I have a few questions, and would like to try to understand why you feel the way you do.
Is Overwatch not enough as it is? I’ve played since beta, but since there are 32 heroes to choose from & different maps & modes to play I’m still playing over 5 years later. I’ve been playing games since the 90s, it used to be that a game came out and that was it, no post launch content, just enjoy the game no matter how small it was or how little content it had and you would spend countless hours enjoying it. Now it seems like people need something added to the game once a month or they’re not having fun.
Why do you feel entitled to getting even more content? Everyone who purchased Overwatch got more than their moneys worth. At most (unless you bought extra) we spent what, $60? $40? If you bought it in recent years you paid $20? I’ve seen it drop even lower to $12, and I even got a free 2nd copy from a streamer. Everything Overwatch had to offer even just at launch was worth full price, but we got years of post launch content for free. Not only that, but we’re going to keep getting free content for years to come… Is that not enough?
What sense does it make to keep pumping out free content for OW1? Not only does it not bring in revenue (which is what allows Blizz to pay its employees to make content) but it also doesn’t really do anything to help increase the playerbase either. OW’s playerbase has been declining for a long time. Even when Echo/Sig/Ball/Ashe/Bap were added over a year ago it didn’t really do anything for the playerbase. So why would they keep doing it when OW2 is guaranteed to actually bring in millions of players?
What does make sense is doing what they’re doing, focusing almost all of their time & effort & resources into creating OW2. OW2 is the only way that Overwatch will be revived, as it will bring back old players, bring in new players who have felt like it’s too late to jump into the game, and will also put Overwatch at the top of streaming websites again.
While other games keeps getting content there is no point staying in the one that doesn’t.
It doesn’t but that is what was promised and as a live service game it won’t survive without content.
I haven’t see any other company leaving their profitable game in the dust to make a sequel for it. You either do both at the same time or keep supporting the one that you have.
I have played over 3000 hours and still love it, I play Apex Legends, Fortnite and Valorant but this is still my favorite game, it has been since Beta. I just wish there was more to it, I like it when games keep it fresh.
I wish it had a Battlepass, controversial opinion that alot of people would disagree with I suppose but whatever, I like them, though they are stressful to finish sometimes …
Are you actually excusing Blizzard’s utter incompetence with respect to updating Overwatch? To think that Overwatch went from THE most popular competitive multiplayer out there 2016-2018 to a game that barely finds matches and is dying a little bit more every single day.
Withholding 2 years worth of content in the hopes to cash in some money because you completely failed to manage your flagship’s monetization model and driving your remaining core fan base away from the game; yea, sounds good to me. How dare I be unsatisfied with the lack of content.
It sounds like you don’t actually enjoy Overwatch. You shouldn’t need to keep getting new content to enjoy the game if you actually enjoy the game
A few questions here.
What is a “live service game”?
Did Blizz say Overwatch is a “live service game”? I don’t remember it ever being described as that.
If Overwatch is a live service game, how has it failed? The game is still up & running and is releasing a new map as we speak.
How is Overwatch profitable at this point? It’s a 5+ year old game and the only profit is in people buying the game or lootboxes/OWL. It doesn’t make much sense to spend money on lootboxes considering you can unlock just about everything for free (I haven’t spent a dime and have almost all cosmetics, so I’m not seeing much profit there)
Also, there are literally countless games who stop making content for games when they’re working on a sequel… in fact most game developers do that.
Seems like you didn’t read the post. Well done
Adding more content to OW will do nothing for the playerbase/revenue
The only thing that makes sense at this point is a sequel
I don’t want more heroes. I want them to fix the ones that currently exist.
Just go to Overbuff and checkout pickrates and winrates.
It tells the story of how imbalanced this game is and how much it favors hitscan.
Why bother introducing more heroes when heroes like Sombra, Symmetra, Bastion, Orisa, Mei, Torb or Brig have all been virtually unplayable in the past 6mos (all of them sporting a less than 1% pickrate)?
Fix the existing heroes, fix the tanking experience. Fix the current game before ever considering more content.
New content would be great but I think the devs can keep players interested if they interacted more with the player base. Other game devs are able to regularly stream themselves playing the game and inviting players to join them.
