Big Overwatch 2 news! A release date, the full monetisation, and… the PvE plan has CHANGED.
00:00 Intro
00:46 The Plan – Self-Inflicted Resuscitation
06:37 The Trust – Overwatch Has A Weak “Live” Record
10:07 The Sequel – Looking Into The Details
17:04 The Cost – How Blizzard Aim To Profit
30:11 The Response – Are The Community Satisfied?
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I REALLY am not feeling the battle pass.
Doesn’t seem realistic blizzard can’t support this game. New heroes every 2 months? No way.
Fucking hate 'season pass'. It basically forces you to play every day…
I think I stopped Halo Infinite about 2 weeks in; felt like I had to login and play a match each day or the Pass wouldn't be completed in time. A huge turn off.
The way the Overwatch plans keep radically shifting makes me think things have to be seriously off the rails behind the scenes. Blizzard doesn't have much in the way of credibility left and credibility isn't something Activision cares much about, which makes it hard to care very much about anything coming out of Blizzard these days. That sounds like a really ambitious season/development schedule, which at the moment feels like wild optimism or a recipe for disaster.
I'm interesting in knowing what comes with the "season Pass"
Does this mean now, as a OW1 player who never purchases LBs, if I want to continue to get new content I will have to pay for it vs the way it was before where everyone got it and the LB is how they made money? how much are the SP?
My fear is I will be going from a game where I don't need to buy anything but the base game to enjoy the play, to being forced to pay for passes just to keep playing content.
They're lying. Monetization will rip your pants off.
Late to the party but go and check the insanity which is inside Naraka Bloodpoint (again, a paid game). I feel Overwatch 2 will make this game blush when it comes to monetization.
I was done with Overwatch after a month…the gameplay is trash and it is shallow af…still to this day, nothing beats Unreal Tournament from back in the day for gameplay and then maybe HL-2 deathmatch. This is their version of Counterstrike and CS is for braindead twitch mechanic addicts.
I am thankful that there's people out there documenting Blizzards demise.
Cadence… laughs in Heroes of the Storm
tbh we should be talking OW3 by now, not getting ready for the eventual distant release of OW2. There should be 100 heroes by now, or at least 50. I love the game, but it's old. It feels old. It's losing players. I will probably play OW for the rest of my life, and only quit when I'm dead or literally the last player online. And even I can see Blizzard dropped all the balls on this game. We need more game and less focus groups deciding who's going to be gay next.
Have they promised to fix the match making so that experienced players who solo queue are not permanently stuck in a sea of noob players so that leveling is possible? I am not buying anything from Blizzard until they fix that. The game is ruined by throwers and aim bots. I want to be able to compete with other skilled players on a level playing field. Cross Progression ensures unskilled PVE players at every level of PVP. This is not a cure for a bad match making system which blocks progression, it is selling out PVP progression wholesale to give a false sense of progression to everyone. Yay, now everyone can fake ranking up. This is the death of ever having a good game for everyone.
Doesn't CoD run on a about a 8-9 week seasonal model?
The battle pass idea sucks sooo bad.
To be honest, I'm pretty sure that there are studios where the designers are actively using UE4/5 to prototype, then give that to the Bit-Wizards to do their magic and rewrite it for the proper engine they're using.
sure they remove lootboxes same as diablo immoral doesnt has lootboxes, so it will be boosters so you will get random loot after a game in ow2 and if you use boosters youll get the real loot.
I wouldn't mind stuff like 1-3 pve campaign free, then like $5 for every other campaign, like payday2 dlc. Also, make it so you can bring people who don't own the campaigns if you or the host owns it.
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One alternative might be for the skins in the store to rotate. So every season (or every-other season or whatever) the store-only premium skin from last season becomes earnable in-game. That way the whales still get their exclusive shiny but the free players don't have to suffer FOMO more than 9 weeks.
Gonna call it now: OVW2 will go free 2 play, get to season 3, then ActivisionB will cut its funding and leave it with a skeleton crew. It's going to be HoTS all over again.