The Continued Decline of Overwatch 2 | Asmongold Reacts to The Act Man

The tragic downfall of Blizzard's most ambitious project
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[@heromedley]

i want blizzard to lower my coffin so they can let me down one last time

[@euphorictick1030]

based

[@narutoincore123]

Beast coment!

[@Nebulous_Neuhaus]

And then they fuck that up by lowering you into a shallow grave; headstone may be purchased via shop in launcher

[@mrs.h2725]

Dirt to cover coffin will also need to be purchased in shop. Mourners need battle pass to attend funeral.

[@cooldog2636]

Sorry but they don’t have the budget as they will tip you upwards into a 3foot grave

[@siemabyq6703]

Blizzard never disappoints when it comes to disappointment

[@battlericky17]

Lol did you make this comment on the act mans video? It was definitely up there

[@TheProstum]

They always go above and beyond to make sure of that

[@siemabyq6703]

@@battlericky17 maybe but not on this one

[@kristopherwillis8075]

Facts 🤣🤣

[@LadyZephyr311]

Such a sight to behold: Truth and Paradox; beautiful. 💜😆

[@critical3337]

Blizzard: We're abandoning overwatch 1 content to entirely work on overwatch 2 pve content. Also Blizzard: We're abandoning overwatch 2 pve content to entirely work on overwatch 1 content.

[@JohnJohn-lj5cn]

sad part is that's exactly what happened, result is a half baked scrapped PvE and an abandoned original for 2.5 years that was kept alive through the sheer dedication of the playerbase who will be ignored and unwanted in the "sequel" in order to get a Casual fanbase, i am a casual myself but i respect dedication the OW1 community is on the same level as the Titanfall2 community and TF2 community when it comes to respect

[@username172]

​@@JohnJohn-lj5cn weird thing is despite the lootboxes you could technically play overwatch one without spending more than what you spent on the game, i was working my way through earning skins for free till overwatch one got this shitty "sequel" update

[@JohnJohn-lj5cn]

@@username172 i am very aware of it i played ow1 as a casual sure but that was enough to get me 3 or 4 legendary skins and countless epic skins on every single hero, even though all i did was play arcade with my friends and very little ranked, that's why i am genuinely unable to buy a skin in OW2 it feels like buying a bottle of air, yet on CSGO i spend more than 10X the price of an OW2 skin on a single item like a kid that just stole his mom's credit card but in OW2 i really cant, i used to get these 20$ packs just by playing lucio ball with my friends i even remember later in the days of OW1 i got free loot boxes and creds JUST BY PLAYING SUPPORT

[@banishedbr]

Bli$$ard: We abandoned working on games to invest money on hype to pay bobby 200mi a year, suck plebs.

[@cam7851]

@@username172 A game that gives the players everything for free isn’t really sustainable.

[@jubbalubby]

Overwatch porn may or may not have surpassed overwatch itself in terms of cultural relevancy

[@AsDeft]

and quality

[@Soggywafflecakes]

Even blizzard is trying to kill that the 2 new heroes don't even look great and the skins they make are garbage.

[@Kkk-pr2bk]

Fr, I never played OW but I know the names of all female characters, lol

[@nothobbesmufc949]

in the future ppl will think of Overwatch as porn that inspired a video game 😂

[@vinniegret4841]

I love how Asmons excuse for not being disappointed... Is how desensitized he got to being disappointed... It's not surprising if it's what i expected.

[@Mrnoob951]

It's hard to feel disappointment without a sense of surprise or some other negative emotion from an expectation not being met. Even if PvE content did come out I wasn't expecting anything special out of modern day Blizzard. If it came out and it was good then i would have been genuinely surprised. EA deciding to scrap content they promised and that the player wants because pve focused content doesn't make as much money as pay 2 win mobile content isn't a surprise it's just business as usual. I can't call myself disappointed because given the studio we are talking about this situation does meet my exact expectations but I can still say I'm disgusted I was right.

[@WhisperByte]

You know what they say... The opposite of love is not hate, it's apathy.

[@KnownAsKenji]

That's how I've been feeling since the PvE was announced. It was mostly a few flashy cinematics, they didn't really show anything. I never had much faith in it. I wanted to be pleasantly surprised but I was not counting on it. No reason for faith here.

