It's Cancelled

[@squash2127]

“We can no longer deliver on that original vision” No, you can no longer deliver on the original PROMISE.

[@dragnofmetal]

It's not like anything is stopping them from that vision. They just don't feel like doing it anymore. Wow.

[@Derivedwhale45]

​@@dragnofmetal and that's why people are lazy nowadays look at bungie & Destiny 2 RN it's a joke. Maybe AI should take over since they'll be more efficient than a lazy human being nowadays

[@TOnySchAnneL9000]

@@Derivedwhale45 Blizzard is understaffed, they do not have the manpower to make the PvE. Too many people are quitting.

[@BeeLightning]

@@TOnySchAnneL9000 maybe they shouldn't have drive their employee away then.

[@gaysfortrump2024]

@@Derivedwhale45 ai would just find even more effective methods of milking the blizzdrones wallets lol

[@the_winglet]

If I had spent any money on this game I would be really mad right now

[@exroonquack]

didn't expect to see you here (idk who you are but u have 1.5 mill subs and this was made 11 sec ago 💀

[@erbyzyrealcuh]

@@exroonquack 1.39m

[@cseve8801]

@@exroonquack He is an amazing TF2 SFM animator

[@liltommygun6663]

100 deep brother

[@luc9226]

lots of people spent money on overwatch 1

[@spiderdude2099]

I’ve never seen a company that has to do SO LITTLE to not be hated, consistently fail to do so. It’s almost impressive.

[@HearMeLearn]

you just know this HAS to be a complete lack of competence from almost all levels of management for it to get like this so consistently at blizzard

[@spiderdude2099]

@@HearMeLearn exactly. This has to be a CONTINUOUS pipeline of poor choices getting greenlit at every juncture. Pure incompetence can’t even get you this result. It’s like they’re on a mission from God to fuck this up.

[@marcoaraiza9381]

Blizzard has been raping women for years, people just didn't care until their games started sucking ass

[@skizzit]

Remember like ten years ago when Blizzard was the golden child of the industry? They could do no wrong and everyone loved them.

[@rogerarayasaborio549]

D4 BOYS HERE WE GO!

[@rosecore4859]

Mei’s sorry voiceline apologizes better than Blizzard does

[@Thegoatone23]

Damn

[@Davidpoland2005]

we all love mei

[@tygoburger4121]

sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry sorry sorry

[@GooberInternet]

​@@Davidpoland2005correction: we all love the funny little ball thing she has on her at all times, so by proxy, we all like mei.

[@TheDragoonofdestiny]

you're not wrong. especially since when Mei apologizes, she MEANS it

[@tayzonday]

PvE was never Overwatch’s main thing the way it was with Left 4 Dead or Payday. But Blizzard promised a lot. They built enormous PvE anticipation as the primary excuse for a new title- and then betrayed it.

[@KENNYBIGBOWMAN]

Yeah

[@gameovryourmumontoast]

I remember when u played ow w max that was a funny video

[@KENNYBIGBOWMAN]

@@gameovryourmumontoast MaximillianMus?

[@SweetMeatTM]

thank you for your input tayzonday

[@Bigman-vd7gc]

Huge to see Tay and payday together.

[@andoorutsrx]

It's incredible how most high-end gaming companies fail to make any decent choices

[@TheItalianFun]

they are so out of touch I swear

[@littled5986]

These companies always disappoint

[@Stix_Zidinia]

Isn't it weird how all these bad decisions come at the same time that Female devs and Female management were thrust into these companies?

[@ascaro1885]

@@TheItalianFun un italiano sotto un video di charlie?

[@0DTEVIXCALLS]

​@@Stix_Zidinia This has been a problem long before your perceived female invasion

[@sunny_172]

You glanced over the worst part, they actually scrapped the PvE last year and are only now revealing the decision. So, the excuse for this year's content being lackluster due to the heavy development of PvE is about as real as the 2 on Overwatch2

[@zack01598]

Holy shit...

[@NomineName]

I can't emphasize enough, how much this matters. It shows both intent and attitude.

[@fr0sty790]

2 on overwatch 2 means the 2 people who like it and dont feel scammed

[@Sweyn_Nero]

It's probably because they had massive departures. Blizzard has been bleeding people for a while now. Mostly because they enforced people to go back into offices. Since people declined and quit, they now have to train a lot more people, slowing down the output of content.

[@Djuntas]

Blizzard has way to high standards for themselves. They always cancel shit and pull projects. They need to chill and just deliver some OK content, does not haft to be gut tier...Look at warcraft 3, why did coustome maps get so popular.

[@zomb9230]

The part where u mention the team "patting themselves on the back" over the little amount that they DID do, has been so true for years as a path2pro player for a long time. For 2 years straight since they stopped updating ow1 to focus on ow2, they would go on interviews every few months for "exciting game announcements" where they would practically just talk about nothing for 30 minutes straight, show that bastion would have a hat, then talk about how great the development team is working on the game. This should not be surprising at all for anyone whose kept up with OW consistently

[@3takoyakis]

The crazy part here they already cancel the game WAY EARLIER than the announcement itself Yet they still hyping it Isnt that false advertising

[@neooneeightytwo]

Pre order ow2.1 now to get the exclusive limited bastion green hat skin.

[@SammEater]

@@3takoyakis They had to keep up appearences, had they announced that the PVE/Story was cancelled no one would have bought that 40 dollar package.

[@eeek143]

being an Overwatch fan feels like watching your partner succumb to addiction

[@ImGonnaFudgeThatFish]

woah, watch out, you just might summon the ratman's fans

[@Annatar_Lord_of_Gifts]

There's still fans of Overwatch?

[@marrubee1905]

no literally.... i want to buy merch and actually like my fav characters from the game but its too embarrassing

[@GokuBlackRose978]

Yeah… and it sucks, overwatch was super fun now it’s a husk, fuck blizzard at this point.

[@kritzum]

What?

[@justdirt]

The worst part is how limitless the potential of Overwatch truly is. Every single character could be the main character of a triple A game. They canceled the comics for this. They killed overwatch 1 for this.

[@ashurad_fox5991]

Overwatch 1 can be patched, the engine could be moved by doing what us in IT industry calls "parallel processing" (running old and the new system at the same time then slowly out phase the old system) or they could just work on that new system and patch... Then turn off servers for a week to do a one step implementation of the new system. (Which many games had already done in the past btw) Then we got this half baked game, whose priority is selling you in-game items for the price of half a AAA title. While the mechanics that made it fun and exciting, where stripped out of the game and made them barebones.

[@pikajuriryu]

Overwatch one maps were superior to Overwatch 2 maps and it's not even a competition. OW2 is just a poorly made game to begin with.

[@yay842]

Cope harder. Some characters are good but not all of them are close for a main character triple a game status.

[@sarika3689]

​@@yay842 Name one character that wouldn't be a baller main character if they designed a game around them? They're all very compelling designs. Blizzard is shit, but give credit where it's due.

[@yaboyjake1767]

@@sarika3689 Mei isn't she's not great both character and game play wise

[@Robloxify69]

Bilzzard is truly the definition of “It takes years to build reputation, moments to ruin it at all”

[@FatalXRisingGame]

Cd project reds cyberpunk?

[@GoatV8]

Nah, they've been ruining it for awhile

[@Shtoops]

No, it actually took a really long time for Blizzard to ruin their reputation. I'd say it's taken at least since Overwatch 1, but maybe longer. Basically, it took a decade for them to bring through all their goodwill

[@bastianriv1124]

What reputation?

[@bryana.escaleralopez]

Imma cut them some slack because they didn't expect this game to blow up buuuuut they had years to fix it but decided to make a league just to make gamers addicted to Adderall...

[@earthmite6789]

When Jeff left, I had a sinking feeling that pve story wasnt coming anymore.

[@brillywinsen6526]

Oh god. What if mauga's also not coming anymore...?

