Yeah. That honestly sucks because it’s a style of FPS game that I really do enjoy. To watch devs just F around with it because “It’s us or nothing” really sucks.
Like I genuinely wish Gundam did way better, but it didn’t take long at all to see it and go, “Ohhh… The devs are gonna tank this game… fast.” So that’s not even really an alternative option.
The original got stale because Blizzard gave up on it for THIS. They literally announced this “sequel” as a panic button to distract from their constant scandals lol. Blizzard has screwed up everything over the last 6 years.
2bh, based on the server reaction this weekend I no longer think the logins are low. If anything they might need to pull a “stop buying the game so server can handle it”. Well in this case it’s “stop playing the game so server can handle it”, not like it’s hard but it’s pretty ironic.
Of course they are just the funding but everyone keeps going on and on about how they’ll save X game and I’m here like they wont’ do anything look at Halo it was it’s IP and it DIED~!
It’s not like you have far to look with Overwatch 2 to see the bad.
Completely botched launch with some people not even able to login for several days after
Extremely tone deaf and underwhelming “apology” for the botched launch
5v5
Tank & Damage queue times
Multiple heroes removed from game for weeks at a time due to bugs (and more hero bugs being discovered all the time, eg Tracer) despite their having been daily playtests as well as multiple alpha and beta tests pre-launch
Extremely poor Battle Pass implementation
Overpriced cosmetics
Predatory pricing of Overwatch Coins
Epic skins being passed off as Legendaries
Years old skin offered as part of exclusive regional promotion with major partner (old Tracer skin offered as part of promotion with McDonalds Australia)
Legacy credits not able to be used to purchase legacy cosmetics
Lacklustre new events with less event cosmetic than before
Souvenirs
Lazy weapon charm implementation
Insane customer support ticket wait times (45 days last time I checked my most recent opened ticket from almost 2 weeks ago)
Still no competitive stats for some console players
Was about time that halo died if you ask me, Sure i grew up with the halo games and love them still but it’s not a game i would think of existing later on.
343 did alot of mistakes, but it ain’t microsofts fault one bit since they’re just the funding and not the creators alone
The game industry had years to figure out battlepasses and games have since implemented fair/more rewarding ones.
But Blizzard being Blizzard deliberately chose to ignore all of those years of insight and development. With them implementing a battlepass that is very alike the first attempts at such a system.
Blizzard says they’re inline with the game industry on pricing, etc, but they ain’t.
They don’t even treat their live-service game like a live-service.