Why is Blizzard so hellbent on Fortnite?

General Discussion
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Except that’s not what happened and we know it for a fact. Bobby Kotick & the Activision executives originally wanted to throw more development hands at releasing Overwatch 2 faster so they could capitalize on the live service shift to battle passes. Jeff Kaplan and Team 4 said no, they wanted to keep it special to them and make it great. The issue is that a live service AND a full “PVE campaign” cannot be done by a team of their size (WoW has 500+ people, Diablo 4 has about 450 last time it was documented) so the execs wanted OW to start making money sooner which is why they “postponed” the PVE and released OW2 PVP as a standalone thing. Jeff left and it definitely seems like Activision went: “Wrap it up, release what you got.” and sent the PVE missions out to die.

While Microsoft did lay off a very large amount of the team (cinematics and lore for example) - it does seem like the PVP core teams are doing well and the content feels a bit more tangible for the player. Like Stadium.

(If you don’t believe me, read Jason Schreier’s book about Blizzard. Overwatch has its own section unlike any other.)

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What happened is just criminal activity. The game should not be a F2P scam live service slop game. Period. Jeff will always have been in the right to tell Kotick to buzz off. Execs are greedy evil people and do not deserve the money they actively steal. The PVP game is not better in any capacity. 5v5 sucks, RQ sucks, Stadium is just repurposed PvE assets and lazily done at that.

The games image is permanently damaged unless they plan to actually deliver the promised PvE sequel. Until that day, this game can only be viewed as a cash grab scam and nothing more than that.

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Cool. Don’t play it then? I, too, am upset about PVE but I know that there’s never going to be PVE. Project Titan is dead and Overwatch will remain PVP oriented.

I enjoy the gameplay loop of OW. Halo is arguably the only other FPS that has retained my interest for as long as they can. (Valorant did until they kept nerfing the F out of Viper. :/)

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This is one giant skin selling scam and most of you keep falling for it. There is no game.