[@EmberwindTale]

PVE was never coming. The funniest part about the whole thing is that people are genuinely shocked. This is been Blizzards MO for a long time now and yet people are still getting duped I guess it's true what they say: "There's a sucker born every minute"

[@Southparkfan598]

@@EmberwindTale ...dude, Jeff isn't greedy like Blizzard, there were actual gameplays and concepts of it, lol

[@Southparkfan598]

@@EmberwindTale And it took 6 years, I bet 70% of Overwatch 2 was working on PVE

[@n0yesn0yesn0]

@@brillywinsen6526 I am from the future, and you don't want him to come out. he is lowkey the next brig.

[@TheGreatChrisB]

Imagine working on something for 4 years, and then your boss says "nevermind, just forget about it, we changed our mind"

[@MDLuffy1234YT]

That's literally the gaming industry down to a T.

[@Blisterdude123]

I just don't believe the PVE was ever even BEING developed. Just smells like another bait-and-switch, another Blizzard rugpull. They suckered their idiotic fans in again, saying everything they wanted to hear. I'd say people have to learn eventually, but they won't. At this point I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop with Diablo 4. I remember Blizzard standing on a soapbox promising it wouldn't be like Diablo Immortal. No in-game marketplace, no currencies, no purchased power, no battlepasses etc etc. Blizzard don't though, and they know their audience don't remember and will buy it anyway.

[@anyroad5455]

Yeah, I doubt they worked on PvE at all past the beta they had.

[@Bourinos02]

"We'll just take your money instead, thanks"

[@Jorendo]

Then that person doesn't know Blizzard very well. Blizzard has canceled games before, hell Starcraft Ghost was done, it was about to ship when Blizzard decided it wasn't gonna meet the standards and expectations the fans would have, so they canceled it. A game that was in it's gold status, meaning it was done. These day's Blizzard doesn't stand for quality anymore so they produce one turd after another, but there was a time Blizzard had standards and if they weren't met, they would cancel it or delay it till it was proper, like Warcraft 3 being a meme before we even knew the term meme, it got delayed so many times that each time a new release date was set the bets were on "Is it gonna release this time yes or no?".

[@VladimirJacinthe]

To the former Overwatch players who left during OW1 and never returned, you're not missing much.

[@Joyapp]

Not true. We are missing lots of dissapointment.

[@brupts7297]

​@@JoyappThey never disappoint when it comes to disappointment

[@terrabite87]

Good to know

[@HairyJuan]

Good to hear

[@Yerp24]

WHy do u have watergothim pfp

[@prxviab]

Jeff unexpectedly jumping ship all that time ago makes a LOT more sense now

[@Doncroft1]

Yeah. The execs destroyed the vision he had for Overwatch, and he was powerless to change it.

[@harrylarry6324]

Yep, stopped playing Blizzard the moment he did so, in fact that wasn’t the only red flag Blizzard had popping out of their dying deceased horse. All I gotta say is that I was not surprised what so ever that the campaign was dropped, I saw that shit many miles away. I would’ve been confused as to why it didn’t drop sooner until I realized that it was literally the driving point as to why people played overwatch “2” in the first place.

[@onefortrees]

Jeff was the best thing for the game and I have a suspicion he was laid-off.

[@bigripper2048]

One thing that sticks in my head is when Jared Nuss says "clearly we couldn't continue to deliver at the level YOU expect" so... it's our fault as gamers I guess for being just too darn demanding in our relationship with a multi billion dollar game developer probably a bad take but that line stick in my brain

[@Gamerkat10]

How dare we expect them to not be lying when they say they're going to do something. Shame on us for having a molecule of trust. smh stupid gamers

[@ltdocholiday4925]

Not a bad take at all. A lot of people probably put money into this game because of the promise of PvE coming eventually. A lot of people probably players who otherwise wouldn't because of it. They lied about a major component of the game and aren't delivering. They could hire more people or better manage teams, I have a very hard time believing there aren't enough employees to do both.

[@harrylarry6324]

Hoo boy, I’m just saying, Tears of the kingdom brought way more then they promised. (Without in game purchases mind you.) I’m just saying, if your going to promise something,don’t snort your coke and turn around blaming your fans for being disappointed that you couldn’t deliver what they’ve been expecting for four years. Maybe don’t make promises like that?

[@chromexo9]

He said deserve, not expect. Big difference. Not in anyway defending this, I'm just as equally disappointed.

[@Gamerkat10]

@@chromexo9 Oh, that makes it even more so imo, so thank u

[@_Chontaduro_]

It’s crazy how rule 34 overwatch artists are more consistent then the devs themselves

[@kolomo5616]

Bruh 😂

[@venomm4563]

You ain't wrong tho lmao

[@fairlywren3664]

Don't forget the fanfiction

[@hikarinopower8090]

@@fairlywren3664No lmao, let’s actually forget the fanfiction

[@fairlywren3664]

@@hikarinopower8090 It's pretty bad, but they ARE consistent with their degeneracy

[@CentiPlays]

Thank you Charlie for sympathizing with my pain. Being an Overwatch fan is like having your father promise to get you a gift before he gets drunk a few hours later and decides to beat you over the head with an empty bottle instead.

[@Mayomonster38]

Funi comment

[@dex3625]

imagine looking up to a game as a father figure lmao

[@palewhiteperson]

@@dex3625 i think they were comparing the feeling. i don’t think they believe a video game is their father.

[@derekmoon7215]

what an analogy lmao

[@palewhiteperson]

@davion interfector as educated as a guess i can give

[@corroded]

Blizzard really embodies the 'die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain' ethos.

[@bilbaomadrid5040]

tbh

[@DJC-System]

That's actually a Soldier 76 voice line LOL

[@kroneexe]

​@@DJC-System It's a batman quote

[@Jetashii]

Replace villain with the fool, or glutton

[@moonwhooper]

​@kroneexe1800 it's both

[@samvimes9510]

The _entire_ reason OW2 exists is because they claimed they needed a new engine to be able to pull off what they wanted to do in the PvE (lighting, weather effects, etc), but switching to that new engine broke so many things. Lots of old features are still missing because they couldn't port them over, and they even had to disable characters (Mei, Torb, Bastion) because of game-breaking bugs that suddenly popped up. And don't forget, in a Game Informer interview from Sept 2022, Aaron Keller stated that it took them _OVER A YEAR_ just to make one mythic skin. These people aren't just con artists, they're completely and utterly incompetent.

[@sev1120]

And it's a blatant lie that they needed to change the engine, because the engine for overwatch 1 managed all of that just fine, great even! And it handled PVE way better than Overwatch 2 is. The anniversary pve modes (uprising, retribution and storm rising), as well as the Halloween junkenstein's revenge, all were great and showcased how to make a hero shooter with a PVE facto

[@Mystic-Midnight]

@@sev1120 Plus many live service games have had complete engine revamps and changes and not been released as a sequel. War Thunder has had like 4 or 5 different engines granted it is more of a game where you grind out the things you play.

[@TenshiAM]

As a game dev myself, I feel terrible for all the 3d artists and programmers working on the PvE all this time. Imagine working on something for 4 years only to have all your hard work thrown away in an instant.

[@polar6066]

and as a recurrent happening

[@davenarisotto3674]

All because of greed

[@TheSixthSLoT]

I don't think they were ever really working on it. I think the entire point of slapping a 2 to the name was just so they can have a reason to revamp the reward system into a store. They want to prey on peoples FOMO and charge 20 dollars a pop per skin. The promise of PvE was likely just a cover to get fans to follow them without complaining.

[@Paladinsunderrated]

Same for Star Wars Battlefront lll

[@lvl2mankey]

​@@TheSixthSLoT exactly what I was thinking

[@KarazolaX]

It's such a shame that this poor indie company can't deliver the promises they made for their game. Oh well, I'm sure Diablo 4 will be GREAT, guys.

