Overwatch 2 | PC | (TBD)

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[1970s HeRon Flow]

Damn no one on here plays this anymore?

Only game I can still bother tryna grind for high rank,

Currently Master 5 as a Zen Main

 

[OneDeep]

I play from time to time

Non competitive though

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Overwatch 2 Devs Fear Story Missions Have Been Canceled

The PvE campaign was pitched as the sequel’s big pillar, now ex-devs tell Kotaku its future is unclear

kotaku.com

 

[Detroit Wave]

Overwatch 2 Devs Fear Story Missions Have Been Canceled

The PvE campaign was pitched as the sequel’s big pillar, now ex-devs tell Kotaku its future is unclear

kotaku.com

blizz aint been shyt since wow cataclysm expansion

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

blizz aint been shyt since wow cataclysm expansion

Seems like overwatch 2 is pretty much on its death bed

 

[OneDeep]

Seems like overwatch 2 is pretty much on its death bed

Actually this might help

People hated that new characters were locked behind battle pass

Now all they need to do is stop charging $20 for a recolor if a skin

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Actually this might help

People hated that new characters were locked behind battle pass

Now all they need to do is stop charging $20 for a recolor if a skin

I do think it will help but usually when you see these live service games start unlocking content for free like characters it’s an emergency glass.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

www.bloomberg.com

This week, video-game titan Blizzard Entertainment changed the business model for the shooter Overwatch 2, decoupling the game's heroes from the paid battle pass. The seemingly drastic move led players and observers to ask: Is Overwatch 2 a failure?

Here's news that might offer some insight.

Bonuses at Blizzard usually arrive in two chunks: one in August, for the first half of the year, and one in March, for the second half of the previous year.

In August 2023, Overwatch 2 team members were told that based on the game's poor financial performance in the first half of the year, they shouldn't have received anything, according to people familiar with what happened who asked not to be named discussing nonpublic information, but that the company would cover some of their bonuses to make up for the shortfall. Then, earlier this month, the company informed developers that they would receive a stunning 0% of their bonus targets.

Failing to get any profit-sharing bonus is rare at Blizzard and is the result of a major policy change that was enacted in 2023. Previously, employees would receive bonuses based on the overall performance of the company. But last summer, the payouts became tied to the performance of each specific franchise. Since their titles were more successful in 2023, teams on games such as Diablo and World of Warcraft received bonuses this month, but the Overwatch developers weren't so lucky.

This policy change was the culmination of a decade-long battle between Blizzard and its parent company, Activision Blizzard. Leadership at Blizzard, including former presidents Mike Morhaime and J. Allen Brack, fought for bonuses to be shared company-wide because they believed that otherwise everyone would want to work on the most successful games rather than experiment with new ideas. Activision's leadership, driven by former Chief Executive Officer Bobby Kotick, argued that those behind the most lucrative products should be rewarded the most.

Blizzard's new president, Johanna Faries, who came from Activision, has told employees that she is looking into the details of the profit-sharing plan as well as other unpopular policies involving stack ranking and remote work, but has not made any decisions yet as she settles into her new role.

The lack of payout reflects the precarious position of the Overwatch sequel, which came out in 2022 to mixed reviews. Overwatch 2 was the follow-up to one of the most successful games of all time, and although it was originally pitched with a focus on PvE — player vs. environment, or battles against computer-controlled enemies — it has since scaled back on that vision.

Overwatch 2 developers were informed that the company does not plan to finish any of the remaining planned PvE content and will instead double down on competitive player vs. player gameplay, according to the people familiar.

In a statement, Blizzard spokesman Andrew Reynolds said that last year, the company began "focusing on the foundational team-based experience, building the game alongside our players, and more quickly addressing their feedback."

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

ALMOST AS IF WE JUST WANTED OVERWATCH TO BE FIXED AND THOUGHT OW2 WAS GOING TO BE PVE WITH BELLS AND WHISTLES!

WE DID NOT ASK FOR OVERWATCH 2 TO TAKE THE PLACE OF OVERWATCH 1 AND GET NICKELED AND DIMED TO fukkING HELL FOR SOME 0'S AND 1'S COSMETICS!!

 

[Batsute]

There was no reason for this sequel.

Graphically it was a refresh
Content wise it was a scam
Gameplay updates made no sense

Everything they did could’ve been done in a OW1. Announce a huge roadmap telling the community what to expect and reward them along the way. It’s amazing how greed fukked an IP so badly as this could’ve been their version of LoL where it could’ve gone into multiple genres.

 

[Rice N Beans]

They really just made the store overpriced and changed the sun location in the sky and called it a sequel.

 

[Phillyrider807]

No one asked for Overwatch 2. We just wanted Double Shield meta to be fixed. That was it.

There has to be a movie made of the rise/downfall of this game. shyt is historic. They were building stadiums for this game and this shyt is a laughing stock now.

First 2 years of Overwatch was special though.

 

[The G.O.D II]

The downfall of this game has been crazy. Meanwhile, R6 siege is not only an older title but continues to thrive(mainly thanks to that retarded cac streamer but still)