How Overwatch 2 Became The Worst Rated Game In History

[@sk_form]

I personally never got into overwatch, yet alone overwatch 2, but this is just ridiculous, I thought tf2 never getting an update for YEARS was bad, I guess false promises from a constantly updating game is worse.

[@lordqwertythepyromancer3458]

As I will always continue shouting from the rooftops until the end of time. It is far better for a piece of media to go out with Grace, dignity, and love, Cherish by the community for years to come. (Fe: gravity falls/tf2) Then it is to just keep trying to amp it up a with endless filler and lofty promises, turning something that was once beloved into a shampling corpse (fe:simpsons/overwatch)

[@sisupitkanen1693]

True

[@mr.miscellaneous9144]

Here's the problem, it wasn't constantly updated. Near the end of its life, overwatch 1 was barely touched at all, so that it could be replaced with overwatch 2. So not only is it broken promises, it was a complete lack of updates for the last... Heck, year of its life, if not more

[@jollygrapefruit786]

Overwatch fans experiencing CBT

[@spinozilla2421]

Constantly? Bruh they left Overwatch untouched for around 2-3 years

[@J0566]

Part you forget to mention was the falling out between Activision and Netease the Chinese company they had a deal with to bring Activision/Blizzard games to the Chinese market. That deal falling out led to every game that they were selling being Thanos snapped out of existence in China. Except for Diablo Immortal because the deal for that was with a different Chinese company. The result was all the Activision/Blizzard players in China didn't just lose access to play WoW, and Overwatch among many others their data was terminated. Imagine playing WoW for over a decade just to suddenly lose everything you played and built because of Bobby Kotik fumbling the ball. As you might guess Chinese players are furious over this. When OW2 came to Steam it gave the Chinese players a chance to make their displeasure known, and make it known they did. If you browse all the reviews and turn off the language filter you will find a shockingly high number of negative reviews in Chinese.

[@whyhellothere6855]

Lmfao, I went and one of the top negative reviews was someone saying “I have Bobby Kotik here. One like means equals one family member of his gone.” Yeah, suffice to say that they’re not happy

[@bbrainstormer2036]

Yeah, something like 2/3 of the negative reviews are Chinese. That's ridiculously high

[@srdjan455]

But how do we know it was Bobby who screwed up and not the Chinese company?

[@srdjan455]

@@lss7850 rumors can say anything they want, I heard a rumour that the Chinese government is still upset about Blizzard allowing someone to say "Free Hong Kong" on stream and so they told the company now to renew their deal with Blizzard as a punishment.

[@srdjan455]

@@lss7850 But it's still just that, a rumour.

[@vividdaydream1516]

It doesn't help that Blizzard basically dumped their original playerbase in an attempt to capture the "hardcore shooter fans" demographic... and the OG players they pushed out of the game _("you are no longer Overwatch's intended audience, get used to it or leave")_ understandably feel betrayed.

[@sovietunion7643]

i love how Tf2 did the opposite and really captured the casual "do whatever but have fun" demographic which has kept casual fun but also managed to keep some hardcore fans, and had total success.

[@kempolar9768]

​@@sovietunion7643TF2 realised what the players wanted, to be able to conga together and fat seals. Truly more perfect choices could not have been made.

[@thatguynamedwil4577]

@@sovietunion7643tbf the competitive that valve tried to implement was a pile of hot garbage. In the end, it didn’t really matter because the very hardcore comp players just made their own leagues

[@sovietunion7643]

@@thatguynamedwil4577 exactly, but you really can't go in the opposite direction of building a game to be hardcore and than allowing causal. overwatch 2 really leaned into that and low and behold...

[@idiotlikecirno6]

​@@sovietunion7643Me ubering a holiday punch heavy and somehow killed half the opponent team:

[@celeste1013]

Whats really crazy is that in 2023 a shooter getting a story mode is extra content and not the standard....how did we get to this State of gaming

[@G_54-GMG]

Quantity over Quality

[@Ant_Stark]

Gamers are stupid that's how

[@pandaboss5085]

People keep buying and settling for dogshit so in turn companies keep getting away with dogshit now games are really dry again because the companies are getting money for dogshit

[@StanMarsh02]

And you have to pay for it lol

[@m0istur]

To me what I don't really get or like is how there cinematic openings in games like fortnite where it shows there's something big going on, but there's never really any kind of story mode until the end of the season where something happens. It's usually just you playing the game, doing quests, and not much else

[@Doran_Runeblite]

As a youtuber once said, "Blizzard bound and tied up Overwatch, violently executed it and replaced it with a half-baked homunculus."

[@djdomain]

That ain't Blizzard, it's another homunculus called Activision wearing the skin it peeled off Blizzard's corpse.

[@Ventom0303]

​@@djdomainand it's currently rotting and revealing what's under it

[@comicalman4554]

what yter said that??

