I mean… you knew its canned year before the release of OW2 and you advertised and lured ppl into buying OW2. Now you are telling us why you can’t make it? NOW? Seriously?
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Zzzzzzz wake me up when they finally admit their wrongdoing and gives an actual detailed update on what they have done.
Truthfully, 90% of your playerbase is not gonna wait till season 6 to experience “the game changing awesome pve” you love to preach about. We want DETAILS on what you have done with the PVE for the past 3 - 4 years.
Stop trying to beat around the bush, there is no longer a bush, the community have burned it. Now explain everything
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Saying that the team ALWAYS intended for “story missions” and the hero mode to be separate is a hilarious gaslight. I’m sure you really did intend to have a story mode that was just archives and a mode with actual replayability and content Aaron, that would have been a GREAT idea.
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PVE is only for MMO and is not present in OW1 or OW2. I feel for the developers but that doesn’t excuse the Company and you out right lied to your consumers and you knew OW2 wasn’t going to be fully realized but put it out anyways. You actually removed content and charged people for it. It doesn’t matter how difficult it would be to put out the content your process because you promised it. That’s your job and a “I’m sorry MB” isn’t a response that equals what you’ve done. I don’t want a different “form”, I want what you promised.
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Literally no one cares about an 'Im Sorry" or “an explanation” that basically just says no new information at all. You’ve lost the trust in everyone. While it’s better than nothing and appreciated, it doesn’t excuse anything, which with the way they’ve been handling stuff (x3 XP, Blizzard Tweeting Pride shirt, cancelling the PVE after 30 min of talking about Starwatch with 8 min on PVE, etc. It’s clear they are trying to cover this up and divert people’s attention
The biggest gaslight of this article to me is “Everyone is saying PVE is cancelled, it’s not”.
It literally is, keeping your story missions and calling it PVE is not what was shown, promised, and what you even identitfy as a PVE. A PVE has Progression, short term and long term, and the feeling of accomplishment when finishing a level on expert mode, or beating the campaign, or unlocking all the achievements, etc. Stop trying to back pedal around the fact that your game is now labled as “cancelled” or “scrapped”, it literally is. Youre doing no difference than releasing a Junkersteins Revenge with storylore with 5 additional minutes of gameplay and being able to play on a new portion of a map. Wow, 5 years, impressive!
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Aaron, you can’t string along a community for three and a half to four years and then go “we’re sorry, but the feature you’ve been waiting for is no longer coming,” and expect everyone to be okay with it. The amount of damage you’ve done to the product and community is catastrophic, and I will never support another blizzard product again. The only thing that OW2 added is a cash shop and BP, and that is very poor.
Meanwhile, the pathetic drip feed of PvP content continues. If you’re so focused on PvP then why is taking 3/4 of a year to rework 2 abilities for Hog? How can the community be excited for the roadmap when there’s next to no information regarding what each piece of content actually is?
Blizzard should be ashamed, and you should have never bothered to write this blog to begin with. And personally, I expected the PvE mode to be a “glorified archives event” and you’ve still managed to disappoint me even though the bar was set so low to begin with.
But hey, at least the cash shop and BP are alive and well. That’s the one promised feature you managed to include for your so-called sequel. In the meantime, i want OW1 returned to me, thank you. I don’t want to play OW2. Ever.
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Aaron, nobody believes a word you say any more. End of.
And the Switch port wasn’t a success because of it’s worse controls and graphics.
Mobile would have even worse controls and graphics.
Mobile OW will never happen.
Brother, lootboxes gave me an incredible amount of cosmetics, and all I had to do was level up and earn one. It felt like I was putting in work. This battle pass has given me LESS content for MORE work; some of the things I EARNED I can’t even use without paying. It feels meaningless!
Good god, I want lootboxes back! Its 2023, and I’m asking for lootboxes!
i hope it does i want more pr nightmares
Thank you Aaron for this explanation who was necessary. You should have started there because you knew that this decision would disappoint the players enormously. Share with us, your mistakes as well as your successes, be honest, it is this respect of the players that made Blizzard so unique. Don’t change that, so we’ll always be ready to follow you. Can’t wait to see the next seasons and what’s new.
The 2 of Overwatch 
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dont forget the misaligned icon, the right peak is bigger and higher than the left
Uhh, have you seen Halo Infinite and Redfall?
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This is a desperate attempt at recovering from effectively lying to the community.
And the fact of the matter is that all of this content will be boring once you’ve done it once. The entire replayability of PVE comes from being able to do different builds, which has been scrapped. Once you’ve done it once you’ve seen everything there is to see.
This desperate attempt at damage control can’t be trusted one bit after demonstrating your complete willingness to lie to the community.
This company is a joke. Won’t see another penny.
microsoft? trust? in the same sentence?!
who gonna tell him
You need to remember while yes that’s true, from a buisness/financial perspective it makes no sense to not go the shop/BP route, it’s just a moneymaker compared to a one time game purchase, especially when the game has already died, who’s buying it? But yes I agree, there needs to be some type of progressional system whether it’s cosmetics or what, the game feels barren without any progression, even more so no PVE progression now. I’d like to play to unlock stuff, and to me that is one of the most important things missing from this entire game and now the PVE, no progression and no feeling of accomplishment
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Haven’t read the whole comment chain, but everyone who says “well why didn’t you just hire more people” needs to understand just how hard it can be to actually hire good talent in this industry, and to consider that they’ve been hiring the whole time.
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It’s only hard for them to hire good talent because they have systematically made their reputation the worst in the entire industry, including rapes and sexual assaults of staff members. They deserve to have a hard time hiring, I wouldn’t work for them either.
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What a joke of a clown company, lol.
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