Blizzard have now killed Overwatch 2 Story Missions following cancellation of PVE hero missions...
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Anything that had the potential to justify the "2" in Overwatch 2 is now offically gone. This is the sequel that never should've been.
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Thank you Chong Yue for the awesome news.
No surprise, it was about the money
When expectation was positive and it's now turning into negative things
We went from overwatch 2 to overwatch 1.2 to overwatch 0.7 and now its overwatch 0.5 lmao xd.
Cant wait for the release of Overwatch 1.0 - Remonitized
It is just "Over".
.1 by the end of the month
@@bigfoxki It's "Over" and we "Watch" :3
It would be 'remastered'
@@frea2191
A reminder that Splatoon 1, released on a console that no one bought, had a offline single player campaign since day 1 that you can still go and play today, even after the online service shuts down.
Man, with the Splatoon series, you can't deny that Nintendo Japan created something special with it. Seeing that it became one of the big four main franchises by Nintendo aside from the Pokémon franchise. Those being Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, and Animal Crossing
Dont forget splat3 sold under under 25million
@@sharpester7277 *for my pov* only Splatoon dev and ninjala is one of the Nintendo game dev that actually or maybe at least show that care about it's customer...
If only Nintendo actually give a f about their console
@@kiritoalt2657 Ninjala is not made by Nintendo, but by GungHo instead. The guys behind Puzzle & Dragons to be exact
@@sharpester7277 Does Kirby not count as one of Nintendo's main franchises anymore?
It should not be legal them to do this. They advertised and sold the idea of the game based on the pve additions.
Maybe thats why they made the game f2p so they couldn't get chased up on that
I'm sure a similar argument could be made against it with how heavily and overpriced the micro transactions are though...
With that being said I’m sure you’ll still buy another blizzard game in future. Vote with your wallet
@@jaioncebollero1168I do. I've not bought a game from them or played any of their free to play games in over 6 years. Even the games from them I already own, i have not played in that time.
@@jaioncebollero1168hell nah
@@jaioncebollero1168 I never bought any Blizzard title before so I'm good
Blizzard is panicking, while Arrowhead is having fun with the Helldivers 2 players, and Square Enix is getting ready to release another XIV expansion. There are better options than any Blizzard game.
Sad. Blizzard used to mean something.
And yet, people still going to play Blizzard's games because they have Stockholm Syndrome
@@KenBladehart When liking the gameplay and not giving a fuk about monetisation became Stockholm Syndrome?
Non of those games have Ana gameplay so im gonna keep playing OW
@@shadowboy2417 or Tracer gameplay, doomfist gameplay, Winston gameplay
I don't know how anyone could fumble an IP as big as this. Blizzard FAILED to turn Overwatch into the brand it was supposed to be. Imagine if they had made TV shows, movies, spin offs. Blizzard had gold in the palm of their hands and soiled it because of greed. Overwatch will NEVER recover from this
This imagine a overwatch show or movie with the quality Blizzard puts into the cinematics would be a dream come true but no lmfao they just wanna keep releasing overpriced skins.
"I don't know how anyone could fumble an IP as big as this" 2 words "disney starwars" edit: i'm not talking about just the movies.
@@deanatgmail Eh, Disney Starwars is on the upturn. Lotta good shows and such are coming out. The Trilogy they created however was just mismanaged to hell and back. The second movie being so split in what it wants to be is what hurt it the most, and going into the third movie it was just so shitty that NOTHING was built up to anything that happened in that. "Palpatine somehow returned".
Would have been really fucking nice, to have the B-plot in the second movie be set in with those characters finding Palpatine and discovering his return. Would have made some actual fucking sense.
Allow me to shed some light on this mystery. Blizzard didn't failed alone, because it's not just Blizzard anymore, it's AKB. Why do I call it AKB? Because they are Activision first, King second and Blizzard last. The Blizzard that people love does not exist anymore.
@@mrcaterpillow9926 That would have required they had any semblance of a plan going in to it
I’m shocked, SHOCKED. Okay maybe not that shocked.
It’s Blizzard..
That’s cold
@@defoley5 Like a blizzard 🤯
I see that was a similar quoted to Futurama with that infamous line by Philip J. Fry.
