Wouldn't have been better if

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Overwatch 2 would have launched now instead of 8 months back?
Now we have acceptable challenges, 6 more heroes, some progressions elements, a better menu ui ( better quote on quote but you get what i mean), some pve ,2 hole gamemodes and a bunch of maps modifications.
I think it would have been better received if this was the first user experience instead of the abomination we had then.

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No, because we only got all that stuff we have now due to player backlash on their horrible ideas.

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Maybe but would the game have survived 10 more months with no content?

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8 months for 3 missions? No that’d be a terrible idea. I forgot Underworld, 3.5 missions

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i mean…maybe??
It did hold out quite well in that 3 years content drought.
Not gonna lie the pve scandal would have been pretty much the same, but they could have avoided some of the other problems, like how the game was pretty much a downgrade with barely any new heroes and missing features.
Imagine at launch day we could have had 6 new heroes and 2 gamemodes with a lot of maps all while devs would focus on important updates instead of adding back what they took from ow1.
I guess I am just salty that all of my ~500 hours are not reflected in my profile anymore since they reset everyone stats on that progression thinghy.
Makes me feel like I played for nothing.

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I actually disagree. 6 new heroes being released all at once sounds like a dream.

Realistically we got one new hero this season. The other 5 are already old heroes at this point.

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was that too ambitious? :smiley:

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I just think the first year or two were so good because things weren’t “as” figured out. But because we only get drip fed that’s a feeling returning players will never feel again. A sequel should make you feel that.

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Would it have needed to if they were going to put it on steam and run this huge ad campaign? Genuine question because it feels to me that the game launching today with all the accumulated OW2 content would have drawn in a good playerbase and also eased the negativity

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Steam is a very small minority of OW players. If they are even 10% of the playerbase I will be shocked because for 6 years there has been BNet and the majority of the OW playerbase are people who have played it and therefore have BNet so there would be little reason to use Steam, and that is ignoring console eating up that pie as well.

The idea that they could let the game just die completely and just hope an ad campaign would make people forget seems like a long shot. We already see on those Steam reviews a lot of them stemming from people mad about the 2019 content drought, at least the ones who are speaking in coherent sentences, so I cannot imagine that feeling is lessened if the game is allowed to die completely.

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Forget that the game died? Personally I don’t feel like it would have been that far fetched of an idea because MP games die all the time. The negativity I was thinking about was the whole ‘Overwatch 1.5’ type of comments where people felt like it didn’t launch with enough content (and had stuff missing like the fire system).

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that doesnt make any sense.

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I don’t think it would have made a difference. Blizz told us October was early access so we could have something new to play, anyone having super high expectations played themselves. I have no issue with being able to play since October even if it meant not having a whole lot of new stuff at first