[@stinky6495]

​@@WhisperByteAnd as they say, apathy is death.

[@aedankor2961]

Blizzard does not disappoint, to disappoint after all.

[@charlesdobronxcharlesdobro4660]

And on the seventh day the bald rose again

[@Vizede]

Cant wait to get disappointed with d4

[@ProStreeter100]

You need expectations to get disappointed. My expectations disappeared from any Blizzard product quite a while ago

[@sabbatize4182]

Bro bar for bar stole the top comment on the act man video

[@7352100]

You mean the top comment on the actual video "Blizzard does not disappoint when it comes to disappointing"?....btw you are now disappointing

[@MAX-xd4uz]

Ladies and gentlemen... We've come to a point where Diablo 4 might not even be enough to save 10% of Blizzard’s crumbling reputation

[@sebastianwhatever4182]

diablo 4 will be p2w garbage at one point. u ppl so naive

[@MAX-xd4uz]

@@sebastianwhatever4182 Christ then there was no hope in the first place

[@charaznable8072]

They be like "who needs reputation when you have all this moolah?" Until they start losing tons of money they don't give a s***

[@16ktsgamma]

What if they announce Starcraft 3 during Blizzcon.

[@Ravagerblade]

​@@Whatisvrbutt light begs to differ...

[@420Kyle1620]

Next up, $10 For Overwatch classic.

[@faiir]

Overwatch Reforged

[@Greatlicht]

@@faiir 💀💀💀💀💀

[@StrenkoB]

Asmon: Blizzard constantly makes me look like a fool for defending them. Also Asmon: Diablo 4 could be their Final Fantasy 16. I don't think looking like a fool is Blizzard's fault when you still say things like that.

[@awesomeguy9513]

@@Whatisvr how much does copium cost in this current market?

[@Saben.C-Spoon]

I don't think he means it in a good way

[@H4rd5tyl3]

​@@Introversion399you keep telling yourself that while you hatewatch like the sad thing you are and they cash in on you. Yep, you're smarter!

[@intensellylit4100]

​@@Introversion399 based

[@SRFAA]

@@Saben.C-Spoon How would it be interpreted in a negative way?

[@Thunder93ita]

Asmongold and The Act Man should definitely do a collab

[@hypernova5716]

@@FliceTrance what are you even talking about?

[@dtk1994]

tru between them they could lift like 10kg

[@Controllerhead]

The Actmongold

[@michaellee4463]

This aged well (kinda)

[@jacksonville9642]

20:57 I just love how, no matter what community you're in at that moment, no matter the topic, you name Deep Rock Galactic and something activates the hive-mind that is it's player base, like no matter who you are or where you're from, if you don't rock and stone, you ain't coming home

[@karenpojar2514]

"Did someone say Rock and Stone?"

[@jacksonville9642]

@@karenpojar2514 hell ye, rock and stone to the bone

[@mafinalmessagechangedaworl7131]

They need to add more voice lines

[@DragonMaster360]

Heave ho for rock and stone, bend your backs to take your gold

[@aion425]

Them increasing prices on skin does matter a lot, because that's something people looked forward to and was easily accessible in the original Overwatch. But since they deleted that game and gave us overprice 2, the tone has shifted a bit from basically everyone who enjoys the game. Asmongold would lose his shit if Blizzard decided to put transmog in WoW behind a paywall to even have the ability to change your appearance.

[@henrygrawe3392]

Truth is the target market is kids and young adults with tons of stocked cash and nothing but food and games to spend it on. Why make a whole new game when the Fortnite skin model can make them millions per season from the same core group of people. Skins killed PVE

[@LargeInCharge77]

@@henrygrawe3392 integrity is one reason

[@kalolord]

But it's already behind a paywall. It's called a subscription.

[@aion425]

@@kalolord at least you know what you get with that subscription. Kind of.

[@meteor22]

I think the biggest thing is they knew for months that they couldn't deliver and didn't say anything until recently. Which just baffles the shit outta me that a company as big as Activision/Blizzard can't scrounge up the resources to pull off a simple pve mode. Oh wait that's right, they're all in CoD jail. I forgot, my bad.