Oh don't worry, they made an original "non-binary" character (its a woman lol) to try and quell the outrage like they did with putting thier existing characters into the LGBT whenever they shit the bed
@LasagaMan *thats* your issue with the game? It has so many actual problems...
I loved it when Arthas said “This entire city must be purged”, then proceeded to purge the PvE mode of Overwatch 2.
What!? How could you even consider that!
I'm sorry Arthas. I can't watch you do this.
The scummiest thig was that they cancelled story missions before the game launched and they were still marketing them to keep people playing for the launch.
You just couldn't trust this company after this backstab.
They dindt cancel it before the game
They continued to market the PvE campaign until significant;y *after* the launch, despite having canned it over a year earlier.
@@gamerbeast3616 Go watch that Livestream where they announced the bombshell. Yes they didn't say it was "cancelled" but they "shifted resources from PVE" which is just a more corpo way to say it.
@@gamerbeast3616they did, they just didn't tell us until they decided to publicly cancelled it
@@gamerbeast3616 Oh you poor naive child. They did cancel pve before game launch. It's why Jeff Kaplan left.
Overwatch "2's" sole purpose was definitely just to be a way to redo the monetization and make it way more expensive. They accidentally made OW1 too generous with its lootboxes not giving duplicate items anymore so people were able to get everything just by playing. The original PVE plan got scrapped before OW2 even released but they didn't let anyone know until later. I'm never touching a game that has Blizzard anywhere near it again. Dumpster company inside and out.
They had a golden goose but killed it because it wasn't made of diamonds. Fucking disgraceful.
Legit during the later era of Overwatch I LOVED how easy it was to get lootboxes. It made me play the game more because I knew that every win got me something or closer to something and I could get varied with Arcade games.
I can't believe Overwatch made me enjoy lootboxes, and then removed them and made it harder for me to feel like I achieved in the game.
Blizzard don’t care about making good games with their IP. They only care about exploiting players for profit.
I thought Overwatch 2 was because of "Free Hong Kong" ban incident and to make everyone "forget about" announce OW 2. I remember that the idea of PVE should be a complete separate game but compatible with PVP game but it's was planned to released much later since was something too much to take.
Anyway, too sad this was killed, since this was seen a long project (probably start to see return in a decade or two) with multiple media, like Comics, Light Novel, Web Animation, maybe a Movie or Animation series because the game itself, okay isn't bad, but the characters was unique.
Fuck Bobby Kotick.
Final fantasy 14 is run well. 🤷
Not gonna tell you how to spend your time, but they don't waste it.
*Editing for explicit clarity: I'm saying once you're done with blizzard products and you wanna play something made by a studio that doesn't hate it's fans, FF has a great team.*
Overwatch 2 was just a store overhaul lmao
worst part is the last people who were working on the PVE content were actually laid off because the first bits of the mission didnt sell well... shows you what is valued at Activision Blizzard :/
I hate to be realistic person, but there is a chance that the forecast was not making even a basic return for investment. It might have been just a miss of expectation, one so large it scared investment.
Or it was burning even more money. If that was the case than no. They should have not kept their jobs. A moral company might have tried a restructure moving assets. A normal one just fires. Yet both would never keep investing in a venture that would yield no return.
@@Keldiuryes the company breaking record level of sales each year is worried that they may make 1 less billion that year because it took a chance on creativity
@@Keldiur No shit it might've been a miss of expectation, they crapped out Archives 0.5 and expected us to eat it up.
I logged out permanently at 2's launch because of their BS policies and greed, not because of the content.
It was 3, 15 minute missions, once a year, and for $15.
They're not the reason they got laid off, that happened because the new Blizzard pres wanted to solely focus on the game's core, it's PvP. It didn't matter how much the missions sold for, we knew nothing much was happening when they said we'd get them once a year. For how barebones and repetitive the missions are, that was just not enough.
I love how all this, is still not considered to be a scam and make laws to prevent this from happening again.
Overwtchis a red to play game.
