Yep! I miss him discussing games that were actually shutdown instead of rage bait
30k players on steam for a f2p game that was previously a paid AAA release is pathetic numbers.
Thereâs no new people interested in this franchise and a few thirst trap skins arenât going to fix this.
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Yo! Thatâs my title! lol
My ony only complain about this game is the matchmaking.
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I hate to say I told you so butâŚ
Nah who am I kidding, itâs great seeing all this content coming out for Overwatch again and I did tell the forums so 
I was one of the few on these forums during the content drought holding the torch for Overwatch having a bright future again, and here we are 
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The collabs are great, the battlepasses, and so on
But too many here are living in a mental island.
I just wish we had a better quality matchmaking.
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I mean why are you crowing? For one thing, 12-30k people isnât that much. Fortnite has 30 million active players a day (according to activeplayer at least). That is a thousand times more players and that game is being touted as being in decline. I mean Baldurâs Gate 3 is averaging between 136k and 294k players a day and itâs a single-player RPG thatâs not even free to play. This game is getting itâs butt kicked by a full-priced single player game thatâs been out for months now and youâre over here doing victory laps. âOh but thatâs a good gameâ you say maybe? I mean Fallout 76 has exactly half OWâs player numbers on steam (6-15k) and itâs got one of the worst reputations any game could hope to have and itâs 40 dollars. People ARE upset, look at the steam and meta critic user scores. People donât go out of their way to bomb something like that unless theyâre upset. You are delusional if you think the numbers are good man, look at how OWL is doing and tell me the audience is so large.
You can go âHey I think this is good news for Overwatch.â Fine whatever, but I donât get this âTee hee in your face, critics!â narrative youâve got going when they still arenât wrong.
I donât hate the game, I want it to succeed and I guess those sales numbers are good for somebody, but I canât pretend itâs doing great and any success theyâre seeing from their current monetization model is also coming at the cost of a lot of good will and franchise prestige (if you accept user scores as any sort of reflection of public sentiment) and I donât know what kind of value you can place on that.
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I have to say I came to this forum to see if people are as let down as I am with OW2 and I find a thread like this where it seems some people have taken a dangerous amount of hallucinogenics.
I was all aboard for ow2 and it has been nothing but disappointment that I come back to now and then hoping it has finally become the sequel I thought it was going to be.
If you keep lowering your standards and expectations I guess ow2 is great, but I dont think i can lower mine enough to swallow whatâs become of overwatch.
That bit of copium in particular makes me sick to my stomach. If this is the bright future for overwatch, things are worse than I ever thought theyâd be.
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Hey, the Youtuber needed to pay his rent somehow.
Go easy on him. Sometimes you just gotta harvest those clicks.
Really, laugh at the simpletons that believed him.
Careful, i made a post similar to this and it got flagged and removed for trolling.
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So I guess we forgot about how they completely pulled the PvE rug under us, resulting in OW2 essentially being a monetization/shop update.
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If you remove cosmetics blocked behind a paywall and derivative and forgettable Arcade modes to promote those pricey skins (Battle of Olympus, the Pachimary thingy, the âwhatever-that-is-game-modeâ related to the k-pop collab etcâŚ), I donât see the âtonsâ of new content people are referring toâŚ
To me, itâs the same roadmap we had between 2016-2019, before they decided to witthold content for the F2P Overwatch project and implementing the new monetization (even Push was created and ready to play during OW1 but they decided not to release it there so they had more to show on October 4th 2022).
The only thing thatâs being released more often is maps but we canât really tell if itâs actual new content. For all I know, most of those maps were probably things they worked on between 2019 and 2022 that could have been released live years ago, if it wasnât for the content embargo done on purpose.
Funny, to me this has been the once positive thing in a year (along the end of the content embargo). Those penalties should have been implemented years ago. Maybe we wouldnât have lost 2CP to people being disruptive and leaving some of this game modeâs maps unpunished.
Iâm glad the OW team finally realized they couldnât let toxic players sabotage any more of their fresh work (Push, Flashpoint) and took a significative stand against those people with those penalties (that were long overdue).
Players shouldnât be allowed to dictate what devs should do with their game based on tantrums and personal taste (that is different to each player). This was really getting out of hand and I feel for devs that work on a lot of new content just for some slacker players to state ânah, I donât like it, remove itâ one day after that new contentâs releaseâŚ
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Imagine thinking 15k average on steam is fine for an AAA game
Meanwhile Apex has 130k.
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Image someone stating this and genuinely thinking itâs true 
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Edit : And I say that as someone that isnât particularly a fan of Steam as a launcher (for many reason, I find it messy and too many popups and ads).
I donât think heâs saying whether itâs a good game or not. Heâs saying people who think the game is dying and that Blizzard has killed it are a little silly
Personally I think the game is pretty good. Iâm enjoying it, which is great because I never paid for it. I did pay for Overwatch 1.0 and I feel that I played more than enough hours to get my moneyâs worth from that one
i mean⌠Overwatch is on 4 other platforms, and steam is probably the one with the least players.
edit: nvm the smallest one is probably Nintendo Switch
Thatâs a lot of IRL losers
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That is just guesses there.
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we wouldnt know since BobbyK wouldnt public the numbers. But a couple of players tracker sites has estimate Overwatch with ~310k active players. which isnt that bad compare to Apex
âB-But Everyone plays on console or the Blizzard launcher!â
Itâs still pathetic for a game on Steam of OW2âs caliber to have less than 50k players this early in itâs lifespan. In truth I doubt it has more than 250-350k players globally.
As always the truth lies somewhere in between the boot lickers and the doomers. The game realistically should be dead, the direction, monetization, content, balancing and handling of the game have been horrendous. I genuinely think the OW community is headed down the route of TF2âs, as time goes on some will worship Blizz as this perfect can-do-no-wrong entity while most will feel resentment for how the game was handled. The main differences being I donât want to end my life when I play TF2 since itâs tailor made to have a good time and more importantly, Valveâs business model has allowed the community to pump out content for itself, something OW players just canât do.
Perhaps a more apt comparison may be Halo Infinite, but I havenât kept up with that derailed train in a while.
Honestly my approach these past few months has been to just throw OW2 into the pile of "What could have been"s and go back to modding MC/Halo. I still boot it up from time to time, especially when balance patches roll out, but I just donât feel that itch for it anymore. Probably doesnât help that they dropped the ball with the story by making it a generic MCU-like tale and not dropping any more lore regarding the interesting parts of OW. Seriously, the only thing thatâs got me hooked on OW2âs story right now is how surprisingly well written Ram is and we already know heâs probably going to loose beaten by the power of friendship and untrained, out of shape heroes that somehow defeat a force that took a last second hail mary to take down.
Tl;Dr
Based.
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Dude is still liking dev hate comments as much as three days ago on the video.
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