Look, Blizzard. . .PLEASE MAKE THE MOVIE ALREADY

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Look. . . I’ve purchased about $200 in lootboxes so far (possibly more but I haven’t kept track.)

I bought the artbook.

I bought Overwatch for a friend.

I’m a fan of Overwatch, I will fight Overwatch. I WILL SEE THE MOVIE AS MANY TIMES AS I SAW MAN OF STEEL. Do you know how many times I saw Man of Steel for Zodd? 3 times bruv. 3 times.

Saw Black Panther 5 times.

MAKE THE MOVIE. I WILL BUY THE BLU RAY TOO!!

PLEASE. JUST TAKE MY MONEY!!!

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Why should they make movie if people pay them enaught for just game with lore going so slow? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Aster, I will find you and build a house around you with no windows, doors or ventilation.

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Welp, i just said reason why this is pointless for them to waste money on movie, game give more cash.

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Netflix series done in a star wars clone wars style of 3d imho.

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I feel they should just add a story mode. It would allow us to be part of the story instead of just a bystander. It would also help new players learn the heroes and not be put off by being stomped in pvp.

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I don’t think their lore is very well developed for a full movie. They keep talking about the past, for example.

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Actually , successful box office movies are known to make large amounts of money.

Black Panther made about 5 times its budget of 200 million. The great news for Overwatch is that the budget can be smaller than BP or any Marvel flick, because you don’t need famous actors pornographically large salaries.

So, Overwatch itself cost about 65 million to make and ended up making 1 billion +. The movie should cost about 80-90 million to make. The only problem I see is: Can it sell as much as Spiderman?

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That would mean they’d have to stop funding OWL quite a bit and that will never happen.

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However most video game movies fail because they don’t have the experience that a game player would like to see because they are used to living in the world not being a bystander. Another thing with video game movies is that they have backstory that a regular movie-goer wouldn’t understand so they don’t cater to any audience.

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@SQUIP
They fail because you have a company with a good IP that wants more revenue. So, instead of making the movie themselves, they auction the license to the highest bidder.

Warcraft, Assassins Creed, and Hitman are painful examples of this.

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Only issue is what will the movie actually be about?
Will it cover the overwatch civil war event? Will it be a follow up to the archive events? Or will it just be a big 90 min hero short expanding the overwatch world and characters?
There’s a lot of main stories they could make for a movie just to help expand lore.

Plus they ain’t gonna do a movie if they’re funding resources into skins and OWL

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If you mean new animation that is now in cinema, then i dont thinks soo.
Also imagine that there is more people who spend that much as you on lootboxes, but also buy ther merch and stuff from game alredy. They make some cash from it, when production will be costing them to spend part of it and just hope it will pay off.
I prefere them to do animation shorts.

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Well look at a successful franchise such as Tomb Raider, that movie flopped even though many people loved the franchise and it wasn’t a big cash crab.

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Overwatch movie, the cinema experience where you buy a loot box and if you’re lucky you get a ticket to see the film. Now with Blizzard’s RNG all included to keep you entertained by getting little stickers 99% of the time while you continue buying loot boxes just to watch the film.

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A story mode in Overwatch could be like the one in the Destiny franchise. This one provides cut scenes and movie elements but makes you play the story. If blizzard added that they would make more money than they would with a movie. Movie tickets cost an average of 8 to 15 dollars. Overwatch costs $40 at the least. many more people would come to the game for the interactive cinematic experience and blizzard would make more money.

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because their wow film went over so well.

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The ironc thing is that theyve already rendered over 1.5 hours of cinematics and animated shorts. They could totally have done a movie by now.

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Because the Warcraft movie was so good right ?
How about this yes, let’s have the movie, then, Overwatch: The Movie: The Game.

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It’s a lot less commitment when you know after a 6 minute clip it’s over. you have no obligation to make another 115 minutes