[@MrKevlarkent]

Part of it is nobody wants to work there, part is that the PvE mode doesn't have nearly as good margins as diablo immortal

[@bellzhellz5922]

as much shit as asmongold talks about blizzard, they still got him by the balls, he will always hold out hope they will make a comeback. he still plays wow even though it is basically on life support atm

[@Aquatj999]

Him playing WoW is understandable since he’s a streamer and can get enjoyment out of it in that context. Otherwise, yeah, i’m surprised he still simps for Blizzard as hard as he does, when he’s seen what they do.

[@spencer6709]

He's a whale in gotcha games. Asmon has the worst gaming takes on earth. He's the exact goober these companies hope for.

[@LargeInCharge77]

@@spencer6709 that's very very disingenuous. he does allow blizzard to bend him over still but at the same time he has a lot of very mature and reasonable takes on games often criticizing these exact same practices he falls for.

[@luigilouw246]

imagine you that dev that has been putting in countless hours and weekends working on the PVE and then all of a sudden your boss tells you we don't need it anymore lol

[@attila2246]

Don't work weekends unless you're getting extra money. You're getting screwed.

[@attila2246]

@SleepyFawn Don't work for these shit companies. Life is too short. Learned this the hard way. Now make way more money at another company and if I OT, it's at 1.5x salary.

[@Soggywafflecakes]

These devs I bet lied about even working on the PvE I bet they just made the demo so people would get hyped and make players new and old to try overwatch 2.

[@juliotorres3147]

@@SleepyFawn Even better. I didn’t have to leave the toxic, it got rid of me.

[@juliotorres3147]

I wouldn’t care if I was paid. I knew going in what company I’m working for.

[@DustyTurt1e]

The phrase “De-coupling pvp from pve” was a massive red flag.

[@RoaringEgg]

Asmond is like a domestic abuse relationship. Always saying how unbad stuff really is as blizzard is continuing smacking the fans

[@jacobmaloney7203]

​@@sombodi200because they sponsor him essentially, he has to keep it by diluting his opinions.

[@banishedbr]

cuz he keeps saying Dimmortal is not that bad, that is why when he could just with 100% of surety says Dimmortal is trash

[@F1r3cr4cker]

Except he roasted them this whole video. What are you going on about?

[@stinky6495]

​@@F1r3cr4ckerNah he made excuses for them the whole video. The man has no respect for himself.

[@RoaringEgg]

@@F1r3cr4cker yet he still plays their games.

[@Andrei.F]

The Mei snowball was already a thing 3 years ago, when they added her as a playable character in Heroes of the Storm.

[@LucidEquinox]

Oh man. Don't remind me of heroes of the storm. They've let me down way too many times. Can blizzard for once just fucking commit to what they say.

[@4X10S]

Days since last accident: 0

[@silentkhaos1176]

"Accident"?

[@Oakoms]

Injury*

[@charlesdobronxcharlesdobro4660]

Bald rises

[@silentkhaos1176]

@@SparkShadow212 Does "idiots" work?

[@newvidahall]

12:12 Ooooooh how this has aged

[@snakething87]

Not enough people are talking about how Diablo Immortal was so toxic it’s actively poisoning other parts of the company.

[@Omegaphoenix128]

The irony of the live service model when handled by companies like Blizzard is that if they focused on quality and fun, they'd get players who'd be willing to buy stuff. Instead they focused on money making schemes which is ultimately driving players away. I suspect the execs know this, though. Theyre not interested in long term profits. Just in being a fly-by-night game company now. Hype people up, take em for their cash and ad revenue, then bounce. So what if the current execs get replaced? They got theirs, and the players are suckers for falling for it.

[@jackugly9817]

asmon with the "skins are 20$ and overpriced, i dont care so who cares, nobody cares. who actually cares about this?". A lot of people asmon, a lot of people care

[@lippemartinsm]

Two cases: or he's so detached of reality or asmon doesn't have a single working cell on his brain.

[@Soggywafflecakes]

League of legends players see skins as new content I imagine ow fans do the same...

[@Shadowlightning]

He said it wasn't a 'millionaire take' but it was. Rich people and whales don't give a shit about how much anything costs because its a non-factor in any decision.

