They said, at the time of the announcement, “we’re announcing an announcement” and they did so as an effort to maintain communication and expectations.
I don’t know how big or small it will be, but I don’t think anything will be said prior to the 16th. There’s no reason to.
But it is also labeled as an event… soooo…
The label doesn’t really change that?
Overwatch players need to stop inflating their expectations for no reason.
Never think there is no reason for something.
“Save the date for an #Overwatch2 Event on June 16, where we will share our plan for the months ahead, including the next PVP Beta!”
Where in that is there any reason to expect anything prior to the 16th?
Well since they says “event on june 16”
if its a new hero reveal… then it would have been appropriate for a New Hero Teaser.
That’s what we call inflating expectations.
Y’all are gonna be disappointed.
It sounds like details on the OW2 beta and possibly a roadmap for the OW2 PVP launch.
A hero reveal COULD be there, but hero reveals didn’t happen until 2-3 days prior to the announcement anyway, so all this fretting is premature as it is, but given that there’s a LOT more than a hero reveal going on I don’t see any reason to expect anything prior to the 16th.
I am just repeating myself with you.
Talking in circles.
“We decided that since the monitization in Diablo Immortal was widely successful that we will be adding a similar monitization system to Overwatch 2 PvE”
Lol you are if you just repeat “it’s an event” ad nauseum.
When has Overwatch, for ANYTHING, ever done a teaser more than 2-3 days in advance? We’re 7 days from the scheduled date. It’s premature.
But it’s not going to be only one thing.
Let’s assume there is a new hero, but in addition we get more maps, they want to announce that “new mode” that no one knows about, and an OW2 roadmap. Why do a teaser for a new hero and make everyone think that’s all the event is going to be?
If they have a lot of information covering a wide variety of topics it doesn’t make sense to do a teaser for one aspect of it.
Beyond that, people on this forum, myself included, have a history of psyching themselves up by reading too much into what little information the dev team gives out, and then becoming furious when those expectations don’t come true. People need to relax and let the 16th come without panicking because they’re not talking more about the announcement that they already announced.
So I am just ignoring you because on the amount of misinformation your providing.
Seriously it’s like Blizz hired people to bully fans.
lmao what? What misinformation?
How am I bullying you?
I’m saying to temper expectations, that’s all.
If they have more than one topic to discuss, why do a teaser for only one aspect of it?
Like…what?
Incidentally, the DarkTide teaser looks awesome.
As I’ve said on multiple occasions here, we’re far less interested in hyping and promising, and more inclined to show the work. For the forum community, it doesn’t add a lot of value for us to be out there talking about how excited we are for next week (even though we are very excited™)
If the next beta doesn’t start on the 16th, the hype will die more. OW1 sits under 10k viewers routinely on Twitch now.
but imo there is nothing wrong with hyping it up, it gets the community excited
Cool direction, here comes the offtopic questions, including this one just to manage expectations, can you please tell us if those who had access to previous beta are gonna have to get another access for the next one?
Hype probably isn’t healthy anyway, eyes are wanted on the finished product, not the half finished Overwatch 2 we’re currently playing. Don’t try to hype it up. Do that once OW2 is ready to be seen by the wider world
I’m not sure if you are being intentionally disingenuous or if you are actually just super out of touch with the community. This forum has been asking for more communication for years now instead of constant radio silence. It’s actually borderline insulting that you would say this.
communication =/= being a hype machine on the forums
Please don’t try to conflate the two