I uninstalled because of the PVE cancellation

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At the end of the day Blizzard downgraded a game and charged me 40 dollars for the privilege of spending money on a battle pass and playing with less friends.

I can’t ignore it anymore. I stopped playing during the Hong Kong events until it was announced Microsoft was buying them out. I thought Microsoft might give some much needed cultural correction to this greedy nostalgia grab of a company.

I can’t wait anymore and the damage is done. It would be stupid to hand them money knowing this is how they operate. It probably was always stupid, but it’s especially stupid now. I uninstalled, I’m not giving them another penny, and if there was ever a class action to seek a refund since they blatantly lied and took our money, I would join it.

Shame man. It’s a damn shame.

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You uninstalled a PvP game because it does not get PvE in the future? If you dont enjoy the PvP game, then why play it? And if not, why does it matter if you uninstalled the game?

I hope the topic has died down in two weeks. OW is a PvP game and will continue to be. It did not lose players. It just lost the POTENTIAL PvE player base and that is an imaginary number. As a PvP player I am pretty happy that they dont try to operate 2 games (PvE and PvP) with one team anymore.

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Overwatch is a story. More than just a pvp game. You know that and I know that. It would be different if they hadn’t put in a metric ton of effort creating a story around this game. It would be different if they never promised or teased a PvE campaign. It would be different if they hadn’t withheld the ultimate decision to cancel it. Just because the “PvP is good” it doesn’t excuse everything else.

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I never enjoyed the taste of boot polish, nor being lied to, but you do you I guess

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The pve side was marketed to be a standalone thing you could access within the application. It was basically going to be shipped and packaged as a full $70 game.
Instead Blizz got greedy, decided they want to break it down and sell it in overpriced seasonal pieces, as a live service that they’re saying is hard to maintain. You’ll probably spend a few hundred dollars to get the full experience in the long run now.
It’s just a greedy money move and their claim about it being impractical is complete bs

I haven’t really played the game in months and I was thinking about coming back, but seeing this made me change my mind. I’ve defended blizzard a lot but this is the final straw for me. They’re just a greedy corporation more focused on making money than a good game. So I won’t be supporting them anymore.

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To all people, who uninstall because of PVE - if you don´t enjoy PVP/current game idk why you even played in the first place. It doesn´t make any sense…

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It’s called having self-respect. Nearly everyone waiting for the PvE still loves PvP mode. But how do you expect people to feel about being lied to for years? How do you expect them to feel about being conned/forced into giving up their favorite game for an inferior knockoff version with a battlepass?

if you just keep turning the other cheek, all you’ll have eventually is a sore backside and someone who’s just found their new favorite stress reliever.

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I can enjoy the game and still keep my self respect. I was lied too and I am not happy about the stuff, but I am not gonna rob my self from game that I invested my time and money into. I like this game and I enjoy playing it - doesn´t mean I like Blizz or what they do…

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It isn’t stupid. Your obtuse observation of the situation is however.

The raison d’etre for the 2 in OW2 is the PVE. It has been communicated/advertised as such, for literally years now.

13k posts yet it has some how eluded you why people were playing OW2 pvp while not being a large fan of it. But I suspect the reason you don’t understand is maybe you’re wildly self centered and you don’t try to understand other people? If you took the time to listen perhaps your post count wouldn’t be so high.

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I never unistalled Overwatch during the 3 year content drought. Even with double shield, no fixes or anything, I held off on the game in hope for an amazing upgrade with a full fledge progression campaign. Everyone was kind of holding off on the campaign because we are like okay we don’t have too much, but we have this big mode coming! Wait, now that’s not happening, so this is the most work they can do it seems, we’ve seen their work limit, if S6 is their biggest roadmap yet that is a dissapointment, because it’s no different than what they could’ve done when OW1 was dying. All those heros, fixes, maps, could’ve been added in OW1 by 2021.

After hearing this news, I unistalled last night. Again, I’ve had this game on my computer since I first got it in May 2017, I just feel like I’m in a cycle at this point of playing for an hour and not enjoying the competitive aspect of it, and would really want to switch to a more chill PVE relaxed version, but now that’s not possible, everyone playing to hold out for the PVE is just gone at this point.

It’s also like the watchpoint pack, most people didn’t buy it for PVE Early Access, they never said that. What they DID say, is OVERWATCH 2 EARLY ACCESS, which is misleading, as they knew about the scrap but said they wanted to release PVP as Early Access to get the PVE out, WHEN THEY KNEW ABOUT THE SCRAP. So in all manipulation marketting, the only people left playing are the newer players. All those players who have waited in the 3 year content drought, are totally done now.

The team acts like it’s an achievment to release a new hero and map with shop skins and a LTM every month, it’s really not. You were already doing all of that stuff in OW1, and more importantly in the same 3-4 month time frame window for new heros/maps. So what exactly is the change now? That’s why people were holding off and now they just killed their game.

You need to remember that while people were upset during the 3 years of no content, we were ALL under the impression that was because they were focusing their work on the PVE. So while it stung, no one wanted to quit or boycott the game as we were PROMISED to be DELIVERED something better. So why wouldn’t we be playing Overwatch 2 PVP while we wait for PVE? It’s literally the same game as OW1. If they kept OW1 servers online and released PVE down the line, we would be playing OW1 PVP in wait of the PVE, so there’s literally no difference besides moetization and slapping a 2 on the title.

