This is one of the most underwhelming and disappointing sequels of all time. Blizzard took everything that was great about OW and ruined it. Queue times are still atrocious. Push is just as steamroll heavy and frustrating as 2CP. The ridiculous store pricing has made the game pointless to play at all unless you like mindlessly queuing up for matches with nothing else to do.
I haven’t even tried playing the game in a week. Blizzard killed another IP.
I wouldn’t say it was terribly bad but I would say that they should have left OW1 available to play for those of us who sometimes prefer it.
Push is not that bad but the games last way to long. If they would just shave off a minute or two, I could deal with it.
Besides the skin prices, I still fail to see what they were right about ^^
this is like killing ow2. who would play a bad game that asks for money instead of a better game with free content?
the only reason we play ow2 is bcs ow1 is not there, we expect them to make it actual ow and we have nothing like this from another company.
I would love to see the metrics of OW vs OW2. I think they closed OW to not have the chance of OW2 to be out done.
Based on queue times I’d wager it has the same exact playerbase and no new players. All they did was make the game a worse experience for existing players.
You think having overwatch 1 available to play would kill off OW2? I just don’t see it happening. Considering one of them is free to play and has all of the new and shiny content I think that’s the one people will gravitate towards. Because many of the current generation gamers always need something new.
these players will hop to the next new game. the hardcore fan base of games is what keeps them alive after 5 years and ow is even older. new players wont come to play an almost decade old game bcs it has a new version. ow2 will get some new players, maybe enough to pay the devs behind it but it wont be fortnite or smth.
ow had many players. we know why they left. its no secret it has to do with bad and slow balance. instead of fixing the problem they just created more. no one ever left ow bcs 6 players where more than it should. no one ever left bcs 2cp is bad. they left during mercy meta or goats.
Kotick didn’t want it competing with their cash grab monetization. They are looking for short term gains prior to the buyout. Which is why the game was rushed out, hell they didn’t even make the effort to properly align a lot of the UI layers.
Damn its like a compilation of wrong statements in 1 post:
Doomers have been pretty much wrong about everything besides Heroes locked in a BP. Thats it.
Press says " Overwatch 2 has reached over 25 million players in its first 10 days and it has already achieved a “daily player base spread near-even across EMEA, Asia, and the Americas that’s nearly triple the previous daily player peak from the original Overwatch.”
I don’t understand why there are people still defending this cash grab.
Game will die soon, it is bland, boring, has so many problems, Events are meaningless since skins cost 20$.
All my friends who were playing the game since release of OW 1 stopped playing the game after 1 week.
Wrong statements in 1 post :
PvE hasn’t come out yet, so they released an unfinished version of OW2
Queue times are exactly the same, but now instead of insta join as tank/support, nobody wants to play support anymore
Push is exactly the same as 2CP, where 1 team wipe the other, the robot boopboopboop until your team gets wiped and vice versa, but now you’re walking much more from spawn than you did in 2CP
The pricing is a predatory way to make you throw up your money at indecent prices
I couldn’t care less about PVE so this is OW2 for me.
Actually in OW1 only DPS queues were bad. Now DPS and tank queues are equally bad. So it’s much worse.
Push is actually worse because whoever wins the first fight usually builds an insurmountable lead and the other team just delays the inevitable.
Mindless matches with no reward is not fun. For 6 years we had great GAMEPLAY and REWARDS. I would have easily paid Blizzard $60 or $70 for the entire game rather than be nickel and dimed like a cow.
The only main issue with OW2 is the predatory monetisation, the gameplay itself is pretty fun.
I don’t agree. Tbh i actually really dislike ow2 at this point, but most of the things the doomers said about this game was garbled nonsense, such as “The gameplay will be awful! 5v5 sucks!” The gameplay is actually fantastic.
Nowhere did the doomers say “the game isn’t finished and needs to go back in the oven for a bit”.
the only thing i find better is dps q.
push is not better than 2cp. its barely better than skirmish waiting for a game. i think i fight more in skirmish tbh.
I like the new heroes and maps, but most of the balance/monetization changes make it feel like Overwatch: Shadowlands.
Welp seeing as how I could play overwatch 1 without crashing every 5 minutes, I personally would prefer overwatch 1 than 2.