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Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs) (kotaku.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Well, this is hardly unexpected.

Still, considering how PvE was supposed to be the pillar of Overwatch "2", and the outwards-facing reason for the switchover, it's sad. There was actually some cool promise in those PvE ideas, and now even the "light" version seems to be cancelled.

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[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 60 points 8 months ago

It was never going to happen. It was a scam to get into a new monetization scheme.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 55 points 8 months ago

I was under the impression that they had fully shelved PvE for OW2. They basically lied and released the same game with a few tweaks to the match format. Was there actually any hope for even a pared-down co-op mode?

[-] H1jAcK@lemm.ee 22 points 8 months ago

There was right at the very start, to help push units. I believe it was less than six months into ow2 when they realistically cancelled pve

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

There was hope initially, but as a huge overwatch fan, when Jeff Kaplan, the former game director of Overwatch, left Blizzard, I could see the bullshit that lay ahead. It took too long for others to realize.

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Jeff was the goat, I wonder what he's currently up to

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Apparently, he and some ex Blizzard people created a new studio. But itl be a few years before they have any games to unveil. And honestly, that's fine. I mean he could announce he's retiring and it'd be fine. He earned it as far as I'm concerned.

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Word

[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 31 points 8 months ago

Blizzard is dead. Don't expect them to do anything good

[-] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 22 points 8 months ago

Why do companies not want money but yet screen and shout about wanting money?

[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

They were able to sell a video game which came with an IOU instead of a major component. I think they kept a lot of money by doing that

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 8 months ago

Did they sell it though? Everyone who bought it got the game they paid for (and now sort of don't have anymore, lol) but wasn't the promise of PvE an add-on to the now free game?

[-] underisk@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

they probably got a lot of people to buy the first couple battlepasses. a success for that quarter, maybe, but probably not the long tail they were hoping to get from transforming it into the GaaS model. they probably made more money from OW1 lootboxes, overall

[-] NekkoDroid@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

they probably made more money from OW1 lootboxes, overall

I really doubt it considering how many boxes you got thrown after you, with coins for dups with which you can just buy skins. Was a great system for the player, but probably terrible monitarily.

[-] underisk@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

It had made them over a billion dollars as of 2019

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 22 points 8 months ago

Wait I thought overwatch 2 a story mode and that was its entire point. Tbf I haven’t been keeping up with the game

[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

You're right. And neither has Blizzard

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

Oh Oh

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 21 points 8 months ago

Activision is burning the rope that is the ancient goodwill of Blizzard-fans at both ends.

[-] Bdtrngl@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

Surprised there's any rope left for them to burn.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 15 points 8 months ago

It's a long rope. Woven from decades of WoW, StarCraft and Diablo.

It'll run out soon. Mostly it's only been burning so slow cuz people have been in denial over the fact for so long.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Burned all of my rope with the battle.net "2.0" complete with Facebook integration, rmah, "get the game for free with a years subscription to world of Warcraft" and killing deckard Cain in act 2 of D3 (along with ACT 1 being the only ACT with any love put into it, and that being the entirety of the demo, also pretty clear that's when Activision bought blizzard)

Never played any of the sc2 expansions, never watched another blizzard tournament, never bought a wow expansion (after TBC), I lost a lot of really great memory associations, but the nostalgia isn't worth supporting the corpse-puppet of blizzard.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Let's see what Tom Petty has to say about their future

[-] kembik@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Unpopular opinion but I think the game is in it's best state currently. I spent $40 on 2016 and haven't had to pay a dime since and I'm not playing this PVP game for it's PVE so this stuff doesn't matter to me. Blizzard is a husk of its former self and I'm still bitter about HOTS but am actually having a lot of fun playing comp this season.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

It needs a bit of tweaking but generally I agree with you.

[-] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

They took away access to a game we payed for and replaced it with an inferior product with the hopes and dreams to one day have single player content.. which you would have to pay for anyway. Thats all i have to say on the matter of overwatch. Fuck blizzard.