Current Events > Blizzard is scrapping Overwatch 2's PvE mode

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Wedge_Antilles
05/16/23 4:55:23 PM
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https://www.gamespot.com/articles/overwatch-2s-pve-mode-is-being-scrapped-blizzard-explains-what-happened-and-why/1100-6514242/

Why did they even bother making a second game? Yes. I know. Money.

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EdwardSnowedIn
05/16/23 4:56:42 PM
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wasn't that going to be one of the few ways it distinguished itself from it's predecessor? Fuck live service games

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FelineCyborg
05/16/23 4:56:55 PM
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wasnt that like a huge selling point? what a fail.

the pve events were the only thing i found interesting about the 1st one.

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AldousIsDead
05/16/23 4:57:09 PM
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Remind me why I ever liked blizzard?

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Kimbos_Egg
05/16/23 4:57:39 PM
#5:


Wedge_Antilles posted...
Why did they even bother making a second game? Yes. I know. Money.

To replace the microtransactions

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YellowSUV
05/16/23 4:57:52 PM
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lol

Overwatch 2 is complete garbage. All they managed to do was to make the game a shitty 5 vs 5 and change McCree's name to Billy Bob Joe.

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Kloe_Rinz
05/16/23 4:57:52 PM
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Wasnt this like literally the only selling point of overwatch 2? Surely there is a legal case for false advertisement.
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gmanthebest
05/16/23 4:58:01 PM
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That sucks. Was really excited for it.

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YellowSUV
05/16/23 4:58:02 PM
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Kloe_Rinz posted...
Wasnt this like literally the only selling point of overwatch 2?

yes

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Squall28
05/16/23 4:58:29 PM
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Wedge_Antilles posted...
Why did they even bother making a second game?

So they can make people pay $20 for a single skin. And why the fuck do gamers enable this crap? Stop buying fucking $20 skins

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FelineCyborg
05/16/23 4:59:12 PM
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AldousIsDead posted...
Remind me why I ever liked blizzard?

i consider heroes of the storm blizzards swan song. there is no blizzard anymore

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VideoboysaysCube
05/16/23 4:59:50 PM
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LOL

So basically, they just re-released OW1 a second time while screwing over everyone who bought the first game. Literally the exact same game. What a joke of a sequel.

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DarkBuster22904
05/16/23 5:01:15 PM
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God damn that interview was gross to read

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ironman2009
05/16/23 5:01:43 PM
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holy shit. common blizzard L

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The-19th-Sparta
05/16/23 5:02:30 PM
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I saw this coming and Im still annoyed.

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Irony
05/16/23 5:02:47 PM
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Lol

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FelineCyborg
05/16/23 5:03:06 PM
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VideoboysaysCube posted...
LOL

So basically, they just re-released OW1 a second time while screwing over everyone who bought the first game. Literally the exact same game. What a joke of a sequel.


nobody retroactively fucks their fans harder than blizzard. like not even nintendo pulls this shit

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Gobstoppers12
05/16/23 5:04:12 PM
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Bro that was the whole point of it. I was looking forward to it. That's fucking silly lol

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ThePieReborn
05/16/23 5:04:24 PM
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The-19th-Sparta posted...
I saw this coming and Im still annoyed.


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YellowSUV
05/16/23 5:05:52 PM
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FelineCyborg posted...
i consider heroes of the storm blizzards swan song. there is no blizzard anymore

I wonder how HOTS was able to stay away from modern Blizzard practices for so long. I find it hilarious most Blizzard games were covering up the skin of characters while HOTS did stuff like release fan-service outfits for characters that would not fly in other Blizzard games.

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__starsnostars
05/16/23 5:06:02 PM
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I'm not surprised honestly. The team that's still left is bare bones and if the decisions they've made concerning game balance and direction is anything to go by they don't have a clue of what their doing.

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ultimate_reaver
05/16/23 5:07:17 PM
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blizzard is a horrible company. one of the only ones that fell from their golden age harder than bioware did

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Mad-Dogg
05/16/23 5:07:47 PM
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Damn did I dodge a bullet by not paying a cent for anything related to overwatch 2 despite a actual story mode being the one thing I actually wanted with the sequel.


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theAteam
05/16/23 5:08:13 PM
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I stopped playing around when they killed OW1 and I would have came back for PvE if only to try it out. Hell I would have even paid for it like any other game.

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YellowSUV
05/16/23 5:08:35 PM
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I also heard that the World of Warcraft team is creating an emergency plan because they don't have enough people working. Blizzard used to skate by paying people low due to the prestige of working at Blizzard. Wages are super low, even for the video game industry.

