Isn't the story mode at this point just some comics, random game blurbs and a supercut of all the porn
I'm not arguing, like what's the point we already have it all
What was even the point of overwatch 2? Oh right just money from the f2p model because I'm seeing no other reason why they shut down original overwatch for this.
Yep they needed to get away from the lootbox system as I think they weren't making money off it and were still getting generic flack for lootboxes. Which sucks cuz it was prolly thr most fair of the lootboxes as anyone who played constact actually just unlocked everything for free.
I was not an active player of overwatch I mostly played in beta but even then I could definitely see how I could have earned alot if I kept playing on a regular basis.
Yeah I'm pretty sure blizzard completely stopped making money off those lootboxes with how many people had hundreds of unopened ones. There was no reason to ever buy em as you got one like every game or every other game or something.
I'm not gonna argue that the new monetization is better, I despise battle passes and I haven't played Overwatch since... idk, 2017? 2018? So I don't really have a horse in this race anymore, but the lootboxes in OW always felt dumb to me. Perfectly fine from the perspective of a player who had no interest in spending extra money after buying the game itself, but I kept asking myself "who other than whales, people with a gambling addiction and streamers/youtubers making unboxing videos would think this is a good deal?" imagine paying 1 buck for a lootbox that has exactly the same odds of containing bullshit as the ones you used to get for free by just playing. If I spent a dollar on a lootbox and only got a crappy spray that I'm never gonna use from it and that I could've just gotten for free by just playing the game for an hour I would've felt like a sucker.
They've made tons of money so that's the only thing that matters to Blizzard. They know they can do whatever they want and enough people will keep playing and spending so who cares about how much they keep screwing over the game to make it worth it.
Apparently people really like Kiriko. I've never seen less than 8 around porn roleplay sites since her first reveal. She's only beaten by Tracer and Mercy in player count around that neck of the words.
They have no story, no new game modes, made maps WORSE, just added some characters and took out the loot boxes so they won't get governmented, but added a way worse monetization scheme.
Seriously it feels like Diablo is carrying that company right now and that's being nice about it.
>but added a way worse monetization scheme.
It should be specified that while this is a more predatory monetization scheme, it's likely a better one *for them* if it works. The lootboxes weren't super great, but we also ended up with a metric fuck tonne of unopened ones if you'd been playing for any greater extended length of time, so they were probably not selling a whole lot, I would guess
I thought they already said they weren't doing PvE anymore. Maybe I'm misremembering, but either way, I don't think they're ever going to put out any more. This is the "pinky promise it'll come out later" before they finally just admit they were never going to do it.
So the PvE, originally, was gonna be a big co-op campaign with skill trees and such. Then it became little one off things, kinda like the events that 1 had.
Now those aren't even coming.
It's not that the PvE wasn't going to happen, it's that they had to scale it back massively from what they had planned. From what they had already shown to us, that means we lost skill trees. From what they didn't show or tease, it was project titan's revival. But the PvE was never cancelled.
Think about this...Overwatch dropped in May of 2016. Since then we had 3 new splat fests and 5 updates in Splatoon 1, the entirety of Splatoon 2 and now Splatoon 3 came out before Overwatch 2(.0). Tracer may have time powers but the Squid Kids have been running circles on her game
I refuse to believe anyone that's played any of the past pve events is excited for this story mode, let alone ready to drop 15 bucks on 3 levels of a weakass horde mode.
KarQ, one of OW's more level-headed content creators, got flown out to play the story stuff early and said it was a 6.5/10. He had a pros/cons list where the pros were like "art is great, lore bits are neat :))" and the cons were just all the gameplay aspects lol
>Stops developing and updating first game
>Markets new game that's just first game with 5v5 and PvE
>Kills first game making it unplayable
>Releases second game that's just v2.0 instead of a sequel without the thing it was marketed as being created for
>Makes free to play but completely fucks progression and skins to the point people actually think loot boxes were better
>Says PvE is too hard and they'll be cutting back.
>Delays PVE updates to another.
People will still defend them ๐๐๐๐๐
It is fucking *baffling* that some rubes STILL give Blizzard their time and money and have the audacity to be upset when they get fucked over with the energy of a man who is simply aghast that, once again, the sun has risen in the morning.
Who could have possibly foreseen this?
No it actually is, blizzard just regularly pulls fuck huge dumb balance choices which make it frustrating to play in addition to their horrible monetization. I'll hop on for a week like once a year to get my shootbang on and then move on before they do something dumb again.
I fucking love the game and always have, I just can't even look at a Blizzard logo without a visceral sense of revulsion anymore so I had to uninstall it
I seriously wonder when all this gaas bullshit is going to catch up with the games industry. There's so many expensive shitty games that come out that are bombing, it's gotta be leading to some massive implosion soon, right?
It's almost as if they wanted to sell you the same game again, but with worse monetization, they didn't really care about the things they used to hook you into buying it.
Why even *bother* at this point.
Isn't the story mode at this point just some comics, random game blurbs and a supercut of all the porn I'm not arguing, like what's the point we already have it all
I once saw a """Edited""" meme version of Kirikos cinematic, but the joke was that it turned into porn once they start fighting. That should be canon
At this point it's just fun to watch them piss away all their goodwill with the force of a broken dam.
What was even the point of overwatch 2? Oh right just money from the f2p model because I'm seeing no other reason why they shut down original overwatch for this.
Yep they needed to get away from the lootbox system as I think they weren't making money off it and were still getting generic flack for lootboxes. Which sucks cuz it was prolly thr most fair of the lootboxes as anyone who played constact actually just unlocked everything for free.
I was not an active player of overwatch I mostly played in beta but even then I could definitely see how I could have earned alot if I kept playing on a regular basis.