[@smurlix5676]

The Manpigs from Amnesia. Turned a normal person into THAT thing

[@Slavic_Slavage]

Yep, diablo 4 was my breaking point. I knew I was being lied to again the whole time I just had really hoped they would've gotten it right one last time and now I'm a sucker for it.

[@gooierchip]

7:06 I had more fun spending 2 years as a f2p on tf2, without being able to say medic or anything.

[@C_rrptd]

Hitting medic with melees until they heal you

[@dennisv1882]

​@@C_rrptdI've had this one happen to me once lol

[@C_rrptd]

@@dennisv1882 same

[@furanduron4926]

MOVE! SCHNELL!

[@AParticularlyPointySoldier]

Don’t worry, the good medics have auto callout or just check every teammates health at least.

[@watchulookinat271]

After years of being hail as TF2 killer, TF2 did nothing but watch all of this burning down. God I love the community so much where every toxic shit that has been done counts as wholesome in TF2

[@niggachu420]

Lmao overwatch still gets 2 million a day and 24 million a month lol , bcuz it's the lowest review game on steam bcuz of bunch of trolls that doesn't mean it's the worst 🤦🏿 other game critics rate it high 🤦🏿

[@Tavdogg11]

​@@niggachu420TF2 has a higher player count overall and a higher peak player count on the same platform overwatch is trying to compete in.

[@watchulookinat271]

@@niggachu420 and here we have the perpetrator who keeps on walking on graveyards for profit

[@dennisv1882]

​@@niggachu420idk how much I should believe this when on steam charts at the time of this comment they only have 18k players, if it really had that many players I'm sure it'd be sitting around 500k at the very least and the rest coming from other platforms, then again from what I've heard the other platforms aren't doing so hot either, which is why people complain about getting matches with the same people from previous matches and the reason for the introduction of 5v5, to lower queue times. My wild guess is that OW2 is around 70k-100k players daily, and that's having a lot of faith in the other platforms it is available on.

[@kongg_]

@@niggachu420 2 mil daily and 24 mil in what?

[@MiikaMeeka]

Its crazy how a GOTY winner can fall to a level such as this lmao

[@G_54-GMG]

Doom 2016 honestly should have won it in my opinion.

[@andyfire0779]

It's not a surprise when the developers of said game suddenly decide that they have a thing in common with Mr. Krabs: they all like money.

[@paperclip6377]

​@@G_54-GMGHAH. no. I like doom 2016 but Titanfall 2 is on another level and it should have been GOTY

[@blacksesamecandies]

Blizzard got cocky because they had lightning in a bottle with OverWatch's release, it was the hottest thing and everyone was clamouring to play it. Then slowly but surely they tapped it dry - along with WoW to line their pockets and coast on the success.I played OW1 up until around 2018 or so and even back then it was showing cracks. It's a real shame because the original fanbase adored it but they did so many overhauls, so much meddling and utterly ruined it. OW2 being an absolute disaster is the result of the greedy executives gutting their games to get their bottom line by pulling all funding from games and the devs who make it. Couple it will the expensive lawsuits and scandals that burned their once presistine reputation and we have Blizzard of today. It's sad cuz they basically did the same thing with the WoW Legion expansion, it brought back tons of old players and they loved it. But they really fumbled the storyline and basic shit they had been doing for years, people still held on during Shadowlands but Blizzard just couldn't help but shit the bed.

GOTY doesn’t mean crap these days 😂. It’s an worthless award.

[@locle478]

you know it bad when people miss the loot box

[@cyberdemon6517]

loot boxes>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>live service

[@markm7776]

That loot box wasn't the same as monetised loot boxes. It was free when you levelled up and I have many skins that are now $20+ on OW2 just because you got them for playing in OW1. Sure you could buy more, but that one box per level sufficed as a reward in all honesty.

[@AaronWOfficial]

The loot boxes never bothered me, the game practically threw free loot boxes at me like they were going out of fashion. I never understood why so many people were malding over loot boxes, and now look where we are because people moaned about them. In order to sustain itself without loot boxes, it had to become f2p and therefore like every other f2p game it had to be competitive to work as live service so they made it more deathmatchy like every other generic shooter out now because that is what the f2p masses play (games like valorant, cod warzone, fortnite). Ironically loot boxes were the only thing holding overwatch 1 together.

[@PoisonDuckAnimations]

As a TF2 player, I feel like for some reason I've always harbored some sort of subconscious angry resentment towards Overwatch, and I only realized this when I noticed how elated I was when I noticed how far Blizzard has been falling as of late... I think that's kinda messed up to be resentful of a game that I don't even play.

[@blursedcat]

To be fair, Overwatch during it's peak was called the "TF2 killer". It's like the many Minecraft fans hating on Hytale, a game that hasn't even released, for already being called the "Minecraft killer". Don't worry man, your feelings are plenty justified.

[@CidSilverWing]

Not at all. Anything that bigs itself up as an "x killer" then fails at it deserves every piece of shit thrown at it for its fucking hubris.

