most people say that it will kill OW, and its release is just beating up a dead horse. however, i beg to differ.
the release of marvel rivals opened up a new path that overwatch has been missing for a long time, Competition. the developers of overwatch, although much better and nicer now, cannot get away with doing not even the bare minimum anymore. Recolors of mercy skins wont save your game, recolors period wont generate enough profit to keep your game standing, and thats why marvel rivals’s release will help push overwatch in a direction that they’ve never been in before which is LISTENING TO WHAT YOUR COMMUNITY WANTS!
overwatch cant get away with selling 90% of skins as recolors for a season anymore, and they cant get away with ignoring certain heroes that they clearly play favorites with balance-wise. i know its difficult for the developers at the moment with the amount of heavy lay-offs they had, but with new hires and employees, you HAVE to steer them in a direction that you know will be beneficial for the health of the game, and quite frankly with how everything is scheduled and laid out, things NEED to be changed in-order to give team 4 more time to develop things.
for starters, they could very much change their schedule of hero releases. they should change their layout from a new hero every 2 seasons to a new hero every 3 seasons, but a new map/new map reworks every 2 seasons. the game desperately needs new maps for modes like Flashpoint and Push because a lack of diversity means the more repetitive the modes get, and it only makes people dislike the modes even more. heroes also need more time in development because simply 2 months is not enough to pick a character, design pages of lore, design their artwork, think of ways to create their kit (which can be very limiting creativity wise), actually code them in, and a LOT more.
the release of marvel rivals has created the competition that overwatch has so desperately needed in-order to get overwatch back up to community standards. the overwatch community is tired of being given broken promises and under-baked content, and overall being treated like we’re just people who’ll give blizzard and microsoft money. i seriously hope that team 4 takes marvel rivals’s release as a sign that they need to make change, and fast.
Competition between these devs is very good for us as consumers, as it prevents one from having a monopoly. It promotes good consumer orientated practices.
Which is why I get so… ‘blegh’ (for a lack of a better word)… over people who seem to want one or the other to ‘die out’. Like, why would someone want things to be worse for all of us?
It’s not a guarantee, but it’s very plausible that Overwatch 2 will do something to gain their playerbase in the upcoming months. People like Marvel Rivals because the game addressed some of the problems Overwatch 2 has, like tank role being boring. The tank role doesn’t seem to be as unappealing in Marvel Rivals in comparison.
So I’m sure the reverse can happen too and Overwatch 2 learning some things/mistakes from Marvel Rivals as time goes by. It’s a win-win for playerbase and a wake up call for Overwatch 2 who never had competitor to this level before.
also who cares… i mean this has happened in video game history time and time again. ill just move on and so will others. its like human history… it repeats itself…
kings and queens
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err when rome burned down … nero was playing a fiddle… hopefully it wont happen to the united states… but i wonder lol
thats the thing, we shouldn’t LET one die out as it just becomes a one in all which is terrible not only for the health of the game, but for the health of its genre and company. a jack of all trades ruins itself and is a reason why TF2 died out. their developers knew OW would be a tough competitor, and instead of challenging themselves to do better, they abandoned it completely.
history doesnt HAVE to repeat itself, it only does if we let it. marvel rivals releasing is a great shake up and reality check for team 4 as it obviously took a LOT of its players from them. MR fixed a lot of problems OW had, and even the mistakes OW currently has is fixed in MR. this means that in order to compete properly, they’ll need to listen to their community and fix those issues that people have been pointing out for almost a decade now (looking at you sustainwatch).
TC all I wanted was the story mode and co-op missions. Blizzard lied and it was let go.
Right now I’m using Overwatch mods for Left 4 dead 2 to tie me over.
They conned people out of money.
If MR gives that PVE then just give me a Mei skin mod for Doreen and I’ll crossover fully.
If the community was so against be treated the way they deserve to be treated, THEY would change instead of expecting a Chinese knock off to give them some bargaining power.
its moreso the chinese knock off giving people their spark back after the release of OW2 killed it. i’ve never wanted to play less OW until marvel rivals released because of how bad 5v5 feels and overall just the balance of it. MR has insane content both on its release and even its first season.
i hope that the community will continue fighting for whats right
honestly i dont see that either…they have a work cadence…unless theyre going to add a ton of man power i dont see much of anything changing about the patch cycle
and i know people will hear this and it will make them mad…but i can also see them easily saying “lets see where things go with this whole MR thing”…a decision like the one above might not happen for a good while still
knowing the devs, yeah they honestly will probably choose to do that. it saddens me because its disappointing how their not challenging themselves to do better, their just sitting back letting them dominate and thats what will lead to the game dying for good.
People who are critical will always be less cause most people are too busy to do that most will either drop the game or play it.
Feedback should always be taken based on value and logic rather than looking for popularity.
It also won’t happen, cause if that was the case consoles won’t have happened , battlepasses and shops too .
But for most it’s not worth the time to talk about.
It’s the same with goverment and politicians, it also doesn’t help they generally have ways to ignore the efforts of people, remember mercy main exodus, I mean if they can chose to ignore that blatantly most people after that won’t bother putting in time and effort to make changes.
Most people just want to live a life or play a game not make the everything great again
I am really glad that it did not happen, in that case.
That is not technically true. But with how submissive and complacent the populace is… Well, yeah. Their “way” is to just do nothing at all because they do not need to do anything at all to deal with the whipped.
Precisely. Apathy is the greatest friend of evil, or whatever the hell the philosopher said.
