We’ve waited all this time with the promise of a big blockbuster game waiting for us at the end. That was the explicit justification for abandoning OW1. It’s not something players made up, it was the pitch to us from the dev team, directly.
That’s apparently just not going to happen, as far as I can tell.
We just got a reveal of one new hero (and an obvious tease of another). Including Sojourn, that’s 3 new heroes. If OW2 releases in October (and the trailer is literally labelled as a “Release Date Trailer”) with just 3 new heroes – that’s not just pathetic, it’s a direct contradiction to what we’ve been told since 2019. A sequel to OW with only 3 new heroes is not a true sequel. It just isn’t.
We aren’t getting any PvE, of any kind. OK, fine. Something went wrong, development is hard, it isn’t going well. Whatever. It happens. But only 3 new heroes? What on earth has Blizzard been doing? Does making every map 900 times more orange really take 3 years?
Did you guys really take 3 years just to swap everything over to F2P, without actually making anything new? Did we really wait 3 years just for a new in-game store? That’s obviously indefensible on every level, but it also proves everything we’ve been told since 2019 was a total transparent lie. You guys weren’t making anything but cosmetics to sell. You clearly weren’t making heroes, which are the core of the game.
We’re getting the PvE at a later stage, they’re decoupling the PvE and PvP of OW2 to let us start playing with the new stuff earlier
So far, just cause they didn’t throw out every single new hero they’ve made in the first trailer 4 months before launch doesn’t mean they’ve only made 3
Sure, take your time. No rush. Not like they killed off one of the best games of all time to get it all done faster.
If they have more than 3 heroes and are refusing to reveal that while their game is a laughing stock, then that’s just another form of incompetence. But I think it’s clear Blizzard hasn’t exceeded our expectations once since this game launched, so I doubt they will here.
Name me one single time since 2019 that OW has exceeded player expectations. Name me one time they’ve concealed some hidden trove of content and pleasantly surprised us all.
Yeah, separating and killing PvE completely.
There’s not a single mention of PvE anywhere. Not a single one. They are “launching” OW2 without it’s core marketed feature.
I called it two months ago and people were laughing at me, but here we are.
Just to set the record straight, many independant games exists out there, managing to release a patch every month with a small team. Development is not that hard, especially when the code already exists.