[@Threat_LvL]

Battle pass

[@SpectreChazer]

​@@Threat_LvL Xbox didn't buy Blizzard

[@deadmanstale7476]

​@@SpectreChazer?

[@thegoldexperience8340]

Cope

[@EzekiesAcheron]

The Diablo team actually HASN'T fucked up since Diablo 2 Resurrected. I have high hopes, actually.

[@Juwieflan]

So basically let me get this straight: They stripped our OW1 rewards, took our level profile borders, didn't give us old player's access to the old skins with our old currency till SEASON 3, neglected the community for two years because of PvE, recycled events, THEN they make a FTP model with promises of PvE, not even giving proper Beta access to early/loyal players that have been around since pre-ordered/beta for OW1, even if you max a pass over 200 levels (you can by doing bare minimum aka daily logins/weeklies or less if you're a streamer/T500) but you still get nothing after to progress your border, and now no more PvE skill trees that must hit hard for a lot of us that played for a long time. They branded OW2 as a PvE and FPT PvP experience only to completely scrap the whole thing except their monetization methods. IG they made their bag and dipped lolll

[@mr.hollow319]

Now TF2 is sounding more fun then OW2, even though of the bot infestation

[@foxshoot3138]

not even paladin fucked up that hard( they try i have to say xd )

[@Purplepunch813]

not to mention the needed post paid numbers, unless they fixed that already

[@IceBear-jb1ip]

What? I was a OW1 player and I got all my skins as soon as I logged onto OW2 for the first time.

[@masyvalorant]

yes

[@DuelaDent52]

“We can no longer deliver on that vision, we realised it was taking away from the live game” YOU PUT THE LIVE GAME ON LIFE SUPPORT FOR FOUR YEARS

[@Sokar12345]

So the whole team worked 4 years to deliver nothing? Thats impressive.

[@Wolf_Spark]

Imagine being in that team, working for 4 years to make this happen just for some guy in a suit to come and tell you :" We don't want this anymore, bye".

[@paulbillhardt]

@@Wolf_Spark *looking over at EA*

[@TheUnlimitedProductions]

@@paulbillhardtlooking over at Star Citizen

[@Usernamesdontmatter1]

​@@TheUnlimitedProductions to be fair at least star citizen gets updates and basically is a game on its own that seems fun to play. It's just the dev team are idiots and the fanbase is a cult. It's not the same situation with overwatch 2.

[@guitarsaremyfriendzzz7077]

@@Usernamesdontmatter1 It is exactly the same in your terms.

[@HereChunk2]

The biggest change between 1 and 2 was the monetization model; adding a paid battlepass and charging $20 for skins that used to be free and easily accessible by just playing the game. Their only real justification for replacing the first game was wringing as much money as they can from the wallets of their fans. The new maps, balancing, and characters are cool, but those are all things we were already recieving regularly in the first game

[@Sumowning]

I mean balancing? What balancing.. they made the game worse with 5v5, and then scuffed the balancing for a long ass time, to a point where you'd be forced to play 5v5 to have an even remotely good time I remember a week ago I actually put a post up on forums and people were high on copium, only for this announcement to drop really satisfied but also just saddened me

[@Mitaka-Asa]

I started playing and got addicted 3 months ago. But I never realised how bad it was until they pointed it out. I keep getting stuck in bronze 5 even though I won 20 matches and 2 loss in open que. Also, I keep losing in role que because teammates are leaving or griefing. Why do we all receive a loss when its only one at fault?

[@williamladine7591]

The saddest part is they’re probably making more money now than they were before

[@JoeVO24]

you did it! you broke OW2 down to its bare essentials!

[@Fipsyyy]

did u just say we were gettin new maps, balancing and new heroes regularly in ow1? oh boy

[@gumyumgirl]

The most annoying thing is they kept excusing lack of content updates by saying they were putting resources into PVE but then they told us they scrapped PVE and showed a roadmap that was still lackluster.

[@uhk839]

Yeah, Emongg and Flats were theorizing that they had decided to NOT do PVE about a year and a half ago, I honestly agree with them

[@DasNarri]

@@uhk839 yep, this wasn’t a couple weeks decision. They never announced it cuz of a multitude of reasons, mainly for excusing their sub-par content in pvp.

[@justmoody5797]

They never worked on PVE they just build a prototype to market the game more and more then made it Free2Play and then Battle Pass every month or 2 , it hasn't been a full year and it got 6 Battle Passes 6 seasons , and night maps now day maps.

[@Hello-jz5lh]

Other Devs: "We wanted to only make a DLC, but it got so big that it turned into its own game." Blizzard: "We announced a sequel, and then turned it into something that would stretch the definition of even a DLC too generously."

[@bliss6417]

Still waiting for katana zero dlc ey,

[@hiphop4eva374]

Hollow Knight lmao

[@brianfix3292]

This mode was literally the ONE THING that was supposed to make the two games different

[@CalculatorTI89]

Wrong. That and the monetization model.

[@jaken6462]

its a bait and switch if ive ever seen one

[@starropenisthe4th786]

The campaign is still there??

[@mangoenjoyer256]

​@@starropenisthe4th786 campaign? What the hell are you on about lol

[@mahks-pectith3179]

There aren't two games. There's only one. Ow"2" was never a sequel, it was a monetization rework. They stripped many things from the original game, are reselling some of them at exorbitant prices, are fumbling just about every balance change, and of course now are cancelling the one thing people could possibly hold out hope for. I'm inclined to believe that anyone who spends money on this game any further, is a complete moron and deserves whatever dogshit blizzard dumps in their mouth

[@mattu.8062]

feels like a certified "Don't you guys have phones?" moment.

[@rygornspectre7142]

Ehhh ... both scummy but different meanings.

[@meadeiocre7085]

What’s wild is the community managed to almost make what they promised for ow2 in ow1 with custom games using a limited tool set and creating for free. There were some absolutely wild custom community made games but a multi billion dollar company couldn’t manage that with almost no limitations while making a fortune doing it

[@alexbrinzan9061]

Cuz they are incompetent as hell, thats the sad truth.

[@_shark_3272]

Nah wdym it’s just a small indie company

[@rdimodimo8610]

not really the same thing to drag blocks in a template and select configs to make a custom game compared to actually coding a game while having security, user simplicity and such in mind. Not hating on you and I’m aswell devastated that they scraped PVE but you can’t compare the 2 on an equal scale

[@lawrence9806]

​@@rdimodimo8610ok but what's stopping blizzard from using said template aswell

[@rdimodimo8610]

@@lawrence9806 Blizzard didn’t design design the workshop to be a game engine like unity. You can’t design a whole new map and new characters with new abilities in there if you get it

[@Zoogore6777]

You are absolutely right. The PvE was the only reason the game was still on my console. I miss OW1 and there was a reason it was the only pvp FPS game I played. I haven’t put any money down on this one but I had been ready and willing to pay for that story mode. The announcement was the biggest disappointment up to date which is an “achievement” on its own.😡

[@moleedaboi]

Lol, the pvp aspect of overwatch 2 is better than 1. But I guess when it comes to anything outside of gameplay and balance, ow1 was better.

[@shark20069]

They couldve said it would be ready in another 4-7 years and I wouldnt be as disheartened as I am now

[@lg6707]

Guess they're not elon musk

[@CaLixInF4mOuSx]

After playing since day 1 I feel this. Finally had to uninstall and stop continuing my disappointment streak every time I expect good news from overwatch.

[@DeathTempler]

I'm an Overwatch, Halo and Battlefield fan. This has been the most depressing year of my entire life. At least Capcom learned from their mistakes.

[@1evilsoap1]

Yea if you told me years ago that today all these franchises would be a complete dumpster fire and that CSGO would be in arguably the best state it’s ever been in with a sequel around the corner, I’d call you crazy.

[@mr.ballez]

you poor soul

[@juliomillan1016]

Same, add Gears of war to the list

[@gavynbrandt]

Viewitful Joe remasters when?