Youre right, its not a scam but a false marketing offense
@@KenBladehart false marketing is a scam
@@rodrigobogado8756 A scam is comprise of lies and deception
False marketing is just a fake promises
@@rodrigobogado8756 not really
Blizzard cancelling the Story Missions should be no surprise at this point. Probably the only reason they haven't formally announced it yet, is because they wanted to string their remaining player base along, like they did with the Skill Tree last year. But now that the cat's out of the bag, they will have to admit to it publicly, eventually.
Blizzard killed the only thing that could have actually got me into Overwatch. Oh well, their loss, not mine.
You not buying this one game does not hurt them one bit.
You lost out on a potentially great game experience, they made off with a huge sack of cash regardless of their shitty product.
Dont be complacent.
Be mad that they keep doing the same bullshit and that people still eat it up and defend the billionaire companies.
It's *fucking ridiculous.*
@@pianoman7753
It feelsl ike enough people don't buy Overwatch so it seems to hurt their bottom line
No, its not great at all lmfao the matchmaking alone has made this game awful to play.@pianoman7753
@@pianoman7753if you think overwatch pvp is fun xD who hurt you that shit is atrocious
@pianoman7753 They've had plenty of time to make even a passable experience and failed at every turn.
The only logical thing to do is pretend Blizzard doesn't exist, getting angry is a waste of energy.
Blizzard; so good news is you get free heroes now, bad news we’re getting rid of the reason for the 2 in the name
Free, as in before Overwatch 2
You mean, they made it better by making it more like Overwatch 1.
Now, they just need to add back 6v6.
6v6 and I’ll reinstall this trash fire
@@manbaehr6754 restore Archives and ill rejoin
There was never a 2, it was just a bait to make the game relevant again and profit of it
So they "reverse No Man's Sky"-ed it.
no man’s ground or no man’s underground
no man’s journey to the center of the earth
Yes Woman's Land
I understood that.@@VoltShatter
They pulled a Day Before. Although, the content in the trailers in Overwatch 2 existed at some point, none of the content in the fake trailers existed for Day Before.
‘Because not enough players were willing to pay $15 for the three PvE story missions that were offered instead of the free campaign and hero missions that were originally advertised as part of moving from Overwatch 1 to Overwatch 2, we have determined players do not care about PvE’
-Blizzard Executives, probably.
lol true :D
By closing the OW1 servers, they ultimately made the physical disc copy (Console discs in particular) completely worthless, a scandalous move.
Was it that valuable in the first place?
The disc copy of overwatch was always worthless. The game content on the disc became irrelevant once the first patch came. You couldn’t get past the title screen without connecting to their servers. Physical media is important for single player games but useless for service games
@@Sorrowdusk Physical Disc for online service game it's just pretty much fancy download link
@@CruxisAngel954 this also true for single player offline "modern" game. You still need to download update, patch, bug fix, etc
@@the13thjokeridk what you mean by that bc I'm literally playing the 1.0 version of Elden Ring right now via the disc and without internet
when a """sequel""" makes you regret the absence of lootboxes 🤣
Only blizzard can somehow make a system worse than literal gambling
The way their lootboxes were implemented, the house eventually would lose. Eventually you would have the drops and currency to own everything. Which was a problem.
So time to change it to a boutique where there is a cover charge to see the hot new thing and all outfits cost 50 dollars.
And now they are having financial problems so no more cover charge and they have a new bargain bin.
I was in high school when I used to play overwatch back when it came out to 2018. Trust me, I like the battle pass. I would hate pouring hours into the game to HOPEFULLY get a skin for a hero I want. All to be met with disappointment or a Winston skin.
@@ammonite0257 L take. played since release till the 2 entered the title. from 2018 you had 4 years to get everything till the switch to 2. 1 win pretty much gave you a loot box with 3 items, vs ow2 where you get what 100xp per win and I doubt that's even a level in the battle pass (even if it is thats 1-2 items).
@@theholytank869 i much rather pay ten dollars to get all the skins., than end up in an xp meat grinder so I could maybe get the skins I want.
Seein Overwatch 2 is like watching a person you used to know turn into someone horrible, this is despicable
To think that Overwatch vs Team Fortress 2 used to be a valid question....
