Overwatch 2 is the worst game on Steam, according to user reviews | “The people who make Overwatch porn work harder than the people who make Overwatch”::undefined
This quote from the article is exactly why I absolutely won’t bother with OW2–“free” or not:
“I somehow purchased Overwatch 1 for $40, which Blizzard then deleted and created this predatory microtransaction simulator instead”
Remember when they promised Overwatch players would be fine, and they wouldn’t be forced to play OW2? Remember when they touted OW2 as being different for having the basis of PvE missions and more story based content?
I actually really wanted a story/lore filled fps. Tragic
So did I. Even though I had sort of fallen out of love with Overwatch at that point, I was actually pretty excited for the story/PvE stuff. Then to be presented with the steaming pile of dung they gave us was just an insult to me.
I have a better solution that works for me really good. Any time a blizzard game releases I out right ignore it. So far it’s been going great for me.
this basically.
Diablo 2 was the last thing i ever gave a shit blizzard did. once wow and subscriptions and microtransactions happened they became beyond trash.
I wish I did this… Diablo 4 has been such a disappointment. The story was pretty mid and the gameplay loop post MSQ is just not as fun as D3. Also, I played 5 hours this season and I was still only like level 20 or something, because of all the stuff I had to do again with waypoints, side quests for renown, and season journey in order to progress the seasonal quest. I just stopped. Kinda regretting getting the ultimate edition now
Well the great news is you won’t be making that mistake in the future. Hopefully others have learned their lesson as well. Fuck modern blizzard.
Everything after “What, You guys don’t have phones” was cake on the icing.
They also recently made the upgrade path for Warcraft 3 classic untenable. I basically had to hack the Gibson to install modern Warcraft III reborn minus the reborn part because I didn’t have to buy it when it came out and I shouldn’t have to buy it now.
It was the death of blizzard north that sealed the deal. We were robbed of a proper diablo 3 thanks to that.
I don’t even WANT Warcraft 4 anymore.
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I truly detest the “review bombing” culture, but in the same breath - Blizzard has really screwed up on OW2.
OW was honestly one of my most played games of all time - and I loved it. The loot boxes were annoying, but hey…if I wanted to, or chose to - I could buy more and got a decent chance of getting what I wanted. The issue was that I had nearly everything by the end, and rarely bought loot boxes. The content wasn’t there to keep people buying cosmetics.
The new shop/token/battle pass stuff is really really toxic to gaming. I will admit that I have bought a few battle passes. When the content is there, I will pay. I would totally buy skins if they were in the vein of $5-7usd, and were for a hero I liked… but there is no way in the world that they are getting me to pay 20-25 on a skin. Its honestly so disgusting.
I really was unaffected by the single player stuff, because I only enjoy multiplayer games - but the way it was done showed disregard for the loyal players so it makes me lose trust in the company. I am honestly just sad about what happened to the OW universe. The only way for people to voice that feeling/emotion is to vent and move on. I guess the reviews serve as a good warning to potential new players.
I love review bombing culture. Because companies always (always) push to have more money. Ten years ago we wouldn’t think that loot boxes would be so common. Now lootboxes are more common and games more shittier.
And sometimes people snap and just bury the game that crosses some lines. Imo those lines were crossed long ago. Now we notice it when the game is both bad and have loot boxes.
But it’s funny to look at overwatch because they also gambled to push as much shit into the game and lost (at least I hope so, the game still have 50000+ players)
Is it really review bombing though? Or is it just people reviewing a game poorly because it’s bad? Like seriously this is the whole point of reviews.
I do not agree that the game is bad. The gamplay, mechanics, and feel is near perfect. The design, art, and sound is amazing. I am not happy with the current state from a monetization standpoint, but to say it is a bad game - objectively, that is wrong. The reviews of the original game before the new monitization strategies were all great, and that core gameplay still exists(I know it was 6v6 not 5v5). I still play, and still have a great time when I do. I just protest with my wallet. If it was a bad game, there would not be so many people playing it and shelling over money for skins.
I pretty sure that at least 50% of the the blizzard staff who was laid off started to make overwatch porn. The single beauty mark on the back of the Pink Mercy skin is all the evidence that I need.