[@jackugly9817]

@@Soggywafflecakes Ow fans dont see that as the same. Ow fans have been crying and begging for new content since 2019

[@user-ng9qf4sy9f]

@@jackugly9817I don’t get how a company big as blizzard can drop a game big as overwatch. It was massive before. And their having trouble balancing it. Then on top of that micro transaction, you can’t make that shit up

[@keltonschleyer6367]

Valve: “We had to come up with a justification for a Left 4 Dead 2.” Blizzard: “We had to convince people that OW was OW2.”

[@LowKeyJaded]

“I don’t give a fuck about the skin prices” Is exactly why we are where we are in modern gaming.

[@RM-56]

He doesn't care about the prices because he doesn't buy them. Your comment is kind of implying that he's saying he will buy them no matter the price, which is the issue for modern gaming.

[@MundaneThingsBackwards]

​@@RM-56 Older comment but this still needs to be said. Even if he doesn't pay for skins (which I doubt) it's still a garbage take. It proves he doesn't even understand how even the INCLUSION of MTX into a game, period, fucks with the incentive structure of the design process. Never mind excusing the existence of $20 digital crap that'll disappear as soon as the servers go down. He literally has no excuse since he watched the 'let's go whaling' video on stream.

[@Chihiro-Kikuchi]

“We have to make thousands of skills to get out the door” … so doing their literal JOB is too much for them…

[@Owen-ey2gh]

I think the people who worked on the PVE mode are more disappointed in its cancellation than the fans are. Imagine putting in years of blood, sweat, and tears into this highly anticipated feature only for the higher-ups to say “ya we’re scrapping this lmao” and be forced to abandon all of that hard work. They must have been beyond devastated to be told of its discontinuation

[@iloveanothermanswives4278]

Atleast they got payment.

[@dewrand8257]

Blizzard knew a year before Overwatch 2 launch that pve was scrapped, kept it behind closed doors, to make as much money they could by tricking players into buying the watch point pack and battle pass. Papa Jeff and the crew left because they would not take the blame for the executive's corporate greed.

[@ouromov2895]

Blizzard does never apologize for anything, do they.

[@jammo7370]

“Diablo 4 could be their final fantasy 16” Man, that aged poorly lol

[@TheSleyar]

7:04 only thing thriving about overwatch is its rule34 community

[@DatAsianGuy]

could create entire river systems, with the... liquids the community released themselves off.

[@XenoSpyro]

@@DatAsianGuy At least something is being created.

[@ShaunInce123]

Porn always thrives. Especially when it comes to Overwatch

[@Naffi005]

I started to hate Blizzard after they cancelled Heroes of the Storm. This game had the best community, i played about 3000 games and never found anyone toxic. Everyone was so nice and want to cooperate. There was no reason to cancel it. There are much smaller MOBA games that are still supported, even their global championships. It was my last multiplayer favorite game to play after work, becouse of the people...

[@Soggywafflecakes]

Hots would have did well if blizzard wasn't so money hungry when it comes to f2p monetization they had at one point a free bundle for new players to try heroes out but they removed it so of course new players wouldn't try the game. Takes literally months just to get 1 hero in hots with gold.

[@Rembd]

Blizzard wanted HoTS to become the next big moba esport like Dota 2 from its very inception. I remember hearing and reading about delusional esports org owners talking about how big HoTS will be as an esport, and how mad they were when people pointed out that you can't force an esport into existence with money. If HoTS didnt make hundreds of millions selling licenses to orgs they were going to shut it down, full stop. Same with SC2, WoW Arena, OW1 etc. Whether or not a game is good is irrelevant to a big company like Blizzard.

[@LargeInCharge77]

@@Rembd an insane thought seeing as how Hots was like every other moba minus all the competitive aspects and way more forgiving

[@richardlamphier2581]

This guy, talking about Mei being "annoying" by freezing enemies, but at the same time talking about making people quit by playing as Bastion. Come on Asmongold don't be that way 😂

[@omega197]

Blizzard: who needs PVE anyway, OVERWATCH IMMORAL LETS GOOOOO

[@scoshrimp1671]

The thumbnail looks like Act Man casting a spell onto an unsuspecting Asmon

[@Fulairza]

That Diablo 4 comment didnt age well 😂😂

[@ol-Daddy-doodoo]

If gamers had the balls that the people boycotting bud light have, we could see some real change from these companies. Hit em where it hurts, right in the pockets.