It never was, and still isn't. TF2 was great, but now it's terribly outdated and plays like shite compared to OW. Valve should make TF3, but sadly they don't know how to count to three.
Just when you thought Overwatch 2 hit rock bottom, they manage to dig even deeper
they pulled out a drill
It's bottomless sea
Ow2 didn't hit rock bottom. It was at the bottom from the very start. They didn't hit nothing if they were already at that point to begin with.
Marvel ccp digged Overwatch 2 deeper
@@Thefessyet they still made money from it
It's crazy to see them cancel story missions while announcing a brand new hero lmao
Sugar to go down the shit sandwich
It’s not that crazy. They had two different teams. The new hero not being released doesn’t lead to the mission getting released instead
An awful "hero" mind you
@@OrangeFlame1 uh alright? No one has played them so I’ll sure take your word for it
@ ammonite0257
You haven’t played as them either, bootlicker, but you sure are acting like this one character is going to save Overwatch. 🙄
It’s crazy to me that Team Fortress 2 has managed to hold a somewhat active playerbase for nearly 20 years and the Overwatch Devs somehow didn’t think to use that game as a blueprint for keeping their game alive for an extended period of time without requiring a sequel.
I mean, the devs probably did. Its the execs who in the end push these bad decisions out. Always blame the white collar idiots.
This isn't on the devs, it's a classic case of executives sticking their dicks in the pie thinking they know better
So because Bobby's dream was killed of a big esports franchise that was forced into existence upon the back of a game that just screams "please give us story and lore", he basically made sure it would suffer as much as possible in his way out.
Everything about this game that fails is because they intentionally make it fail through overpriced content that doesn't sell well on the core player base and then sit there and say things like "oh, well looks like pve isn't what people want because it didn't sell well."
How deranged do you have to be to make decisions that put the game in the state that it's in and then off-handedly blame the player base for that failure, then sack all the people who were forced into making what failed instead of focusing on making it the amazing hero shooter it was supposed to be
Bobby Kotick : Those IP that makes the most money gets the biggest paycheck.
Also Bobby Kotick : *Gets the biggest paycheck*
What's new?
Fucker never gave a damn about the products, only that he could gain riches for himself and his cronies which became more obvious in the later years of Activision-Blizzard.
Bro hes gone this is a developer issue xD
The man been gone and somehow he get the paycheck??? crazy. Also check your news.
@@davidfrost8975watch the video, YongYea is talking about the reward structure put in by Bobby kotick, so this commentor is clearly talking about when the devil was running actiblizz.
"Oh, no!"
"Anyway."
they just burned what litle loyal customers they stil had
so it’s just officially Overwatch 1 with some balance patches now right?
No likely worse
And content removed.
One role removed and content removed
Still overwatch 2
Wow, wasn't that the whole justification for "updating" the game? So in the end, the only thing that was updated was the monetization system... modern AAA gaming everyone!
Nope, the game's actual core part, its PvP, has had many changes since its August 2022 release. Not sure why people keep bringing this up as if we're still in August 2022. We heard it back then, it was true back then, but it's not even true today. It is a different game from OW1. It's not like the franchise has a history of PvE content, its central fanbase are PvP players. Very few people play this game only for its PvE, or their promise of it.
@@aouyiucope
@@aouyiu But are those changes any that couldn't have been done just by updating OverWatch 1?
I am not saying OW2 isn't different, I mean, I wouldn't know, I haven't played either, but unless there was like an engine change I just don't see the justification for a "sequel"
@@aouyiuget their meat our your mouth
It's an update, not a sequel. That's what we're pissed off about, nothing about the entire "restructuring" of the game qualifies this as an expansion enough even from a pvp aspect. As someone's who played since the beta of OW1, sure the metas are different and there's a few new maps. At the end of it all it still plays structurally, mechanically, visually the same simply with no more reliance on a dual shield dive meta and a soft reworking of a handful of characters. Something could easily have been an expansion like every other live service triple A title has been doing for years now. @aouyiu
Explains why Blizzard just recently changed the EULA to try to force arbitration and prevent any kind of class action lawsuits...
Forcing you to accept the new terms of service to use a product you already paid for is reason enough to sue them.