[@princesscadance197]

I know the feeling. Except instead of harboring any significant resentment of the game and its community, I've just been sardonically laughing at the whole thing and making fun of the players who just lost a game they loved. Yeah, I'm not too particularly nice of a person. Been trying to taper off that edge of mine so I stop sounding like a complete jackass.

[@amanawolf9166]

2:37 Next stop, Overwatch 3, "We will now require your Social Security Number, Home Address, Phone Number, and Debit Card linked to a major brokerage firm like Morgan Stanley. This is all done to ensure top level security to prevent hackers... and ensure our bottom line."

[@AlexofAwesome]

Removing 6v6 was one of the worst decisions they could’ve made. Just from a psychological POV, they cut 1/6th of every game for people that played Overwatch 1 without adding anything to make up for it. If you know about Paladins (also a 5v5 game) they *launched* with that game as 5v5. Whereas since OW2 is just OW1 reskinned, Blizz cut 1/6th of the gameplay loop of a game that was built for 6v6 without any real thought besides “tank meta bad”…

[@Its4G]

Overwatch 2 also killed events. The events of OW1 were always a great time. Completing challenges to get a single skin, some random trash like a charm and the rest of the event skins being $20 a piece...completely took the joy out of seeing a trailer for a new halloween event for example. Seeing what new skins in the trailer you’d be able to grind for during the event was so exciting and actually felt like an event. I doubt we will ever see Overwatch have features like that again, but I really hope I’m wrong. 😔

[@mysteryman4915]

Doesn’t help that the events were fucking garbage now. The new halloween with the “jumpscare warning” was a complete joke. Volleyball was gay, and the star wars parody was beyond sub par.

[@razrv3lc]

Right? The first Uprising and Blackwatch events were cool. Then they regurgitated them for years until they became super stale lol

[@deeked700]

I grinned like a madman when the TF2 music kicked in. That's probably one of, if not THE, most instantly recognizable and iconic jingles in all of gaming

[@datwitchyswordfan]

“AAAAHHHHHHHHYAAHHH--“ -some red soldier falling right on top of me

[@PartnershipsForYou]

I recently booted up TF2 and the main screen [the sepia tone upward one] gave me super nostalgia. So then I went back and looked up old tf2 mainscreens and nearly had a heart attack. We had it so good.

[@agent5tm902]

But too bad Tf2 is unplayable and full of bots, I don't understand why gamers tell me to play Tf2 when its as broken and lifeless as Overwatch 2! I hate the false praise a decade year old game gives and that it feels like a fake way to talk about

[@jesserose48]

Just play community server

[@tankbusterJ]

I miss original Overwatch, wish they would just revert the game back to how it was. I know that will never happen but a man can dream.

[@Rockstar-vs1nb]

Overwatch 2 would almost certainly have ended up like PvZ Battle for Neighbourville if they hadn’t shut down Overwatch 1. Almost abandoned

[@tankbusterJ]

@@Rockstar-vs1nb Honestly yeah

[@jakeharman1592]

Didn’t you learn if you keep supporting blizzard it’s only going to get worse? I mean it’s literally why we’re here

[@ramizian]

It made me so freaking sad to see one of my favorite games destroyed by a money factory, the developers & artists must have felt so much anxiety because of that

[@blastermaster5039]

Gib Bobby Kotick your money goy!

[@assassin8636]

Do you want me to cheer you up

[@OneLDash]

No such thing as anxiety, grow the fuck up, its life, and go outside and also fuck your anxiety

[@MeiskatVEVO]

DUDE you’re underrated!!! You pretty much summed it up, I’m sad to see the game in this stage, I was also a day 1 and this is heartbreaking

[@sorrynotsorry4273]

hes very funny+ huge edits

[@danielleneedsgrowth9800]

2024 and now all there is is hackers and throwers. can’t even rank up solo anymore.

[@mrmerfeo4320]

I think it was years of pent up frustration without any meaningful place to talk about it, for example in overwatch 1 they kept rehashing the same seasonal content and having a dumb focus on eatsports and cosmetics. Then overwatch 2 finally promised some great changes and additional content, yet it turned out to be a straight up downgrade in every aspect. I really hope blizzard ports all their games to steam

[@Jam_Axo]

world of warcraft really needs steam players to balance out the degen

[@Unchainedful]

Microsoft normally ports all their games to Steam, so we should see all of blizzard and Activision games on Steam as well as on gamepass.

[@itsslothh3908]

@@Jam_Axo god yes I quit retail wow around wod due to the awful content and terrible updates. too many “lgbt” focused guilds spamming in trade chat now and they mass report anyone that doesnt want that stuff in the game or even vaguely disagrees with something they support. its kind of sad seeing actual adults behave that way in a video game

[@Jam_Axo]

it went from bronies to lgbt personality kids in like 2 years@@itsslothh3908

[@elfireii328]

Man, I remember playing OW1 with my older brother. He bought me the pre ordered version and got to play a bit pre release on his account before he got me mine. We grinded a bunch of ranked together. I miss the arg stuff with ana and sombra too. Good times. I dont like how ow2 adds the new characters though so im not playing it.