[@bumponalog5001]

Unfortunately most gamers are addicts. It's way to easier to boycott a garbage tasting beer then your favorite hobby

[@thebelmont1995]

Why are people so mad about a trans person on a beer can? Go outside touch some grass holy shitt. Those people getting angry over that are f ing crazy.

[@ol-Daddy-doodoo]

@@bumponalog5001 for some people drinking garbage beer is their hobby.

[@tarzanal33]

i did after shadowlands. i'm free from this garbage company

[@GloomGenetics]

@@thebelmont1995 people care because the trans / lgbt ideology, specially in america, is brainwashing kids and kids are being mutilated/castrated and a trans "woman aka a biological male pretending to be female" advertising beer, wich is consumed by masculine men, then of course budlight got boycotted.

[@robez457]

The two big problems are. The executives at blizzard saw the huge profits from Diablo immortal and decided that it’s the new hotness. So now they’re going to probably make over watch 2 a casino simulation with ridiculous amounts of loot boxes and micro transactions. The other problem is that majority of their most experienced employees have left and all the new employees are noobs that have next to no experience and most of the new hires probably are straight out of college. Hell this might be their first job ever

[@archmagemc3561]

sad part, by blizzard's metrics, the amount of money they are making from diablo immortal is far, far less than they used to make. 165mil in montlhy subs on WoW back in the day which is now about 20mil. That was back in 2012. So they traded 145mil for 60mil on a gambling sim.

[@Fixti0n]

You dont need an PoE sized talent tree for all the heroes. Ass you need for it to be nice is like 5 to 7 tiers of talents, and each level has like 3 options.

[@LucidEquinox]

I know you just mis clicked on writing "all" but it's funnier to think you were just calling them "ass"😂

[@Fixti0n]

@@LucidEquinox Not apologizing. Not changing it. Its better that way.

[@Barrett1]

Even just start with the most popular heros like 6-8 of them and then add 1 or 2 a season to take the initial load off

[@alldragon4]

I keep going back to those older videos and I can't stop laughing at how many times you told the people you were arguing with that they were "dumb, and entitled" they tried telling you multiple times from multiple angles that this game was a scam Lol, I really can't stop watching this type of content. Keep it up Asmon, you're my favorite comedian.

[@theoutsider8745]

I like coming back to this video every now and then after the first Diablo IV patch XD

[@SaRaHtheBlackStar]

Blizzard plans things like I do during a manic episode: With no regards for the actual work that needs to happen to make larger than life ideas become reality.

[@JackXombi]

Maybe Bobby spends like half his bonus on Cocaine?

[@spencer6709]

A pve mode isnt larger than life 😅

[@thrash1337]

It seems like they have a schedule/timeline for disappointments because this is all this company has consistently produced in the last 4 years.

[@JJDumbface]

Oh shit it's just L after L after L for Blizzard, huh?

[@lalormassarowe6743]

Now would be a great time to re-release Battleborn.

[@DoctorOklich]

typical Asmongold L. Says if you don’t give Blizzard the benefit of the doubt you’re wrong. Then double downs on saying how he felt betrayed by Blizzard.

[@thetalkingstick9214]