@@GB-22 is tecnichally free, so i don't know if one could sue them for that, that's probably another reason of why they slapped the 2 in the name
@@rodrigobogado8756 I really meant the content you purchased in the game. It costs money, and if they block you out of using that because of terms change.....then, yeah.
@@GB-22 maybe, i honestly haven't played 2 so i have no idea what they removed other than OW1 itself and maybe the original TOS already prevent that by calling it a service or something like that...in conclusion we need clear laws for the game industry...
Blizzard tried to sell us the same product twice in a different package. It offered very little value to people who already purchased Overwatch, and failed to draw back in casual audiences with the lack of PvE. Now they're scrapping PvE to try and focus on PvP, but that ship has plenty of holes in it thanks to Blizzard's misguided attempts to create a bloated pro league. I can't wait for Overwatch 3, with crypto integration and payouts of $.01 per match. Only 1500 matches for a decent skin!
I am sure by this point that those story missions were deliberately sent out so Blizzard could make an excuse for not continuing PVE development.
These corporate leaders knew damn well a fragment of a story campaign with no end in sight wasn't going to sell well, so they could go, "Oh, how sad, PVE didn't make money? Welp, we tried! Back to milking the PVP cash cow!" Failure was by design.
They stole og Overwatch from everyone to make this.... Blizzard is TRASH
So... At what point do we call this a scam?
It was a scam since day 1
The only thing you needed to do was start a class action lawsuit the moment it was originally canceled but kept the name Overwatch 2.
Instead, in the very same month, everyone pre-ordered Diablo 4. People essentially rewarded them for scamming us, so congratulations lmao.
@@305backup can't even feel bad but feel like laughing at people who keep taking the same bait
I actually cancelled my preorder of D4 right after that announcement. Some people make the excuse that they are different teams, but I didn't care. Watching Blizzards constant mishandling of that game too makes me almost grateful to overwatch.
The devs already said the 2 was mandated and it would have just been an expansion. Not sure what else people need to know when the people making the thing warned you
It's truly impressive to take something as popular as Overwatch 1 was in it's prime, and completely destroy its viability as a franchise. The incompetence is really something to behold.
Why anybody would give blizzard money amazes me
Maybe pepole that stil love their games why do you care about what others use their money on
I'm not shocked, This is Blizzard the most greediest company
There's not a constant company for that position in the gaming industry.
It keeps switching between EA, ubisoft, Take two and blizzard
@@A1stardan and nintendo and atlus/sega,
@@tiagocosmos what atlus / Sega do ?
@@A1stardanyou mean activision/blizzard together right?
I'm shocked @ how Short sighted they were. If it ain't BROKEN 😂.
They HAD MLG Overwatch that irl merch $. Butts in seats would make more in timw😢
$15 for only 3 coop Story missions that lasts less then a 20 minutes. Left on a cliffhanger that won't even be resolved.
GG Blizzard, your greed oversees your potential.
It’s fucking insane how they not only made a worse sequel in almost every way but also killed the old one so there’s no going back.
Don’t give Blizzard a single penny for this dogshit
Its not dogshit lmao stfu
@@gamerbeast3616 it's worse than dogshit
I thought this was already off the table when they told people, “It’s too hard” to make story missions
That's what I was thinking. Maybe it's a slow news day in the House Of Yea?
Lol, greedy execs made the devs create a terrible slot machine, and then tell the engineers they don't get a bonus while the execs continue to get fat bonuses and golden parachutes. What a clown fiesta.
This game is like edging: a bunch of build up, but ultimately unfinished.
True! And in both cases, someone is getting f***ed.
I’m sure that the overwatch community is very familiar with edgeing, considering how much R34 there is of it
"R34"? That's a song by U2's The Edge, right?
Right?@@HER0_
Difference is with edging there's *usually* a good ending eventually but with Overwatch that's not the case. It's like getting so used to just edging that the idea of finishing doesn't even seem worth it
It's more in depth than that. Real edging, just like this, is a bunch of build up, holding you hostage just on the edge of relief without actually giving it to you, then taking it all away before doing the same thing over again. The only difference between this and edging is, you never get that relief in the end with Overwatch.
