What are your realistic speculations? How will they handle the current situation?
Will they continue releasing the usual dev blogs as if nothing happened?
Will they enter panic mode and release an ambitious Roadmap asap?
Will they go full throttle, accelerate the development pace, and prematurely release new content that was supposed to be soon™️?
This makes me feel like I missed some big news over the last week or so lol
Blizzard doesn’t have the “tooling” to change production quickly. They will implement things that the community has been asking for years, slowly, pretend like they invented the idea, and the cultist loyal fanbase will remain.
Will it draw in new customers? Some, sure. But the pro scene appears to be moving to MR and that itself is advertisement, hype, constant public attention etc that has all but left the OW sphere. OW can’t get that back. They shot their shot and missed.
Probably not. While the dev team may see the need to change content cadence or make significant changes, those above them don’t care. As long as microtransaction money is rolling in at the predicted amount, they won’t authorize any significant changes. Especially if it means spending additional funds or dedication of additional resources.
When the microtransactions start drying up due to a reduced playerbase, they’ll just throw the game into maintenance mode.
I don’t have much faith in Blizzard management navigating the challenge of significant competition.
Im pretty sure they are on vacation, realistically ow has lived a good life.
It’s more than any dev could ask for
Also none of them have individual say in anything in corp structure like ms.
They should carry on as they are. If skins are selling and player numbers are fine what’s the issue.
Nothing will happen.
if they were working on something big we would know it already and if they are just starting, it is already way too late.
The best that can happen is repurposing some the existing paid content to free content.
Like how NTMR is dominating MR and did not perform so well in OWCS…? I guess they focused on MR and didn’t practice OW that much. Honestly, can’t blame them, and I like this. I have begun to hate OW’s overly money minded practices so much that every player/team moving to MR gives me satisfaction.
A fine thing to dislike OW for.
But MR does the same things. BP are the same price, skins are the same, they will also have over priced bundles.
Got to criticise both if they do the same thing.
Kinda hard to say if Blizz is in panic mode considering it’s the holidays, but anyway. My guess is that they’ll carry on as they were planning to, pretty much. Possibly with the exception of offering more stuff along the lines of the 222 test than they were planning to? But even then, they might have been inclined to offer more of those over time regardless of whether Rivals pulled a Concord or not.
I’d imagine they were already working on something along the lines of a character variation system for the next big shake-up a la season nine. I don’t think Rivals will change that.
funny how you didn’t reply to my text (in another thread) quoted with your message where I ask proof for your claim that MR has bots and gives false wins to boost ranks… yet you are here replying to my other text…
hahahahahaha HILARIOUS
Honestly didn’t see it. (Just also had a quick scan through your posts, don’t see it either, so maybe that’s why I didn’t reply) . Link it, and I’ll scoot along and respond.
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To give free wins, in order to boost retention. It’s in causal, not ranked.
Good job ow doesn’t do engagement bases nonsense.
MRs is thriving while the Qs are getting longer. Also they are promising a great season 1 with multiple heros release.
i dont think they haveany plans on releasing anymore content for the game after how bad season 14 has been
Want to put money on that…
Far easier for them to add new heroes though. They don’t have to do any design work, story, lore, just decide what abilities to take from else where and run with it.
I’m sure they have a year long road map and nothing will deviate from that. They don’t care if they’re losing players. That’s what games do. They’re not even compensating their streamers anymore and that’s all they had lefts
the heroes arent even acutlly new trhey ar ejust reusing old ip from disney
Exactly. It’s why they can drop heroes faster than ow. They are also not using a custom built engine.
Where as OW they have to design ever hero from the ground up. Story, lore the lot. It just takes longer.
They also don’t have waves of cheap labour doing all the grunt work like NetEase does.
I honestly doubt the game is “struggling” like many believe. They may have had a dip in numbers but only time will tell if it’s significant enough to seriously impact the bottom line.
What I will say though, is that I think at this point a refresh and rebrand couldn’t hurt. There’s realistically no point in keeping the “2” in overwatch anymore - it’s almost an anchor and seems to closely tied to all the failed promises.
I’d completely revamp the battlepass, the progress systems, the menus and drop the 2. And release it all at the same time with a couple decent old school animated shorts tied to some killer overwatch skins for the $$. I’d also keep 6v6 and keep adding fun game modes like “classic” and the last junkenstein experiment.
Anything that was going to happen this year is already planned out and another game releasing is not going to change any of that
I’m not really sure what people think game development looks like, but they’re not going to all of sudden say “ok boys, instead of 3 heroes this year, let’s release 10….crank out 4 more maps…and, um, make a new game mode by March”