What I would really like to know is who and how it is decided what pace the lore should have.
What’s preventing Michael from writing short stories like Bastet every month ?
Is there anyone telling him : “hey, dont write anything past Winston’s Recall, we’re keeping all that up for the next century !”
I’m sure Michael has some capacities as a writer. He’s not awesome, but I wanna trust that he’s capable of going deeper than what we have already.
But the more time pass, the more I’m losing faith. I’m one of those guys who started playing Overwatch mostly thanks to the universe and the few lore we had. I never liked FPS games, and then OW came, with a vibrant universe and… and three years in, nothing more.
Because there is potential with that world… so come on, why leave us hanging ! But yeah, they dont seem to give a flying… about the story.
Lately, they’ve put (another) add for an OW writer…as a professional screenwriter, I applied and was already denied, just a few days later. So, have they hired someone new already ? I hope they have and I hope that means they intent to deliver on that front…
So, I’ll wait and I’ll hope we can get present-day lore very soon… but sadly, I’m not that confident… I’m sure Michael has ideas and stuff he wants to explore, so come on, dude, prove us wrong, prove us you can really tell a compelling story because so far you havent !
But in the end, there’s probably some exec telling him “nah, dont advance the plot, cause otherwise we’ll have to retcon stuff and come across as fools with no larger scheme in mind.”
And that sucks, because we are many crying for the story to move forward. What’s even more infuriating is that they never talk about that. Each time a dev gives an interview on a stream or wherever, they talk about the game and balance and new features… all that is good, but can we have just some form of aknowledgment that there are plans for the plot to evolve ?
Can anyone in the team just tell us “we hear you, you story afficionados and we are thinking about the plot and it will move forward at some point !”
Just that would come a long way to reassure us that they dont intend to move past Winston’s recall next millenium.
Anyway, all that to say : there is potential, Michael probably has some capacity as a storyteller… just prove it ! Just tell us you have plans ! We dont need to know these plans, we just need to know there are some ! Just aknowledge the fact that the plot is moving slower than a stoned-up sloth and that you hear out criticism and plan to remedy that ! Please !
And to all those saying “well OW is an FPS, can you give us just one other FPS with so much lore”… well, they’ve always branded OW as more than an FPS and, speaking at least for myself, it is exactly the fact that they’ve promised us a universe and a story that brought me to this game !
Okay, that post went all over the place, but just a few stuff I needed to get off my chest !