Overwatch 2 is an Insult to Gaming

What an absolute circus. Lie after lie after lie. Just have a single direction. Make the worst game possible, sure. Just do it with your chest.
Overwatch 2 continues to be one of the biggest jokes in gaming history. What new low will they stoop to next?
PvE is canceled. Can't wait for slightly-better-than-archives events 4 years late! Yippee!
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[@flawed1]

The cold hard truth is they never released overwatch two. They canceled it so they could remonetize overwatch one and call it overwatch two

[@fourth80]

YES! This needs to be stated and shared everywhere. Man I wish people, like actual fans of Overwatch would stop playing it. Every one needs to get together and send a message.

[@zenbamboo7978]

I'm ready to fully put my foot down. I'm with you, brother! Now and forever. I want Overwatch back. I want to see the Sakura trees of Hanamura. I want to see the level up again. The lootbox the game gave us and the pat on the head. I want to go home. Let's send the message. I'm ready. I won't be satisfied until we get to go home.

[@fourth80]

@@zenbamboo7978 I'm done playing. I want my money back for Overwatch 1 which I payed for, which I can no longer access and play.

[@AresGod0fWar]

@@fourth80 I was a fan of Overwatch since day 1. I uninstalled it last night, and I don’t regret it. Plenty more will do the same. They already made it easy for me with all of the bad decisions prior to this announcement.

[@zenbamboo7978]

Me too. I can't do it anymore. I stopped long ago but decided to try it again. But no more. We've been stolen from.

[@V0L-TlC]

“What is blizzard polishing?” Clearly the gun that they’re using to shoot themselves with

[@BobOrKlaus]

and they really making sure its spotless

[@sasaki999pro]

Blizzard would be the type to shoot themselves in the foot and then spend the next two years mopping up the blood in circles while it continues to drip from their untreated wound.

[@batabids]

@@sasaki999pro omg it’s like that one sad robot “can’t help myself”

[@umbrella3096]

​@@sasaki999pro I'm stealing this

[@Spika94]

@@BobOrKlaus And they keep repolishing it every 2 minutes because some dust got on it.

[@marvynjeanbaptiste3206]

What scares me the most about this situation is the potential for other gaming companies to pull the same shtick. They managed to fully HOODWINK their entire player base’s wallets and you can’t even sue them. I have no doubt EA is taking notes

[@jonnybravo473]

They’re all doing it. Blizzard isn’t the first they’re just following and doing the greed better than others

[@roxy3272]

Or maybe valve with counter strike 2 💀

[@mariebunn45]

@@roxy3272 except valve is actually doing work and has delivered on their promises and the fanbase is excited with what was shown of demo gameplay by real veterans in the community...do not compare CS2 to this bullshit are you crazy

[@SkreltNL]

@@mariebunn45 i got a bridge for sale!

[@shaeby8123]

@@SkreltNL Ok, so tell me why you think CS 2 will be a scam. What reason?

[@Weebei]

Can't deny that Blizzard certainly redefined what a sequal to a game would really mean.

[@marci8746]

I mean yes, they were true on that. Certainly a redefinition xD

[@zdzistrix]

Blizzard just wants to send Overwatch domain into early retirement. Mercy is for the weak. There is a lot of unnecessary time put on PvE that was canceled soon. Like "what is wrong with the company?".

[@Gobrus]

I can't believe we live in a reality where Blizzard has fallen THIS hard, its become an entire company of scammers

[@begui1044]

Trully disgusting

[@SlurryMadA]

You could've lost some breast milk that's for sure

[@Another_Dusk]

they used to do best games so far (wow, warcraft 3, sc2, even hots was fun at the release, overwatch too was good the first year) now it's just bruh

[@purecalm3160]

Former Warcraft player has entered the chat*

[@tayoffbeat]

they’ve been too busy harassing other employees

[@darowchdawg]

The fact it takes them 2 weeks to fix 1 hero bug but they can hotfix issues with their shop in a day is absolutely hilarious

[@Keldiur]

Just shows where their priorities and resources for the game go. They have given up on balance like they have given up on OWL. This game will just be a worse FPS live service game for 2 - 3 more years until it is shut down.

[@dragon_ball_sucks_video]

Lets be honest, its easier to fix the shop, then a hero, but yea this is annoying

[@shinski8114]

sounds like halo infinite

[@groovydespairgod5190]

they said they couldnt hotfix heroes lmaoooooo like huh? A HERO SHOOTER CANT HOTFIX THEIR CHAMPS. yeah

[@OkamiAmaterasu.]

Exactly like Bungie

[@l.j.turner185]

Makes it worse that you can’t just ignore all this and stick with the first game, they had to destroy that option…

[@Em0_]

I actually feel so bad for the developers who poured their soul into the pve just to be told "hey can you like... Stand on a stage and tell them you guys decided to cancel the pve to focus on the live service free game? Thanks losers"

[@TheDragoonofdestiny]

kinda reminds me of when they announced Diablo Immortal XD

[@buragi5441]

They truly managed to redefine what a sequel means. Never before was a sequel just a veiled change of monetization practice for the game.

[@HeloisGevit]

Lol that line aged HORRIBLY

[@dddripz]

@@HeloisGevit How?

[@HeloisGevit]

@@dddripz I'm pretty sure fans at the time didn't expect 'redefining what a sequel means' to end up being just the negative impact OP stated.

[@budlikycz2445]

I think you thinking of Bungie's Destiny 2 by your description and they possibly tried to outdone them

[@Rhadoo89]

Even the name "Overwatch 2" doesn't make sense. It's like talking about Fortnite 2.

[@Eggplonky]

Blizzard’s inability to read the room on what their fan base wants is honestly insane, the roadmap they’ve put out is standard, if not, behind modern times and they realistically don’t have anything to entice a new player base into their game anymore

[@pwpqwq7648]

It's not Blizzard that decides these things anymore, unfortunately. Activison is responsible for these decisions, and they are the only reason Blizzard is dying. Blizzard itself is perfectly aware that these changes are stupid and vomit inducing, but they can't do shit, as their contract with Activison doesn't let them

[@GokuBlackRose978]

@@pwpqwq7648more reasons why you shouldn’t let another company have your keys, but instead share them. Contracts are so dumb bro

[@pwpqwq7648]

@@GokuBlackRose978 You are saying that as if it was that easy. The reason they sold themselves to Activison was because they were very close to going bankrupt, even with Wow making over one billion, it was still nothing compared to other video game developer studios making way more than that. They didn't WANT to merge with Activison, they HAD to

[@GokuBlackRose978]

@@pwpqwq7648 yeah well, letting them have full access to their keys is a dumb decision, no matter if they had or not had a choice. Should have negotiated better

[@pwpqwq7648]

@@GokuBlackRose978 You don't really understand it, do you? They don't make the rules when they are the ones who got their asses bailed out by Activison. Their only option was to give in to Activison's demands, otherwise Blizzard would have shut down years ago

[@TheTraveler980]

The funny thing is, on PS4, Overwatch Too is still being referred to as Overwatch Origins Edition.

