I really hope that their idea of higher difficulty = more bullet sponge with higher damage and better accuracy only.
To me, higher difficulty do some of the top that I have mention, but it should also introduce new mobs to change the approach when comparing to the previous difficulty. Not just doing the same thing but with less room for mistakes.
I was not playing during that event. Did Mercy actually shoot a human in a cutscene or was acknowledge in any way that she killed another person? Just curious.
I doubt it will be very complex story. OW characters are basically cartoon characters with guns, so I’m expecting a story on par with an afternoon cartoon.
Although, some recent cartoons are pretty good lol.
It took 18 months from announcement of Overwatch at Blizzcon to actual release, in an atmosphere where there wasn’t a global pandemic and the imminent release of new consoles from Sony and Microsoft. People expect too much too quickly.
The one thing im glad they decided not to provide news is they dont hype the players. Remember how the D.Va skin turned out? Or No Mans Sky when released?
I agree with this. There isn’t anything that blizzard could do to make the situation better. However, the route they have taken is more for their benefit, and not the player’s. At least if they had brought in the content over the years instead of waiting to release OW2, people playing the game now would have content to enjoy. However, they’ve taken the “benefit blizzard” route, to save all this content for a new game.
Now, like you said, from a financial standpoint, that makes sense, but, people who play games are never a fan of cash grabs. Developing a game should be players first, company second. You’ll engage more interest in the game - meaning potentially more twitch viewers, more people buying your lootboxes, more money. Engaging your audience makes the money. Staying completely silent about your new content pushes people away.
As a diehard fan of the game, I’ll be getting OW2 regardless. But I can’t deny the fact that many people wont even bother coming back to the game, because of blizzards bad handling on the first one.
This is one of their biggest flaws for this game. In the pursuit of perfect balance they made plenty of horrible decisions like butchering entire hero’s such as sym with their reworks. Designing perfect counters to entire team comps like brig and so on.
It really hurt the game from a casual perspective. And it even screwed over their competitive market