People love bringing up console players and how many are playing the game much more than steam players and Bnet.
Any other time, console is the devil, a liar, and every bad thing under the sun.
Funny how that works. And we wonder why the community is so divided and always bickering.
I say this because I remember seeing a clip of flats recently just roast console for being toxic and some other crap but they love bringing em up when it comes to how many people are playing the game like they actually cared xdd
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Ow community has no idea how massive the console player base isā¦.
And how hard the console base can own based of controller AA. Overwatch should consider their console base way more than they doā¦
Itās starting to show they care.
Streamers are toxic btw bc they believe in top down balanceā¦
And bc so many heroās in ow are so easy to get value withā¦.
Top down balance simply doesnāt work without ruining the regular player experience and console player experience.
But flats wants the game balanced for himself.
I personally think flats is the worst streamer to listen to about balance. Bc he has no idea and just complains
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I just find it crazy that console and PC plays the same damn game, but one has AA the other doesnāt and both sides hate each others guts like itās a sibling rivalry.
Same thing happens in Apex too and almost every single Cross platform game and it blows my mind to see gamers act like man children over a game they both LOVE to play.
The PC playerbase is much larger.
Just because it is in top 10 on consoles doesnāt mean it has more players.
The thing with consoles is that ppl are playing mostly singleplayer games so the multiplayer numbers can be easily inflated by any f2p multiplayer game (1st because it is free and the option are limited and 2nd, ppl spend more time in multiplayer games)
I doubt that.
CoD has a MASSIVE console playerbase.
Apex as well.
Every PC game that has a console version has a massive console playerbase, thereās just no proper way of counting them outside of the video corporation tallying up the #s,
Since console companies donāt hang their player count above the games door like steam.
CoDs last financial report showed how many console players they got and it DWARFS PC players
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I highly doubt that especially considering consoles are mostly American thing. So that may be true for America but unlikely to be worldwide.
Their financial report is international and isnāt counting only us players.
Console is bigger than alot of us ever thought
Cause streamers are idiots and people shouldnāt listen to them, they should actually think for themselves for once.
We have no clue how many console players there are because Blizz keeps everything from itās players. However, consoles are more affordable than a PC so it is safe to assume that they do make up a large majority of OWās playerbase. But, I am skeptical on this as PC players cannot opt out of crossplay, potentially meaning that there are less people on console and they need PC players to help with QP group queue times.
Personally I think there should be separate balance patch changes to certain heroes who dominate on console. Which is something I believe they did do before crossplay when they nerfed Sym turret dmg to like 30 or something, I canāt remember exactly but it was a change specifically for console. I think they need to start doing these sort of patches again so we donāt have this compromise being made on whether to balance a hero a certain way to where they feel better on console but then they become absolutely trash on PC. There needs to be some divide IMO.
Except that itās not the same game for the separate player bases, itās not like we all hate each other, there is simply only so much you can physically do and achieve in terms of playing on a controller. Itās as simple as that. Reaction time being one of these major things. If PC players donāt want to play with console because of this reason, then I think it is a completely valid reason.
It is fine playing with console players in QP every now and then, but again, not everyone wants to be playing with or against console players and we as PC players do not have the option to disable crossplay whereas console players do. This is the main issue I have, the option to simply have the ability to turn off crossplay.
I used to play console before I got a PC, there is a significant difference in reaction times and playstyles between the two.
Oh for sure keep the two separate for anything rank related.
Iām just talking about the typical console hate in general.
As a PC player itās kind of off-putting to see the community who loves the same game to be fighting with each other like children
I am not sure if you are reading those reports correctly then.
China alone would outnumber consoles with its PC market share.
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China gave Blizz games the boot there.
And has for over a year now
You donāt remember Devs tearing up the WOW statue outside China HQ?
Blizzard has packed up in China.
Every last game at that too, which also means OW.
Former blizzard China employees called blizzard green tea
That is my point. That report could have been after china has already left the scene.
However it is soon coming back.
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We shall see but I doubt Blizz can get back in Chinaās good graces with the current situation ATM with China relations
The deal is already done, only issue would be marvels rivals if that picksup then overwatch is toast in China.
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there should not be such a thing as built in aimbots in any fps game, console or not
Just like their other live service Destiny 2 ripoff game, Marvelās Avengers, that took off for not even a month and then died? lol. If there is anything Marvel sucks at doing is making and maintaining live service games. While it may be good, I give it a month. Iām willing to try it ofc.
I highly doubt anything is ever going to be the OW killer, and Iām not just saying that cause right now I dislike OW and everything it is doing ATM, but it is a very niche genre of game that other studios have not been able to remake well enough to replace OW. Kind of like how everyone though Texas Chainsaw Massacre was going to kill DBD, it was never even close. While there are games that DO come out/have been out as competition, games such as OW and DBD are just so niche and unique to only themselves to the point where they will not be killed cause there really is no competition in a market that they dominate and made popular.
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Marvel is licence not developer, for ex guardians of galaxy is good cause it was made by deus ex mankind team, Avengers was bad cause they made tomb raider developers do it, who are more good at Indian Jones style than super hero.
Rivals is made by netease they have made naraka blade point they understand multiplayer market.
It wonāt be ow killer worldwide but in China it coincides with lack of ow, while deal is redone it only goes live in may I think.
So it may really overtake ow there if itās good.
Looks decent so far.
Naraka blade point is plagued by quite a few things holding itself back, one of those things being Neteaseās infamously bad net code.
There would be times you parried in that game and nothing happened in game because net code is trash.
If Rivals net code is trash (itās netease lmao) game is dead in the water
Except the game is constantly growing in numbers since release.
No it hasnāt. Theyāre giving you the perception itās growing when itās not.
PC game devs love using console as last ditch effort to pad players.
When naraka First released, console kids wanted to play and were told no console plans at all till the PC crew got tired of their bug ridden game and they were desperate for DAU, so they made a Xbox port, then milked the Xbox players for about a year before releasing the PS version.
If console kids were smart enough to see through the BS, they wouldnāt even touch Naraka blade point and games that donāt care about console support till they are discarded by their PC counterparts