[@thatoneguy9756]

Blizzard and Activision having a war on who can be the worst gaming company of all time.

[@DeepbloodFang]

You mean EA, because Activision and Blizzard are basically the same, even if they are seperated now.

[@dillantrinh8034]

​@@DeepbloodFang I guess you would call a sibling rivalry, which one can be more worse Blizzard or Activision with the parent EA encouraging it.

[@RickJaeger]

All the major game companies are involved in a giant race to the bottom. There are no more good guys.

[@AruSharma04]

Not "of all time". Blizzard before 2010 was the greatest of all time.

[@krukblood-axe3649]

@@dillantrinh8034 Nah man, Activision/Blizzard is actually worse than EA now, even they don't scam their players THIS much. They're even making decent single player games again. The shit that Blizzard has done with just Diablo Immortal and Overwatch 2 surpasses anything EA have done.

[@Bread377H]

"Instead of playing the campaign, you get to read it" lmao

[@Dagaz_art]

written by ChatGPT

[@EsteemedReptile]

Ah yes, what a fun update to look forward to. Homework.

[@themagnificentmason8049]

When people miss lootboxes that's when you know you did something wrong

[@gallonthegreat7036]

Those same people were the ones bitching and blaming overwatch for their bad gambling habit foh I'm not hearing that bs....ow too wishy washy..

[@echo6192]

ngl i do miss lootboxes. I did buy some but lootboxes were soooo easy to acquire that youd unlock the unlockable quite easily, locking skins through paywalls is so scummy especially after ow always had free skins

[@zengoku4518]

I Never played OW1 can someone tell me how bad lootboxers were?

[@ErykBeyk]

@@zengoku4518 they were some of the better lootboxes in any game really, you could get a ton of them just by PLAYING THE GAME and you would often find coins (duplicates) in them, so you could buy the skins you actually wanted after a bit of grinding. I played OW1 quite rarely, but I still managed to get all of the skins that I wanted for the characters I wanted with coins. Meanwhile in OW"2", playing casually does not feel rewarding in the slightest and made me actually completly uninterested in coming back to the game anymore. Oh, and the lootboxes were FREE to OPEN, unlike some other games.

[@gallonthegreat7036]

@@zengoku4518 they weren't bad people just compulsive n kept buying them shits Meanwhile millions of us never payed for a loot box because ow made sure to always hook you up

[@lolzism1]

The reason for the sequel tie-in, as I believe I recall being said by Jeff himself, was that it would take the work of a whole new game to get the PvE system and Ai-interactions to work, since it was limited for the first one. But clearly Jeff leaving the company was a bad, bad sign that his sequel/prequel cross dream was dead. Truly a shame to see this loss.

[@BambiLena666]

This started way earlier. Jeff was still there for a lot of very bad decisions, management and community communication. I mean the Mercy moth debackle lasted for almost a year and that was entierly under his leadership.

[@Connorses]

The phrase "Redefining what a sequel really means" is hilarious in hindsight.

[@sonicrunn3r895]

Yeah they really redefined it…in the worst ways possible

[@nolives]

The irony is that players have made more pve in custom games than the dev team.

[@ashhw1984]

That mode is one of the only things that game survived for so long.

[@GrainOnTheGo]

When Valve moves faster than Blizzard you know something is wrong.

[@isidrotorrescamacho9113]

im happy about that

[@eyalcochva416]

I moved to tf2 because of this and we will get a summer update this year so at list we will get something

[@Kronos0999]

Imagine still caring about Blizzcon or Blizzard games.

[@johnmehlman5195]

Not to mention yall are getting cs2 soon

[@livvxx.0]

im sorry but whenever valve actually makes games, they always turn out to be masterpieces

[@modobo]

TF2 got PvE right YEARS ago. Mann vs. Machine nailed it and all they had to do was take some notes. Heck its still a fun time to this day.

[@zapadap1328]

The only thing Blizzard polishes is the cars of the executives

[@khorneflakes2175]

They simply regretted the "Buy the game once and you'll get all the heroes and the maps we make for it for free for ever".

[@Keldiur]

They could have added a battle pass with unique skins and no one would have batted an eye. Then they could have even phased out loot boxes. But no, that would be no good. The vets and the grinders were sitting on thousands if not millions of currency. They had everything by playing. They needed to handicap it all so they could charge us forever. No more free shit unless it was an old skin given away for free you already had but the new players did not.

[@rondonscorcho5516]

This game was fun and now it's poop, I wasted real money on a great game just for it to get murdered.

[@hubiguschti5867]

@@Keldiur i'm sorry but the last time i checked, i was playing the game completely for free.. what are you on about "charge us forever"??? They do not charge AT ALL... if you wanna waste your money then go for it, but don't say they made you do it... delusional

[@Keldiur]

@@hubiguschti5867 you do know your "free" game made my account technically worth thousands of dollars right? For my 60 dollar investment. Sure, its free.... but there is 0 progression or anything new for being free. The heroes or maps do not come any faster than OW1. The PvE is also now exactly as it was and all events you can "progress" are no different. It will take decades for a free player to earn what I did. Years of buying a battlepass that gives you 10 new items at best. Man, that value. Not to mention after about 6 months, any new FtP will just leave for the next FtP title as they get stuck at a rank level and abandon buying anything anyways.

[@churlbreak671]

@@hubiguschti5867 Last i checked, heroes are locked behind a battlepass. And someone did the math and it takes a considerably longer time to unlock the new hero in the free battlepass compared to the paid one. So unless ur willing to grind for hours everyday for a new hero for the rest of your life, then go for it. But not everyone can do that

[@mf-il4po]

they had already made the decision to cancel PVE before even releasing OW2. so they knew the whole time and continued to lie to their fans with a smile on their face. absolute scumbags

[@razrv3lc]

Right? It’s amazing they actually admitted to knowing they had no plans to release PvE months prior to releasing the game. They pretty much told everyone they were advertising something they knew they had no plans of releasing.

