This is not the game they built anymore. This is a chopped up, corporatized abomination covered in Bobby Kotick’s handprints.
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I blame Geoff for not leaving soon enough.
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I wonder if you’re gonna keep making posts like this months after the game launches.
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Meh, I don’t know about Geoff.
There is a difference in timing here.
Basically, Jeff took a look at the Titanic and declared: “I’m not getting on board.”
Geoff steered the Titanic, saw the iceberg and quietly went to the lifeboats.
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Hopefully not. Would it not be wonderful if everything turned out well?
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Times are changing, you know you can move on from a game like they did right?
right???
He does know that, and he does not blame them for it. All in the title, bud.
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…I wouldn’t exactly say Jeff was guiltless when it came to the Titanic’s steering in that analogy either.
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so time for him to leave then. they already said they are not playing bud
Sad thing is Activison-Blizz keeps making these consumer unfriendly decisions because clearly they have some psychologist/analyst that says these things work. The state of the gaming industry is depressing
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Reading comprehension isn’t his strong suit. Maybe if a thread cost $20 to post in he’d stop and read beforehand.
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If you haven’t, you should watch some of his interviews. His insights into the game and thoughtfulness toward his balancing decisions do not get the credit they deserve. Seriously, I bet many people would change their minds if they actually saw his passionate discussion about the game.
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It surely is way worse than OW1 but I wouldn’t say OW1 was exactly all sunshines either when they were still around.
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So you get why they left but cant leave your own self?
you need to move on dude, you are not playing ow2 we get it.
Nothing else to do with your life but talk about a game you are not playing I guess
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I watched all I could find over the years. I’ve been familiar with Goodman even before Project Titan and I find him to be shortsighted, shallow minded and unaware of the deeper aspects of the game.
He was a terrible manager for a live service PvP who should have never gotten past Launch day 1.
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If you are genuinely asking, I can tell you exactly why he sticks around. I believe you already know the answer because you, and many people who can’t get him out of your head have one major thing in common. Defensiveness.
Have you ever seen Jeepers Creepers? It is not a great movie, so I wouldn’t recommend it. However, in it, this creature comes out for a period of time to feed. And it smells fear, it is how it tracks its targets once they are marked.
So, he is around because Blizzard keeps messing up and making a fool of themselves. Instead of fear, he feeds on one of the biggest contradictions of all. Consumers promoting anti-consumer behavior. There is so much of it and he is feeding on the energy they put out.
Once the game settles and Blizzard does not rope itself into constant controversy he WILL leave. It will become less interesting to him once everything settles.
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We must have watched different interviews then, that or you are just looking for things to crap on him with.
Im just calling them out for being hypocritical and spamming the forum with troll threads
They supposedly get why people are leaving yet refuse to do it them self
They are not going to play, dont want it to succeed and are just here to watch the world burn. That is trolling on the ow forum
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As a free to play player with no money, I bet you’re really happy to finally play OW after all these years.
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You’re welcome to post links and change my mind.
I don’t need to look for things to crap on, I just have them in mind because Goodman isn’t exactly news to me. His departure from WoW was celebrated as well.
Just because one has passion doesn’t mean one is fit for a job. I’m passionate about movie theathers, I cry inside when I see old classics clossing, or even switching to more modern (yet completely outclassed) projectors, but I would be a terrible projectionist or managers of such business…
Goodman is a good fit for leading design teams for games that, accidentally or not, Overwatch did not ended up being, an eSport. As he was for Project Titan/Overwatch, an unlaunched fun-for-all, he has great ideas and insights in that sense. He knows how to make fun heroes.
However he lacks that holistic approach a PvP live service game needs and demonstrated that multiple times. Throughout the history of OW, Geoff Goodman’s team created problems that are only going away because the server is shutting down next week and that, at the very least for me, killed this game much faster than any content shortage could ever have done.
You won’t hear me saying a bad thing about Jeff that’s for sure, and if Josh Noh is the one appointed as team leader next, I’d be a happy camper, although I would preffer someone completely new with a fresh perspective.
Josh Noh, by the way:
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