[@starlosa]

Yeah ow2 is literally pay to win so you can get the new characters

[@meggy1162]

Let's add a little more fuel to the fire: If you start out with a blank account in overwatch 2, you need to grind your player level up to access roughly half of all characters in the roster. Not even including the new ones locked behind battle passes

[@sovietunion7643]

this whole thing is so bizzare to me. overwatch was the new cool shiny thing that 5 years ago was supposed to be the "TF2 killer" because it was very interesting, but now it really just feels like Tf2 players just feel sorry for overwatch players i know games can die quick but the turnaround in even a few years from being beloved (if a bit complicated for new players) to the trashfire that is actively being abandoned is just shocking. its just bizzare to me to see it. it really makes me humble myself as a tf2 player. valve may not update us much but they also don't change things that are working to make them worse, and don't promise things they can't deliver on. I'd rather be ignored than completely obliterated like whatever happened to overwatch 2

[@maddox-mt4xq]

Trust me we also got ignored during ow1, there wasn’t a major game update for the last 2 years of OW1. (But I still much preferred that to ow2 lol)

[@hm9934]

that sounds rough, for us tf2 players, the last major update that came out BEFORE the current summer update was a whole 7 years or so ago

[@Phoenix-fw7bm]

I don’t see how TF2 players are sorry for OW players tho. From what I have seen so far, a majority of them are just straight up douchebags that had been hoping the game to die since its release just to taunt on the OW players or to take the moment to shit on OW while overly praising TF2 just to make themselves feel better… Apparently they still hold some kind of grudge after 7 years. I have played both games and I would say they both have their charms and flaws. One should never compare the two games or try to figure out which one is better. But somehow a lot of the TF2 players just like doing that…? Of course I am very glad that there are still players that are wise just like you

[@cosmicspacething3474]

It would’ve been the TF2 killer had they not shot themselves in the foot

[@lukebytes5366]

​@@Phoenix-fw7bmthey're both class based fps, what is there not to compare? Of course people are gonna do that when overwatch was flaunted so hard as something that could be compared to TF2.

[@exp037a]

For those wondering, all the skins you could earn for free in the first game are now being sold at ridiculous prices in the second game which is also littered with microtransactions a battle pass.

[@bharat-dz9wi]

That’s just sad. I remember loving overwatch back in the day.

[@sociallyundead419]

I got into the original Overwatch just a year before it shut down. It was tragic because it was my first actual competitive game that I enjoyed. Go have such little time with it, have it taken away, then to be handed a dissected version rotting on a rusty platter... Was not great.

[@hulahula6182]

Go play dota2, come ruin your life here :)

[@Serom_974]

You pointed the thing: in OW1, we played cause we could feel some progression in the game ( like getting free lootboxes each level ). But the battlepass system is trash, and it’s worse than other battlepass games cause Blizzard had the good idea to lock the new heroes !!!

[@virgobro2025]

Matchmaking is unbelievably bad and buffing tanks was a mistake. 6v6 was better all around, especially how it affects the hero balancing for deathmatch.

[@Pokaroquai]

Valve: you know what, let's make a sequel for one of our online game and leave it without any new updates for a while (the community still loved it) Activision/Blizzard: you know what, let's make a sequel for one of our online game and shutting down the first game forever (absolutely hated)

[@Zargex]

Tf2 remains victorious for doing absolutely nothing

[@Hi1234Ismyname]

SEAL UPDATE

[@desmeon]

SEALS

[@Abel_Unstable]

SEAL OF APPROVEMENT

[@jay-ti4bt]

Lol paladins is better than tf2

[@chief8268]

Does tf2 still have a healthy player base ?

[@Xdadster]

As a team fortress 2 fan, all i feel is pity when looking at overwatch. It used to be this sort of rivalry between fanbases, "aha our game is better than yours" type shit, but now it's as if i was kicking a puppy stuck in a bear trap. It's sad.

[@panyanyi6109]

I remember thinking that overwatch will kill tf2 but it would have seems that it killed itself

[@Weneedaplague]

And to think my roommate still plays this and just loves to scream at everyone on his team about how he's better than them and they should all bow down to his greatness. Can't imagine why it never took off

[@virgobro2025]

Those kinds of people build their identity around being able to play one game. Ew. I bet he is always online defending the game with a thicc condescending tone.

[@BTechUnited]

People like that have basically ruined multiplayer gaming as a whole for me these days.

[@prestonbeaulieu4379]

Aren't people like that in every team based PVP game?

[@VVS84]

does your roomate by any chance constantly deletes his search history?