[@HoneeFaee]

But it isn't cancelled though? 😭 Just what they promised us they couldn't deliver which is a separate PVE game and talent tree's, we're getting PVE just not how we expect it 💀

[@Phoenix-zm8ij]

​@@HoneeFaee its a far tuned down version of the game we were promised for 3 years, like thats a huge discrepancy

[@mf-il4po]

@@HoneeFaee so if Blizzard offered you a residence to buy and they advertised to you a mansion with nice furniture, lots of space, a pool, etc., but when you go to pickup the keys it's actually a 1br studio apartment w/o furniture or appliances, you'd be okay with that? It's still a place to live, but it's nothing like what they've been advertising this whole time. Blizzard/OW2 team knew what they were doing and lied to supporters to their faces.

[@phastt]

@@HoneeFaee If you've played archives or played this game the last 7 years, you'll understand that PVE will never be anything at all. Starwatch was fun for 30 minutes. That's your future with this game. Every 3 months or 6 months you'll get a 30min-1hr experience with zero replayability. That's not a true PVE experience, its just a "custom game" that takes no time to develop or play.

[@Orrinn123]

Bankrupt them. Play their games to raise server cost, don’t buy anything, be toxic. Then we can finally be rid of them

[@49HEALTH]

Or just don’t play they’re games😂

[@adamlassiter1296]

I came into Overwatch when they released it for the Switch. Loved playing it so much I turned around and bought it for PC as well. What I loved the most was the "Lets Find a Group" feature or LFG. It was amazing to just find a group and just talk and play games in between. Honestly it was some of my favorite moments in gaming and I wish more games had that feature. Less than 6 months later they deleted my game, and the new game doesn't have LFG. I uninstalled it from my switch and pc.

[@JannahSWT]

It’s funny how they need 7 Seasons to work on the bare minimum

[@TurningTrix42]

on top of the 3 years from when they stopped making content for OW1 just to reproduce the same game with less content, broken content and still haven't produced enough new characters and maps to make up for the time where it was completely dry for years and could have been making new characters and maps.

[@JannahSWT]

@@TurningTrix42 i swear when OW2 “released” i kinda felt that it was totally different from OW1 like i knew something was odd about the Game, and talked about it with my friends and they were all like “nah bro it’s still the same” is it? Definitely not, they’re turning one of the most fun multiplayer games into a pile of garbage.

[@unculturedit]

small indie company

[@natchu96]

that bare minimum being...still worse than the original game they canned to work on this.

[@Rosequartz95]

It feels out of place in a way. Same goes for the new heroes. Ramattra is the only one who actually fits in the overwatch character genre. But that’s just my opinion.

[@Idontexisthihi001]

I love how they said "We wanted to talk about the PVE before we talk about the road map". Like, they truly thought people were gonna stick around and pay attention to the rest

[@meolcornbread6712]

Think about it, think about how much more pissed you'd be if you sat through the whole road map and then they say at the end that they won't be releasing pve as advertised 😂 No excuse of course. the devs still killed it. I'm just kinda glad they did it that way. Tear the bandaid off quickly, right?

[@iCdizzily]

there seriously needs to be some changes to what video game developers get away with. The market is SO predatory.

[@nuruluin9840]

"...anounced ow 2, I don't know if you got chills" I didn't! I was crazy mad because you could see this was a robbery from the first minute!

[@peytonibarra8992]

I vote we boycott not only OW, but Blizzard. Nothing is going to change as long as they keep getting away with this shit.

[@razrv3lc]

It’s genuinely impressive to me that Blizzard didn’t go bankrupt years ago. They’ve been floundering for years.

[@virulenceconviction5343]

Agreed I’m boycotting

[@Grimnoire]

Ya know? This is dumb, let's say everyone stops consuming blizzard products and they go bankrupt, still nothing will change, but honestly it's for the best, no one should waste their time on blizzard

[@sleet2k4]

boycottverwatch

[@cosmicneko7225]

ive been boycotting since blitzchung, helps that none of their games really interest me very much

[@bloodangel7731]

They gaslit the playerbase from the very beginning just to get them to hand over all the cash for the new battle passes and milk the game as much as possible

[@BobOrKlaus]

they didnt just gaslight us, they blatantly lied

[@Bigbbezme]

100% agree and my dumbass was supporting the game by buying the battlepass holding out hope we were getting pve. At the start of last season I started getting feelings that pve was gonna be scrapped. But I kept playing and got the battlepass. Got the battlepass this season, too. But this will be the last time. I'm not going to hand over another dime to a company that is continuously shady and doing awful shit not just with the game but within the company, too. And if the pve they do put out is gonna be somethin that requires me to buy the battlepass to take part in for that season only?? Well, my time with it may be done altogether.

[@soblueasu]

Literally called it, I knew they needed a good Q4. Just didn’t know it was this bad.

[@Waponzi]

Gotten all 4 seasons but blizzard will no longer b milking me !

[@guyguy7213]

You know it's bad when lootboxes being gone is actually worse

[@Space-Holiday]

I can’t think of a better example of a game having so much good will only to be absolutely tanked by the incompetence of its developer.

[@bilarus695]

What about HOTS lol

[@dj_koen1265]

Or even just buffing void rays for no reason and then saying oke we won’t balance the game anymore anymore from here on out Which led to the awful void ray meta for 2 years until the community stepped in and made their own balance patch

[@AsaBonk]

i’m so glad to see content creators as annoyed with the inexcusable deceit and lack of content. it honestly just feels like a slap in the face to the community. for me, i stopped feeling any love put into this game after jeff left. it’s so sad to see the game i fell in love with be reduced to this embarrassment.

[@GallusOW]

It's such a shame. I definitely feel cut up about it because of spending thousands of hours making videos about and playing the game. To see it be dragged through the mud like this is just pathetic.

[@VokunG20]

a slap to the face is an understatement. More like pissing on the player base without the courtesy of calling it rain.

[@dragon_ball_sucks_video]

Tfuck2, Dotautism 2, cshit, aassasin franchise, cod Just named games that are doing the same, if not worse things then Blizzard

[@bambampewpew32]

@@dragon_ball_sucks_video tried so hard for those lol And we're used to cod doing those man we're just mad cause blizzard was so great a few years ago

[@dragon_ball_sucks_video]

@@bambampewpew32 I didnt, I used a pound of creativity, something you dont have. I dont care about people being "used" to something, either you critisize everything like this, or you're a hipocrite

[@NadeTheFun]

I give them credit, they really redefined what a sequel can be

[@FireDragonHoard]

LOL

[@charlestonjew7587]

Blizzard is the Rian Johnson of iconic video game IP's. They "subverted" our expectations.

[@teehee3657]

😂😂😂

[@drakevoidwalker]

This reminds me of when EA *apologized" for Dungeon Keeper being a cash grab by saying they "innovated too much" 😭 that WE were the problem lol we just weren't ready for their brilliance 😫

[@lukemimnagh2594]

A friend of mine paid £40 for the bundle that would've given you the PvE as soon as it came out. And as you can imagine it's an extreme understatement to say they are pissed that their money was stolen by the scammers at Blizzard

[@49HEALTH]

They didn’t get refunds?