[@UTR465]

​@@juliomillan1016 bro gears current state makes me cry man.

[@Joseph-kj1ok]

If you ever hear triple A devs say "we've made the difficult decision to...." or " we looked at every option but..." basically means "we saw an opportunity to improve the game but went down the money making route instead, sorry our useless CEOs need more money and the reduction to our salary wasn't enough"

[@MrKogarou]

"Made a difficult decision" = "Activision execs made an easy decision, leaders had a horribly difficult time justifying it to the devs."

[@slynthrax]

As someone who was a fan of EA from 2005-2018, I hate to welcome you to this realization.

[@JooshMaGoosh]

@@slynthrax Can we throw bungie in the mix? Destiny is ass in its handling of monetization. Eververse is fine. but timed content that is locked behind a paywall? Crazyness.

[@slynthrax]

Welcom to the unfortunate club where only the rich CEOs prosper.

[@halex9075]

At this point I truly believe the only reason they updated the game to Overwatch 2 was to slap a battle pass on the game and shift from free earnable cosmetics to aggressive monetization. Definitely one of the video game sequels of all time.

[@somniatic]

This. Absolutely

[@Derivedwhale45]

And ironically gamers prefer lootboxes again after seeing how bad the BP system was handled rightfully so

[@ryanj3457]

100% agree

[@mahks-pectith3179]

can't believe it took some people this long to noticd. Should have been clear as day the moment they announced it would be F2P, especially when they revealed the ever-present battle pass

[@GradivusGFX]

​@@Derivedwhale45 i hated battle passes in games from the beginning. Lootbox era was bad but battle bass is just somehow even worse. I just don't get why every single game has to follow the current monetization trend.

[@trainzen11]

My hypothesis on Corporate Mentality: 1. Declare PVE is canceled (6 yrs content over) 2. Wait for upset fans to blow over 3. Re-purpose scrapped PVE content into small elements of the " New events/skins/maps and content" 4. Monetize the shit out of step 3 to recuperate losses for 6 years of PVE development.

[@Llama_charmer]

I have a similar hypothesis: "we need to monetize the hell out of this game somehow" "ok let do absolutely nothing to update the game and make it so you cant get skins through playing anymore, but we promise that theres a really cool update coming. Then when the storm passes we cancel the promise and boom, fully monetized soulless game and all we had to do was the bare minimum"

[@Homiecheese227]

Sounds like something they would do 😕

[@brotherkurp]

​@@Homiecheese227jesus you were right

[@hotrodman93]

"After the game launched, we realized we couldn't finish it" Basically.

[@watsyurdeal]

At this point, it's not about the PvE It's about the lies and the treatment the community has gotten. It feels like finding out a dark truth about your partner almost 2 years later and having to process everything at that moment, to all the way back from when this occurred. It's some strong emotions, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's the last straw for a lot of people.

[@00higgo]

😂

[@ijustmakeinflammatorycomme9839]

Halo Fans: First Time?

[@cursedfl4mes645]

It’s honestly not this deep it’s just a game if you are this sad about a game you need to hangout with friends more

[@saladasz]

Like other people said if you really feel like a game and it’s development team is your partner that’s really sad man. Touch some grass.

[@EldiniTheGenie]

@@cursedfl4mes645 the definition of an analogy is comparing 2 things that aren’t usually compared. They are just using an analogy in this situation. Relax buddy

[@redfrog1628]

I know we memed the hell out of Jeff but after he left, it hasn't felt like the game i was interested in for a looong time. Ill always treasure the phrase "Jeff from the Overwatch team here.."

[@soldierhobbes1182]

Yeah I ain’t gonna lie, Overwatch left my PC when Jeff did. That was the writing on the walls of things going to hell.

[@Tookieslam]

He was just as bad

[@bingosthad]

We memed him because we loved him

[@ilikepigeons6101]

​@@Tookieslamexcuse me?

[@Tookieslam]

@@ilikepigeons6101 did I stutter?

[@Silkorb]

Jeff made one of the best decisions in history

[@zapcat6029]

Don't forget: If you bought the original Overwatch 1 you not only lost access to it but also got effectively nothing as compensation for it, on top of the fact that basic access to new heroes is tied to a battle pass that takes excessive grinding which (by pure random chance) upon BUYING will grant immediate access to the character without grinding at all.

[@MedicinalPoet]

That's so true - as someone who pre-ordered or got the legacy version or whatever it was, I've always felt like with OW2 they ended up stealing from me, no matter how many hours I got in it originally. I only checked out OW2 after it released but never touched it since, I've been and am so angry about it, so fucking disappointed.

[@zapcat6029]

@@MedicinalPoet I never really played OW1 very much cause my pc sucked and I would get like 18 fps at best and now I've got a 4070 and I can't even play it

[@gooseyboygavin9143]

You guys are like stupid. Overwatch 2 is free. Its not like you have to rebuy it

[@andrewryan2928]

Oh they did give OW 1 players something! ..a clown Skin for sombra that is epic in rarity

[@HexYC]

playing open qeue rather than ranked is free xp or play with some friends it could make grinding easier wish overwatch 2 was paid but people who had overwtach 1 just got it free

[@oscarcisneros7701]

Being an Overwatch fan right now feels like your realizing the person you've been married to and have kids with is the type of person that never keeps their promises and just wants you for your money.

[@NumnutSify]

You're only realizing that now???? Blizzard has always been a bad company, which was confirmed when the scandals were publicly announced. Why anyone would still believe and be fans of such a company is beyond my understanding. What happened here is sorta deserved I think for the people that stuck with Blizzard.

[@KibatsuMusic]

😂😂

[@rileymachelle4088]

If you're just realizing that now, then you deserve this. Blizzard has been this way for over a decade now

[@snazzyzsmitty]

That and everyone you know keeps tellin you that marriage is full of red flags. Rose tinted glasses n all that

[@kyvian251]

AAA gaming in a nutshell

[@Samiju]

I got Overwatch in 2017 and played with my friends daily, I loved the game, the atmosphere it created, this new feeling it brought. I payed money to get it, I payed money for lootboxes because they made me so excited. The event game modes with little story modes, ect. That game was my absolute favourite game, I still know so much about the characters and their lore. Now it feels so empty, everything that made it what it was is gone. Couldn't they have made an actual second game? I would still be playing the first one. They ruined it and I'm just so upset about it.

[@gpadd06]

I follow a very similar story to you, I loved collecting skins on events it’s just not the same now as everything’s monetised

[@IamTooLateForThis]

Bought Collectors edition with Soldier 76 statue ... and now ...

[@noii1524]

I mean, that's the same game still, just without lootboxes

[@makemesmile1839]

I miss OW1 so bad :( i agree; I would’ve played it even if there were no new updates. I miss how the characters played; I miss 6man team, I even miss the old sound design tbh. Sad that they just completely overwrote OW1 and now it’s not even accessible

[@xStezy]

@ongezellig. be glad you didn't grind for six years reaching max border and getting ur stats reset at launch oof or dimmed down a bit

[@godsmackfreak13]

This actually put the nail in the coffin for me in OW. I used to love the game, played it every day, loved all the events and whatnot. I was also really looking forward to the story mode eventually. Then OW 2 came out and I thought "ahh theyll add PVE later, itll be fine :) " and was even more excited. Now i feel like theres no point. The story and characters was the most interesting part. Very few multiplayer FPS games actually have a good story thats interesting to me, and OW was one of them. but it looks like the devs dont give a shit so theres no point in playin for me anymore.

[@lg6707]

QQ "I love overwatch and although it never had a pve mode but now that there isn't I hate it".

[@yellowdaffodil7251]

@@lg6707 One of the selling points of OW2 was that there was going to be a PvE mode. That's literally why a lot of people bought it.

[@pumpkin2477]

Exactly the same for me, some of my fondest gaming memories are from overwatch, used to love it so so much. This just feels like a spit in the face for anyone who has ever had faith or love for the game.

