindset but I'm sure its a fairly common one
I try to get them into more casual fun games like tf2 or drg but they it seems they can't get into anything that doesn't involve sweating to rank up your MMR
>Caring about imaginary numbers
Could not be me.
valuing """balance""" over fun is the reason the game died, will die again, and will have its pitiful launch on steam
anyone giving blizzard money after they got bought out is a moron and deserves it
You’re a moron. 5v5 creates an imbalance of team gameplay. If someone is playing like shit especially in dps role, there is no coming back
2 tank, 3 dps and 3 support would have been kino
I usually don't reply to autistic screeching threads like this but these points are so common and so false
>Sorry we are completely canceling pve even though it's almost ready
The first missions are out in a week
>biggest frick-ups and scams in the gaming industry ever
The game is free, are you getting forced to buy skins? Turn off your monitor
>original pretty decent overwatch is gone, all we have left is p2w unplayable
Getting rid of double shields and CC spam made it unplayable? The balance is better than it's ever been, which low skill hero were you playing that they nerfed?
Not defending blizzard at all btw, the decision to call this a sequel was clearly a calculated business move to distract from all the controversy they were going through at the time and the overwatch team wasn't given the resources to deliver on that. It just boggles my mind that people act like this game personally fricked their mom because they added a 2 to the name. Like how does that effect you at all? Do you miss spending money on gambling boxes that much?
funny thing is it was a decent game on release
It still is, but their insistence on rigged match making among other problematic decisions for competitive makes the game unplayable for long periods.
Overwatch stopped being "pretty decent" like 2 months after it came out, or whenever they got rid of multiples of a character
battlebit is better
anyone who genuinely thinks ow2 was made with pve in mind is delusional. the fact that 80% of its major selling points are money-related says a lot.
Yeah, the pve spiel was a lie from the start.
Yeah they needed an excuse to change the monetisation from lootboxes. Also a developer has since admitted they knew the PvE was cancelled before OW2 launched. Scummy frickers
>Playing esports bait
>not playing online shooters now and then
online shooters used to be good, not esports bait
I want to BE Mercy!
bawds are gross
I'm very dissapointed that nobody ever filmed herself doing this while actually playing the game
The absolute state of overwatch players.
I don't get it. How is it a scam if it's a free game? Unless you spent money on it then you only got yourself to blame.
5 player teams were a mistake.
>hire to fill quotas
>Tell me you're in California without saying you're in California
Oh no bros the newest SFM library won't have a good gameplay what will we do
>overwatch 2 free
problem?
>because it doesn't meet blizzard quality
At this point they don't care anymore, they are laughing at their faces and the subhuman playerbase is still gonna gobble it up lol.
pve was shit anyway, genuinely can't recall a more boring coop game. it's like usual overwatch but against bots that are neither original nor challeging
>Don't release an update for 6 years
>Finally release a total shitpost of an update
>Also allow 100 player servers because frick it
>Break all-time high player count
You love to see it.
>add a new gamemode entirely built by the community
>add 14 maps made by the community
>add cosmetics made by the community
>make one (1) image of a BBQ in source yourselves
>it's a huge success
I have never seen a community carry a game to this extent with official endorsement. You could argue for Skyrim but a lot of people hated the Creators Club. Everyone seems to love Versus Saxton Hale and most of the new maps.
Wasn't Demon Lord Reinhardt a workshop mode originally? What's stopping Blizzard from letting players make maps aside from their ego? 2CP and Push maps are dogshit, I'm sure there's one talented autistic out there who could whip up a map that plays better than those.
Don't forget the bastardized PvE they're selling won't have any of the scope or scale we were promised (like the skill trees and hero missions), instead they're fluffed up archives event missions being sold for 15$.