I definitely disagree with Asmon’s take on the raised skins prices “not really being an issue”. Plus saying “I just care about the content” is hilarious because 75% of the content in OW1/2 is skins and other cosmetics, so Asmon is basically saying, “I only care for content, except for the most numerous and cared about by the fans part of the content”. If we go by Asmon’s definition of content, we haven’t gotten new content since after OW2’s launch, and before that we hadn’t gotten new content since Baptiste, because Blizzard’s only forum of “regularly updating” OW1/2 was adding new cosmetics, mostly during seasonal events or pre and post OWL tournaments, with minor sprinkles of balancing updates that usually that place during or around the time of some seasonal events that fix an actual issue many asked for, a new balance only the pros asked for that mostly everyone else disagreed with, and some special 2 or maybe 3 changes that literally no one asked for that either make a random hero now more OP or trashier. Pre price skyrocket, skins were atleast 43.82% of the fun and motivation/drive to play and improve in OW (totally trust those figures without question). The grind didn’t feel as grindy when it was for a cool skin that like changed the hero’s ultimate voice line or something that you wanted and was realistically obtainable but you didn’t have the credits for (back then when the skin purchasing system wasn’t buyable and only by RNG through getting credits for duplications of owned cosmetics or rewards directly from a loot box themselves, usually rewarding extra credits then if you just got a duplicate). If you wanted that skin, you either: worked for it by playing the game (which wasn’t really that hard, you could get 6-8 boxes in around in couple of hours through the arcade every week by winning 9 arcade games). Which weren’t very hard but still if you lost you still got tons of exp to level up for a like 8 minute game, and back then leveling up gave you a free loot box each time, and it took 4-5 games to level up for most people, except those with like gold border portraits, they had to work a bit harder to level up) which if you didn’t get want you wanted you just rest or something and try again later or double down if the skin wasn’t continuously available and pray you make it in time or wait till the anniversary event so you can get it later. Or you bought the loot boxes, reducing your balance while reducing the amount of time you have to play to get the loot but it still didn’t guarantee you’d get what you specifically wanted, so you hope the boxes gave you enough credits to buy whatever you wanted in the first place or hope the box itself gave you the skin. And if it didn’t you either spend more money, mald and ragequit to desktop, or just go to option A. You could easily get plenty of skins in OW or Fortnite by just playing the game semi-frequently, you didn’t get any skins because you rarely play them. Same way you don’t get fast food for just being able to order it but not, you won’t get food without ordering it, vice versa you won’t get skins without playing. Also a sidenote (a long one at that, so scroll down only if you wish to see a wall of text with no Tl;dr at the end), but getting skins in Fortnite without paying is not difficult, as someone who played in 2017 and dropped it after a few weeks and came back just recently out of curiosity I’d actually say you’d have to try harder to do it unintentionally, you just have to play the game semi-consistently to get them. One of my boomer parents whose been a gamer they’re whole life picked it up one day around 2020, and now plays it as their primary time waster and used “it’s free” as a reason for why they play so much. I came over one day and noticed they had tons of legendary skins from crossovers and from the base game, I saw they had a Geralt of Rivera skin and said I didn’t know they were a Witcher fan, they said they never heard of it, so I asked why they’d spend money on it then and especially since it’s free game and they looked at me confused and said they never spend money on anything. They just got them from just doing some challenges and it appeared in their inventory and showed me some stuff, and yea, you just need to do some challenges and you can get legendary skins pretty easily, you just need to be around when the challenges or crossovers pop up and you can get some nifty shit without paying a cent. This is why Fortnite has such a high player base and retention rate, not just because “kid dumb, kid play gam made for baby”, it’s because it’s updates regularly, like ACTUALLY regularly, not OW regularly where you get patches or the same recycled event from 2016-17 with some 6 new seasonally locked skins every 2-2.5 months, I mean time between updates is 4 weeks maximum, and when it takes that long it usually brings big difference like the map changes, storyline developments (oh yea, Fortnite managed to all that while Blizzard just can’t manage to while pooling most of it’s resources into a story mode) or changes in available weaponry. Making the game constantly refreshing and replayable to new or returning players. Epic’s been able to do this since Fortnite’s BR release essentially, when they were still a fairly small indie dev, Blizzard hasn’t been able to this as a major AAA company. Not a very good look.

[@adjuchasbrokk8033]

Core changes were required, the missing maps didn't score high enough in the diversity calculator so have since been made non-binary. They're also working on replacing Widowmaker with a bowl of fruit.

[@jonathonsiegle9653]

The back to the office order increased productivity so much, that their projects are all canceled

[@Killerbee_McTitties]

"I don't care about the skins, I care about content." The skins are all the content you're gonna get, buddy. It's insane to me you don't understand this.

[@murlend8455]

Man, I just wanna see Asmon, McConnell, Esfand, and Tectone play sea of thieves together

[@pizdecki]

This whole situation gives me so much hope for Diablo! Lizzard will surely deliver, right? Right?

[@MrBreakdownx]

Honestly I'm waiting for the people who paid for the $100 edition to play early not be able to get into the servers. Then even worse on the actual release.