[@adamjsher04]

It gets even better. There are HUNDREDS of links to TF2, but also Baldurs Gate 3, Deep Rock Galactic, and Plants VS Zombies Garden Warfare 2. and also some chad who listed 40 games that you could get for the price of either the battle pass, a shop skin, or a bundle.

[@selena89091]

I had more fun spending 1 game in Tf2 than I have had my 400 hours in OW2

[@Phoenix-fw7bm]

True, OW2 should not have existed

[@alphonsejohnson5601]

​@@Phoenix-fw7bmNo, OW2 should have been the best sequel to a great game. The lies, Greed, And broken promises shouldn't have existed.

[@gydzi]

I had more fun playing 2k hours tf2, than 1 hour of ov2 just to give bad reviev, just bc blizzard scammed ov players + supports sexual harassment

[@selena89091]

Also true

[@blursedcat]

As a non PC gamer, I can confirm that TF2 on the PS3 was more fun than OW2

[@practic4l349]

The "oh no our table!" Explosion every time you get a kill is hilarious

[@Shizuka965]

I really, really do miss the lootboxes

[@unknownguyindo4356]

How the time have turns. You know it was bad when the fanbase miss the fucking *lootboxes* .

[@erieriderschillingcorner1595]

@@unknownguyindo4356 well, ow1 did lootboxes right. They were given out like candy for everything. You could get a couple in a little time so they didn't feel as scummy as in other games

[@unknownguyindo4356]

@@erieriderschillingcorner1595 Yeah, you were right. Overwatch did lootboxes right, the game also have passion behind it compared to Overwatch 2 that trying to milk the game dry.

[@LosingAltitud3]

​@@erieriderschillingcorner1595Yeah, getting about 3 rounds or so done, leveling up and catching a few lootboxes felt rewarding. I'm so glad I managed to deck out Junkrat before the whole switchover

[@DerpyEinstein]

Ive played overwatch for less than an hour. I only got it because i saw the mei honey dew skin on twitter and I was like, “i gotta have that because i like honey dew melons” And I opened the game and got 5 free cases to open and the first case I opened was the mei honey dew skin and I wasn’t obligated to play the game much more after that.

[@HexSaber]

Based as hell

[@slicedtopieces]

A story with a happy ending. 😅

[@pepperonipizza8200]

If I recall. The Chinese reviews are especially pissed because you can’t play OW2 on Chinese servers.

[@OugiEin]

I never really got into OverWatch 1 so OverWatch 2 kind of fell over my head, but I feel for their community. They got no game content for years. Then when it finally comes out, half the community immediately starts talking about the corn/NSFW content being better than the game.

[@sovietunion7643]

overwatch and pokemon fans fighting on who can make better fetish porn fan fiction.

[@DaMaster012]

Another one of the top rated comments on OW2's Stream page is "The people who make Overwatch porn put more effort into their work than Blizzard put into this game."

[@silvercavaliere3831]

Overwatch was good , i hope they delete ow2 and bring ow1 back

[@HimdoriyaTheRizzilante]

Terrible take, only real thing ow1 has over ow2 is loot boxes and the ranking system, other than those ow2 is clearly the better game. People like you romanticizing ow1 really forget how flawed the first game was.

[@hunlepto2239]

@@HimdoriyaTheRizzilante If people enjoyed the first game far more than the second, how tf can it be more flawed?

[@HimdoriyaTheRizzilante]

@@hunlepto2239 Cuz people were completely blinded by nostalgia, shit like stun abilties, terrible metas , and content droughts were far more severe in ow1. Ow1 and ow2 are both flawed, but overall ow2 is an overall improvement

[@Nayutune]

@@HimdoriyaTheRizzilante .. Nostalgia for.. a present time?.. I'm pretty sure that's not how "nostalgia" is defined. Overwatch 1 couldn't just be "nostalgia" because it literally is a new thing that has nothing to do with the past.. This argument makes as much sense as me saying that "you prefer ow2 right now because of nostalgia".. Which honestly probably would have more merit to it because there is people that are still attached to ow2 more out of being nostalgic for the past of Overwatch as a whole.. "terrible metas" stop pretending that ow2 is in such a great spot - literally everyone who plays the game competitively right now is talking about how horrible the current season is.. Except developers that keep putting out statements made by higher ups that keep repeating the same phrase that goes on about it being "better than ever before" each season.

[@SoulPriest]

i do not want the old overwatch, but i do want ow1 without mcree flashbang the ground into fan the hammer or doomfist stun instakill or ashe free damage dynamite or pharahs shitting on my team in every ranked game or roadhogs playing instakill dps vs teams with no coordination. i also want bastion old sentry, tank and self repair. old orisa. its not the same. bastion can be sentry vs a tank and it does nothing now. the gun was awesome to use in ow1. ow1 was a game with problems i endured. i think we all endured them. ranked was not a fun experience. losing always sucked x10 as much as winning. it was frustrating to die and play against several characters. what i wished they had done is make maps much much less choky to discourage boring trash damage and choke holds and still let two tanks be an element in the game. rein zarya was just so much fun. nanoboosting felt impactful, support in general was more fun imo. tanking with another person who is good is much more fun than tanking alone and if you die there is no hope for your team. it was the most fun when fights actually happened in ow1 and went on forever in overtime. i am able to move on, ive let go of the game cause the battlepass trash im getting shoved in my face is simply too much.