It would be fun to be able to play with one of the devs. Plus other game devs are able to do this even while making another game.
What kinda brain dead take is this? Had they consistently pumped out content, then the playerbase would not have swindled, thus, generating profit. You actually have to, you know, release content to make money. They don’t have to release a sequel to change a monetization model.
League of Legends is what 15 years old and not getting any less popular, with no LoL2 in sight.
Free to play games pump out free content all the time. Sure they usually require you to purchase in-game currency and/or loot-boxes, but OW has the nerve to do that as well, despite not being a f2p game.
I too have been playing games since the 90s, but times have changed both in expectations and the environment in which they compete. Games were not trying to maintain an audience for years like modern titles, and instead were built upon big releases and sequels. In some ways that was better than what we have now because games were designed to be complete and fulfilling experiences instead of a storefront to sell you a solution to a problem the game is creating.
Gaming has also started focusing more heavily on multilayer. Multiplayer games in the late 90s and early 2000s more frequently had community run servers and mods. These mods often include custom maps, guns, skins, as well as servers that would run crazy game modes. The developers of modern games have closed this off, while the promise of a live service is that they will be the ones to continue the support of the game.
The continued support also is not free. The game has lootboxes, blizzcon skins, owl tokens, owl sponsorships/ad slots, merchandise, etc. The game has multiple revenue streams beyond the neglected lootbox system with owl likely being the most prominent.
Going for OW2 is a gamble, and I do like the idea of episodic PvE expansions, but the current game is suffering from the stagnation.
I play since beta aswell, and at least every year you got 1-2 heroes and new maps (real new maps not useless deathmatch maps played only by dps in queue)
I can have fun if I see the game evolving, not being stale for 2 years now.
oh … i’m a player asking for content? man must be wrong to ask for a change after 2 years of the same thing, but hey… here devs seems to focus only on owl (useless) , reddit, and lack communications since 2 years (even more)
YEARS? ah right so since you worked FEW years releasing new contents (wich 2 don’t forget are paris and horizon lunar colony, and maps who favor only hitscans…) then we should not ask anymore.
again
if they mind to give us a crumb of communication about ow 2, cinematics, info, gameplay, what’s the game about etc none will complain. but hey. let’s keep the silence and communicate only about ‘‘mcmeme name change’’ wich was made for a good reason but none will care at all since they wait
FOR
SOME
REAL
CONTENT
AND
REAL
COMMUNICATION.
instead we got ‘‘ahah wait till 2023’’
I mean… Genshin impact is f2p and have weekly events and monthy new contents. AND IS A F2P-
Take 5 seconds to use your brain and you’ll figure it out…
OW1 has had a declining playerbase for a long time & the release of heroes has done nothing to stop that. Did the playerbase somehow grow when Baptiste/Ashe/Ball/Sigma/Echo were released? No… so in what way would releasing another hero be different? It wouldn’t be. You know what would increase the playerbase? Overwatch 2 rebalancing everything, adding several new heroes, maps, modes, and team sizes. It’s a great way to get new players into Overwatch who feel like it’s too late to jump into it. It’s not difficult to understand
League of legends is free to play, and like you said, there’s no league 2 in sight. It doesn’t make sense for them to stop producing content for League. They also have a totally different revenue scheme, OW was a 1 time purchase and you got every available hero. In League you would have to spend hundreds or thousands of hours to unlock everyone
Free to play games are usually behind a grind/paywall, like Apex/League are. If you want to play a hero you have to spend money to unlock them or grind for them. You would have to spend hundreds thousands of hours to unlock all of leagues heroes
This is such a delusional statement. Even the best game becomes boring if it is repetitive and all the same.
A game that stops functioning when the ppl stops playing it.
That is not my problem that blizzard is bad at picking a sustainable monetization model. The game had 3 ways of getting money btw and made lootboxes in paid games a trend too. Thanks blizzard you ruined gaming.
Yea and the reason for that sure wasn’t the pace at which content was released. How many maps and heroes did we get in 2019? Rialto and Junker town, sigma and echo.
They could have done so much to keep the player numbers up (For instance going F2P, implementing a Battlepass, in-game tournament system, etc.), but they chose not to in favor for a bag of cash that comes with releasing a sequel.
Brain dead take?