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alphagamble
05/16/23 5:11:33 PM
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I'm still in awe at how Blizzard fucked up with Overwatch

They had lightning in a bottle and pissed it all away

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Kuuko
05/16/23 5:13:04 PM
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blizzard is a small indie dev company. please understand

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Sir_Will
05/16/23 5:16:02 PM
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Kloe_Rinz posted...
Wasnt this like literally the only selling point of overwatch 2? Surely there is a legal case for false advertisement.
Yes but now it's just an excuse to change the monetization (for the worse).

alphagamble posted...
I'm still in awe at how Blizzard fucked up with Overwatch

They had lightning in a bottle and pissed it all away
Yep.

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refmon
05/16/23 5:17:08 PM
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So they did this just to add in battlepass crap

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ChocoboMog123
05/16/23 5:18:33 PM
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YellowSUV posted...
I wonder how HOTS was able to stay away from modern Blizzard practices for so long. I find it hilarious most Blizzard games were covering up the skin of characters while HOTS did stuff like release fan-service outfits for characters that would not fly in other Blizzard games.
HotS died, in part, because it switched to OW1's monetization model in a effort to chase gamba$$$ but ironically made it too easy to get whatever you wanted.
HotS also embarrassed the OW team by releasing Zarya with skins that were much more interesting than the simple texture changes available in OW at the time.
Truly the GOAT.

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NeonTentacles
05/16/23 5:31:14 PM
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lol

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YellowSUV
05/16/23 5:44:42 PM
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The HOTS team really was great. They took a long running joke of Jaina being a dreadlord and turned it into a great costume.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/2/7/AAA4VzAAEe5X.jpg

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Zavala
05/16/23 5:45:33 PM
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anyone who still plays this game is literally a joke

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wanderingshade
05/16/23 5:48:04 PM
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Overwatch was never really that great, but man has BR and GaaS really beat up the FPS game genre.

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Prestoff
05/16/23 5:51:51 PM
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Damn dude, that was literally the selling point. There was no reason for that 2 next to its name. Though I get it, game production is complicated and hard and most likely they knew they wouldn't be able to deliver on a good experience so they're scrapping it for something else. I know I won't be digging into it, but I do hope the other thing they compensate will make the playerbase happy.

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FelineCyborg
05/16/23 5:55:00 PM
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YellowSUV posted...
I also heard that the World of Warcraft team is creating an emergency plan because they don't have enough people working. Blizzard used to skate by paying people low due to the prestige of working at Blizzard. Wages are super low, even for the video game industry.

they literally dont pay people enough to live. i worked in the austin customer service center, when people transferred to irving they straight up said dont expect to get compensated for the increase living expenses in cali

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thronedfire2
05/16/23 5:55:32 PM
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lol I called this as soon as Jeff left. he wanted the PVE mode, he never wanted OW2

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Vigero
05/16/23 6:04:31 PM
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The whole thing has been slow motion trainwreck for several years now. OW2 already was an expansion pack to OW1. This just makes it ring even truer.
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s0nicfan
05/16/23 6:21:15 PM
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This just reinforces my pet theory that this was ALWAYS about rushing out a version of Overwatch without lootboxes because a bunch of countries were threatening to legislate them as gambling. It's right around when they announced it, it explains the "backwards compatibility" with OW1 (so that people in countries that allow lootboxes will keep using them), and explains why it was rushed out as soon as the lootbox controversy went away and they've since scrapped basically everything that would have made it stand out as a real product.

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__starsnostars
05/16/23 6:48:41 PM
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Overwatch 2 was never rushed out. It's literally just an upgraded patch of Overwatch 1.

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dancing_cactuar
05/16/23 6:50:42 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/9/5/AAOjRaAADUeX.jpg
Blizzard is such a fucking joke.

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Vyrulisse
05/16/23 6:51:42 PM
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Squall28 posted...
So they can make people pay $20 for a single skin. And why the fuck do gamers enable this crap? Stop buying fucking $20 skins
Because gamers are the ultimate marks with the collective backbone of a jellyfish.


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TendoDRM
05/16/23 6:53:44 PM
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Hopefully Microsoft will fix Blizzard once the deal goes through.

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WilliamPorygon
05/16/23 7:04:39 PM
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So basically the whole thing was a scam

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Blue_Inigo
05/16/23 7:05:31 PM
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Common Blizzard L

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Sir_Will
05/16/23 7:26:29 PM
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Vyrulisse posted...
Because gamers are the ultimate marks with the collective backbone of a jellyfish.
True. Some of the worst, most predatory games are also some of the more lucrative. It's gross.

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UnholyMudcrab
05/16/23 7:31:21 PM
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Lol, I say, lmao

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Dakimakura
05/16/23 7:32:12 PM
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At this point we should be allowed to sue Activision.

Replaced a game we paid for with the same game and charged money for anything in it.

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TwoDoorPC
05/16/23 7:59:38 PM
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Dakimakura posted...
At this point we should be allowed to sue Activision.

Replaced a game we paid for with the same game and charged money for anything in it.

and considering it's one less player per team, it's kinda less of a game than the one it replaced.

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Shotgunnova
05/16/23 8:38:49 PM
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lmao

Glad I dropped this jank long before they got to this point.

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