Overwatch is in need of more playable characters, even tho the game always had 3 heroes per year i beg too at least increase to 4 heroes per year minimum.
if you want to be greedy, hero releases are the peak popularity moments in overwatch, no map or event release can compete to it
so, it’s a win win situation, the game gets more balanced as the rooster increases and you blizzard can present to your shareholders your stats and say you made a successful game
hero, map, hero, map, on a 9 week basis
Id rather they balance the game more than release new heroes that are always broken.
Paladins has 57 characters.
At the same time, blizzard is just an indie company. You really shouldn’t be pushing them like this.
Yes Blizzard. Please do it.
We want the game to become unplayable very quickly. We can’t wait 3+ years for that to be proven.
Idk how they are even expecting to compete with other games by having new hero once every 4 months.
It was already too slow even for OW1. Even Paladins adds heroes more often.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t they suggest that they’d put able to create heroes somewhat more frequently in OW2? I don’t think they explicitly said they’d up the quantity but they said something to the effect of “it’s going to be a lot easier to make heroes!” Something like that.
IDK, I think a hero per quarter strikes a reasonable balance of maintaining a somewhat-stable game and also keeping it fresh. Particularly given the… underwhelming number of heroes with launch, I think they need to consider boosting the release rate for a bit.
If they make them work for PvE that is what will take time.
Now they have to take care of giant ability trees and battle pass skins though, its a whole new lot of work.
I dont think thats an issue. The problem is launching with so few new heroes, but we dont need them to rush characters like Paladins does and leave us with a bunch of unplayable garbage.
Hero count has never been the issue with OW. If anything the game has too many heroes which has been the direct cause of bad metas and poor balance.
Most of this community only plays 1 or 2 heroes anyway. What do one tricks care if the game gets a new hero? They still aren’t swapping off Genji or Mercy.
Tbh, while I certainly wouldn’t turn down faster hero releases, more than anything, I just want more proper reworks and other types of TLC for existing heroes.
That, and for Support to be prioritized for hero releases.