I retract my statement. They did NOT say that phrase specifically, but they very strongly hinted it, and everyone around them in gaming press did say it.
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Yeah I was thinking this was a Goats-related conversation. I couldn’t find our previous posts in the thread. But you can pretty much swap out ‘moba heroes’ for ‘tanks’ and ‘COD-like heroes’ for ‘DPS’, and have the same concept.
He never said that it was marketed as a pure shooter. Yet your post has the most upvotes. This is why people say the forums are just full of stupid people and that devs don’t even read it as a result.
I bought this game knowing it wasn’t going to be a standard fps. I’m really bad at shooters, so this game was marketed toward a broad range of people. The reason why people are angry about Overwatch playing like a MOBA is because they didn’t do their research and deluded themselves. Enough said, topic over.
MOBA stands for multiplayer online battle arena.
There is no arena. There’s maps. FPS have maps. It’s multiplayer and online but that’s about as far as you get with that, something most games these days share anyway. It’s also not top down. Which almost all MOBA are. You also use WASD to move not your mouse, yet most MOBA use mouse clicks to move. You also aim from first person. SOUNDS LIKE A FIRST PERSON SHOOTER MORE THAN A MOBA. Which it is, and was marketed as such. Literally the only things it has from a MOBA are abilities and ults, of which it has less than a MOBA does. It also doesn’t have items, lanes, minions, or structures or a roster of like 50+ heroes. People saying it’s a MOBA are definitely deluded.
I agree with OP it’s 70% FPS, 30% MOBA at best. Personally though I’d rate it more like 90% FPS.
You know, the reason why OP made this post is because goats-esque heroes are so prevalent compared to dps heroes.
On old overwatch, dps is prevalent, and now when dps effectivity is lowered, maybe he felt that ow is shifting to more ‘moba’.
Just giving my 2 cents about this.
Oh, and i also want to spread threads like this, its for the good of dps mains too:
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Based on his post, that is what he was expecting. Did you even read it?
By that logic, CSGO is a MOBA too . Rush BBBBBBBBBBBBB!!!
Objectives -> bomb sites.
CC -> flashbang.
Area Denial -> Molly.
Item shop -> there is one.
Apex legends must be a MOBA too coz it has abilities and ultimates.
Any shooter that’s not an arena shooter must be a moba then.
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Have we been playing the same game since release? At release, hit boxes were incredibly big, and you could play 6 Torbs on the same team. The game was never marketed as a such a shooter, and alot of people like it for this reason. We have plenty of these pure shooters on the market. I would rather people stop trying to turn OW into COD.
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Really? Where do you get those numbers from? Did Blizzard ever say this was the intended split of the game?
Again, show us where Blizzard said this, even once. You can’t, because Overwatch has always been marketed as a hybrid game.
It was, is, and always will be a hybrid game. Blizzard have actually been pretty good at sticking to that ideal.
Honestly, if you dislike the MOBA aspect that much, go play CoD.
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oh please… direct early press releases from Blizzard’s own marketing team DIRECTLY called it “pick up and play first person shooter” and a new game to the “FPS Genre”… Co-founder of blizzard called it a FPS and shooter. Overwatch is 100% a FPS game to it’s core with wide cast of characters. That changes nothing, at all, about it’s roots being firmly in the FPS game genre.
Marketing, awards, press releases and I mean all of it is has always been FPS.
The problem is the balance team tried to balance for high and low SR and sort of broke the game. Too much high impact CC with too little (or none in the case of Brigitte on launch) play/counter play.
The game is still fun to play with friends, still one of the best team work based FPS games out there or even to come along in maybe a decade. The community just lost faith in the balance team, the SR system and grew tired of players being jerks to each other all game.
blizzard. gamespress. com
Blizzard Entertainment today announced Overwatch™, a pick-up-and-play first-person shooter featuring an amazing cast of heroes and set in an all-new Blizzard game universe.
Overwatch brings Blizzard’s signature easy-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay to the FPS genre
theregister. co. uk
blizzard_shows_off_overwatch_yet_another_guardians_of_earth_fps/
Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment “Our goal with Overwatch is to create an awesome FPS experience that’s more accessible to a much wider audience while delivering the action and depth that shooter fans love.”
Again, thank you.
I was trying to get this person to actually show how it was marketed as an FPS. Instead, all they did was just repeat that it was an FPS.
All a lot of us needed from this person was actual proof. I was having a hard time finding any. That’s literally it. I already did get some from someone else and was all good after that.
OW is not, does not play like, and was never advertised as a MOBA. It literally has nothing in common with the defining characteristics of what a MOBA is. To whatever people keep making this claim, I beg of you guys to go to wikipedia and actually look at what a MOBA is.