So what you’re saying is it’s an unprovable assertion.
They are developing another FPS game right now. I’m pretty sure they will drop Overwatch when this new game is released. There are multiple postings for positions for it on the blizzard career section.
well yeah.
No company will ever admit they’re doing terribly.
That makes competitors able to take up their torch and just correct their mistakes and make a better product.
You’ll never get an answer like that from any business alive, unless they’re reasonable and not afraid of competition.
Companies and financial institutions release quarterly reports, sales numbers, etc. all the time. If you’re intrepid and/or have money, you can go online or to college libraries and also look up this info. Blizzard literally cannot keep it a secret.
And since when do companies not admit they’re terrible? I’ve been in the online Sonic fandom for around 17 years. You think we didn’t have actual proof that Sega was trash? You think Sega hasn’t said they’re trash?
I watch OWL regularly, but I can’t see how it can hold my interest for another season unless they make some big changes.
Namely, they need to prioritize making sure all heroes get screen time. The best way to do this is through hero balancing, but they don’t seem that great at it. They could start editing maps to favor certain heroes. But if all that fails, then in season 2, they should honestly just make certain heroes unavailable each stage.
The best thing about OWL is watching good players be amazing with lots of heroes. I started watching it because I liked seeing the amazing Widowmaker plays (I’m a gold console player, so I never see that). The most exciting thing I’ve seen is when Dallas ran Mei and Reaper and destroyed NYXL with it.
They need to prioritize that for OWL to last as an esport.
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There are 2 kinds of new interactions:
The ones that make the new hero irrelevant, and ones that make old heroes irrelevant.
There could already be many more viable team comps, if the heroes were equal, but they are not.
no but they can keep active users a secret which indicates a game’s livelyhood and how active the game is.
they dont PUBLICLY admit to it.
maybe behind close doors, stuff is different but when it comes to them telling stuff to us, they dont really shame themselves.
This happens all the time with Blizz games.
Just look at the history of Star Craft
what do you mean by this, jesterskull?
Anything can be competitive so long as people want it to be, quit your whining.
Sega has apologized before for Sonic. Nintendo apologized for the 3DS. Peter Molyneux is always apologizing.
It isnt only that, the game has so many bugs and crap, and its not balanced, it really isnt e-sports ready imo.
If there were enough heros and a pick/ban system it’d be more entertaining, but also ruin the way esports is because most people play 1 hero well and the rest okay.
That wouldn’t really work, considering in this game you can just switch at any point in spawn.
Anything can be competitive.
Frogger can be competitive.
Freaking eating can be competitive.
It definitely shouldn’t be as it is now, it’s reversed its genre of FPS with MOBA elements into MOBA with FPS elements, cept it’s now completely lackluster in both.
It’s not even a good MOBA, you only team fight, the vast majority of the MOBA genre is missing.
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Pretty much this. More heroes = more options to deal with a problem hero on the enemy team. And then the enemy team can counter pick that pick, though getting anyone to counter-pick at all is like pulling teeth, which is where much of the “this new hero is OP” perception comes from. People want to stick with their first/favorite pick and when it fails, it’s not that they’re outmatched, it’s that the other guy’s pick is OP.
Probably a PvE shooter. Blizzard’s forte is engrossing loot grind experiences. PvP games in America have the habit of cannabilizing themselves unless the experience is so uncompetitively competitive it feels like a PvE experience anyway. Probably why Battle Royale is so popular.
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as long as ppl enjoy the participation.
who care ur definition of e-sport… e-sport or not?
This is very true, poor diablo 3 was in a terrible spot, it took way too long to get rid of that awful auction house. For a long time blizz and a lot of fanboys insisted that it was good for the game. We all know how that turned out.
Not comparing diablo 3 and overwatch, but i completely agree with them constantly staying positive and leaving us with “we’re looking into it”. It’s the best option.