[@Dreigonn]

Something I never here people talk about is how they only had 3 new heroes on release. Which is the equivalent of like them making 1 hero a year. Absolutely WILD. Overwatch 2 at minimum should of released with 10 new heroes.

[@GallusOW]

I wish I'd focused a bit more on this - this was actually my main gripe with OW2 when it came out, and I didn't play it on release. We had such a long drought of no new heroes, only to get LESS than the original pace that they made them. It was such a kick in the teeth man. We could have had 9 heroes or MORE if they were spending their time actually making them.

[@jacq_sparrow]

Announcing Overwatch 2 was absolutely a way to distract from ongoing controversy and the "sequel" was also absolutely just a scheme to introduce a new shit monetization system.

[@noelbaars]

The simplest way to make Blizzard feel like they failed is by stopping to play the game. If enough people do this maybe those higherups will realise you cant just blatantly make false promises and get away with it.

[@BambiLena666]

playing the game isnt even the end all be all, its the content creators and players giving them money. The game is FTP, if people stop giving them money for this crap even if they are so dependent on the game for some reason

[@archvaldor]

@@BambiLena666 "its the content creators and players giving them money" If you don't want to play their games stop playing, and stop giving them free publicity by sharing your fascinating opinions (something you will absolutely never stop doing). Do not give other people a hard time because you want a scapegoat.

[@Shilobotomized]

@@archvaldor Scapegoat? The reason Blizzard made every decision they have so far is because it makes them more money. How do they get that money? The people that pay for season passes and 10$+ skins It's not exactly a scapegoat when it is actively the problem.

[@GamezPDD]

@Archvaldor's Warcraft Hacks What is this idiotic take? The players have the choice not to play and support the game at the end of the day. Theyre not a scapegoat, and the devs arent forcing you to play their shitty game. Its players choice, and just because you cant stop sucking OWs dick for 5 seconds doesnt mean youre not also the problem.

[@fidly4]

Way ahead of you. Decided never to buy at after we learned about their work environment.

[@thibautisserant]

The locked role with one tank made me drop the game with my friends. Two of us love to play Reinhardt and we just couldn't anymore. It felt like we were being punished for liking the same character/role.

[@Chaoticchips]

2 tanks was annoying when it came down to the fight between 2 rein and 2 zarya. 1 is definitely better. I love playing tank also

[@pufferfishman4203]

I’m gonna keep it real; it was already dead about a week after it’s launch, the only reason it was kept alive was the promise of something more (and possibly the waifus but still). They dug their own graves by canceling the one thing that people wanted out of this sorry excuse of a sequel, and started the downhill spiral by deleting the first game

[@NerdishGeekish]

6:32 "They have an incredibly massive team with a SHETLOAD of talent at their disposal." Correction: They USED TO have a massive team with a shitload of talent, if the flood of resignations these past 12 months is anything to go by. It's probably mostly rookie developers being worked to death on this project, and after they die the flesh is stripped off their bones and made into appetisers for Bobby's cocktail parties. That way the company can extract maximum value from their employees.

[@shaharluxenburg4640]

That's brutal man, lmao

[@Kono_Dio-Da]

​@Shahar Luxenburg So is the game's industry unfortunately

[@stewie4467]

as if the devs are absolved of all blame LOL. so delusional

[@Kono_Dio-Da]

@@stewie4467 The devs are exceptionally powerless in a company like Blizzard, devs follow the higher-ups decisions, not the other way around

[@Wveth]

@@stewie4467 Devs are worker bees, dude. They follow orders. Depending on the company, dev teams can get more or less autonomy, but ultimately they're all beholden to the executives. Do you think Blizzard is the kind of company to give their dev teams a lot of autonomy? Think hard.

[@jessco8950]

You know you messed up big time when your players/fans are saying… “I wish they kept loot boxes” lol

[@winster32]

Yeah, it’s THAT bad.

[@micahscott3895]

Bro I can say confidently say that fortnite is the only game that has mastered the battle pass system that's 1 thing they get right but then look at overwatch's battle pass I'm not even a huge fan of fortnite I'm just telling the truth

[@Evets_03]

Well after battlefront 2, battle passes just became the new loot boxes. Seriously, every game that would’ve had loot boxes instead had a battle pass. I swear it’s like chronic Stockholm syndrome wanting to go back to the less harsh abuse.

[@madamebkrt]

@@Evets_03 You should see the people who defend battlepasses. That's stockholm syndrome on steroids lol.

[@DarthLesbian]

There was nothing wrong with the lootboxes either. Sure you could buy them but you didn’t have to, could get them for free just playing. I loved getting lootboxes.

[@JohnXina97]

Imagine still wanting new heroes when this dev team showed countless times that they aren't able to balance the game ever since Brig released

[@JustaRandomDude1812]

I still can't believe they cancelled the game, slightly rebooted it, added new characters and skins... and called it a "new" game

[@wanderovrponder]

The pure vitriolic anger you feel towards blizzard for how this game is mismanaged is honestly a breath of fresh air compared to the normal/corporate talk that some of the ow youtubers have been doing We deserve to be mad, especially since they knew it months in advance. I would've liked for this game to have been released when it was ready. I don't care about the rest of the players. If the game was done with pve and pvp, I don't think anyone would be pissed. But they only did this for the money, I'm sure of it. Thanks for the video, bro

[@lonelystarslibrary9326]

Agreed

[@ilyuser]

i can’t believe blizzard somehow found a way to make me miss loot boxes

[@marcusnorberg8498]

Lol me too.. and i had over 500 unopened for a while

[@chadwellington2524]

loot boxes were great

[@explosion6768]

Isn’t that supposed to be EA’s job?

[@noname76761]

Loot boxes suck ass. The single system I think sucks worse is battle passes. So of course that's what every live service is going to have for the next few years lmao

[@fretless7099]

@@marcusnorberg8498 me too man I was waiting to open them and I forgot to before ow2 came out

[@sinfulpuritan3430]

I think it says a lot that I, someone from outside of any sort of fps, pvp, or battle royal fandom, much less Overwatch, can feel your absolute anger and pain through this video and am now invested in whatever is going on here. Great video, keep up the good work!

[@Jergling]

This is unfair to Blizzard! They truly achieved their goal of redefining the meaning of "sequel" by just releasing the same game, but worse and F2P and defining that as a sequel.

