Animated shorts in-game exclusively - can we not?

Some of us would like to watch these shorts on bigger screens.

The animated shorts are beautifully crafted cinematic masterpieces, I’d like to accordingly watch it on my TV, not my gaming monitor. First world problems, I know. But I’d appreciate being able to watch them on OW’s regular media outlets like Youtube, in all their glory, with my wife. Not each of us staring at our gaming monitors with our headphones on, in our lonesome.

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Stinky writing, extremely effortful over-designing, par animation?

Try steam link or something along its machinations?

Gotta inflate those player #s somehow

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OR find people like me:

Made this thumbnail using powerpoint and snipping tool

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YOU KNOW THE REASON is to get people online so they can prove that they have a certain amount of people online. prove to their shareholders or whatever lol?

it is lame but some people on the forums have made a video on youtube and you can find it. still… blizzard better not try and punish people for that or take them down…

that would actually make me angry

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wait they didn’t upload it on youtube?

they did. you can view it there.

It’s not public. It’s unlisted, so you need to have the link to actually get to it. Which some people might not know.

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no, i literally searched sojurn short and it popped up, its there now

It’s not on the PlayOverwatch official YT page. The ones you are seeing are reuploads or from other sources.

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https://youtu.be/H7tBnM4qNik

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literally just searched it

Oh my gosh. I don’t think you understand a word I am saying. I literally just said that.

It’s not on the OFFICIAL YOUTUBE for Overwatch. As I said, those you are posting are reuploads from different YT pages.

https://www.youtube.com/@playoverwatch This is the official YT page. And it is not public there. That is the point.

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are those uploaded by the PlayOverwatch yt account?

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I wonder if Blizzard will take those videos down for infringement of copyright or something, once they find out people have been uploading the animated short on Youtube :sweat_smile:

I mean they know what they’re doing. They didn’t upload it on Playoverwatch for a reason : They want to incentivize players to log in so numbers of players per day get a boost :p…

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no you have to log in cuz we need to increase our monthly players login metrics

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does it matter? you can watch them either way.

What surprises me is that GameSpot recorded it from in-game and posted it to their page. lol

Yes it matters.

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yes because if blizzard didn’t upload it themselves that means they didn’t officially put it on YouTube to watch online not ingame. those re-uploads could be taken down for copyright infringement.

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