This was a conscious choice on my part, so please feel free to direct any ire towards myself specifically. There was a zero sum chance that this topic wouldn’t be addressed in the community, and we knew there would be an opportunity to respond directly to player conversation.
Keep in mind that we have many channels of communication we manage, and we’ll activate them in different ways, depending on how we want to communicate something. Sometimes we want for information to be announced through media. Sometimes we’ll want to partner with content creators.
Major beats and information will always be from us first, on our “owned channels” (whenever possible)
I totally understand mate. People are so entitled over here but just letting us know “right we’re going to do monthly blogs talking about how development is going”, hell even every few months like the Diablo team is doing, its all I can ask for.
Doesn’t have to be all GOOD stuff and empty promises. They could even just say, “we’re having trouble to bring out content this month” and its ok cause we know the next few months will have guaranteed content.
Oh, 100% it isn’t appropriate. It is damage control.
I’m just saying that in order for a team at a company to convey things publicly, it usually requires legal and executive-level approvals. And that’s not always attainable.
I think the fact that the Diablo team has managed to consistently put out a quarterly blog post is what makes Overwatch’s lack of communication all the more baffling. Like, Diablo 4 seems like it might even be further out than Overwatch 2, why is one team able to consistently deliver on detailed blog posts while we have seen so little in comparison?
This is really all I can read being communicated to us too, but if someone could supply a better worded version I’m ears. Because the PR release early in the day tells me you expected this exact outcome and still couldn’t handle it.
Giving people time to think gives them time to calm down.
Ofc they wouldve been mad, but the point Im making is they wouldve gone into the event expecting it. The way it is now everyone had to open the event and were shocked to see just two.
Preparing in advance wouldve been the responsible thing to do to keep expectations down.
It literally would have. I was expecting the same 5 skins we have gotten for YEARS. That is HARD precedent, if they just came out and said, “ayy, these are the only two skins for now, my b, but bruh, we will be getting plenty more in 2022, more than usual.” I would not have woke up with baby rage in my heart.
Andy, thank you for being here. But please give feedback to the team that we as community desperately need the sort of roadmap that you’ve shared with the content creators. Last year ended with the usual promises and hope for Overwatch’s future, that’s been going for years, and this is how the year begins for the game.
