1 new character, some new maps and a few reworks and a new ugly UI?
No support changes and 3 years to balance character reworks and it is STILL very unbalanced.
Extremely disappointed to say the least, where is the content, the beta is already old news and streamers have moved on? what is next, what is drawing people in the play overwatch? Soo many other games are changing, updating, being balanced and given content WEEKLY. The Overwatch beta has already gotten stale.
I mean… Management turnover, employee turnover, project cancellations… Budget cuts… Overwatch 2 is really just a dumpster fire of corporate failure. It legit could go into history as “how NOT to run a business.” But you have a valid point. For legit over 3 years of Dead Game no content/updates (marginal though existent), personally I did expect more. I’m always an optimist but once they announced 5v5 I pretty much knew what it meant.
It’s obviously not 3 years worth of work.
We can’t see most of the work yet. It’s just a pvp beta to get us some access sooner.
Please stop making threads for drama.
First of all, they did say this is the first of other betas.
Second, you guys act like there was not any world pandemy going on these last 2 years
Why its feels lacking?
They dont want to drop all at once (tho to be fair we dont know how much they have)
So dont expect that much from OW2 to be fair at start, in my opinion its going to be less than what 3 years of old support for this game would make.
Then why it is GOING to be less than what we would get with normal balance schedule with no OW2 development? Welp, they did halted it for some reason… most likely PvP was not main focus up to this point at all. I imagine they had to shift now because Pve take way more than expected to finish, but still i feel like its going to be more rush to the end to deliver something than what you get for 3 years of active focused development on PvP
Just saying my opinion.
Strangely enough, other companies seemed to thrive during that period of time, while this one was one of the only one to lose players. Quite peculiar, really?
As for the “beta,” most AAA companies tend to misuse the term, when they usually mean “early access.” I don’t expect many changes in the future as the first is often the precedence-setter, which isn’t boding well, for some.
The beta was a failure, 3 years in the dark and we get an ugly ui, long q times, broken balancing and 1 new hero. Blizzard has been talking a huge game about it and it seems to be all fluff. 3 years of work for a broken beta? I am not saying this is 3 years of work, i am saying that they had 3 years to work on OW2 and all we got was this?
I expected more than this after being told to be hopeful and trust blizzard for 3 years.
Nice emotional opinion but the beta has been well-received so far.
I personally think even in a beta state, it’s better than OW1 lol
of course it is better than ow1, its the first update in 3 years.
1.4 milllion viewership down to 17k in less than a week says enough about it, people will play the new reworks and go “so this is it?” and its essentially back to being overwatch 1 again.
Why would they already release every hero that they developed? This is clearly a very narrow slice of OW2 that we’re looking at here.
The beta has been out for less than a week and it’s already a failure. LMAO
To test them? Kind of the point of a beta
You mean to tell me the 1st beta of many is not the full game for free??? i’m shocked.
Liking the UI is something subjective, in the full release you can use the old UI.
Obviously the first beta won’t include all content, imagine needing to get feedback and fix all those things at once, better take steps.
And yes as mentioned here, it was the way the company was run.
There were so many projects that got cancelled, like god almighty that’s such a waste of resources.
less than a week and twitch viewership dropped more than 90% people have already moved on, lmao.
A lot probably stopped watching sure, but some of that is because they’re actually playing. What we need before we make commentary like this is how many people have been playing the beta, not just watching it. Come on now.
Yes. But they didn’t have
So, it sounds like in terms of companies, they’re terrible at being a company? The business world can be quite unforgiving and cutthroat, so having a lack of proper management and employee-employer oversight is more of a blunder on their end than anything else.
Pretty much, this company is not so good at being a business as others, which should mean that the potential of further failure and/or going under should be considered as a byproduct of terrible corporate decisions. An unfortunate ordeal, really.
Um for all the “thriving” all I have seen for the past year is a lot of games being delayed.
Tell you what, I think Blizz had an old-boy party atmosphere for decades, and while not as wrought with the issues that WoW had, OW had some including a laid back, we are Masters of the Universe mentality. Aaron looks stressed, but I never sense a bit of stress from these other guys, esp. “Badman” who seems to think its all kind of a joke as he proceeds to continue butchering the game.
Mark my words, that character design/balance team is going to get flushed within two years.