[@Thunder93ita]

Finally someone that talks about this: money. The sole purpose of the executives at Blizzard is money, every decision they make is for money. They killed PvE because it was too expensive and they could sell it once at maybe 60€/$, so they decided it was better to make PvE smaller and sell 100 missions at 20$ each. OW went from a great game managed by people who care (such as Jeff) to a money laundering machine.

[@DerpyICEcube]

Nah they should be boycotted. They promised all players for years that this is what OW2 was gonna be. They scammed literally everyone and I hope nobody buys their battle pass or skins because of this. Because right now this isn't OW2 but OW1 with money grabbing.

[@flapjackpancake5486]

You know some people are still going to buy that gabage.

[@thoet7270]

​@Flapjack Pancake I literally bought the new brig and soj infinite empire bundle because they're so pretty. Hours later I find out the game I was promised is dead... and Sombra is getting reworked LIKE NO DONT TOUCH HER. With the whole mercy bullishit they pulled, the eventual Sombra rework, and the fact they buffed ball, blizzard has no idea how their beloved characters work and how they're most fun. So honestly, leaving this game or at least not buying anything anymore might just be the best idea...

[@BobOrKlaus]

@@thoet7270 sombra rework is fine, the fact that they want her to be more damage focused is not

[@jlopez240gaming7]

@@thoet7270I stopped playing around the first balance path. The game was pissing me off, and I was gonna wait for PVE to come out to see if I would come back. Guess I’m never playing this game ever again.

[@zandromex8985]

This isn't even OW1. This is OW 0.5 and it's soo bad and soo boring. I loved OW, how can you fuck something up so bad?

[@ikhalid1418]

i think your the first content creator who managed to put into words why i hate 5v5, and role lock tbh. instead of balancing the characters, all they do is come up with solutions that make the game stagnate faster and faster. i know deep down in my heart if OW1 was getting patch updates regularly for the last 3 years, they wouldn't have needed 5v5 in the first place. now only around 2 tanks are useful at a time, while the others are useless.

[@rubino7099]

silver take

[@ikhalid1418]

@@rubino7099 brain dead reply.

[@micahscott3895]

I loved when they introduced role queue in overwatch 1 but I also hate 5v5 did they just forget that open queue existed when they buffed tanks to compensate for there only being 1 in role queue

[@ikhalid1418]

@@micahscott3895 i don't know, man. i really hated role lock. it felt like a "we're done trying to fix this shit" kinda solution. like why were players able to run double shield in the first place? the devs saw goats, they knew big part of that shitty meta was multiple shields, so why were double shields a thing? role lock felt like nothing was prepared for it's introduction into the game. same thing with 5v5, especially tanks were left with kits that were designed around being an off tank in a 6v6 meta.

[@micahscott3895]

@@ikhalid1418 I liked it because I'm a support main and there would have to be another healer so I wouldn't have to solo heal my entire team and get yelled at if I switched to literally anyone but mercy or ana

[@gabesexton1268]

I remember playing overwatch on release date... since then overwatch got so big that the creators weren't ready to get there pockets stuffed with all of that cash and forgot to act professionally. Once a few of them got called out for being shady the others left without a fight simply because they made their money and knew they made bad decisions towards the end so they just passed it off to their second string and told them to stuff their pockets again !!!! like there are no way the creators think some skins are worth $20

[@asnodt42]

TF2 might be the first game to outlive its competetor twice

[@maxxpower3d6]

Valve Wins By Doing Nothing

[@serenum.tea.]

@@maxxpower3d6 luigi got competition

[@mitvulf]

Has TF2 really outlived OW though? It's in a pretty rough state at the moment, and it doesn't seem like much is being done to fix it.

[@asnodt42]

@@mitvulf yeah, both has shit companies handling them. Something neat about TF2's bot problem is that its mainly a USA region problem since Europe and Asia servers have way less bots. I can play like 50 casual matches until i finally run into a bot infested server while our muricans can't even play casual anymore. That sorta thing, could be fixed but valve just doesn't give a fuck about tf2 anymore.

[@pocketshit]

@@mitvulf i can queue for meet your match now and find pretty good matches

[@Bobby-yr9wt]

The worst is that if you want to play those "Story Missions" you have to buy the BP each seasons 💀

[@tj9287]

It’s 10 dollars. Maybe don’t be poor and it won’t be an issue

[@Bobby-yr9wt]

@@tj9287 Maybe but I don't want to buy Archives like missions each seasons since we got them free before

[@tj9287]

@@Bobby-yr9wt then don’t it’s that simple. All you people complaining over nothing

[@Bobby-yr9wt]

@@tj9287 we're complaining because we had everything free before and now we have to paid for everything it's frustrating

[@tj9287]

@@Bobby-yr9wt that’s the world we live in it isn’t just Overwatch either adapt or perish

[@SeizuringFetus]

I’ve never had such an amazing experience with overwatch 1, I’ve been gaming for 20 years and building up a team of 6 regular players across my country to smash it out in overwatch was easily one of the most fun experiences I’ve ever had in gaming, the current state of the industry makes me feel like I will never taste anything close to that experience again

[@ClanLawr]

You literally said everything in my mind They kept OW1 without any new content for almost 3 years because they are working on OW2 and on the story mode then they cancelled it with no f***ing reason ?? Huge disappointment

[@Tchado1000]

Hello overwatch players , I am a Warcraft 3 player , welcome to the "Blizzard showed me something awesome , and then they cancelled it and ruined the old version, and they still want my money" club.....everything you said in the video is exactly what we in Wc3 have been suffering with for years , I never played a game of overwatch in my life , but I feel for you all.

[@Tok07]

what sucks is that you can see the raw potential of blizzard in the content they make. they clearly have a lying and dedication problem, as well as management. but right now i’ve been seeing this everything. you see potential in someone/something and they don’t commit and disappoint you in the worst way possible. i cannot enjoy this game anymore other than for the lore and it hurts

[@nihongo7923]

Hearthstone players also had this problem last year with the Mercenaries mode. Not a single person wanted it, but they delayed every single patch and each one was filled with bugs. And all was that because "we are working on new mode". Can you guess what happened to this mode, it was cancelled.

[@aleksandrsiv6099]

@@nihongo7923, cancelled? So they released it and after a while canceled it? Wow, as ex-Hearthstone player that just sounds pathetic.

[@Doncroft1]

Guess I shoud be thankful they stopped working on Starcraft 2. They might not ruin it.

[@Keldiur]

​@@Doncroft1they will ruin it with Starcraft Remastered. Just a matter of time.

[@AmentioProductions]

Welp, time to jump ship with Blizzard just like my father did when he felt with Blizzard Himself. I gave them a chance, but this is the final straw.