[@CaLixInF4mOuSx]

It’s where my girlfriend and I met years ago and have continued to play and support the game. Now we’ve both quit after all the fun events and memories. It sucks that this is where the game has gone 😢

[@Sterge08]

@@teentitans0789 Seems to be the executives having them tied down. Same thing with Halo Infinite.

[@acedoff8338]

Let's be real here, OW 2 was just blizzard being greedy and making up an excuse so the could get that good, good item shop and battlepass money. They couldn't switch over to a paid battlepass in OW 1 because it was pay to play. So they used the 2 remaining braincells to come up with the OW 2 plan, and most importantly... The new forms of monetization. And then they had the audacity to make OW 1 players have to pay for post season 1 content, and not making it possible to go back to earning levels and getting ingame content that way.

[@TypicalTyphon]

“they used their 2 remaining braincells” yep. that pretty much sums up everything about the game and the developers 😂

[@thegreenpotat]

@@TypicalTyphon tbh the developers are just doing what they are being Told so it’s not really their fault

[@TypicalTyphon]

@@thegreenpotatYeah mb, I just learnt that it’s not entirely the employee’s fault. It’s REALLY the game directors/executives to ultimately blame for for their horrible jobs at game directing then. It’s so infuriating and frustrating how they said they were working on PVE for the past years, only to then pop a “hard to swallow pill” announcement out of the blue, deciding to not implement the PVE gamemode (which is the only reason why OW2 exists). It’s really heartbreaking when we’ve all been overhyped with teasers, trailers, demo gameplays, etc. only to be lied to and backstabbed. I honestly feel bad for the employees working at Blizzard, wasting all of their ~4 hardworking years only to have the directors incinerate the idea.

[@thegreenpotat]

@@TypicalTyphon yeah honestly it’s our and the employees loss in the end but I hope the devs get paid enough to at least support the higher ups bs.

[@Rhodiac]

Yep

[@wolfeyes555]

Wow. My expectations for OW2 was on the floor and Blizzard brought a shovel.

[@Maxmax10050]

Best comment

[@RinSupremacy]

Fr 😂

[@MCcrafter2504]

Not even a shovel, they brought a industrial mining drill

[@MythikosOntos]

What a fantastic line

[@joenava6201]

The fact they deleted over watch one so we can’t even go back for nostalgia is heartbreaking and enraging

[@zacharynyberg7007]

This is classic blizzard dude. They did it with wc3. Diablo 2. I think sc2 as well. It’s to make more money. But it’s completely fucked up the community

[@jmanredbull1]

@@zacharynyberg7007 not only that, but they made you rebuy D2 in a remastered form if you want to play it currently, so not only is the original gone, but now you have to pay more for the game again

[@messedupperfect9367]

There's literally no nostalgia lmao, it's the same exact game minus one tank. Every single choice they've made for overwatch 2 has been horrible, but that's probably the only good one they made

[@yeefuckinhaww9236]

@@messedupperfect9367 There actually is lmao, someone can get the game before all the characters currently were added, some may say "Well then they haven't played in years" which no, i mean it in a way where it can just be a few off. Friend groups that liked playing Comp and such together now have to be subtracted as well, there are quite a bit of people who did tank duos with there friends. It isn't that much to some people, a big to others, even if it was little to the majority, little things still play a large part in nostalgia.

[@DragonRuler]

This was like being stranded on a island and seeing a ship comes towards u in the distance for it to turn away right in front of u, leaving u stranded for even longer

[@BlueV205]

This game's development is the very definition of "our expextations were low but holy fuck"

[@aMiyafuji]

Every AAA FPS these days are now. What the fuck happend.

[@soj0s4n]

Apex Legends?

[@Buckheimer]

@@soj0s4n same shit, they change the map a little bit, add a character thts broken and then balance it later, add custom game modes tht ppl play for like a day, rinse and repeat

[@lachiemunro7]

@@aMiyafuji FORTNITE BETTER THAN EVER

[@Derivedwhale45]

​@@aMiyafuji laziness that's all maybe AI should take over since they'll be effective soon enough

[@PlayerOne.StartGame]

Leaving your GOTY without content during the pandemic were everyone was playing games to then cancel what was supposedly developed during this time period gotta be one of the dumbest decisions in gaming history.

[@adamb5147]

You do know a pandemic happened right?

[@Sam-dz8sf]

Bro copy-pasted this comment.

[@rufflesponge]

@@adamb5147 and other games had content being made in the pandemic? there will be a slowdown but no excuses for a triple A company to not have content for 2 years.

[@FreddyKruegerTheDreamDemon]

Ever thought that they weren't releasing content during the pandemic was because there was a pandemic?

[@rufflesponge]

@@FreddyKruegerTheDreamDemon and thats okay cuz other studios were releasing games and content during the pandemic?

[@doctapanda_]

It feels like planning a party for an old friend, only to find out they were never going to show up, went to an entirely different party, and died there. It's a weird betrayal from a place of love, and while you try to cheer yourself up on the memories you made together, you're angry that they lied and misled you, but you still mourn for the loss of your friend.

[@noodle4002]

who hurt you d-train

[@Shrek40K]

Yea man, you described it perfectly 😣

[@retardedmonkey9000]

🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭

[@LunarAura]

never expect anything good from anyone or anything

[@Shrek40K]

@@LunarAura wooow so deep and emo and coooool stfu ur like 12 bru

[@Windclaw]

Even the last TF2 dev is sadly shaking his head in his broom closet office.

[@CerealOverdrive]

As a programmer subtraction can be extremely difficult to do properly. It took me YEARS to master this art and I still get it wrong. Grades 1-3 were rough

[@franklin6930]

Was that a punchline

[@leatheryfoot6354]

I feel this unironically.

[@lukewilmington9807]

😂

[@alibabasaluja3482]

@@leatheryfoot6354 Skill issue.

[@no-ld3hz]

3.3 - 1.1 != 2.2. Subtraction in computers IS hard if it's relating to IEEE754 (floating point numbers). Though OW2 could trivially remove an extra team member, most likely a constant somewhere, possibly requires changing their GC or whatever they use.

[@joshualagrimas9555]

As a former overwatch fan, I can say with certainty that this is what I've been waiting for these past few years, only to hear that it's going to be cancelled, is infuriating and sad from what this franchise has become, Cash grab.

[@YourLocalGreebo]

time to change that pfp lmfao

[@joshualagrimas9555]

@@YourLocalGreebo sadly I might. 😂

[@PastaManTheFirst]

​@@joshualagrimas9555did you start playing tf2?

[@redfrog1628]

Are you a Junkrat main too? :0 or were?

[@Nova-xh2rb]

@@PastaManTheFirst that’s a downgrade

[@jacksonville9642]

Videogame companies make whole games from 0% to 100% in 4 years and Blizzard couldn't even add a PvE mode in an already existing and flushed out game that I can't even begin to imagine how much money it makes per year, truly the company of all times

[@SacredAssault]

According to Activision, in the last 3 months of 2022 the game made 100. MILLION. DOLLARS.

[@Mael_07_Sunshine]

@@SacredAssault How do you fuck up this bad???

[@dragonlogos1]

To be fair overwatch is the left overs of project titan that was started the year WoW released so it so them not getting things done on it is entirely par for the course.

[@lustrazor44]

It’s even worse. INDIVIDUAL people make entire games just as polished as some AAA games and blizzard takes months to fart out some numbers.

[@millervolt6248]

I was hoping this was about Velma

[@franman781]

Ghost Ship Games really delivers with Deep Rock Galactic. It's a hell of a pve co-op fps experience. Also, the community is amazing. If overwatch 2 is enough of a disappointment that you need to find something to quench that thirst for such a game, check it out. Rock and Stone!