Overwatch 2 would literally be a parody video in 2018 "if ea made overwatch"
This should’ve been top comment
This should be a case study on how to turn one of the most successful IPs into one of the biggest fumbles in gaming history
"it failed to justify the number 2"
It is currently a number 2.
Think of the bright side, it’s the second best Overwatch game blizzards ever made!
“Overwatch Number Two”
Way more accurate and justified name for sure
I don’t know man, sounds disrespectful to the mushy brown waste we eject from our bodies. At least said brown waste can be useful as fertilizer for the farms and our gardens if our hobbies involve plants.
WHAT'S THAT!? This terrible game was so horribly mismanaged that the only thing people were excited about in it was greedily ruined to the point that it now has to be discontinued?
GIVE THAT CEO A 2.3 MILLION DOLLAR BONUS!!!
...and fire 600 staff to offset those costs
Game is not terrible
gamerbeast3616 Usually I’d say that’s subjective, but nah this game is a scam.
I left overwatch 2 when they removed the PvE and hero missions I was waiting for. I was waiting for them to re-add it. Guess not.
Wait for overwatch 3. Another store tab, a battle pass within a battle pass and more stupid confusing currency
Makes me so disappointed that a game with so much potential got trashed
This was a mess from the start. Them makin OW2 was a death sentence
ARE YA FEELING IT NOW MR KRABS
Mr.Krabs: “MY MONEY!!!”
Blizzard: “I’m sorry we’ve failed you”
Mr.Krabs:”YOU’RE FIRED!!”
😂😂😂😂
God I love SpongeBob.
Only dva, tracer and mercy's ass has stood the test of time in relation to this game lol
i’m not attracted to tracer but other than her i agree. i personally don’t like girls with short hair. i like long hair or hair that touches her shoulders.
all of the asses got nerfed and reduced unfortunately
"Man the players didn't like paying money for PvE? I guess they don't want PvE after all" - Activision Blizzard
PVE would have got me, but i saved some money there
So once again ground floor devs just following orders are punished for executive dysfunction and mismanagement. It’s shocking developers are not quitting the industry in droves.
They’re just getting laid off so companies can chase the permanent growth fallacy.
Can this qualify as a class action law suit for false advertising or for an incomplete product
Ah, so that's why they just updated their terms of service with a mandatory agree that you can't sue them for any reason.
@@ZanathKariashi did they? I haven’t played meaning I haven’t agreed
Blizzard: "YOU GET NOTHING! You lose! Good DAY, sir!"
Went from SA'ing their employees bodies, and now their pockets.
Yeah, I'm glad I walked away. Hopefully the developers wake up and walk too
I remember hearing that they were delaying the pve stuff before the game released. And i said, 'oh ok so it's just cancelled.'
i got made fun for that lol
Its crazy watching how far OW has fallen. It was all i played for like 2 years when it first came out. Now I'm just sitting back and celebrating it dying
Wait, Overwatch is a game??? I thought it was only a term for R34 search
This man gets it
And that's how it attains immortality, life beyond death.
That has more story and cutscenes than the actual game itself
So what happens when the rule 34 people start making the games, studio f.. o... w...ow
Waw 😂
I loved OW1. Came out in 2016, I was 17 and enjoying the end of high school. All my friends at the time played games & we all had PCs, so we played the absolute FUCK out of Overwatch.
Now, you have to pay for the privilege to use the new hero when it drops? Battle pass system replaced the ability to earn cosmetics for free? 5v5 made it so we had to cut one player for comp. And at the end of OW1 there was so little content we dropped the game in anticipation of OW2. And now that game is dead…
Now, none of us. Not a single one of us plays OW2. They had such a good thing and greed drove it into the ground.
The only damage control that will work is a rework of the monetization system. Dont paywall new heros. Make it possible to earn cosmetics in a realistic timeframe for free. And maybe even launch “overwatch classic” for those of us who wanna go play an actual good game.
Umm, they're reworking monetization, the game director just made a whole vid about it. All heroes are now free starting in a few weeks with season 10's release. What's also coming is coins in the battlepass, more credits (for buying skins) to earn, lowering skin prices, and more.
