It’s too late for that. Microsoft needs to resurrect the brand, purge the individuals.
The ranking system is in a better place. They ditched the forced lower placement nonsense. Matchmaker is better, but still has bizarre hiccups when high ranked wait times get extreme.
Burried can mean getting downvoted, which is what it means in this context,
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It doesn’t matter what the justification was. You’re supposed to review the game as it is, not company’s promises. You are not reviewing Blizzard, you’re reviewing the game.
Well good. There was no forced lower placement in the original Overwatch from what I recall of probably over 1000 hours of competitive play. Even highly ranked queues were fine in the original Overwatch, until the geniuses working on the game decided to implement 2-2-2 just as they went on their Overwatch 2 vacations. I actually had an involved idea on how to correct that but it was obvious the individuals behind these games are actually fairly dull professionals who would rather screw up over long periods of time than think daringly and creatively. Blizzard is a corporate, money-making machine full of mediocrities. You waste your time and breath on them just so they can pretend they’re magically processing your feedback and point to you being engaged as something their vermin investors and higher-ups can celebrate and profit from.
Have you considered that maybe you’re a deranged monkey yourself?
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Let’s try to dumb it down so you could understand in very simple words:
When reviewing a game, are you supposed to review
- the game, or
- the company
- company’s promises
WDYT?
Which game is being reviewed - Overwatch or Overwatch 2? I would give Overwatch a high score (and that’s overlooking some decisions). Overwatch 2 I would trash. There’s a reason why Overwatch never appeared on Steam.
By the way, it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a crisis developing right now within Blizzard. Lol, imagine if there was no Microsoft.
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The heroes are less accessible due to the fact they are/were part of OW2 battle pass. If you didn’t buy the battle pass you didn’t get the hero. And at least two of the heroes were OP on launch so OW2 had officially became P2W. Hence the backlash.
…Did you get the heroes after the season was over? Was purchasing the battle pass absolutely necessary to unlock the heroes within the season?
Overwatch 2 wasn’t just a bad game, it also required the slow sacrifice of a legitimately great game.
Whatever its review score is, it’s not low enough.
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Currently I see 09% of 116,863 reviews are positive. That is 10,518 Positive of 116,863 reviews
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Another example right here. Like I said, people aren’t reviewing the game itself. Instead they are abusing the review system to falsely accuse a decent game and push their agenda. Funny thing is, if you behave like bad people, then you can’t complain that other people behave like bad people either.
OW1 was a good game. OW2 lost its way.
All that said, you can say whatever you want, but the truth is I can still find a match instantly in OW2, whereas in a highly-rated game like, say, Dead by Daylight finding a match takes forever.
One of the recent reviews on Steam:
I have over 700 hours from Ow1, the game mechanically is pretty fun I guess but in every other sense Ow2 is a worse game. Its Ow1 except you have to pay for every single piece of content. It seems like they just want to squeeze as much money out of possible at this point. Lootboxes weren’t perfect but at least you could earn them at a decent rate for free to actually be able to collect legendary cosmetics, now its grind for hundreds of hours to get some currency to maybe be able to buy one skin. Getting tired of these predatory gaming practices ruining game franchises that were once fun.
Here is another:
I remember seeing the Overwatch 2 announcement trailer three years ago and even if I had lost all interest for Overwatch at that point, I still was a little interested for the game because Blizzard really announced Overwatch 2 to be a completely different game with the PvE. Later when the game actually was released I realized how this is an exact copy of the first game expect somehow worse, this game is NOTHING else but a money grab for Blizzard. Loot boxes are no longer free, any skins in the games will cost you real money where some of the prices for one single skin is selling for 20 dollars. There are even heroes in the game that are locked behind a battle pass that you only can obtain by spending real money, this is ridiculous and deserves to stay as the lowest rated game on Steam.
Granted, this item from a list of another review made me chuckle audibly:
Steal womens breastmilk from the office refrigerator
I downloaded OW2 on Steam just so I could give it a negative review.
After their swap to a predatory business model and canceling the only thing half of us had waited years for, it was well deserved.
You see some white knights on the OW forums defending the game still, but this isn’t some petty review bomb, it was fans who loved the game who are legitimately upset with what Blizzard did to the game.
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This game has been massively slammed too. You almost start to wonder if the landscape is changing before our eyes - with reviewers being useless and players coalescing to provide a more honest perspective (if perhaps skewed) if Blizzard becomes a victim this may be a new phenomenon. The irony is that Blizzard is getting slammed like this only because much more is expected of them. I don’t even bother playing or just quit many other games, but they don’t get eviscerated like this even though they deserve to be. I still can’t believe the absolute garbage even a recognizable series like Civilization can get away with.
No, Blizzard is getting slammed hard because they renege on promises, are addicted to predatory business practices and create stupid games which emphasize “Player time played” as a KPI metric above everything else.
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the game mechanically is pretty fun I guess
Yup, fully supports what I’m saying. The game is fine.
Its Ow1 except
It makes total sense, when reviewing games, to compare with other games on the market. There is no such game as Overwatch 1 on the market. It’s a non-existent, imaginary game in their heads at this point. If they’re mourning a game that doesn’t exist anymore, this has nothing to do with reviewing another game.
you have to pay for every single piece of content
Even if that were true, games aren’t judged based on their monetization alone. Otherwise the cheapest games on Steam would have 100% positive reviews regardless of their quality.
I just learned randomly like two months ago that’s Key Performance Indicator. Putting the Big D in Big Data.
I think people are passionate about Blizzard games because they love the IPs, so they’re more upset when Blizzard messes something up. Other bad games didn’t have many passionate fans so the people just leave them without bothering to say anything. They just don’t even care enough to bother.
We also have long histories including better leadership and more ethical business models from people like Mike Morhaime and Jeff Kaplan.
I posted these quotes in the OW forums, but this is from a Kaplan interview in 2016 (Blizzard: why we won't sell Overwatch heroes | Eurogamer.net):
…So there we are at Blizzcon and people were just hammering us and you kind of realise that wow, there’s a lot of distrust out in the community, because I think a lot of players have felt like they’ve been burned in the past. Like, oh god, these games companies are just trying to get so much out of me.
That’s one of the awesome thing about Blizzard. We do have guys like Mike Morhaime at the helm, who’s not only a gamer, but he was a game developer. He’s not a business guy, he’s a game maker. It was easy going to Mike and saying “hey, this is how we think heroes and maps should work”, and he instantly agreed and we just cleared it up after that.
Jeff and Mike saw the distrust of their players and cared enough to make sure OW1 had an ethical business model (loot boxes were cosmetic only and not really predatory at all compared to the current F2P model).
Once they were gone, the new people in charge immediately pushed OW into a predatory F2P model, abandoned the core tenet of the game where all players always had access to all heroes so they could try to use FOMO to sell more battle passes and canceled the project Jeff and the team had been working years on. What Jeff saw people were afraid of in 2016 was exactly what happened as soon as they ousted him.
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