[@mikechurvis9995]

⛏️ ROCK AND STONE ⛏️

[@Haiesta]

Hell yeah, rock and stone! (It’s a great game, if anyone reads this I highly recommend it :) )

[@selfabsorbedsponge7246]

ROCK & STONE OR YOU AIN’T GOIN’ HOME ⛏️💥🪲🪨

[@starguardianneo7813]

DID I HEAR ROCK AND STONE?!

[@hattedshadow2872]

Rock and stone to the bone!

[@vnkfrancis1328]

Valve has what Blizzard hasn't... One dedicated janitor to his job.

[@aamacan]

And you cant forget the Potted Plant

[@willieearles3151]

Team Fortress 2 will always survive.

[@LordTerias]

and the mystery man contractor who is fighting an uphill battle against the bots, bless his soul

[@vnkfrancis1328]

@@willieearles3151 With spite the community has, Vscript made available by Valve, countless memes and SFM shorts, TF2 has transcended beyond just being a game.

[@Devilforce988]

and a solid pve mode

[@shloyash7459]

Can confirm as a guy who played the original overwatch beta and played through the 4 years of nothing just to get this is heartbreaking and it hurts

[@uglyheadass1459]

Halo infinite is worse

[@TheMrDemonized]

glad you learned early that you cannot trust corporations

[@StellaView117m]

I'm with you. Here since 2016. Was excited for pve as always loved the limited events. Very sad day indeed

[@brycealbert4434]

It's genuinely impressive how much a large company somehow doesnt have enough people to split between doing pve and pvp

[@bluemassgamer17]

Because the money isn't going to the company. It's going to higher ups pockets. The same ones that lost sight of what gaming means

[@lukethebaron5408]

They're too busy molesting employees and dicking around I guess

[@sakura9959]

Literally, and in any case if you don’t have enough, hire more people?

[@VVheeli]

Considering Microsoft is buying Acti/Blizzard for like $70 billion, where the actual hell is the money actually going?

[@deleteman900]

I get what you're saying, and more or less agree, but however many thousands of developers ABK employs, you gotta consider how many different products they're working on... and then multiply that number by at least five or six, since there's probably a lot of in-development projects that haven't been made public. Again, I more or less agree with you, just want to spread awareness of the actual reality of personnel distribution in these sorts of companies.

[@alaskanyeti907]

Im just amazed game developers haven't been sued for false advertisements at this point. They'd known for quite some time it wasn't going to be added, and they sat on it.

[@huntish3760]

This hurts. It's hard to believe how hard Blizzard fumbled this.

[@harrymorris2361]

They sold their souls to Activison, I have no sympathy

[@petermarkstone5702]

look at diablo 4 70 $ game + dlc + seasons passes , nothing surprises me one bit about them

[@Cook-by-the-book]

Argh! They fumblin began when they announced OW2.

[@dorkydragon5055]

Is it? That hard to believe? Really? You sure?

[@Andre-vt4np]

Really?

[@bebo76338]

as a _Halo_ fan, having your new game launch without the promised co-op, progression system & PvE - I know how it feels

[@stormhought]

at least they didn't butcher the chances of it coming

[@anusmcgee4150]

@@stormhought But they *did* restart development half way through and cancel the campaign DLC for the sake of turning Master Chief into a cash cow.

[@TheAstrobiologistOW]

As someone who used to be a Halo fan I feel like I'm living a catastrophe twice

[@sethx1327]

Yeah but at least we got them eventually

[@OblivionSoldier]

​@Anus McGee They did the restart on the campaign with Chris Lee leaving and Joe Staten taking his place. Also didn't help Chris Lee sabotaging the project.

[@lordwoods8631]

For four years, Merlin trained Arthur, have him an education, so he could be king. Then Arthur went to draw the sword from the stone. And it broke.

[@dion_7155]

good analogy lolol

[@jackmckeown7601]

That's a cool analogy my dude

[@kingarth0r]

Hey that sword was bugged

[@reservationatdorsias3215]

I think its more accurate if Arthur just threw the sword away, and went back to bed.

[@lordwoods8631]

@@reservationatdorsias3215 That is true, but I also wanted to portray the concept of bugs.

[@WaterBend3r]

I'm sad to say that i'll be uninstalling overwatch 2 and battle net as of today, I have so many fond memories of overwatch, i remember being a highschool freshmen and staying up till 3 am in my uncles room while he was away playing this game with friends, screaming at the top of my lungs and just all out having a blast, i remember the first time i hit masters and i felt like i was on top of the world, I remember when i first started to play sombra and was enthralled in her gameplay and lore, becoming determined to be the best at her on console ladder, I remember being in school and being tired from a long night of gaming the day before, but also excited to come home and play even more. This game was essentially my little childhood i got, most of my childhood was plagued with tragedy from a broken home and family, but this game was the only place where i felt happy, where i felt like I had friends who liked me, where i felt at peace, I loved it because even though life treated me poorly and that I felt completely worthless and alone, it was overwatch that was my hero and gave me friends that i cherish today and memories that i will hold on too forever. It feels strange to leave it behind, almost like the end of an era for me, but also symbolic as it also feels like im moving on from my childhood. I'm 20 now and im almost at tears as i type this, but I will always love you overwatch, im sorry things ended up this way and i wish that they didnt, and i will always love you sombra, i will miss playing as you and hearing your snarky quips and im sorry i have to leave you behind, my only gem from that game. Goodbye overwatch.

[@KarazolaX]

I have felt really down about myself and my life for the past four years. I felt like I've been wasting my life and throwing away my potential. But thank you Blizzard, for helping me realize that I'm not that big of a screw up.

[@_V.Va_]

Don't worry, your life's still in the shitter. Blizz still has money even if they're incompetent.

[@dcp0102]

Well lets not get too far ahead of ourselves here...

[@Dime_time333]

Yep, just got shafted in my interest rate buying a used car yesterday because my credit is ass. Stay working towards a better future and dont give up!!

[@You-ev7kl]

It's amazing how companies choose to be anti-consumer and make less money than being pro-consumer and making more.

[@PoollShietz]

They got burnout during development like Tf2 Devs

[@mitchmitting102]

They get a small term injection of a large amount of cash, get high off that thinking it's sustainable as a practise, then realise down the road "Oh wait we are getting fuck all players now..." Happened with Halo, happened with CoD, happened with WoW, and I could go on and on, in fact the only one that really pulled it off successfully was Fortnite, which succeeded because it happened to be a one in a thousand game that made every child want to play it religiously.

[@Badspot]

Given the number people wearing $20 skins I've seen in the game, I don't think they're making less money. Players get the game they deserve.

[@thestarryeyedobserver]

@@mitchmitting102 well, the thing with Fortnite is that it actually got better and improved as time went on. that's what really makes it different. it's successful because *it's fun* and never really ended up half-assed or tainted due to the overflow of money like those other games mentioned.

[@mitchmitting102]

@kenpatchiramasama1076 Uh, what? How is capitalism meant to be anti-consumer? It's literally the practise of making money by privately supplying a product in demand. Yeah, it involves making things as cheap and servicable as required, but there is a fine line between doing something cheap, and being cheap with what you do. One made Bizzard, the other broke Blizzard.

[@xSaphiredust]

Thanks for covering this Charlie. They should be publicly shamed everywhere

[@printgymnast368]

This should be illegal. I honestly think the SEC and the FTC should look into this for false advertisements, which they won't since if advertising had to be truthful there would be no ads

[@baileypatterson9533]

@@printgymnast368 since the game itself didn’t cost money the FTC can’t do anything

[@printgymnast368]

@@baileypatterson9533 it's not just for this game. It's pretty much for all advertising. They don't do their jobs. And that's the problem

[@zivens.2407]

As long as the trailer says "not actual gameplay" there's no legal liability

[@Ahhahhhsiisis]

@@printgymnast368 Shame 🔔 shame 🔔 shame 🔔

[@micahscott3895]

With all the people uninstalling there's gonna be so many bots we won't even need pve to fight with non-players

[@alestiiidaeno_last3075]

The fact that their "announcement" vid isn't an apology shows how little they actually care about the fans.