The game is very much alive, it's just not to you and your friend group. 6v6 coming back is also not outside of the realm of possibility, but honestly, 5v5 is fixable so idrc. The game is in a much better state than it was at launch, which was just overwatch 1.2, now it's far beyond that.
@aouyiu i love having to redesign more than half of the og heroes so they can fit the 5v5 format. Whats even better is looking at the insanely lazy design of new heroes that for the most part revolve around passives and are either hard meta until theyre hot fixed or they get nerfed into oblivion because everyone realizes the game is worse when theyre meta (cough cough weaver and mauga)
@@aouyiu damn you work at blizzard or something?? Get off your knees
@@aouyiu I just feel like it’s too little, too late. The game is dead.
This message just goes to show that the haters don't even know the current state of the game. For starters, starting from next season all old and new heroes are free, no BP grind or paywall.
OW2 did some idiotic mistakes and one after another they've been corrected and new content has been added. It's still not perfect, but what is. 5v5 has its weaknesses, but it helps a lot with the que times. They still should incentivize tank play in various ways to make ques even better.
Overwatch truly is the energizer bunny of enshitification
"We can't deliver on the original vision."
Translation - "We can't find a way to monetise it, so we're not gonna bother."
This feels like an elaborate plan by blizzard to reset everyone's accounts while redoing the monetization system in overwatch
The bonus structure incentivises gouging players where you can instead of making good stuff. My gosh. That's diabolical decision-making.
This damages all their games. Even the well performing ones.
The bonus structure makes it so a sinking ship will sink faster. The smart and capable devs will move away from underperforming projects, leading to them absolutely tanking. In a proper company, talent will move from project to project and advise those struggling. Here, the smart talent will avoid such in order to preserve their monetary rewards.
Blizzard: Agree To These Terms Or Stop Playing Our Games
Thank goodness i never purchased Overwatch 1.5: Remonitized
Overwatch 2
@@gamerbeast3616 it's glorified dlc gamerbruh
You can’t purchase it tho? It’s free
Man... So Overwatch 3 announcement when?
Amazing how Overwatch 2 is now literally just a worse version of TF2.
It always was.
Damn. Thought I finally found an overwatch video without tf2 being mentioned. Oh well...back to my bot-infested hellhole.
Don’t insult TF2 like that. OW2 is a disgrace that shouldn’t exist. Tf2, albeit abandoned by their developers is still an amazing game.
1) Install TF2
2) wait 10 minutes till you find a match
3) Get sniped by aimbot from enemy spawn, you cant leave your spawn
4) uninstall
This tf2 cope is always pathetic. Both games are dead in the water.
Bobby Kotick is so messed up he made J. Allan Brack look like the good guy 💀
On one hand im proud that gamers aren't giving into the Overwatch microtransactions but sad seeing how the overwatxh devs are being treated. Blizzard is such a disgusting company
This just proves Its the worst managed IP in Video Game history.
Halo says hi
Good and Evil?
I'm not sure about worst, but definitely top 10 in recent history
5 vs 5 destroy the game for me..
Cry
“Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two photos.”
Overwatch 1
Overwatch 2
“They’re the same photo.”
I feel like No Man's Sky and Overwatch 1/2 had opposite paths. One was hated at launch and has become beloved while the other was beloved and is now hated.
Marvel Rivals is here to take over from blizzards massive fumble of over watch
The Finals does it better
@@JadieIfinals is not a 6v6 team hero shooter smart one
Give it 2 months and Marvel Rivals will be dead in the water.
@@Ziggyvu We just got powershift which is pretty much payload from Overwatch.
Not with NetEase developing it
100 million lifetime players...what about active players?
Less than 100
Pretty normal if you check steam. Not even including the people still using the blizzard launcher. Game still does well with normal people who don't follow gaming news. It's why Activision/Blizzard always announced their bad news with the OW devs' good news or why king games used it for its diversity chart
@sharkeatinpizza not true lol
Idk, maybe i would've bought the story missions, if it was a finished campaign for like 30 bucks or somethin. There ain't no way i pay 15 for only 3 missions each time.
Yet another example of corporate executives punishing other people for their terribly short-sighted decisions.
