So like… does Blizzard actually care about Overwatch 2 or are they sabotaging it? Because everything they promised fans from day 1 they failed to deliver… outside of the ways they can make money off us with skins, they at least knew to care enough about that.
No PvE/story mode, and just recently it was revealed we were gonna get several Netflix shows based on Overwatch, Starcraft, WoW, etc. But then came a lawsuit from Activision over Netflix trying to steal their CFO and naturally all those shows were cancelled.
So there goes the fans chance of the story actually progressing in an entertaining fashion outside of crappy novels and once in a blue moon comics. League of Legends has Arcane (not that the show was guaranteed to be up there with Arcane mind you, but just be something that’s WORTH putting on a streaming service if not in the game itself)… and Overwatch has nothing. Can this company do anything right that isn’t microtransactions?
Is there any employee at Blizzard who can say ANYTHING about the story of Overwatch and if it’ll continue in a way fans actually want? Or did they all get fired/laid off and we should just forget the story going forward as they introduce more Heroes and pretend they have a place in the world?
I hope they looked at the Halo show and other fun things like that and nope’d out.
I never thought a show would happen. I’m glad it didn’t, they don’t have the greatest of records.
They were all canned a while ago. Around when PvE was completely dismembered.
It’s just (less) comcis these days.
I believe the PvE promise was a ploy to generate hype for Overwatch 2. The devs never intended to create a fully-fledged story mode. They simply did enough to ‘sell’ the idea of PvE.
Fast forward to 17 months after OW2’s release, and these same devs are telling us they had to ‘cancel’ PvE due to… reasons. I’ll never forget the look on their faces when they made that announcement. It was obvious they’d rehearsed it.
They were probably laughing and joking about how gullible we fans were to believe Blizzard would actually deliver. They probably have bloopers footage of themselves hooting and hollering over this pre-planned bait and switch.
They basically shot themselves in the foot when they cancelled PVE.
The only way this game will ever survive is churning out garbage reskins and constant collab skins. The whales are keeping a corpse alive. There is no way Overwatch will ever return to its former glory
No, they can’t, or at least not consistently. Things like hearing a potential show got cancelled isn’t even surprising or disappointing news anymore, its just straight up what you expect from Blizzard.
Basically everything related to this IP has been handled poorly, to some extent, aside from what the art team works on. Keep your expectations low, and then its a nice surprise when they do something right.
I don’t really get the community’s fixation on PvE. The game was born and thrived as PvP-only for years, so why does it need to be more than that? I mean, I always liked the CoD campaigns, but I expected those when I bought them, I played them once on normal difficulty, again on veteran, and never touched them again. Nobody started playing OW with the expectation of PvE.
I think it makes total sense to fully commit to PvP since there’s no realistic way to do both without hiring a ton more people, and I don’t think there’s a way to create anything PvE-wise that satisfies the people who want it most. It’s kind of a no-win for them to put time and resources into it at this point.
PvE was supposed to happen and in fact it was supposed to be OW1’s focus.
PvE was cancelled mid development by bobby kotick and all the manpower was fired or rerouted into working in OW2.
OW was originally supposed to be a PvE centered shooter MMO as it was based off the remnants of the Titan Project. Jeff’s big project was to make a PvE expansion until Activision/Kotick took over.
Most people in OW1 liked the game less for the pvp aspect and more for the hero diversity of playstyles and designs than anything else.
Only in the sense that it makes them tons of cash from the shop and collabs.
It’s literally just a front for the shop. Anything that isn’t the shop isn’t even second to them, it’s like a fourth.
Every time I see this opinion, I’m forced to mention how games that came decades before Overwatch 2 could have a PVP and PVE mode in them, sometimes more than 1 PVE mode too, yet somehow Overwatch couldn’t handle it according to the devs and the players. It feels like a admitting Overwatch isn’t a well made game, or it doesn’t have a good development team.
Pro tip: Never trust a single thing this team says until you are literally watching/playing it. Don’t give them any credit or goodwill, expect nothing and even then, they may find a way to underdeliver.
The single player campaign was one of the things I remember looking forward to the most for ow2 but all we got were 3 missions. I honestly cant see myself ever buying a OW3 if its just going to be more of the same. They definately need to make up for all the false promises they never delivered on with this one I just hope they can stop blaming covid and buckle down and do it right
And I’ll be forced to mention that as a matter of fact Overwatch 2 has multiple PvE modes, yet they have never been popular and consistently have the lowest player populations.
At no point did Team4 make knowingly false statements, sometimes in life things unfortunately just don’t work out exactly as planned. We wouldn’t even have Overwatch at all if it did! People’s imaginations running away with matters have more to answer for IMO.
First, they don’t need to be as popular as the main mode. I think people on this forum have an unhealthy relationship with player numbers.
Second, indeed, there were PVE modes, but they rotated out or were otherwise not accessible for majority of the player base. Overwatch does not have a PVE mode like Halo or Cod’s campaign or like Halo or Cod’s horde modes.
Lastly, do you realize you’re just admitting to my main point? Overwatch can’t handle it and I think that’s funny? For some reason, other games can handle PVE modes but overwatch always bungles it.
I guess I can say I don’t blame you for your opinion. You make a great point in that the player numbers or low, but I don’t think we should stand for that. Instead of saying Blizzard can’t handle it, we should demand quality and a fulfilment of their promises.
OW players can’t catch a hint that blizz is sabotaging it. I wouldn’t be surprised if the game lives another 2 years no matter how blizz treats them lol.
Hello console player.
It’s funny that you’d say this like every other game that comes out isn’t a fad on consoles(any of them) and are forgotten in about a year. Or the next thing comes along, whichever is first.
I’ll never forget the look on their faces when they made that announcement. It was obvious they’d rehearsed it.