[@StarRider587]

The only problem I had with OW1 lootboxes was how rare holiday skins were. I went through the entire month of December once playing almost every day to get Lucio's skin and I never got it. I got skins for characters I don't touch, but not the ones I do.

[@jamesarnott3061]

as someone who spent 20$ a month on overwatch 1 lootboxes. The one punch man event killed overwatch 2 for me when it cost 25$ for each skin. That was the last time I played.

[@someguyinazoo]

Blizzard and 343 -Removed something -People are mad -Adds said thing back than acts like it’s a new update

[@Endocrom]

Wasn't it also discovered that they knew PVE wasn't going to work for a LONG time? Like, around the time it was announced. Did I imagine that?

[@FrenchDinosaur]

From what I know, it was a little later than that. Most probably around the time Jeff went out.

[@defaultdan7923]

it was like 7-9 months before they announced it wasn’t working. not at the time of the actual pve being announced, but that doesn’t make it any better.

[@nader5260]

Never going to Dairy Queen after this video. Thank you for raising awareness

[@bernardobb8]

That tf2 ending bro. Chefs kiss

[@vimtocat1741]

Quoting a review I read. "The people that made Overwatch porn worked harder than the people that made Overwatch."

[@Wulabaloo]

So true

[@TheSmallFry]

these are the same people that made diablo , witch is the game that has a massive customizable skill tree for your class. You have the resources.

[@brimp4989]

Sorry the resources go into their breast milk consumption

[@furnoprime9439]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@brimp4989 Indeed chief indeed. All that breast milk consumption just makes them too sleepy to do much else, let alone work on the scrap they promised ya sees.

[@rotschadel3574]

the steady shift from team based abilities and cooperation being the big impact, to haveing individual actions being the most impactful things, seriously hurt the games core player base (those that kept playing over the years) This was my final straw. I loved the maintank role. Its focus on teamplay and being the center of each group fight, really made the game into something i loved. Then they removed Maintank and offtank and tried to make each tank able to do what you normaly had your buddy for. It removed my tank partner. I never went back after that.

[@skulls122]

Remember its written "the critically acclaimed game" on the steam page, as their first line of the description.

[@Pro-dp3sh]

I miss my favorite and most played game of all time. RIP Overwatch - May 24, 2016 - October 4, 2022

[@emsreaper5374]

I never played Overwatch and felt bad about it for years but now I feel better about it.

[@LaughgreatYT]

something ironic in my opinion is that I guarantee anyone who puts a dislike on this game has a 90% of still playing it all the time

[@muslimcatpfp]

when ow2 launched I was skeptical cuz of some changes I absolutey did not like such as doom rework and 5vs5 but I also thought that new maps and heroes would balance it out and obviously PVE and for the first 2 months i was honestly not disappointed that much but as time went on it started to get as bad as the dark days of ow1 and became worse imo. BUT pve was coming out soon and BOOM massive disappointment.. I always thought that overwatch was a bit underrated and overhated and now I couldnt be happier that so many youtubers talk about overwatch's downfall and I never played tf2 but might as well start (also something that 100% killed ow for me is some game called deep rock galactic that is so fucking good I ove to death)

[@NikoJr.]

TF2 pulled a Luigi. They won by doing absolutely nothing

[@xRubes]

I liked the part when lucioball was introduced into overwatch 2

[@xDark_Snowx]

Whoever was interested in the music on the background in the 3rd part of the video: Badlands - ELPHNT from KZbin music library

[@fat4455]

This dude really said "I think the downfall of overwatch 2 is deeper than no pve" and then proceeded to regurgitate everything everyone was already saying

[@yachtman87]

87k? Those are rookie numbers, let's get to 100k!

[@bonnienc4434]

Criminally underrated channel

[@Dan-jj2vr]

Blizzard did a similar thing with Warcraft 3. They scrapped the servers for the origional game. These servers were still running strong after 16 + years then they replaced the old warcraft 3 servers with crap new ones with less features

[@justeliot]

Don't forget how the game didn't get any major updates for 3 years because they said they were working on PvE. 3 years wasted on literally nothing.

[@AnIdiotFromGermany]

Overwatch 2: I thought you were dead! Tf2: my death was over exaggerated

[@tob2603]

Holy moly, this is amazingly edited video for such a small channel. You are certainly living up to your name :D

[@andygarcia5228]

It’s frustrating how we waited almost 6 years for no over and like 2 years for overwatch 2 just to get the same game but with little changes

[@FallouFitness_NattyEdition]

I always thought Overwatch was overrated. I'm still mad about it beating DOOM for GOTY in 2016.