Dragon's Dogma 2 may have it's issues but it isn't nearly as bad as what Overwatch 2 turned out to be.
And people were dumb enough to think Microsoft would save Overwatch. There’s a limit to naïveté and stupidity.
W Rebecca pfp
_"There’s a limit to naïveté and stupidity."_ No, there isn't.
@@darksidegryphon5393 thank you for the good laugh
Seriously, they basically fired all the OW2 PVE devs and other devs working on new Blizzard projects. What did people expect to happen
W pfp rip power 😢@@BRIANNA_00
I'm just mad thinking about what could've been. Overwatch was a instant hit and a phenomenon that was making waves outside of gaming. Overwatch was really on track to be an iconic gaming IP
On par with the greats like Mario, Sonic, Zelda, Pokemon, Metal Gear, Halo, Call of Duty etc. Then this B.S......This would be like if Nintendo completely fumbled and released a half azzed version of Gold/Silver and the franchise died there.
Overwatch? More like Underwatch
And just like that, the greatest scam comes full circle
Overwatch had such potential as a brand, yet increasingly screws itself
To clear something up, the $15 wasn’t just for PVE. Yes, PVE was locked behind a paywall which was stingy, but the PVE was bundled with 1000 currency ($10 worth), which is enough to get the battle pass. So basically, PVE was $5.
But let’s say half a million people bought this package deal, that’s 75 million dollars in profit. That to me doesn’t sound like a failure.
Maybe sales numbers underwhelmed Activision Blizzard, but I don’t think the profits were a reason why PVE was cancelled. I think it was because the PVE Overwatch division suffered layoffs and leadership realized that they can’t fulfill their promise of developing PVE without PVP suffering.
This was a complete mishandling by Bobby Kotick and good riddance that he’s out of the company. Hopefully OW2 receives some story missions in a few years from now
As others have said, this IP was fresh & engaging at the start. Blizzard had made a compelling game with fantastic characters that gave the entire experience so much personality, making it all the wilder how spectacularly they failed to capitalize. They stuffed OW2 with so many unnecessary & crippling issues that they completely overwhelmed any of the hype the IP had built. As a OW1 fan a lot of the new characters & story details in 2 look exciting but I have no interest in trudging through the swamp of warped monitization & design decisions & failures to experience anything that would have otherwise drawn me in.
Arrowhead Studios: *Look at what they need to fail at mimicking a fraction of our power.*
Blizzard needs to just delist Overwatch 2 and make a RUclips apology video already.
"We have had a severe, and continuous, lapse in our judgment..."
Yeah, that's not how corporations work.
Lol, are you for real? Since when do RUclips apology videos ever work out for anyone?
Or a solemn JPEG.
And give us the original version back
So, let me make this clear.
They are pulling an EA as in force the devs to gut a game and when that ruins it they punish the devs?
Yes lol business types cannot comprehend anything other than "maximize profit at all costs". then when their actions inevitably ruin a long term money printer for a very slight short term increase in profit, they shift the blame onto the people who actually make shit happen then go ruin something else. They're genuinely cancerous. I've seen it in heavy industry too many times, and thats a job where people get seriously injured when corners are cut!
Bobby fueled the fire for the company to burn itself to the ground. And he'll jump out with his golden parachute while everyone else burns.
I am shocked, shocked!
Well, not that shocked....
But not frozen...
Great job Blizzard, keep it up. Already forgot about D4
Blizzard is soulless, skilless, classless corpo now.
Nothing fun or good shall come from them ever again.
There should be legal ramifications for their mismanagement and false advertising
How can a lawsuit not be started with any PVE being paid content? They actually marketed PVE as a free content for OW2
I think their EULA enables them to get away with it. apparently it was recently changed not to long ago forcing you to accept it to play the game
My friend tried to defend Overwatch 2 by calling it free DLC. It’s DLC all right - Don’t Like the Changes.
Gottem
This is worse than mw3. Ateast it has a campaign.
That just shows that there was literally 0 point in making a sequel to begin with....
Eveything that was promised in Overwatch 2 was literally in Battleborn at launch. Battleborn even had operation raids.