[@AgentOrange88785]

That should have happened with diablo immortal or the hong kong stuff or warcraft 3 reforged or the lawsuits from staff or....

[@AmentioProductions]

@@AgentOrange88785 My father jumped ship a while back, I haven't played many Blizzard games and Overwatch 2 was the only one I really put time in. If anything, I should've seen this coming sooner.

[@MoogleMog]

Cancelling the PVE that was promised was a deal breaker for me, like you I'm also quitting as well once this season ends.

[@GallusOW]

My dad also promsied to come back 😞✌️

[@WILLPORKER]

He shoulda pulled out

[@micahscott3895]

The doomfist rework killed doomfist making him the objectively worst tank still playable but a car with a flat tire and a torn off roof is still techinacally drivable too but you wouldn't see me driving that piece of sh*t

[@24Ippo]

I don't understand one thing, Why would Microsoft even consider to buy Blizzard at this point? is like they're ripping everything that is not bolted to the floor and trashing it before the new tenants will come.

[@gyrozeppeli5105]

I was going to try and get hired at Blizzard but after the “incident” and all this crap I changed my mind because I genuinely think having blizzard on my resume would do more harm than good

[@MechaRossMan]

I learned how to code because I wanted to be a game dev, but after all these horror stories from pretty much every company I decided to just do non game software. Code some indie games in my spare time.

[@omeee]

@@MechaRossMan game development is passion. If you do not have that huge passion, stay away

[@jonathannieder7362]

Got rejected from a marketing position there in 2019. Blessing in disguise 😂, would’ve sucked commuting to Irvine anyways.

[@sumohummel8656]

I think the video game industrie (at least bigger studios) is one of the worst to work at regarding ones mental and physical health

[@youcansave15ormoreoncarins75]

​@SumoHummel it's bad too because there's no future proofing with it as well, it's a unstable and highly competitive job market

[@lulzjeffy1337]

Just give us OW1 back.

[@user2767]

Yeah, i wished all of us couldve went back when Overwatch actually was fun.

[@torpid5092]

Yeah, GOATS, old Brig, double shield, old Cassidy and old Genji were soooooooo fun, please bring all of that back.

[@lulzjeffy1337]

@@torpid5092 Was more fun than this shitcan of a "sequel" we got in exchange, of which the very point of its existence has been canceled.

[@eligreg99]

@@lulzjeffy1337 Yeah I agree. At least each season felt different even after 30 seasons

[@Dragonmist19X]

Id love to believe people will stop trusting them after this. But theyve done worse and gotten away with it.

[@Hk-ox4bb]

I’ll be honest, if it wasn’t for the fact that I play with a couple of friends, I would have stopped playing long ago

[@CptVanguard]

Honestly even if people say "But Overwatch 2 is F2P" that doesnt mean you cant sue blizzard for false advertising and people could and probably will sue them.

[@horsem.d.7979]

F2P and live service games are the worst unless they’re as big as Fortnite. All you get are empty promises.

[@Bardock059]

I mean they literally forced us to play this game when people still preferred Ow1 than this. Especially, when on released if you didn't have a certain phone service then you weren't able to play the game including people bought the preorder. Honestly, this game robbed us

[@gavinziozios1431]

Actually, they can. I remember there was some kind of early pass, at least on Xbox, for early access into OW2

[@theonlyMoancore]

Actually yeah it does, they don't force you to spend money and they have evidence that they couldn't continue to work on PvE, so a class action wouldn't work. They definitely thought through it before fucking everyone over. Although maybe you could sue them for the inability to continue playing OW1 which wasn't free. I think the Statue of Limitations is over now. But take it with a grain of salt because I'm talking from an American perspective. Europeans could probably do something about it.

[@pubfriendthegreat1259]

​@@Bardock059they did the same to warcraft 3. Well not exactly the same, but close enough. Nobody wanted reforged, and prefered the older game. What did blizzard do?. Well if everyone wants to play the older one instead of the remake, then we can just delete the older game so everyone will have to play reforged instead. It honestly sucks... why not just have the option to keep the older games. I don't see the reason in that. Anyway sorry for the rant.

[@antunspaleta2221]

The biggest irony is that Blizzard actually did the smartest decision. They saw that they cannot make good on their promises so they relaunched it as FTP game. In that way they made sure to have few more years of feeding on money trought microtransactions before game dies. Its like squizzin that end of meyonnese in the end of tube.

[@Shiestey]

Lmao you’re right. Of course heavy OW fans are gonna be upset but since it’s free they got that sweet sweet casual gamer market

[@cancerino666]

Or they could have let Jeff make the game what it was suppose to be, have a longlasting franchise and not ruin their reputation

[@clinch4402]

We all laughed when battleborn went F2p. or Lawbreakers. Blizzard are masters of PR

[@BT-ex7ko]

@@cancerino666 Unfortunately, no CEO or shareholder actually cares about that. It's always been about the most short term growth possible. Pump it up, sell, then move on when the company or project goes under. That's how it's always been, and sadly, how it might remain for a long time. No one in the corporate suites actually has a care to give for the actual game. They just want the money. And the best way to make a ton of money fast is by just doing that-pump and dump. Games have become an investment now. Gone are the days of 'making a good game' being the sole business model, that ship has sailed. This is what we get now.

[@endcaps1917]

Despite that it was too late Blizzards reputation was completely ruined They weren't doing that great before ov2 due to that scandal in 2021 and it did take a hit because of that thing with Hong Kong (I'm purposely oversimplifing both scandals cause both have been said over a billion times) sooo yeeaahh not looking good for blizzard

[@StockLlama]

I can’t tell what’s worse: Valve straight up abandoning TF2 with no updates and radio silence from the devs for 6 years, or blizzard lying to over watch fans for almost 4 years and then swiping it away last minute.

[@pop000690]

Both are bad but at least Valve are *somewhat* more honest with their communities

[@AOW222]

I literally called this to a friend, like 4 years ago, I knew this would happen with WOW's decline and Overwatch. It also just feeds into it when you consider that literally all the staff members from original overwatch were let go, the original blizzard directors left the company, etc. It's been going downhill since the Activision Blizzard partnership, they're unironically now LackTheVision Blizzard.

[@CaptainCowboyMSM]

I'm of the belief that Overwatch has always been too much for Blizzard to handle. I mean, look at all their other games, Overwatch is an IMMENSELY different experience and instead of being honest with us and themselves, they gave us WAY too many hopes and expectations just to let us down.

[@jebril]

Overwatch never followed Blizzards post modern game design of Hearthstone and WoW and Diablo 3 all cuz of Jeff Kaplan. Once he left it was over I uninstalled right then and everyone shouldve done the same. Its no longer his game anymore.