[@twistedillusion-u4s]

7:32 the moment the music faded in, I knew what to expect

[@Otacanthus]

It's not even close to the pve mode being cancelled, I agree there. People keep pretending that's the case and it's bs. Overwatch was literally made from remains of a high profile cancelled game. There was a lot of other factors to the downfall. Like the focus on balancing around eSports. Or the 2-3 year span of time with no significant updates.

[@vanukas8783]

OW2: adds battlepass and takes away good gameplay Enrages playerbase TF2: Seal All time peak in player count

[@remnts]

Another top review on steam that's also really funny, is someone commented how Overwatch corn artists put more effort on making ow corn in a couple of weeks, compared to the devs effort making ow2 in the past 2 years

[@defaultdan7923]

imo i’ve seen that one way too many times for it to be funny, but that’s just me

[@Czaszkor]

Its also worth to mention that the players who paid for OW1 were litteraly robbed. Not onyl we got nothing for buying it earlier we now have to pay even more for the story mode and the features we paid for also were taken away. Thats utter bullshit

[@jamesgiles4517]

Props to that guy who posted a link to TF2

[@elpepe1160]

Team that updates a game almost daily: *lies about updates* Team that forgot a game for over 6 years: *makes no fucking promises*

[@Wulabaloo]

They didn’t forget it, they just abandoned it for no reason

[@knellycornnan5132]

The game was basically just updated for the monetization system. Everything else was just an excuse to soften down the impact of updating teh game for the monetization system.

[@skcy5485]

now just hoping that cs2 doesnt fall into the same fate

[@arkking552]

The ending is pure gold

[@AP-bc7mg]

I was lucky enough to be at Blizzcon 2019 and actually got to play the build with the talent tree's and all that. It was awesome, I've stopped using all Blizzard products for over a year now. After everything that they've done/do and how much of a fan I used to be, it feels like the heartbreaking loss of a good friend turned bad.

[@Gojiradogzillagodzilla]

"The people who make Overwatch porn work harder than the people who make Overwatch" -Sun Tzu

[@ShadowFlame500]

Just came back in August 2024 to give an update on it. 1: Still just OW1, as in they are even thinking about putting 6v6 back in 😂 2: Even worse monetization 3: That's it, good day

[@revan5293]

Honestly blizzard did it to themselves. Should have just made the pve and not cancel it. Overwatch raids could have been amazing

[@phoenixchampion7]

Honestly if they were having so much issue with PVE mode they should have just made the choice to make it a separate game you have to buy. Infuriating yes, but then you'd at least have it.

[@fefundsasa8302]

Ow2 cant deliver a pve gamemode for 3yrs Tf2 got MvM added then got ONE SINGULAR UPDATE AND THAT IT AND IT STILL PERFECT

[@JFrostie]

Sums up the Overwatch downfall nicely

[@pikachubrando8303]

I remembered blizzard used to be my dream place to be worked at, but after seeing it downfall and how they treat one of the game that i used to love, *nah.*

[@specity99]

video has good production value, but fails to cover some keypoints, such as the chinese community and horrendous timing with the balance patches. Also removed heroes and bad matchmaking, could have been mentioned.

[@simplysmiley4670]

Also can't forget about said removed heroes, not stopping them from selling skins for the removed hero.

[@sovietunion7643]

the chinese really got fucked bad with all this. literally completely pulled out of the region leaving people to literally lose game progress or even money that they put into certain games.

[@menaatefadly]

Oh and I heard you need to unlock almost the entire cast in a game where choosing a counter is a core aspect of the game!!

[@redcrown5154]

to be fair the chinese government forced them to do that, they were too woke for them@@sovietunion7643

[@cerbus6597]

When this first came out in 2016, not even released yet, I loved the art style that I wanna emulate it in 3D animation. Never played it but I bought it still for reasons. Now I graduated and I don’t have the motivation to even know anything about OW 2

[@theonlyMoancore]

Imagine how good Overwatch could be if they had their hands on their desks half as much as on their fellow employees!

[@ItsV0v0]

Im still pissed at one being removed 😮 like why man!

[@gaines8807]

Just think, if overwatch had never announced OW2 and they had just kept updating OW1 it would still be an amazing game 😂 they shot themselves in the foot

[@3mer1ld]

The fact that OW2 gets outclassed by a 10+ year old shooter that got little to no updates and even got infested by BOTS that took a protest to get it fixed later. I never felt more bad for a franchise that I never played and I'm a tf2 fan

[@FruitSald]

The moment where tf2 claps back

[@primalsmite2204]

They killled my warcraft 3 regin of chaos now overwatch what next

[@AaronWOfficial]

Overwatch 2 is terrible. Anyone who says otherwise is delusional. Worst pvp game I ever played.

