How will a small independent company like Blizzard afford the licensing for mainstream franchises?
They also aren’t big enough to warrent said franchises interests to consider Overwatch as a promotion platform.
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Blizzard isn’t going to pay Disney some exorbitant licensing fee just for the privilege of selling a skin. So the “collabs” are going to be IPs that need the marketing and are willing to cut a contract that benefits Blizzard.
It doesn’t have to be mainstream, but just one collab that isn’t anime, please.
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exactly obscure anime that 99% off pop don’t know is not how you grow the game, now if you did One Piece, I’d understand, netflix made it popular but you have to stop thinking in our small realm, need to appeal to masses, game will not survive, it’s already dying look at the content we got, for season 9 after they said biggest patch ever! All it was just hero rebalancing which they should do every season and 1 mission with modifiers. We get nothing now. I love this game but it offers nothing now. No story anymore, new heroes once in a while, weak games modes and no new games modes.
exactly obscure anime
one of the most popular and highly acclaimed anime of all time. Idk why you think Bebop isn’t popular or beloved just because it’s old. Zoomer Fortnite buddies don’t know it or something?
netflix made it popular
Idk if you’re referring to CB or One Piece with this because the Netflix Bebop was cheeks, and One Piece has been like THE most popular anime and manga in the world for like 20 years straight, or at least neck and neck with Dragon Ball.
I love this game but it offers nothing now. No story anymore, new heroes once in a while, weak games modes and no new games modes.
and why would endless licensed IP content slop make this any better. That’s why Fortnite exists, so kids can screech about how totally epic it is to see Rick Sanchez and Thanos on the screen at the same time or whatever.
i get what you mean but they have. LEGO, Le Sseraphim, Porsche, Gentle Monster, Diablo.
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small independent company?!? They are owned by Microsoft are you kidding me! LOL stop thinking small potatoes anymore with this game and grow it!!!
This.
Y’all are giving overwatch and Blizzard wayyyyy too much credit.
How would you call a company that is 30 billion (with “B”) less valuable than a single IP of colorful pets (Pokemon)?
OW is in a unique space. No need to drag it down with bandwagon IPs.
Picking up lesser known is more interesting. I have no desire to see another CoD or Star Wars title. Especially with how Disney butchered the franchaise with another trilogy.
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We already down that road, collabs are the video game equivalent of jumping the shark.
lego? 1 bastion skin lol, 1 Porchse skin that’s ridiculously priced, and Diablo which is their own IP hahaha, come guys why you want to play in the minor leagues
Pffff, better make colab woth mass effect , I have few ideas on mind
They are owned by Microsoft which has the largest market cap in the world at the moment. 3+ TRILLION!!! What?!?!
I at least know who Gambit is. Not all of us are weebs. 
As you said, they are owned by Microsoft, but they are not Microsoft itself; ActiBlizz is worth ~ 70 billion dollars, which is how much Microsoft paid for them, while the Pokemon IP is worth more than 100 billion dollars.
Right, no one outside anime geeks knows Cowboy Beebop. Ask my son who Ironman is and he’ll name all the movies, ask who Spiegel and he’ll look at you with 2 heads. Don’t understand why you want to stay niche. That equals death of game and lack of content. They need to make money to produce stuff.
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Yeah but pokemon has like, 0 in game collabs. Clearly a small fry obscure IP, unlike S tier superhero Gambit, who is in Fortnite 
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OK 70 billion!!! hahaha
Yeah, I agree, but Pokemon games were published by a company called Nintendo, they used to make consoles, like Sony and Microsoft, but they bankrupted in 1996, when N64, their last console, flopped, that is why most modern gamers don’t know about Pokemon 
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collaborations are a mistake, they kill the identity of the game, the game will be ruined forever the more collabs they make, they get money from stupid people, they put less and less effort on the game, on the lore, on the characters, and they focus on making more stupid collabs to try to suck a little of fortnite succes. and overwatch collabs are really cheap and lazy “duh the charactesrs are doing cosplay duh” call of duty mobile got the major from ghost in the shell, the character, not a random operator with a cheap cosplay, and even all her lines are on japanese, ow collabs have nothing special, not special sound effects, visual effects, voice lines, these skins should be $5 at max, 0 effort put on them, instead of a collab they should do a cosplay thing between characters, overwatch characters doing cosplay of other characters, pharah with mercy armor, tracer with widowmaker clothes, brigitte using reinhard armor, something unique, raelly nobody in blizzard have ideas?
with that say, i would like collabs with nintendo games