[@gabepoole4479]

Blizzard is the only company I know of that can screw up a game so bad that it destroyed it's predecessor twice.

[@FawxDaddy]

The only way I'll ever play OW again, is if they put OW1 servers back up. Make it 2 separate games, I paid for OW1 not OW2. It was simply a microtransaction update, that's it.

[@zkifox7790]

the problem is not from the dev but the executives !!!!!!!!!

[@hashira141]

I think what’s most frustrating is after all these L’s blizzard has Been giving and taking, there will still be people playing OW2 and giving them money

[@yuyukooyunda7476]

the blizzard fans won't be eating good tonight.

[@MapsaiLiv]

I wonder if there any statistics for that. Just to imagine the amount (low, average or high?) people spend? I have never played any of OW (and unlikely I will), so I’m immune to such things like they did

[@PancakeBoi]

Some like the streamers and competitors make a living off of it 😕, so no matter what they have to play and support the company.

[@demoral3030]

What most people don't seem to notice is that Overwatch was shutdown because players could earn skins easily and for free. Then Overwatch 2 came out and it is worse game in every possible way. You now have to grind every day and stay active to maybe afford one legendary skin. After that they cut content and are no longer even trying to hide the fact that they only want to maximize profits and don't give a F about player experience.

[@artemmayboroda5217]

I mean they could monetize battle pass only, or make only mythic skins for their store. In this way people would not be mad, because it’s new features and it makes sense that they would take money for that. But to make epic and legendary skins monetized is stupid because people already get used to get them for free from loot boxes. So in this case they could make much more money and positive reviews by only adding battle pass or just some specific skins which would worth money, but they destroy everything they had tho

[@panman6498]

Blizzard the only company that can make you miss loot boxes

[@shugokopuffs3197]

Crazy cuz I think they’re trying to make the PVE mode again after the backlash

[@GrizzLee30]

You know, I will always remember when Overwatch first came out. It was chaotic, beautiful fun that was unbalanced but so fun. That game was not comepltely "fair" sure, but you could still pull off some great stuff with even the weakest of characters if you were good enough. But then Blizzard revealed they wanted this to be their competitive darling, their answer to CSGO professional gaming. They took a goofy team battle shooter way too seriously and fucked it. Worst part? we can never go back to that golden time. There is no "Overwatch Vanilla." The game no longer exists, and I still wont get my fucking money back.

[@HezrouDhiaga]

Blizzard went from one of the most respectable companies to actually being worse than EA at just about every single thing. This is unacceptable and I hope they get a lawsuit for fraud and false advertising. I regret NOTHING not touching OW2 with a 2000ft pole. I knew this would happen. :/

[@explosion6768]

I didn’t even know being worse than ea was possibly

[@charlestonjew7587]

Activision/Blizzard: "There's no money in PvE." EA: swimming in Scrooge McDuck's money vault from the success of Jedi Fallen Order 1 and 2.

[@VValkyr]

Which is so disheartening. I remember back in the day, with WoW being the king, Starcraft being benchmark for RTS games, and everyone being excited for blizzards new IP because "it's from blizzard". It genuinely felt like you trusted this one company that did things right.

[@dean_l33]

@@charlestonjew7587 The only reason they didn't try to further ruin star wars is they know star wars isn't the same money cow that it used to be

[@IndianTheNaked]

Yeah they really went downhill after the Activision purchase.

[@shadowbowser5674]

I still love Overwatch for it's gameplay and characters, but yeah the PvE stuff getting scrapped is just a HUGE heartbreak, especially for casual players, I was really looking forward to it, such a bummer.

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

Try out Team Fortress 2

[@Zackarco]

@@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth Ah, Bot Fortress 2. Love that game.

[@sobakaspy]

"Only Blizzard could make something worse than lootboxes" As a Tf2 player, i can disagree. We have to pay to open this shit

[@vilneil]

remember that one OW youtuber save all his lootbox just to get deleted in the end when the next update came :D

[@woooopy9458]

Mans actually spitting so many facts 04:11. Why does it take AN ENTIRE MONTH for the developers to change Junkerqueens ammo from 6 to 8, I seriously don't understand it. I'm not a game dev but I've had my fair few share of working with maths and damage calculations in video games and I can tell you now, its actually as easy as changing 1 variables value, hell in the workshop you can even do this yourself in around 30 seconds, and they're trying to tell us that 7,500 employees who are presumably getting full time salaries cant do this in 30 days and not even test it first?

[@Joephnarro]

I've been a creator on the workshop for a while, but I abandoned it when Overwatch 2 broke it and they've never fixed it. Many things are broken, for example, you can't set max ammo for Junker Queen. Setting max ammo with the workshop is broken for 13 characters. (Including all new and reworked characters, because they can't be bothered to hook them up to the workshop system).

[@woooopy9458]

@@Joephnarro thats actually so depressing to hear, the blizzard polish really hitting different

[@managers6667]

because consoles. patching cost money and its common business practise to wait plenty of bugs and things to fix in one big patch to save money

[@Joephnarro]

@@managers6667 Their hotfix system is all that is needed to change balance knobs. That system bypasses the need to send a patch to console ecosystems, and that system is all that was needed for most of the changes they do, including all the Junker Queen changes.

[@torpid5092]

It doesn't take them a month to change a hero's stats, it takes them a month to release the hero in its current state, see how it manages in the current meta, and change the hero accordingly. You can't rush balance changes because for all you know what you're going to do could make the problem worse.

[@hofer0x0]

As a TF2 fan I have to say my condolences. No one should have to deal with the same treatment that valve has been giving us over the years and I’m starting to see some very horrifying similarities.

[@FarmerSlayerFromTheEdoPeriod]

Bluds will suffer our destiny.

[@kenshinhimura9387]

Tf2 is an ancient dead game that nobody plays.

[@cadsquade]

Uh ? wdym same treatment ??? I don't remember valve shutting down tf2 to release mvm, then after everyone was hyped, announce it was just the pvp again with no pve added. Do you ? Because if that's the case, I don't think we live in the same universe.

[@m.n.s.s2825]

TF2 was released in 2007. How long you gonna play it ? Move on lol

[@Z.O.M.G]

​@@kenshinhimura938780k people doesn't seem dead to me but oh well

[@ariniel4909]

Blizzard canceling almost everything in Overwatch 2 makes EA cares more about their community

[@yeseniaaleman2243]

Wow! You really have to do a lot to make EA care more about their community than Blizzard.