[@skaetur1]

You dum 4 think they cared about anything but money

[@AdamEllis33]

man i feel terrible for the people who were actually working in the trenches on this. to work THAT LONG and never see the content go live must be demoralizing as hell.

[@jsml337g05u]

And some dumbass in the comments said "just fire the entire OW team" like its their fault Blizz sucks as a company, really pathetic

[@MasterMemo]

That's who I'm most sad for. The rest of us can play other games, but they just got a lot of time wasted mostly. Hopefully that stuff makes it into other parts

[@trapskilla]

@@MasterMemo wasted a good chunk of their lives

[@NinjapowerMS]

I already figured this was going to happen when they were churning out skins lmao and nothing to show for PvE for MONTHS.

[@fahadtahir9942]

I'm not convinced there was anyone working on this besides 5 interns and a chimpanzee

[@Schwingendorf_]

this has proved that the entire point of the sequel was to convert loot boxes and tokens into micro transactions

[@thorlock]

So sad. The game was already successful but Blizzard decided that giving lootboxes for free every now and then wasn't profitable enough for them. RIP OW1.

[@janek485]

I wouldn’t even call them „micro”. A single shitty skin is like 10$

[@lozpopo]

@@janek485 Quite a few of them are rare skins that you used to be able to get in lootboxes from events in OW1 as well, wtf have Blizzard been doing for years on this game?

[@checkpoint2092]

@@Free.zen. lol it’s not a micro transaction if you can earn them like every single match.

[@slothschewgum]

@@Free.zen. it was a better system. i didn’t spend a dime in overwatch 1 and i got almost every skin by playing and rolling my free loot boxes. overwatch 2 gives me no reward at all for a playing the game so i might as well not.

[@Acronyte]

As a Heroes of the Storm player my heart goes out to the Overwatch players who have also been utterly shafted by Blizzard

[@raveturkey1996]

I was a fan of both :/ Decided to uninstall battlenet for good, and their next big game diablo 4 can rot in hell along with it. The only ties I'll keep is ModernWarfare 2... but I have it on Steam, it's managed by the Activation side, and I didn't actually purchase it because it was gifted to me by a friend :) So I'm fine with that lol

[@Lapagfam]

Thanks bruv, glad our communities can come together over this bullshit

[@timerwho3850]

Imagine if video game companies actually just followed through with what they promised.

[@Lottofatto]

solution is simple. Overwatch was a garbage game to begin with, and no one should give actiblizz money

[@Apple_Beshy]

Software: hold my beer. They will take the GOTY for armored core 6 this year

[@escapetherace1943]

@@Lottofatto glad I never played it. Garbage to begin with except for the fan "art"

[@jaggarenglish]

@@escapetherace1943 It was genuinely a good game 5 or 6 years ago. Now it feels like I'm playing a soulless shell of what it was

[@Lottofatto]

@@escapetherace1943 hmm yes yes...art

[@yuko6378]

I genuinely feel bad for the people who spent four years of hard work on the PvE, only for it to be cancelled because there higher-ups fumbling and dropped the ball so hard. I would have quit instantly hearing that news.

[@doltBmB]

it's not the higher ups fumbling, the higher ups are just cutting their losses

[@JoseAlvarado-yy3qe]

Bold of you to assume they were even working on it and it wasn't just for few trailers.

[@svenwagner4717]

At this point I do not have much sympathy left for anyone still working for them. Not like they are held at gunpoint to be an employee.

[@fj3633]

@@svenwagner4717 they kind of are fiscally though...

[@thecheatcode9336]

EXACTLY ME

[@morgan280]

Blizzard really took the, “you’re one of those heroes aren’t you? Not anymore” to heart

[@LegendaryDorkKnight]

Except Blizzard would also then proceed to molest her before releasing some Pride merch to hide it.

[@connor8292]

Did they start going down the shitter before or after Activision bought them? Because if it's after, then that'd explain a lot.

[@LegendaryDorkKnight]

@@connor8292 Well, Activision bought Blizzard back in 2008 and I wasn't playing blizzard games back then so I'm not sure.

[@ZDGraphics99]

The rule 34 community work harder than blizzard

[@diavolosteddy7594]

excited to play lucioball, junkenstien’s revenge, and mei’s snowball offensive for the 70th year in a row

[@DarrenWatson64]

Do you remember when Blizzard wouldn’t release any game until it reached their standards of quality? Those were good times……

[@Vertraic]

I mean, if you played WoW at release you know that has not really been the case since at least earlier than that:D Can't TELL you how many times I took the boat from Menethil and either found myself in the water, or UNDERNEATH stone talon mountains:D

[@Movie_Games]

Project Titan 2.0

[@evilsourkraut4866]

They just lowered their standards?

[@darkdoctor1915]

I’m shocked that They have been getting worse over the years, it’s all everywhere on KZbin

[@DeepSpaceRice]

Before activision

[@Univenon]

To be fair, I always felt that the REAL reason they announced OW2 was so that people would forget about all their terrible PR choices in the previous couple of years. The best way to negate bad PR is to announce something to get people hyped and then people forget about it. Then they just scrambled to try and get SOMETHING together to make it seem like a sequel. But that's just the feeling I had.

[@im_flat]

Except they fumbled that too. They announced OW2 then had radio silence for another 2-3 years to the point it became a meme in their own community.

[@lexslate2476]

Fuckin' nailed it, my dude.

[@Hannah_The_Heretic]

Why was the prospect of OW2 exciting? genuine question. It was so obviously going to be the exact same game.

[@emancules]

These people have been working on absolutely nothing🔥🔥🔥

[@L7Space42]

true

[@Metaknight251]

This is like announcing a new iPhone with new features and when the phone comes out it doesn’t have the new features, and now the features won’t be coming so it’s basically the same iPhone you already had

[@Evanz111]

I’m honestly not surprised. Remember that they’ve assured us it takes them over a year to work on a single mythical skin. If they’re that incompetent then how could they create a new mode? 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@italianspiderman5012]

Oh yeah forgot about that lmao, no wonder it took them four years to add three heroes and a map.

[@StinkyPoopyMcFartFace]

The human race would never have gone anywhere if a AAA dev team can't make a cosmetic skin in a year.

[@pufuletu_0275]

so real

[@RaptGamez]

@@italianspiderman5012 Um, I think you mean THREE maps? Clearly it was all worth it because we got three maps (for a new game mode no one wanted).

[@legokangaroo5010]

I mean smite and paladins take more than a year to get from concept to release but they still release skins all the time

[@icedemonz7633]

It’s crazy how the company that started out with pve games cannot wrap their heads around this one

[@mrtengumanncrafter2321]

This is the saddest and most miserable end to OW in general. I feel so bad for yall who followed this game since its launch and I really wanted to try it out at some point but never mind.

[@njag3142]

It's not ending lol 😅

[@finmystik5359]

​@@njag3142 it basically is. I cant believe many people will be playing that garbage after this

[@njag3142]

@@finmystik5359 it's a free game and people play for the PvP, do you know anyone who plays the pve in Fortnite lol

[@madelinebitts2766]

@@njag3142 The PVP scene died hard during the 4 years without any new content because they decided to put everything into PvE. So PvP players got screwed over too.

[@njag3142]

@@madelinebitts2766 yeah I mean there are over 100k concurrent players

[@NaruBrilu]

The craziest thing that ive been saying for awhile now about overwatch/blizzard is how they r just fuking sleeping on a gold mine of an Arcane type animated series. Their cinematics r amazing, like how have they NOT done something like this yet for almost 7 yrs now is insane to me

[@jptrady1997]

Blizzard try not to disappoint your fans challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

[@cako666]

Gone wrong (SEXUAL?)

[@Velereonics]

If Diablo sucks, the studio will get dissolved. But it looks pretty fun so it'll probably be ok.

