How is it insulting? I’ll admit I wish we had more communication but what you’re quoting is AndyB saying is that they don’t want to just write about how excited they are without giving details or showing things.
I personally want more details on experiments and planned change but I guess those aren’t being shared because they’re in progress… like the unused Moira experiments we only heard about after-the-fact.
Incidentally, any news on when the Experimental is expected to be back up?
What happens on June 16th?
A beta, announcing the decoupling of PvE and PvP, a weekly blog post, multiple online discussions about balance and new heroes and announcing this event the day the first beta ended.
There’s probably more, but they have communicated more in the last two months than they have in the last two years.
There’s more they could do and they could still be better, but you sound extremely entitled.
The dev blogs from beta (which we’ll be continuing), the recent stats blog, the Moira blog, are all examples of us moving towards more transparency and involving the community in our development process. Shifting our philosophy and comms strategy to a new approach takes time, and iteration, to get right.
I know that Jodie and I haven’t been as active on the forums for the last few months. TBF, we’re heads down on planning for the next phase of beta and beyond at the moment. Hopefully I can carve out some more time soon to jump in here (I had 2 meetings cancelled today, which allowed me time for posting and responding)
Not yet. My understanding is they’re still investigating the issue.
It’s a spectrum my friend. There isn’t even a regular-type blue post on the general discussion for June 16th which apparently should be a somewhat big deal. Surely that is the minimum amount of work that would cross both communication/hyping.
But anyways. Your response is kind of weird because even if we pretend communication and hyping are separately identifiable, it’s not like Blizzard is communicating in lieu of hyping or something - there’s just… nothing instead.
you were being melodramatic and got owned.
Why not do that then? There hasn’t been a single hint of what to expect other than support changes which were talked about at 2 other occasions already.
You…actually believe there’s a PvE Overwatch 2 game coming?
That stuff is deader than King Tut.
I could be wrong but I believe the intent for this next round is to show off what the PVE looks like.
If it’s not that I don’t know what the point of it is.
Then what have I been playtesting?
I’d just like to say that the developer blogs have been fantastic and well received.
Hopefully the devs could continue with something similar after OW2 launches? Perhaps even with “State of balance” blogs that have a deep dive into current stats, heroes they’re concerned about, etc? It would be a good way to keep the community engaged and dispel potentially incorrect community perceptions regarding balance by explaining the stats.
thanks
Jodie has been doing a wonderful job with our editorial strategy. The fact that she was a fan and player of the game before joining the team is really shining through in how we’re structuring our blogs, the language we’re employing, and the information we’re including
Super proud of my team 
that is still coming man, you have been trying to say this for months now but you are going to be wrong
Hopefully it can continue after launch and not just be for beta? 
view this from a player view:
Would you rather:
A) Get radio silence
or
B) Get some reason to be excited for upcoming stuff
Player base communication is Blizzard’s greatest weakness.
Diablo, SC, OW all have little community communication.
Even the WoW devs eventually understood (took em a ton of years thoguh) this and started being more interactive (not a ton but anything at least lets playerbase know they care)
PVE is probably coming because Blizzard is basically staking the reputation (lmao, Blizzard and their reputation man, yikes) of OW2 as a sequel on PVE existing. It’s what’s justifying the “sequel” monitor.
The real question is if it will be any good.
that’s the plan
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Somewhere out there there’s a parallel universe where people who make comments like that are somehow withheld access to things once they come around……”no sorry you don’t get to enjoy it since you thought it was just make believe”