[@spacedoubt15]

Don't be fooled by the layout of the roadmap either - in the interview they said that 'Season 7 and beyond' actually just meant season 7 + season 8. That new tank hero that they list at the top will almost certainly come out in season 8 too, because they release heroes every other season (with the exception of the first 2 seasons.) Lifeweaver came out in season 4, no hero listed on the roadmap for season 5, new Support hero season 6... you get the idea. Season 7 will likely have the new control map, but apart from that it's looking pretty empty.

[@saquial]

On fire returning? The system is still running with the only difference that there are no HUD elements for it. The return will just be some HUD changes that show what the game’s already processing in the background.

[@razrv3lc]

Right? All the heroes but the new ones still say their on fire lines when it happens lmao

[@BobOrKlaus]

@@razrv3lc the new ones too actually, which is funny in its own way, i instantly knew on fire would be coming back when i heard kiriko say that season 1 lmao

[@Camscam]

"Redefining what a sequel means." I'm so glad you brought that up. If this is redefining anything it's our trust in Blizzard's promises to make the game that they said they'd make. What an absolute joke that a company as big as Activision Blizzard could possibly ruin something as fantastic as Overwatch. The game, fundamentally, is one of the best games I have ever played and the fact that it's been reduced to what it is today instead of lifted to even greater heights is disgusting.

[@hajimehinata5854]

Let's do the TF2 comparison now, instead of shit decisions, we are getting literally not decisions

[@waterbottle3860]

Polishing the breastmilk cabinet LMFAOAOAOAOAOAOAOAAAAAAAAAA

[@Axedroid]

Never playing OW”2” again. If anything they should give everyone OW back and let them decided because i rather go back to 6v6 and loot boxes.

[@absolute-xero7502]

I've always hated 5v5. Matches always seem lopsided.

[@justsomeguywithoutamustach2091]

oh yeah man i miss the shield breaking simulator

[@BobOrKlaus]

@@justsomeguywithoutamustach2091 why the fuck does everyone think just bc adding one tank back will make the heroes have their old abilities, orisa was the tank in double shield and now her shield is GONE so it would very much *not* be shield breaking simulator

[@absolute-xero7502]

@Just Some Guy without a Mustache Obviously Blizzard had the ability to rework certain heroes and remove shields/stuns, they chose not to do it. So, no 6v6 doesn't mean we have to deal with endless shields, that's a balance problem just like GOATS.

[@calamariyummy7332]

Finally someone said it. It’s been 4 seasons of 5v5; and it fucking sucks

[@goldenmansion1012]

This is genuinely gut wrenching, I was at blizzcon 2019 and was actually hyped for the pve of overwatch, never cared much for the game, but I really cared for the story overwatch tried to build. Hearing the announcement of the promised pve, the thing that probably would’ve got me back into overwatch since the release of the first game, get completely cut; it made me almost cry. Comparing this with tf2, at the VERY least Valve is radio silent about most updates to the game and never officially announce most things unless they fully intend on implementing them, plus, their messages are vague and left mosty to fan interpretations of what they mean. I’m not saying this is good, what I’m saying is it doesn’t feel like highway robbery.

[@falconeshield]

"You have mobiles right?"

[@Bardock059]

It's funny that tf2 still lives after 13 yrs though. People really over-speculated that overwatch meant to kill the game, but nah. Overwatch devs and the community literally shot themselves on the foot

[@user-bkey]

@@Bardock059 tf2 is a living corpse only kept alive by its community at this point and its funny how overwatch couldnt even come close to it

[@Bardock059]

@@user-bkey I wouldn't call it a living corpse, because that title rightfully goes to OW. I would call tf2 aged fine wine 🍷

[@99batran]

@@Bardock059 it's getting a little spoiled because of all the bots. But at least community servers barely has those, it's harder for bots to come to them (especially on nearly full servers)

[@elegachi]

"According to Active Player, Overwatch 2 currently averages 1,892,200 players a day and a total of 28,383,008 active users in the last 30 days. This is up 8.5% from May 2023, continuing the player base's impressive growth since Overwatch 2's launch."

[@ignskeletons]

Blizzard cancelled Overwatch 2 because they don’t want to invest in PvE campaign which is expensive, high investment, with little potential to over monetize it. They fail to realize the goodwill it would revitalize into a disheartened community.

[@monsterkuma]

Never agreed with so much in a 10 minute time span before, I’m impressed, you produce much better content than Blizzard have since 2019 😂

[@Pocchari]

The only reason I started playing OW back in 2016 was because of the lore. I’m not an FPS person, I prefer RPGs and adventure games, but the world and story for OW was so intriguing and the characters so likable and the gameplay so friendly and forgiving for people like me, I got totally sucked into it. The announcement of PVE was everything I ever wanted. I’ve basically stopped playing now, haven’t played a serious game since before “OW2”, but I am so sad to hear this news. I’ve never had such a horrible experience with a game company before.

[@bambampewpew32]

Yeah man I feel like ow2 casual is just not nearly as fun or enjoyable, with all the core feature removals, 5v5 and character reworks

[@phoenixvance6642]

I think the OW2 characters look cool, but have pretty flat personalities. Definitely not something worth buying for them or stories about them, imo

[@micahscott3895]

I'm never getting the overwatch 2 battle pass ever

[@levisamom5069]

I completely saw this coming from a mile away and i don't even play overwatch...but considering blizzards track records... i expected to be an exact copy with a name change

[@lemonov3031]

TF2 has officially outlasted 2 overwatch games

[@hs43a]

the ancestor outlived the descendants

[@komlat253]

That's actually wild af haha

[@ericneo2]

Blizzard: We'll deliver we promise, we cancelled our promise but here's a roadmap and our new promise to deliver. Everyone: This is worthless, you couldn't even keep your previous promise. Overwatch: Reforged

[@Grigeral]

They delivered exactly what they intended to deliver. A way for Activision to bill people who paid for Overwatch and 'all future heroes'.

[@SomeRandomDevOpsGuy]

Things like this are the reason that despite the diablo 4 beta being fun.. there’s no way in hell I’m pre-ordering or even buying on release day. Got to give it a few days at least and see what the actual game is like. Honestly I don’t have high hopes

[@jessedejesus6632]

“We get to ******* read it!” Lol

[@angel__king]

It’s funny because there actually has been an example of something like this working. Final Fantasy 14. First release was terrible and they basically kept it running while redeveloping it from the ground up and is now one of the best MMOs on the market

[@flapjackpancake5486]

Yeah. hell even cyberpunk is decent now. But I don't really see blizzard turning it around at this point. They've gone full blown scum of the gaming industry

[@BobOrKlaus]

no mans sky is also such a game, but i dont see that happening with how they are treating the community at the moment, blatantly lying, taking away from what they promised, shit events and so on...

[@CarterWills1]

Yes but they improved the game.