This quote from the article is exactly why I absolutely won’t bother with OW2–“free” or not:
"I somehow purchased Overwatch 1 for $40, which Blizzard then deleted and created this predatory microtransaction simulator instead"
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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For real! Give me back the original game I purchased!
Honestly, I would fucking pay for subscription if those cunts would've let me just to play original ow. Blizztards are the worst
Remember when they promised Overwatch players would be fine, and they wouldn't be forced to play OW2? Remember when they touted OW2 as being different for having the basis of PvE missions and more story based content?
I actually really wanted a story/lore filled fps. Tragic
So did I. Even though I had sort of fallen out of love with Overwatch at that point, I was actually pretty excited for the story/PvE stuff. Then to be presented with the steaming pile of dung they gave us was just an insult to me.
I have a better solution that works for me really good. Any time a blizzard game releases I out right ignore it. So far it’s been going great for me.
this basically.
Diablo 2 was the last thing i ever gave a shit blizzard did. once wow and subscriptions and microtransactions happened they became beyond trash.
I wish I did this... Diablo 4 has been such a disappointment. The story was pretty mid and the gameplay loop post MSQ is just not as fun as D3. Also, I played 5 hours this season and I was still only like level 20 or something, because of all the stuff I had to do again with waypoints, side quests for renown, and season journey in order to progress the seasonal quest. I just stopped. Kinda regretting getting the ultimate edition now
Well the great news is you won't be making that mistake in the future. Hopefully others have learned their lesson as well. Fuck modern blizzard.
Everything after “What, You guys don’t have phones” was cake on the icing.
They also recently made the upgrade path for Warcraft 3 classic untenable. I basically had to hack the Gibson to install modern Warcraft III reborn minus the reborn part because I didn’t have to buy it when it came out and I shouldn’t have to buy it now.
It was the death of blizzard north that sealed the deal. We were robbed of a proper diablo 3 thanks to that.
I truly detest the "review bombing" culture, but in the same breath - Blizzard has really screwed up on OW2.
OW was honestly one of my two most played games of all time - and I loved it. The loot boxes were annoying, but hey...if I wanted to, or chose to - I could buy more and got a decent chance of getting what I wanted. The issue was that I had nearly everything by the end, and rarely bought loot boxes. The content wasn't there to keep people buying cosmetics.
The new shop/token/battle pass stuff is really really toxic to gaming. I will admit that I have bought a few battle passes. When the content is there, I will pay. I would totally buy skins if they were in the vein of $5-7usd, and were for a hero I liked... but there is no way in the world that they are getting me to pay 20-25 on a skin. Its honestly so disgusting.
I really was unaffected by the single player stuff, because I only enjoy multiplayer games - but the way it was done showed disregard for the loyal players so it makes me lose trust in the company. I am honestly just sad about what happened to the OW universe. The only way for people to voice that feeling/emotion is to vent and move on. I guess the reviews serve as a good warning to potential new players.
I love review bombing culture. Because companies always (always) push to have more money. Ten years ago we wouldn't think that loot boxes would be so common. Now lootboxes are more common and games more shittier.
And sometimes people snap and just bury the game that crosses some lines. Imo those lines were crossed long ago. Now we notice it when the game is both bad and have loot boxes.
But it's funny to look at overwatch because they also gambled to push as much shit into the game and lost (at least I hope so, the game still have 50000+ players)
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Is it really review bombing though? Or is it just people reviewing a game poorly because it's bad? Like seriously this is the whole point of reviews.
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I disagree on review bombing. It's the public's way of ensuring publishers 'find out' when they fuck around.
Payday 2's devs added pay 2 win loot boxes. They got review bombed. They changed their course.
If the bombing isn't valid you can read the reviews. If what they described doesn't concern you as a consumer you can likely assume that it won't color your experience with the game.
Not the best example. Payday 2 happens to be my most played game of all time. They did get review bombed when they added stat improvements on unlockables, and that was reversed, but they also got review bombed when they started microtransactions after very clearly saying they would never do so (drills/safes). That was never reversed, and only got worse with time. The fact that it is PvE co-op only, makes "pay 2 win" way less important, and I could still "win" very easily without any of those minor stat increases. The original vision was that players just pay for new heists, and anyone could play any heist - just not host unless they owned the content.
I pretty sure that at least 50% of the the blizzard staff who was laid off started to make overwatch porn. The single beauty mark on the back of the Pink Mercy skin is all the evidence that I need.
If my claim is correct so yeah, people who make overwatch porn work harder than the current overwatch team.
Beauty mark on the mercy skin?
Look closely on the pink mercy skin, one of the few skin that Mercy has a open back side, it's has a little beauty mark in the middle of her back.
What's the relation to the porn?
The person who designed the skin purposely put that beauty mark, is not from Mercy design and others skins with open backside doesn't have it. If this is not some kind of fetish I don't know what it is.
That seems like a huge stretch.
I have never paid for a single Blizzard game. I have never played a single Blizzard game. I have never been given any indication I've made a mistake.
You missed out on 20 plus years of good games. You missed the reason we have esports, Starcraft in Korea, great times.
Warcraft 3 is a good game, I loved Warcraft 3. I am sure warcraft 1 and 2 were probably good for their time as well. Anything else yeah. I got nothing.
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I look at all this Blizzard bashing and I feel mainly pity. It's just games and a game company. Why let them live in your head rent free? Play a game if you like it, don't if you don't. It really is that simple. The rest of the drama and effort is just wasted energy.
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