If my claim is correct so yeah, people who make overwatch porn work harder than the current overwatch team.
Beauty mark on the mercy skin?
Look closely on the pink mercy skin, one of the few skin that Mercy has a open back side, it’s has a little beauty mark in the middle of her back.
What’s the relation to the porn?
The person who designed the skin purposely put that beauty mark, is not from Mercy design and others skins with open backside doesn’t have it. If this is not some kind of fetish I don’t know what it is.
That seems like a huge stretch.
I have never paid for a single Blizzard game. I have never played a single Blizzard game. I have never been given any indication I’ve made a mistake.
You’ve made a mistake, hope this is indication enough.
Warcraft 3 is a good game, I loved Warcraft 3. I am sure warcraft 1 and 2 were probably good for their time as well. Anything else yeah. I got nothing.
Overwatch was a good game back in the day before deletion.
I don’t understand the hate the game gets, it’s a free game.
they ruined the game with false promises of PVE for the last 4 years and then released monetization and nothing else. they just released a shitty pve gamemode thats 15 bucks for like 3 missions i think which is a slap in the face
No it isn’t. I paid $40 for it.
And 7 years after the fact, how is your one time $40 purchase still paying to keep the servers running?
I don’t like the monetary scheme that Blizzard settled on for OW2, I’m never paying $25 for a skin, but the $10 battle pass every 2 months is reasonable in my opinion.
If that battle pass contained all of that season’s cosmetic content and followed a FOMOless scheme more similar to Halo MCC or Deep Rock Galactic, I think most people wouldn’t complain but clearly we have whales that are willing to dump stupid amounts of cash on singular skins.
I love how you’re pretending that the exact business model Blizzard operated on successfully for 15 years doesn’t work.
What do you even accomplished by white Knight ingredients for a big media company with a long history of shitty business practices?
It didn’t use to be.
People give a negative review because they consider the game to be much worse than it was in the past.
What kind of attitude is this? You’re still being used by them as content for the paying users. I’d at least like to get dinner before i get forked.
Huh?
Nobody is forcing you to play overwatch 2. I am disappointed, because I loved the first year or so of OW1, but I fell off that game a long time ago.
Like, if your date is insisting you make the beast with two backs before you head out to the Olive Garden? Just leave? Rather than sitting in their living room yelling about how you need at least four cheddar bay breadsticks before you choke down their breadstick.
so youre saying if that wouldve happened you wouldnt leave a bad review due to the fact its a bad experience you would just leave?
thats a crazy argument you just made and it’s even crazier that youre implying the other guy is being crazy. lots of mental gymnastics on this one
Negative reviews are important. I never cared enough about overwatch because most of the things I didn’t like are things the rest of the playerbase did. But I have left my fair share of negative reviews on other games.
So yeah. I just left. I also just left online Escape from Tarkov (SPTarkov is awesome though). If someone asks me for my opinion, I’ll give it. But I am not going to make wild ass claims about how they need to buy me dinner before I let them fuck me.
But that is not what “review bombing” is (and I also think you replied to the wrong comment but whatever).
Review bombing is the idea of encouraging everyone to get their hate on and spam one star reviews in an attempt to hurt a game. It is right up there with sending death and assault threats to cod developers over nerfing the AKM. It is stupidity and hate and mostly just makes people ignore you
Whereas games that naturally get to “mostly negative” and the like? Those are incredibly valuable. When I see a cool steam game in my discovery queue during a sale or I hear that Nookrium played it, I check it out. And seeing the general trend of those reviews are incredibly useful in knowing if it is in a good place or not. Whereas just seeing a massive spike of reviews lets me know “Cool, all of these are worthless”
On a small scale, people play this out as the idea of sitting in your date’s living room telling them they better get an uber xl or else you are going to give them a one star on the dating app. And on a large scale? This is like calling all your buddies to report this person’s tinder account because they are only 5’8 instead of 6 flat.
What kind of analogy is that??? What the hell does banging your girlfriend before going to Olive Garden have to do with shitty OW2?
A really stupid one that mostly speaks to capital G Gamer entitlement?
Nothing is truly free, including this game. A fraction of the game is free, while the first one that many of us paid for is completely gone (which to me sounds like the grounds for a class action lawsuit but idk).
