Current Events > Nearly 2 weeks later... the Overwatch 2 PvE scrapping still hurts.

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It sucks!

Activision Blizzard actively sucks ass. I haven't bought one of their games since Diablo 3.

Honestly I don't think I care that much for the pve. As a single player experience it might last like 5-10 hours which is nothing compared to the hundreds of hours put into pvp. What sucks is that they led us on and lied to us and that is unforgiveable especially since they used it as justification for the so-called sequel when really all they did was add new ways to monetize everything.

Alucard188 posted...

Activision Blizzard actively sucks ass. I haven't bought one of their games since Diablo 3.

Overwatch is the only Blizzard game I've purchased or supported in the past 15 years. Not sure how many Activision games I've had, but I'm not too keen on supporting either from this point on.

__starsnostars posted...

Honestly I don't think I care that much for the pve. As a single player experience it might last like 5-10 hours which is nothing compared to the hundreds of hours put into pvp. What sucks is that they led us on and lied to us and that is unforgiveable especially since they used it as justification for the so-called sequel when really all they did was add new ways to monetize everything.

I think the progression and talent trees would've made a huge difference and added to the replayability.

Pain bump

Cannot wait for the schadenfreude when Overwatch League becomes untenable

Overwatch has been tweeting about Pride Month the past couple days. The replies are pretty awful. :/

Overwatch's celebration of Pride is by making us give them more money.

Did they release any new characters with this news? If they didnt, obviously its not terrible enough PR for blizzard to care

__starsnostars posted...

Honestly I don't think I care that much for the pve. As a single player experience it might last like 5-10 hours which is nothing compared to the hundreds of hours put into pvp. What sucks is that they led us on and lied to us and that is unforgiveable especially since they used it as justification for the so-called sequel when really all they did was add new ways to monetize everything.

And they don't even have the guts to make an official official announcement about it. Only letting a couple of devs casually mention it near the end of a stream, hoping nobody notices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZf54X-C3FM

The question is, how many times does shit like this have to happen to make people stop going to bat for blizzard?

Diablo 3's crappy launch
Diablo 3's auction house
Diablo Immortal
Killing off HotS
Warcraft 3 ReForged
The dismal launch of Diablo 2 remastered
Popularizing and mainstreaming lootboxes with Overwatch 1
Killing Overwatch 1 to replace it with 2
And now this

And that's not even including the shady real world shit, like their scummy executives, toxic work culture, and the sex-offending, murder-threatening, overpaid, living trainwreck that is Bobby Kotick.

For fuck's sake, Overwatch 2 was announced and rushed to market 100% to deflect from Blizzard hanging Blitzchung out to dry to appease fucking China.

And holy shit, I just realized I've forgotten the myriad Hearthstone controversies over the years.

Like... how long can they possibly ride off the goodwill of games from 15-20 years ago?

LanHikari10 posted...

Overwatch has been tweeting about Pride Month the past couple days. The replies are pretty awful. :/

Because the LGBT fanbase are blindly tweeting how Blizzard cant stop winning, right?

DarkBuster22904 posted...

Like... how long can they possibly ride off the goodwill of games from 15-20 years ago?

Ok, but Diablo 2 was really good.
/s

As long as people keep letting them, frankly. I have no interest in their shit anymore, personally.

DarkBuster22904 posted...

Like... how long can they possibly ride off the goodwill of games from 15-20 years ago?

They got WoW & COD. Both are pretty much glorified money presses for the company. Everything else is largely irrelevant as far as they are concerned

DarkBuster22904 posted...

The question is, how many times does shit like this have to happen to make people stop going to bat for blizzard?

Diablo 3's crappy launch
Diablo 3's auction house
Diablo Immortal
Killing off HotS
Warcraft 3 ReForged
The dismal launch of Diablo 2 remastered
Popularizing and mainstreaming lootboxes with Overwatch 1
Killing Overwatch 1 to replace it with 2
And now this

And that's not even including the shady real world shit, like their scummy executives, toxic work culture, and the sex-offending, murder-threatening, overpaid, living trainwreck that is Bobby Kotick.

For fuck's sake, Overwatch 2 was announced and rushed to market 100% to deflect from Blizzard hanging Blitzchung out to dry to appease fucking China.

And holy shit, I just realized I've forgotten the myriad Hearthstone controversies over the years.

Like... how long can they possibly ride off the goodwill of games from 15-20 years ago?

Gamers don't care. As long as they make a fun/good game, morals go out the door. Look at the many anti-consumer practices Nintendo has committed and yet their games and systems are still selling gangbangers. Why? Because they make good games. That's just all that matters in the end, sadly.

Prestoff posted...

Gamers don't care. As long as they make a fun/good game, morals go out the door. Look at the many anti-consumer practices Nintendo has committed and yet their games and systems are still selling gangbangers. Why? Because they make good games. That's just all that matters in the end, sadly.

I get that, but... they don't make good games. Haven't for quite some time; that was the point of the first half of my post

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