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13,693 posts, and you still don’t have any clue what youre talking about. The “2” in Overwatch TWO was justified by the PvE. That was what was going to make it a sequel. Not the PvP changes, not the cash shop, not the new heroes, not the new maps, not 5v5. Hero PvE. That WAS IT. Your agrument is not only ridiculous, but provably false. OW1 was originally going to be left up to run concurrently so players could decide which experience they wanted. Youre talking out of your a$$, and it’s embarrassing.

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I kind of agree with others that you aren’t arguing in good faith, so this will be my only reply to you.

  1. “You uninstalled a PvP game because it does not get PvE in the future?”
    This is disingenuous at best and since you venture to insults I don’t think I need to engage.

  2. "If you dont enjoy the PvP game, then why play it? "
    I never said I didn’t enjoy PvP, and I’m not anymore so problem solved.

  3. “And if not, why does it matter if you uninstalled the game?”
    People should make their voices heard in a forum, like you love to do.

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I won´t read essays today, I am sorry…
Just reminder - I was among those players, who were expecting stuff for years and been lied too…
I just wanna keep playing game, that works as stress escape to me without all the drama.

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I would rather they make a 2-3h movie or a 2-3 season Show of Overwatch story over them wasting time on a mode that most will stop playing after 1 play throu

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Okay let’s see

Stuff removed AT LAUNCH
-The MAIN GAME, with long term progression (According to their 1 1/2 year ago decision, it was technically removed at their “Early Access” October 4th launch, which we are technically still in
-Map Pools (not removed, maps were removed to be in a map pool
-2 CP with maps (I believe 4 maps)
-On fire
-Weapon Inspect (Shown In Trailer)
-Weather Effects (Shown at BLIZZCON 2019)
-Looking For Group
-Workshop Mode
-6v6 to 5v5
-Loot Boxes
-End game Playercards
-Heros being 100% free
-Show SR
-Player Borders/Rank Level

Things Added SINCE
-5 New Heros
-New Push Gamemode, With 3 new maps
-1 Control Map
-2 Hybrid Maps
-Shop
-Battlepass
-UI Changes
-Graphics update
-Hero reworks

Now I can probably list 1000’s of other examples, but these are the ones that come off the top of my head. All of this stuff could’ve been done by 2021, at MOST early 2022. 5 new heros from 2019 to 2023… And we know the reasoning why on that is because they were making talent trees and had to keep the new hero amount smaller.

So what really is the difference here? Absolutley nothing besides a monetization system, all of this could’ve been done in a patch. Not even a patch, this stuff could’ve just been done to Overwatch 1 in general, there’s no identity of the “2” anymore. But adding a shop to OW1 would’ve broughten no worldwide attention cause their game was dead, so what do they do? Jebait with a “2” on the title and market it WORLWDIDE as a NEW game

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I did enjoy PVP. I like six players. It was nice being tank bros, or having a larger group of friends that could play one game.

It was the fact that they knew they wouldn’t deliver on this, charged money while advertising it, content droughted OW for years, and then just dropped it out during an interview and took as little ownership as possible. I might like the game, but I don’t like being taken advantage of. Blizzard the corporation has sucked for YEARS and drained talented devs while treating their employees and customers poorly. The only thing we can do is make our voices heard on the forum and quit playing. There’s other games, always has been.

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It’s this ^

If they cancelled the PVE in 2020 a few months after announcing, it would’ve went over not like this. Yes people would be upset and flamming online sure, but we wouldn’ve have been in a content drought ONLY BECAUSE of this PVE. That was the whole reasoning of a 3 year content drought. On top of that I can list 1000’s of examples of their false and maniuplative marketting, obviously done on purpose as they tried avoiding the word. It’s like all the work the dev team put in, and our 3 years of being frustrated with the game, are just for nothing. We all walked 1000 miles for a steak and were given undercooked garbage.

Where’s the YT video called PVE cancelled? No. It was 30 minutes of talking about STARWATCH then an 8 min segment being like “Hey guys, the PVE is cancelled”. Obviously done on purpose as they would think it would blow over better by trying to hide it, well that wasn’t the case.

It’s not the fact everyones upset that we dont have a campagin now bc that’s what overwatch is. That’s not really the point at all. The point is we were all in a content drought for 3 years, accepted it because we were promised to be delivered something that was even shown footage and gameplay in 2019, and the team didn’t meet their own expectations, which in short terms mean they failed as a company. Now they are trying to scrap their pieces back together by releasing in seasonal content, that has no lonetivity or progression or investment personally to the story when it’s going to be every other season as a LTM with scoreboards. How is a Junkersteins Revenge LTM with story lore, prob 5 more min of gameplay, and a bigger map, a PVE. I’m sorry but it’s lazy, yes they are trying to do everything they can and are AT LEAST using parts of it rather than nothing,

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There was a chance to create an interactive, immersive, fully-fleshed story campaign that the players could get involved with and explore with their friends or even with other players. That carries tremendously more weight than a movie you might watch once or twice.

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Same, I uninstalled as well.

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I played ow since it sarted i loved the pvp. I didnt want pve but i was interested to try it.
The problem is ow has been dead for 4 years. When ow2 came it was a downgrade with monetization included.
They said again and again that was an early acces and they were focusing on pve. And now they admited they lied for 2 years. They destroyed the game in every posible way for… Nothing?
Thats the reason i am not playing anymore.