Hell nah, I replied since I understood and wanted to complete his post.
It matters slightly, it’s a market that Bobby Kotick was asking Team 4 during the drought years to “go in”, which never happened. He wanted Overwatch to go on mobile. It’s a very profitable market. It’s a weak competitor, but it’s one amongst them and the only on mobile.
Hero-shooter, team-based, “classes”, abilities.
We could have said it’s COD x Paladins if you prefer. It’s just Overwatch is kind of deemed the “default” hero-shooter when you think of a “hero-shooter” nowadays.
Sorry but this game is dead on arrival. The roster is disgustingly boring and of course every character has pronouns attached to them which is going alienate a lot of people from the game. Not because of the pronouns, but because it shows the perspective of the people who made the game. Clearly they’re not interested in appealing to a big gamer audience. It seems they’re just interested in that non existent modern audience.
Not holding my breath. Dozens of derivative copies have come out, most can’t compete.
All you have to do is be slightly better than overwatch to win out, but they can’t practice enough self control to do that.
Every game like this eventually devolves into squeezing you for every dollar, with mediocre content packs, to fulfill contractual obligations, so they don’t get sued. Fomo bs, and lastly P2W nonsense.
This genre rarely has good competition. I’d like to get back to the days of passion project, and not the “Is this good enough to get your money?”
You don’t buy a PSN account my guy, you sign up for it (like you do with a battlenet account, or an EA account, or an Epic account or a Steam account). And some people like me, have had one for years.
We run through this every time. There isn’t an overwatch rival that’s been serious for even a month, I don’t think this one is going to be the exception.
I’ve only seen a bit of footage of this, but it’s a charisma black hole imo. Something about UE5 or whatever just like… it’s boring to me. I like slight stylization maybe.
The 177 countries who cannot access Concord will not play Concord, they will play Overwatch 2 or one of the other compagnies in the hero-shooting competition that’s happening rn.
This is a bummer and it really is dead on arrival competition-wise. You cannot have Concord dominate the market in such a genre without the entire world being accessible to it. 177 countries lock-out is a massive deal and problem for the longetivity of the game, weither it’s fun or not doesn’t mean much if you don’t have players.
The cost of entry is more than fine imo. It does things right, but is being overshadowed by PlayStation business practices that damages the brands consistently. Helldivers 2 almost paid the price hard because of them.
Emphasis on this last bit. If even Helldivers 2 - a game that everybody seems to love - couldn’t get away with it then I strongly doubt nondescript hero shooter #5 is going to fare better.
And it’s not just that, it was also Playstation’s fastest-selling game historically and 7th best-selling game (lifetime sales) in Sony’s history.
They really almost killed the game themselves with their own hands, good thing the community rose up against it. Steam still hasn’t reinstated the countries to access the game without PSN via Steam, since Sony is refusing to change it.
Yeah its a weird situation where Sony was blaming Valve for it, and then Valve turned around and stated plainly they were not and that it was a publisher-side problem they had no control over.