The Overwatch Category was sitting at 22k+ average viewers on Twitch prior to the announcement, now a bunch of content creators and streamers are moving to other games like Valorant and more variety. The category is barely getting over 10k viewers now, returning to the numbers seen well before Overwatch 2 was even released.
Viewership matters a lot for a healthy game. This is concerning.
The game will be fine lol
Yeah, and thatās the problem. The game will be fine because overwatch fans will, quite literally, put up with anything. You guys arenāt the gamers of yesterday. The ones that would actually point out when things were wrong, and demand things be better.
Could you imagine where weād be if gamers didnāt hit back against things like Steamās Paid Mods for example? Iām sure you could; youād probably be actively against steam trying to be greedy and get a piece of that modding scene back in the day. But nowdays here you are actively mocking people for suggesting the game is suffering.
And yes, thatās what youāre doing. Iām not stupid, and you canāt play the āUh, were was I mocking, all I said was ālolāā game with me because I have no obligation to accept that lie.
Unfortunately, Overwatch fans will just roll over. Yes, the game will be fine, and thatās the problem.
People played āhealthy gamesā before Twitch you know. Itās just a handy indicator to be taken with a grain of salt.
Iām sure it matters to the suits and their engagement metrics and all that crap, but we donāt have to be part of their circlej***.
Iāll worry when matchmaking gets bad (oops, it already is) or when they shut down the servers. And tbh I might be elsewhere by then too.
Modern players being spineless and being content with any lukewarm creation being put on a digital platform? Unheard of. Why, if Overwatch 2 was made only mobile tomorrow, I donāt see why fans would be upset. Everyone has a phone, donāt they?
Itās not an age thing. Look what happened to D&D in the last year. Itās just something about Overwatch that keeps people coming back. I blame pink Mercy.
It really is though.
You might want to look up the average age of D&D players, the average chunk are between 30-50 which kind of proves LuckyDucky12ās point.
Most of the outrage came from older players who made their own spin and were expected to forfeit their right to own the content they were producing, and monitizing it. Most of the younger generation D&D players (because thatās what they are) take a lot of crap for granted while people worked decades on the content in their own spare time.
it is what it is,any content creators struggling because of this I truly feel for them, but this is on Blizzard, and they might as well move on to other games that will be able to keep their livelihood afloat, cause overwatch is just going to continue to dwindle and thatās just how it is.
Eh. Gamers are basically born cranky old people and nothing is ever like it was. Whining about them durn kids is baseless, and pretty silly. Or do you think that the Power Glove was really great. Got some bad news for you, the piece of garbage sold pretty well, and Nintendo survived it.
What happened to D&D??
You canāt deny that the mentality has shifted dramatically with the younger generations essentially being taught to accept stockholm syndrome with brands while the games deteriorate in quality and get a lot of microtransactions baked in, and I personally believe that itās a step in the wrong direction.
Last time I checked the Power Glove was deemed a failure with declining sales in 1990 and being discontinued quickly and quitely after that. Iām also not sure how that really translates to this situation.
Iām also pretty sure Mattel designed it and Nintendo just added itās logo to it.
That piece of garbage was released in 1989 and abandoned in 1990 because it sold so bad they didnāt make any profit off of it.
It was a literal flop. It sold less than 100,000 units. That is not a lot considering how many owned a NES back thenā¦
I think itās very easy to point at issues of the day and insist that itās a problem with incompitent youth.
They did it with books. They did it with radio. They did it with television. They did it with video games. And they did it to every genre in each of these examples.
If anything, Iād say backlash is more common now a-days with the internet establishing a higher standard for media, and capability to propogate dissatisfied gamers, like with Last of Us 2, the Sonic movie, Pokemon, and Hogwarts Legacy. But If yesterday proves anything, itās that controversy didnāt stop GTA, Horse armor, Spore, or FIFA.
It is today as it always was. The trend has remained constant as the industry expands.
Nah, it just proves that modern gamers roll over way too easilyā¦
I mean, when it comes to twitch, we already knew how most streamers felt about this game. Many were looking for any reason to play anything else.
Honestly, If they knew they were going to axe the pve direction that early on, they should have instead released ow2 with a whole bunch of new heros for each role. It definitely would have made the pill a lot easier to swallow.
3 years of work, ow1 has been abandoned, deleted, and all we got at launch was some half baked tank rebalancing, push (which seemed to over stay itās welcome after a couple of monthsā¦ if that) and 3 herosā¦ all of which had big balancing problems.
literally everything. Itās quite amazing, actually.
Good. The game is a dirtbox and nothing is coming out of it.
top tier sh*tpost, love it
youre comparing apples and magnetrons, my dude.
Believe what you wish, but I would not call the current backlash of OW2 an example of the community rolling over. The Twitch viewership demonstrates as much.