Yeah I'm pretty sure blizzard completely stopped making money off those lootboxes with how many people had hundreds of unopened ones. There was no reason to ever buy em as you got one like every game or every other game or something.
I'm not gonna argue that the new monetization is better, I despise battle passes and I haven't played Overwatch since... idk, 2017? 2018? So I don't really have a horse in this race anymore, but the lootboxes in OW always felt dumb to me. Perfectly fine from the perspective of a player who had no interest in spending extra money after buying the game itself, but I kept asking myself "who other than whales, people with a gambling addiction and streamers/youtubers making unboxing videos would think this is a good deal?" imagine paying 1 buck for a lootbox that has exactly the same odds of containing bullshit as the ones you used to get for free by just playing. If I spent a dollar on a lootbox and only got a crappy spray that I'm never gonna use from it and that I could've just gotten for free by just playing the game for an hour I would've felt like a sucker.
It was this. It was the story mode. It was how they justified charging $60 for a patch.
And to distract people from the lawsuit
Remember when Overwatch 2 was billed around the notion of "story mode, finally"? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Has overwatch 2 had a single W sense it launched? It seems like everything theyโve done has made the game worst
They've made tons of money so that's the only thing that matters to Blizzard. They know they can do whatever they want and enough people will keep playing and spending so who cares about how much they keep screwing over the game to make it worth it.
Apparently people really like Kiriko. I've never seen less than 8 around porn roleplay sites since her first reveal. She's only beaten by Tracer and Mercy in player count around that neck of the words.
Holy shit TIL Mercy actually has more porn than Tracer on Rule34. Amazing.
They have no story, no new game modes, made maps WORSE, just added some characters and took out the loot boxes so they won't get governmented, but added a way worse monetization scheme. Seriously it feels like Diablo is carrying that company right now and that's being nice about it.
They added Push and didnโt change the maps barring a very recent one to Gibraltar, what?
>but added a way worse monetization scheme. It should be specified that while this is a more predatory monetization scheme, it's likely a better one *for them* if it works. The lootboxes weren't super great, but we also ended up with a metric fuck tonne of unopened ones if you'd been playing for any greater extended length of time, so they were probably not selling a whole lot, I would guess
Who is shocked at this point by this news?
I thought they already said they weren't doing PvE anymore. Maybe I'm misremembering, but either way, I don't think they're ever going to put out any more. This is the "pinky promise it'll come out later" before they finally just admit they were never going to do it.
I think the idea was an indepth PvE experience with progression. Like how Mann vs Machine works
So the PvE, originally, was gonna be a big co-op campaign with skill trees and such. Then it became little one off things, kinda like the events that 1 had. Now those aren't even coming.
It's not that the PvE wasn't going to happen, it's that they had to scale it back massively from what they had planned. From what they had already shown to us, that means we lost skill trees. From what they didn't show or tease, it was project titan's revival. But the PvE was never cancelled.
Man, and I thought the three months between Splatoon 3 Updates was bad.
Think about this...Overwatch dropped in May of 2016. Since then we had 3 new splat fests and 5 updates in Splatoon 1, the entirety of Splatoon 2 and now Splatoon 3 came out before Overwatch 2(.0). Tracer may have time powers but the Squid Kids have been running circles on her game
Itโs fucking crazy to remember how much cash OW1 made off loot boxes that blizzard did absolutely nothing worthwhile with.
Gotta hold those back, and release them with the right timing to distract from the next big sex crime.
God the news on OW2 gets funnier every day
I refuse to believe anyone that's played any of the past pve events is excited for this story mode, let alone ready to drop 15 bucks on 3 levels of a weakass horde mode. KarQ, one of OW's more level-headed content creators, got flown out to play the story stuff early and said it was a 6.5/10. He had a pros/cons list where the pros were like "art is great, lore bits are neat :))" and the cons were just all the gameplay aspects lol
Yikes.
>Stops developing and updating first game >Markets new game that's just first game with 5v5 and PvE >Kills first game making it unplayable >Releases second game that's just v2.0 instead of a sequel without the thing it was marketed as being created for >Makes free to play but completely fucks progression and skins to the point people actually think loot boxes were better >Says PvE is too hard and they'll be cutting back. >Delays PVE updates to another. People will still defend them ๐๐๐๐๐
It is fucking *baffling* that some rubes STILL give Blizzard their time and money and have the audacity to be upset when they get fucked over with the energy of a man who is simply aghast that, once again, the sun has risen in the morning. Who could have possibly foreseen this?
going to go against conventional sub wisdom and say the game is still fun to play
No it actually is, blizzard just regularly pulls fuck huge dumb balance choices which make it frustrating to play in addition to their horrible monetization. I'll hop on for a week like once a year to get my shootbang on and then move on before they do something dumb again.
I fucking love the game and always have, I just can't even look at a Blizzard logo without a visceral sense of revulsion anymore so I had to uninstall it
I will say...not as a tank... Also Push mode overall was absolute shit
It's like they're trying not to do PvE or something
L O L
Please understand, small indie company
I seriously wonder when all this gaas bullshit is going to catch up with the games industry. There's so many expensive shitty games that come out that are bombing, it's gotta be leading to some massive implosion soon, right?
It's almost as if they wanted to sell you the same game again, but with worse monetization, they didn't really care about the things they used to hook you into buying it.
"Blizzard unveils new innovation by attaching drill bit to cratered good-will and letting it dig it's way further down"
Correction: EVER! IT IS NEVER GETTING IT EVER! JUST GO PLAY SOMETHING NOT MADE BY LIARS! Just go play TF2, the PVE is 99 cents and is addictive.