More heroes = more skins to sell. It’s really that simple.
Just make the investment, enlarge the dev teams and get the heroes cranked out until there’s 100 options. then slow down .
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But that requires money that the poor, poor combined resources of Activision, Blizzard and Microsoft just seemingly don’t have.
We cannot ask so much from these multimillion dollar, AAA companies, it’s just too much for them.
Please, think of these poor companies as they have to slave away making microtransactions just to survive. Buy battle passes today, so these poor companies can go to Morocco or Dubai with their friends…
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They are just not taking the successful aspects of similar games,
Instead doing totally illogical things.
Failing to compete how? With whom?
PvE was a bust so they cut it. Otherwise it’s probably making enough money to turn a profit.
If they were on the rise, PvE woulda been out by now imho.
Tbh the imho lame tower defense thing they came out with was a waste of effort \money
When they coulda had a really nice set of quests per character
selling them off like the Nova covert ops after like the original installments ( which was a success iirc)
Then they’d have a consistent flow of $ since they could release 5 freebie quests to hook em , then release the DLC’s with EVERY NEW HERO.
All they’re doing is selling shop skins and battlepasses to the tune of maybe $225 million per year (or whatever was their last earnings report made public). They can survive on that.
Yet the game is basically devoid of anything worthwhile lately. I forsee it dying off at this rate. Maybe just me .
Do you know their previous earnings compared to this year?
Ow2 has only been out since Oct 2022. They’ve only reported one full year’s worth of revenue (2023). There’s no comparison data. Ow1 probably has some data floating around out there. Allegedly the revenue for 2021 was pretty bad.
Compete with what? Games of different subgenres? An objective based game competing with a battle royale? A 5v5 is NOT a 1v30+
OW has already overtaken Paladins by nearly 8-10x concurrent players as shown by steam its closest direct competitor.
I hardly see people ever discuss TF2 in the slightest. There are more complaints amount OW than there are comments about TF2 even existing.
Valorant/Apex which frequently compare with OW aren’t even in the same sub-genre. CS:GO competes with Valorant.
All games at a 50,000m view compete with each other, but at the end of the day this type of format is simply not that popular. Its why very few developers over 10years have not tried to resurrect the OW formula.
OW is King in a niche no one else wants to enter.
what does “failing to compete” mean?
who is Overwatch competing with? how are they failing? like the user above said, OW is King in its niche, there is no real competition
The market is currently pretty much set. No one wants to start another game that others have years of stuff and experience. LoL players will not leave LoL, Apex players will not leave Alex, Fortnite players will not leave Fortnite and OW players will not leave OW. At least not the majority of them.
OW is not failing to compete. They just lost the share in the 3 years of downtime, where Fortnite, Valorant and Apex filled the void. OW is doing pretty good, when you think about it thisway. Thats also the reason why games like Splitgate or The Finals cant get a hold of players.
If there is not a game coming out that does EVERYTHING better than the games I have mentioned, people will stick with what they know. There is no player base OW can expand to. Its a niche game and far away from the classical shooter.
Overwatch is an assortment of different games
MOBA, FPS for the most part
The thinking of a MOBA and the mechanics of a FPS
What other game is similar???
It would take a very very long time. But after playing a little of gigantic I think it would be cool if every hero just got a rework but didn’t replace the current kit. So you can pick assassinstion sombra or support sombra. Or passive mercy. Or aggro offensive mercy.
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You cracked the code. Why hasn’t Blizzard hired you yet to fix all their problems? Truly a stable genius!
That would be very bad. Do you not see the huge negative effect Mauga has had on the game? If they pump out more heroes faster, they’re going to be even lower quality than Mauga who legit ruined the game for me.
Its obvious they a losing potential money, I’m not saying they didnt make any money. Just that with a better model, they could easily rival LoL itself.
Valorant is not in the same league as OW and LoL .
I’m not comparing games within a subgenre as
all games compete with all other games. there’s no point to discuss the niches in terms of overall success.
I mean a good game, a truly good game would attract even casual people to try it . not just appeal to the people within the scene. That’s how games grow fyi.
If they released more characters, they’d have blown LoL out of the water as imho most people like shooters more than tey like games mobas like LoL.
Thing is, they have no representation , in a game that is sposedly all about that.
The answer is simple, more champions. Invest more and take the risk, and just watch.
compete with who???
paladins???
smite???
gigantic???
apex legends???
Valorant???
who even IS overwatch’s competition to begin with???
Overwatch is the tekken of its genre in that there are “technically” other hero-shooters out there but manages to be in a class entirely of its own.
All other games.
Not just shooters.
you’re right they’re obviously competing with super smash bros and diddy kong racing lmao.
what this game is missing is the “and knuckles” from sonic the hedgehog 3!!!
Except is tekken the end all fighting game? Definitely not. Smash bros alone out does that game. And I think dbz fighters was a massive fighting game.
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