[@poohjy]

⁠@@MrBreakdownx Then they’ll complain about being scammed, while in the same breath buying the highest tier preorder of the next game coming out.

[@MrBreakdownx]

@@poohjy yep it's crazy how gaming companies are allowed to get away with this.

[@danielkurtz3045]

I don't think I take serious Asmon's opinions about paid cosmetics when he obviously doesn't play the cosmetic game in real life. Dude is over here wearing the lvl 1 prison clothes in an RPG

[@bladeshifter]

Crazy how im just now seeing this video pop up when I literally check every day and go to the channel page

[@solomani5959]

Interesting to watch this after d4 as I think the same thing has happened. Monetisation has negatively affected the design of d4.

[@ricashbringer9866]

They added classic maps in, and then I think they took them out again. There are old ones that have not been coming up in rotation.

[@AshenHawk96]

You know, the irony of all of this is that I don't think they ever gave a shit about OW2 in the first place. Even when they announced it, I felt like it was just a marketing push to distact from the PR scandals they were under at the time (Blitzchung, the toxic workplace, and a societal crackdown on lootboxes), kind of what they just did here. "Hey, we canceled OW2's entire point for existing and aren't sorry, but look at all the new content in our roadmap" sounds a lot like what they did at Blizzcon years ago of "Hey, we're gonna put a vague announcement at the start about how we're sorry and then immediately tease Diablo 4 and OW2 to district you from what we did and how hollow our apology was." It tracks. Put up a big announcement to save some face, delay a couple years worth of updates and characters, then "give up" trying to make something new and just land right back where they started with a new storefront and pricing model that's somehow even more predatory.

[@smolcan4984]

24:50 I felt that 😞 remember when null sector came out mission on kings Row

[@biyao9465]

Why do people still think D4 will be good in such a development environment?

[@jakebabcock1921]

They implemented all the monetization upfront and early. So the PvE mode would not have resulted in any or very minimal additional monthly revenue. Therefore, from a tone-deaf business standpoint, they chose to double down on what was working versus what was risky and costly. What made blizzard great was their risk-taking and investment in player delight, first and foremost.

[@sebastianmiranda5540]

The more I'm seeing about modern games makes me so glad I got a steam deck and just emulate older games

[@8Tarkus8]

DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?!

[@bgpapa4178]

12:13 "i believe Diablo 4 could be their Final Fantasy 16" watching this video after season 1 came out dying laughing at that idea

[@Salati00]

What video is that avgn clip from?

[@TheRedHaze3]

Apparently F&F 10 is being split into 3 parts...

[@thearchmage975]

Guys anyone knows the name of the music that's playing in the background at 34:40

[@sebbotnik]

With how good the overwatch hero intro videos are, I don't know why they don't just turn the game into a netflix series cartoon with the same pixar-esque animation style they used in those videos. Now THAT is a missed opportunity, would be a way better way to deliver the lore and develop the characters.

[@mweh6915]

i wouldn't be surprised if some coder pirates the game, adds his own coded PVE, makes servers for it and opens the game to public and call it some weird name to not get Blizzards attention

[@kasraabolfathi6601]

Mihoyo actually did postpone a patch in genshin during the virus days 😂😂

[@kannakamui9584]

and watch the story missions be limited time too like they cant even keep that stuff there for pve ppl it has to all be rotational bs

[@alidan]

15:24 correct me if im wrong, but do different mounts in wow do different things or are they all just a different skin? if they are just different skins for the same function, do you kind of see the value in something like that for just something to work toward? I mean really, if a shooter is just over at the end of the game, there is 0 progression toward anything (battle passes are 0 progression) then why would I play the shitty shooter and not just play better ones?

[@HaOz0r]

PlayerOne scenario not so Sci-Fi anymore 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nathanely262]

Perhaps the real PvE was the friends we made along the way.

[@dany_fg]

33:14 "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed"

[@thetruth4116]

I barely play "AAA" titles anymore outside a select handful of games like Legend of Zelda. 80% of my gaming budget now goes to buying indie games on Steam where actual creativity is still a thing.

[@EllesarPatriot]

Why is there a 2 in the title of the video next to the word overwatch?