[@AaronWOfficial]

The problem with blizzard is, they are not blizzard anymore. They are just another word for activision now. For over a decade I have been saying, EA is not the worst company. Activision are much worse than EA. They ruin literally everything they touch, and as soon as they got their hands on blizzard they ruined them. I remember a time where I would buy a game just because blizzard was written on the box, they were literally god tier the best studio\publisher back in the 90's\early 2000's. Responsible for classics such as starcraft, diablo, warcraft plus many other niche titles many of you will not have heard of which were also very good games. To see how low they have gone now, is very sad. Anyone remember when call of duty used to be an actual war game (cod1 - cod3)? Now its just a dudebro cqc\battle royale game. As I said, activision ruins everything they touch not just blizzard games but their own games also. Say what you want about EA, at least they do have some good gems now and then. All activision releases is garbage, cod mw2 literally embarrasing. Its literally just the same as the old modern warfare 2 with better graphics and a few "new" modes.

[@Velereonics]

@@AaronWOfficial The murder of starcraft was unforgivable to me.

[@ignaciomontes9794]

​@Jhin unless they take a lot of monetization ideas from their diablo phone game.

[@mrladiesman176]

The saddest part about this is not being basically lied to, not having ow go without new hero and maps for a year in order for them to "work on ow 2" not even the fact that we were forcibly moved to this new cash grab system, but the fact they can sit there and be like "yeah. I know some of you are gonna be upset about this, but hey we'll give you a road map of more content you need to buy 😊"

[@theholypotato7763]

Wdym buy

[@W3LSHDR4G0]

@@theholypotato7763 battle pass, etc

[@voro8298]

@@theholypotato7763 gotta buy the battlepasses to play the missions, it seems. Yes you will have to purchase each PvE event individually.

[@nin_kirsuji5284]

Elite pfp

[@Hannah_The_Heretic]

its a free game with a battlepass, the fact that you people expect anything at all is a little shocking to me.

[@BurkeBerserk]

I hate myself for making my wallet the biggest victim of this. The “story missions” will just feel like the junkenstine events

[@dragoncpu2226]

Hey at least now you learn to not 1 pre order games 2 Dont trust AAA gaming companies 3 dont spend money willy nilly. I hated what they did to ow 1. I hated the glorified "Shop" change. Most of all I hate the higher ups at blizzard and their greed. The actions they took and the things they changed are not aligned with my beliefs. All for the fact that I hate these mfs and dont trust them. And look at where were at now. lol. NEVER TRUST PEOPLE WHOVE LIED ONCE. And the thing is this company has lied countless times. lol.

[@tygamer2436]

RIP Wallet srry for your loss

[@bigfatbub]

RIP wallet.. hope no more of him goes to Blizzard 😞

[@tygamer2436]

@@bigfatbub its okay hold back them tears im sure he went to a better place

[@0xESSEL]

what do people spend money on in ow? only time i spent money was when i bought it in 2016

[@nerfer200]

What you need to remember is that in order to get overwatch into overwatch 2, they pretty much factory reset everyones profiles. Everything locked again.

[@raxidy3350]

Watching a game you fell in love in 2016 just crumble and fall by an uncaring company is really heartbreaking

[@Guitar-Dog]

I agree

[@EmoElmo007]

Honestly when it comes to the devs and what not I truly don't think it's because they don't care. They simply bit off waaaaaay more than they could chew and the consumers are suffering hard for it.

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

​@@EmoElmo007 same thing as many games. Over promise, and disappear with the bag.

[@iitzfizz]

It's bullshit that we couldn't keep Overwatch, you know, the game we bought.

[@AzraelAlpha]

Imagine simping for a AAA game in 2023

[@taylorlapira9109]

Overwatch has such potential, and it's honestly impressive how efficiently Blizzard manages to fumble that potential again and again

[@Inoffensive_name]

Blizzard Activision

[@kaneoii]

@@Inoffensive_name shut up

[@seanthomxx2694]

I can't help to think that after Bungie left, Activision pressured Blizzard to give Overwatch a PVE mode

[@Achieme]

I mean this is Blizzard we're talking about

[@AskTheMasked]

​@@Achiemethey fucked up WOW before they were know for that lol

[@yamisukehiro2696]

2k+ hours on OW1. I played 2 weeks of OW2 and had enough. How they managed to destroy a classic game is beyond me 💀

[@redcomrade0088]

I'm a warcraft 3 fan. After they destroyed that I had no doubts lmfao

[@dinglebop5700]

The PVP is literally the same but with more heroes. This seems like a weird thing to complain about. And yes, I am mad about the PVE.

[@AbQve]

5v5 is infinitely better than 6v6.

[@Doflaminguard]

​@@dinglebop5700 they advertised OW2 as a sequel which caused OW1 content drought for 3 years just to not have PVE anyway. OW isnt a sequel, but an update.

[@ImDeluxeSP33some]

The PVP is clearly better gameplay wise in 2, just everything else promised in the sequel is either half baked, monetized, or missing lol

[@Herecomesdatboi12]

Had to come back to this video after seeing a big possibility of story mode missions being cancelled. If this actually happens blizzard has really become a joke hahaha

[@ninthfriend3347]

4 years we have waited...just to hear it being scrapped. As someone who has been a fan of the game since OW open beta, this is heartbreaking to hear...

[@Irondrone4]

I can't wait for this to become the new trend in AAA games. They already can't deliver on reasonable day-one content or a polished and optimized product on launch, but NOW we can look forward to the core advertised concept of a game getting canceled years after it wasn't even there to begin with.

[@the3plyspy]

Real

[@greyspirit4]

Should people sue them for false advert?

[@TheRPGenius]

"To become"? "New"?

[@tsavage4337]

@@greyspirit4 yes

[@grecil]

@@greyspirit4 I’m actually not sure since Overwatch 2 is a free product. But then again, they lured us in to the sequel with promises, made us stay and spend, and just shat on the carpet and scurried off. What a real video game company.

[@roexception1962]

blizzard has an amazing ability to take good things and ruin them as fast as possible

[@b00psn00t]

Late stage capitalism-- fixed it for ya

[@CrizzyEyes]

@@b00psn00t Yeah I'd rather wait in line for rations instead, then we wouldn't have to worry about new video games at all, and we'd just pirate old games. Y'know, like Russia and China do now.

[@milchtute832]

ea is pretty good in that too

[@fredericdumais5329]

Dude your comment straight up got stolen by a porn bot its at like 400 likes right now, shit is ridiculous

[@fillspace6982]

That's what it is called Blizzard, a natural disaster that slowly kills any survivors and has a high intensity to drown any being under a big pile to cover anything and make a white grave over it

[@milkyboyfriend]

overwatch 2 was announced as a distraction from that whole controversy where they banned a player for saying free hong kong

[@manuelrojas7843]

Nobody mentions this, it was literally 2 or 3 weeks after it happened and their public goodwill was 8 feet underground

[@daveybonesOG]

Also, overwatch 1 already HAD the story missions every year as a seasonal event and had fully-functioning PvE for halloween, yet couldn't modify it to be year round and fumbled the bag 100%.

[@deliqene3191]

If you wanted to tell your entire community to go pound sand regardless of what stance they have on the game, this is the most effective way to do it

[@GamingWithHajimemes]

"enter sandman"

[@sven-nc7ph]

Guys, give them a break. They are just a small indie company that has a multi billion dollar budget for the game. It's hard out there

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

they have multiple dollars to use

[@warlordofbritannia]

Same thing with Paradox Interactive-why do you think they doubled the prices of DLC in the middle of a global recession while simultaneously reducing the amount of content per expansion? Poor indie corporations!

[@mistertagnan]

I still firmly believe that Overwatch 2 was only created as a distraction from the sexual assault/harassment allegations Blizzard found itself wrapped up in a few years back. They announced it shortly after those allegations broke and I guaran-fucking-tee that overwatch 2 wasn’t even a concept before that point