first of all it’s a no hero season, so it’s already in the lamer half of season by default
But then it is the second comp update season, which means they’re going hog wild on the balance like they did in season 9, so there’s a lot of room for stuff to go wrong.
But then it also launches February 18th, and Marvel Rivals is getting its midseason update with 2 heroes 2 maps on either the 21st or the week after that, so the momentum from the new season will be cut off pretty soon
And its also just the first season in ages where we haven’t heard anything in advance, which kinda has me thinking they might just have nothing
They definitely have plans. They just haven’t shared their roadmap with us which in typical Blizzard fashion is a terrible idea. I don’t know why they insist on being so secretive about everything.
Honestly, roadmaps are just another facet of the free to play nonsense to keep you hooked
People have no patience these days, you don’t really need to know what they’re doing so far ahead of time. It’s not like you’re playing the game on a schedule, you’re free to come and go as you please.
I mean, that’s true. But roadmaps do give players something to look forward to. When people don’t know what is planned they tend to speculate. And this community tends to doom spiral.
any honeymoon phase for Rivals should be long over… we are only a couple days away from week 6 since launch… and the 20,000,000 playerbase has yet to fluctuate down by more than 50k… Season 1 launch just spiked it even more… Blizz is going to need to get their crap together because the ‘its the honeymoon phase of a new game’ is no longer a true statement…
them having NO news at all, is rather out of character for them… so yeah, not beyond belief… I seriously don’t think blizz as a major franchise is going to survive 2025. They BARELY survived 2023… right now they are worse than Bethesda with fallout 76. Prior to that title, one of my favorite companies, lost all faith in them with fallout 76. Blizz has done FAR worse, mostly, but not limited to the fact that they are treating ALL of their games like bethesda did with releasing 76.
you mean the skin that should have come out a year and a half ago?? I stopped playing in june of 2024… Venture debuted in April of 2023 and still had yet to have anyhting other than the base skin at that time… FAR too little, FAR too late…
What are you expecting, OW3 next season or something? We know what’s generally happening next season, new map, rank reset, big balance patch, new comp weapon type, the usual other than those
Y’all seem to think a response to Rivals is necessary and would be quick to enact. It’s not, if they’re gonna do something big to draw people in as a response, that’s not gonna happen until late this year if even that.
I have a feeling rivals probably got them shuffling around their schedule a lot. I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t even know what they were doing 3 months from now yet
Intermission seasons are usually used to introduce quality of life features (sometimes functional, sometimes cosmetic) or maps. Some examples after season 6:
We usually know that they run these seasons around the teasers of the new heroes, tactically dropping a hint that will get the lore enthusiasts talking.
It is extremely likely that we will hear news about competitive as keller announced on twitter, although honestly I think he already knows that a new recolor of competitive rewards after the jade variant will not interest people at all. I suppose the only really decisive announcement at this point in development could be a clan system or a complete change of the progression system (the latter unlikely);
There could be a novelty on new maps, or an in-game feature (they’ve put a lot of them in the UI lately), or a rework of some heroes.
Until they seriously reorganize the gallery and the offer, I don’t think monetization can last much longer.
It’s not and shouldn’t be the new heroes that attract players’ attention in Overwatch: after two months of gameplay people will have already decided what they want to play, the new heroes have no bearing on this type of decisions.
the “more heroes released = more players” argument is wrong because it’s not a lack of interesting heroes that Overwatch loses its players.
If they do have something cooked up, I wouldn’t hold my breath. They have a history of overhyping up something so menial that they act like it’s the biggest deal yet to come.
