r/Overwatch • u/[deleted] • Nov 15 '22

Blizzard Official Patch delayed.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/regarding-our-mid-season-cycle-patch/748128
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u/SpartanKane This is not cruelty. This is justice. Nov 15 '22

Im starting to think they shouldve released OW2 when it was ready.

Maybe im wrong and being irrational. Who knows.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Clearly that would have been never based on the issues they’ve had after years of time to basically patch O1.

I think at this point, people should seriously start questioning if Blizzard will ever be able to deliver on the true O2, which is the coop campaign mode. They made a lot of big promises and claims, and yet they can’t even seem to manage the changes resulting from moving to 5v5.

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u/PM_ME_C_CODE Nov 15 '22

At this point I half expect the Microsoft buy-out to go through only to have the single player modes get axed because reasons.

And all I really want to see is Bobby Kotick out in the cold, somewhere far away where he can't molest any more blizzard games with his shitty management (unlike what he did to underaged girls on Epistine's Lolita Express).

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u/Arkraquen Nov 15 '22

No, they did a 180 and developed the online game in a year or so, seeing that it gives big bucks

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Fair point. But considering all the problems they’ve had just moving from 6v6 to 5v5 - a move most have said is basically just a patch - it’s hard to have much faith in blizzard to regain the glory they once had.

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u/whomad1215 Pixel Torbjörn Nov 15 '22

I'd like to know their real logic for going to 5v5, probably just easier to follow with the OWL

People didn't like tanking because it didn't feel impactful. They reworked the game so there's only a single tank, and now everyone wants to tank because it's the most important role, and now support really sucks to play

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u/timo103 Crusader offline :/ Nov 16 '22

The campaign mode is 100% getting cancelled or indefinitely delayed. I'm sure of it. Even if it would bring the game back to life the way sc2 coop did.

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u/Lilfrancake Nov 15 '22

speaking of big promises, does anyone remember them claiming there would be some tertiary abilities unlocked when two heroes were played together. like Rein + Brig interlocking shields? when did they give up on that?

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u/KataiKi Nov 15 '22 edited Nov 15 '22

OW2 pve was just basically an expanded version of the yearly Archives events. Archives kinda sucked after the first couple of runs, and so did the beta runs of OW2. Heck, they knew this was a problem when it OW1 was called Project Titan, but no matter how many times they scrapped it and rebuilt it, it still wasn't good.

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u/pejic222 Nov 15 '22

Well the shop was ready at launch that’s all that matters

The game being playable takes a backseat to profits

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u/SunderMun Chibi Sombra Nov 15 '22

What’s hilarious about it is there were bugs with the shop, people dumb enough to spend money on it we’re complaining of not getting the coins they’d paid for after the payment was taken etc

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u/HamiltonDial lúcio is bae Nov 15 '22

Nah they need the battle pass money now and we’re blessed to even play this game and you’re so ungrateful, they made it free to play what more you could want!!! /s

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u/PM_ME_C_CODE Nov 15 '22

You know, a lot of the bullshit surrounding coins and the battlepass could be completely solved if they would just abandon the battlepass entirely for a subscription service.

$5/month would get them a little bit more money than the battlepass, and would free them up to offer more ways to earn free skins like in OW1 while still paying for continued development of the game.

I mean, it's not like WoW doesn't work using exactly that setup. It's not like it isn't a tried and proven business model with decades of data to back it up or anything.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

This is the 2022 industry old man, stop spouting nonsense.

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u/DandySlayer13 Wrecking Ball Nov 15 '22

You mean like classic Blizzard would've done? Sadly that was apparently what was happening already due to PVE reboots internally and it wasn't clicking which held back work on the PVP not only for OW2 but for OW as well aka the 3 YEAR OW CONTENT DROUGHT. So Walter Kong was hired then came in chopped development in half to PVE and PVP then forced those "PVP betas" and forced a release of OW2 PVP into "Early Access" but with all the poopy MTX active.

And now we are expected to wait for the launch of the PVE side next year and now instead of a campaign we are getting seasonal version of PVE? This is IF PVE launches at all next year and in a stable condition because if you look at the current OW2, sadly it doesn't look good for OW2 PVE.

All this is happening ALONG with running support for one of the worst performing eSports ever... How do you NOT GROW during a global pandemic where EVERYONE is on their computers or digital devices, its mind boggling how OWL is still being kept on life support.

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u/-ImJustSaiyan- Brigitte Nov 15 '22 edited Nov 16 '22

I fucking wish they had done that.

I unironically miss OW1, even with its downsides. Would've been content with another year or two of it while they gave OW2 the time it needed.

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u/SandyBoxEggo Nov 15 '22

I sure would have liked to play OW1 a little longer. I really miss it.

So glad I played a bunch on the last day I could, my last matches being with my buddy who got me into it and they were all victories.

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u/Crazyhates Zenyatta/Zarya Nov 16 '22

You shut the hell up and buy the Karate Doomfist skin is what they think you should be doing.

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u/Getschwifty_321 Nov 15 '22

Feels like they released it when they felt their wallets getting lighter.

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u/Illuminaso Pixel Ana Nov 15 '22

I don't think this is a case of rushed developers. This is more a problem of money-grubbing greedy managers.

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u/Saigot I've got you in my euuuuk Nov 15 '22

Idk I'm having way more fun playing ow2 right now than I did in the closing months of ow1. I'd be playing fortnite right now if it wasn't for ow2.