[@magistermartin3996]

Welp 50k people are delusional i guess

[@AaronWOfficial]

@@magistermartin3996 You say 50k like its a lot of people. It really isn't XD. Baldur's Gate 3 has 77k 24-hour peak on just steam alone (not counting consoles\gog platform) and this is a 1 year old single player game with tacked on multiplayer XD. Those types of games don't usually last, but there is so much crap out nowadays it's 1 of the very few good gems we actually have to play nowadays. This speaks volumes for the state of the gaming industry right now tbh, there is so much crap people would rather play 1 good gem to death till another good gem comes.

[@ShowMeYourMovez_]

When I found that Activision brought blizzard and that OW2 was free, i knew everything I loved bout OW1 was gonna be removed/destroy ed

[@Pablitoo797]

Im playing workshop with ow1 like matches and pretending that this anomaly called "Overwatch 2" never happend🥰

[@menaatefadly]

Where are you playing OW1??

[@Pablitoo797]

@@menaatefadly Go on custom games and just search for ow1 stuff

[@tigerlover2853]

They called Overwatch 2 the TF2 Killer, and now it is TF2 who is laughing in the face of a collapsed horrible game.

[@Chaosnoob5]

When Blizzard still Blizzard was, they planned it. They loved this game. They loved us and everyone and devs still too. But when they got bought by Activision, everything changed. They wanted money. They used us and didnt put any money to OV2. Here are the results now. We love you Jeff

[@KryptoKn8]

"Then the fire Nation attacked..."

[@kempolar9768]

You say that Blizzard was always good before Activision bought them, but I remember world of warcraft players talking about how terrible every new update for a solid decade was. That was far before the merger happened.

[@WeaverOfStars]

@@kempolar9768 For real, people who think Blizzard was good before Activision are hard core coping. Blizzard was selling what pretty much was pay to win MTX in WoW a bit before they got merged with Activision. It was just as hated then as it was now. Blizzard has only got away with their bullshit for so long as people kept buying into their image that they are ''a friendly, good company''.

[@chef1549]

I miss so much jeff he had so much potential.

[@canaldecasta]

They merged in 2008 lil bro

[@maxav1-exe]

Whoever posted the steampunk to TF2 is a hero, Godspeed to that magnificent bastard

[@manuelc5786]

Great porn category tho. The fanbase over there is a lot more friendlier.

[@glowdonk]

hoping someone finds a way to make a modded client of OW1 and creates TF2-level content as a way to twist the knife of the community making better Overwatch Content than the actual Overwatch devs

[@KhezuOnYourScreen]

I have a friend in my group who still plays OW2 and doesn't mind all the controversies. What's sad is that everytime he tries to get us to play with him we just laugh at his face. And then we hop on Valorant.

[@xman9354]

Because 0 of the controversies affect gameplay. If people enjoy the game, they will keep playing

[@menaatefadly]

​@@xman9354you really are the npc that help ruin many art pieces into cash grabs Enjoy your below mediocrity pal! I sure as hell wont

[@ibrokemyownheart4953]

@@xman9354that’s what I’m saying. The only thing that actually affects the gameplay is the awful ranking system

[@MyViolador]

The fact that they took away box Drops ruined it for me, i play tf2 and the drops are part of my motivation, i love to grind for event skins in games but ow2 took that away hence i lost any drive to play. And no , the coin sistem in ow2 is a joke, farm for months for 1 skin is stright up predatory

[@victornguyen1175]

You forget that it may be negatively reviewed, but its still making an absolute ton of money that it doesnt deserve to be. People got no respect for themselves playing this game.

[@cloverring]

That’s horrifying. People are going to never see the changes they wish to see if they keep screwing over themselves.

[@DaMaster012]

Is it, though? The player base is a fraction of what Overwatch's was, and dwindling.

[@practic4l349]

So is diablo 4 when they literally made your mouse lock on the buy button on battlepass. AND IT DIDN'T EVEN ASK FOR CONFIRMATION!

[@magnus1383]

It reminds me of the time the Sims devs came out with a "my first pet stuff pack", a paid stuff pack add-on for a paid dlc. One payer was outraged, insulted, disappointed. But they also said they'd still buy it anyway because they want all the dlc. I couldn't for the life of me understand it, as someone who skipped out on all the dlc in some games because I found the pricing egregiously. If you're not happy with a thing you don't really need, don't spend money on it.

[@z304legend]

Overwatch 2 is literally overwatch 1... I'm not joking. First time I loaded up OW2 it shows OW1 background then part screen loading then bam it all changed. I was super excited for the hardcore PvE and character building I was like "finally I can make my mercy a badass in a way" since she's horrible at combat and even healing unless she's hiding well or good protection she gets whipped fast.

[@menaatefadly]

Then you are gonna love Medic Gaming! Though you might have even weaker choices, cuz of random critz your ubersaw becomes an instakill lol Or you can chain medics with Uber too