[@alexlelonek7923]

Reminds me of the cable guys in south park. "Bill can you do an uninstall today?" "OH I wish I could but I have to pull out this cord and it's like three inches longgg :("

[@DropHazard]

ah yes more Asmongold Reacts to The Act Man, my favorite Asmongold content :D

[@MegaVidFan1]

2:39 that's so funny asmon... bastion being added back was right when I stopped playing. Only two lobbies of Rein Bastion and I dipped. "I'll wait for the pve I guess..."

[@GeneralCane]

Released the roadmap to soften the blow... lol It's like trying to soften a train crash - you just can't do it. The damage is just hopelessly high.

[@astralguardian5930]

33:13 Easiest way to say it "I'm not mad, just disappointed"

[@dclara2134]

Take a shot every time he says “and I defended it!”

[@MajorMystery]

21:16 I only feel the need to play overwatch if I'm drunk and a group of friends are already playing

[@nickbergtv]

I love that the editors are doing more funny stuff 😂 it’s great guys, keep it up!!

[@shakirmorgan4840]

Recalling the recent argument everyone had with Asmon regarding ethicality of Overwatch's monetization and whatnot, Asmon states his views clearly here 14:46 People forgot about this and this is why everyone felt so strongly about this. Asmon doesn't care about the skins, but many others do. It is what it is.

[@reagansido5823]

Asmon may be eating his words, but he's doing it like a fancy rich person. a suit, a napkin on his collar, 3 kinds of forks knifes and spoons, the whole thing.

[@Lunardivider24]

16:18 that's how OW1 was to me. played it non stop for a few weeks then never touched it till like the last update

[@subverse9099]

I like how they keep saying video games are harder to make, yeah any job is hard to do when you’re under staffed.

[@justaverage8158]

Somewhere there’s a timeline where ow2 succeeded, battlefront 2 continued getting updates and live service, just anything that flopped horribly didn’t

[@8Tarkus8]

Act Man has improved a lot over the years it seems. He seems much more spontaneous, genuine and honest than he's been before

[@masterdeetectiv9520]

Yeah some of his old videos have questionable takes (which he has addressed) but his new videos knock everything out the park

[@germanonbalkans]

worst is, that it was possible to preorder this (for 40euros!!!) now that they canceld the delivery they will still not refund, which is the most insane about this. they will literally reply 10 times, that its too late to refund the preorder of tosmething they never going to deliver. In my world, if i sell one of my customers a product that i dont have yet, sure it can happen that it arrives a bit later than anticipated, maybe i need to refund a small % in good will, but if i cancel the order and not refund the money, i either go to jail or the hospital, depending on the customer.... for blizzards its like "Ohh you preoderd this 2 years ago, even so we never deliverd and we never will it is clearly to late to ask for a refund now. we have been lying to you for those 2 years claiming we will deliver, but regardless 2 years ago is obv to long to ask for a refund. " WHAT?!

[@Sejjin]

I haven't played since the news. I hope the player base drops tremendously.

[@tnpcook]

'we want more money now, not even more later.'

[@av19455]

You can see when Asmongold talks about Blizzard how hard it is for him not to drop to his knees to start sucking.

[@wisepi8806]

21:18, Yeah in OW1 I played when I wanted to have fun (even didn't play for like a week or more sometimes) but now I 'HAVE' to play to do the weekly missions DAMN YOU FOMO.

[@kayrashyallenansatsu7918]

Someone talking about Overwatch 2 Asmon: I DEFENDED IT, REMEMBER?

[@Erblack3]

"Blizzard has been very receptive to feedback with Diablo 4" that one aged like fine milk.

[@majorshepard2]

We should be glad blizzard exists. They care about their community. If they would not, why are they trying to give our beloved content creators so much to talk about that we have 100 of hours to watch.🙂

[@moniker8391]

Ah I get it something to WATCH instead of something to PLAY.

[@davenarisotto3674]

Now you cant even unlock skins at the same rate as in ow1 if you dont put in the $$$

[@johnsmithparaggua849]

They didn't need to rush PVE in OW2 since they already have OW1 for that.

[@Sutcliff5]

Mei skills are the same in heroes of the storm, they don't even had to think about something new for the pve