Remember the leak where he said that the devs didn’t realize that switching to 5v5 would require full rebalancing of the game? Remember how he said that rebalancing for 5v5 would delay the game for another year?
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Eh I think it’s more he got lucky. They’ve said that it was due to leadership changes which came after his leak.
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A prophet, leaker or just having wrinkles in his brain?
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You had a bunch of people saying all that, idk why people keep thinking metro is this god psychic for ow leaks.
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I mean at this point they might as well just go back to standard OQ. It’s what the game was designed around and it worked until they started giving characters overloaded kits and buffs to characters that are supposed to counter metas but instead just created another problem. Remember goats was never solved they just took away the ability to play the meta. They tried to get rid of double shield by nerfing the tanks across the board and yet it’s still the meta.
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There is absolutely no project in any industry where changing managers incites a one-year delay. That is simply not a thing.
Metro isn’t right either though. Initial balancing for 5v5 is not a one-year project. Not even close. Real balancing doesn’t even begin until the game is released and in the hands of millions of players who break it in ways that devs – even brilliant ones – can’t foresee.
The bottom line is that they think the game sucks and is nowhere near where they hoped it would be by this time.
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This community owes him an apology…
Sorry metro. 
a little honest side from Blizzard: it never created calendars made public online with unfulfilled promises in the data (right, CD Project Red?)
a little dishonest side from Blizzard: don’t give OW1 the slightest respect even in the most insignificant features that OW2 benefits (the HUD).
in any case, it didn’t take Metro to understand the obviousness of events in Blizzard. a postponement of OW2 helps us not wish for another “WarCraft 3 Reforged”
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To be fair, nobody said it was a one year delay, just that it’s not releasing in 2022. So if it was originally coming out in December, a one or two month delay would make that statement true.
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no metro wasnt right. he said something that was wrong at the time and got lucky
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Even a blind man woudl have seen that there was nothing done on the PvP part.
However considering OWL was planned to be played on OW2, this delay seems like a last minute decision due realizing that they have nothing done yet.
That’s fair enough. A lot of us assumed it would be much sooner since OWL will start the season with OW2 PVP, but that was just an assumption and we could’ve been way off.
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Probably why it isn’t a year delay as the CM said himself
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Pretty funny how people will do a quadruple mental backflip before admitting metro was right.
“He guessed right so wat”
Yes. That’s what a prediction is. Y’all were quick to **** on him when you thought he predicted wrong. Now that his prediction was better than BLIZZARD, all of a sudden it’s just a guess.
Someone please tell me, what did metro do? I know nothing about him, so I half to imagine he did something really bad to trigger the community this hard.
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That’s is absolutely NOT what the CM said lmao. All he is saying is “2023 is not confirmed”. Which is the same as saying “ow2 is coming out in 2022 or later”.
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“ow2 is coming out in 2022 or later”
This is the same as just saying “OW2 is coming out”. Metro said a while back that they’re going to do it in 2023, the CM says there is no timeline. If the dev team doesn’t have a proper timeline then Metro’s “leak” has no real substance. Hell even when Metro originally leaked it they even said he was wrong.
Through no fault of his own there’s a slim chance he may have guessed right, that doesn’t change the fact that his actual info was wrong.
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Honestly nothing. He was probably sharing the info he had for the time but I do think the things have changed several times after.
Literally all of his leaks were retroactively proven to be true. People just don’t want to hear that the game is making no progress. I do not even like the guy, but at the end of the day, it was always obvious that his source was accurate.
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Didn’t he once say OW2 was gonna be released Q1 of 2020? I swear I remember that.
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Maybe? I just meant all of the delay ones, I suppose. The reality is that these things are very fluid. Even now, I doubt the developers have a date in mind. It is subjecg to change, I am sure. Whatever source was telling him that things weren’t looking good was clearly an insider. And heck, if they had a q1 2020 plan at one point, it might have been true and pushed back as no progress was being made or the scope changed.
I guess my point was that the copium positivity people who wrote off his info were always being a little too hopeful.