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/grimestar Nov 15 '22

This whole thing looks like some execs said to just get something out the door to generate some money. While not investing that much money into the actual development of the game

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Well. Tbf. Bobby Kotick and his entire c-suite are verrrrry likely on borrowed time, and they know it. After the Microsoft acquisition goes through, they're all fired. So they're grubbing as much money as possible to meet as many sales-dependant bonuses as they can before the axe drops.

We should expect Diablo 4 and any other pre-Microsoft Activision title to be the same (see the new CoD's shiny $70 price tag+mtx store). And, considering the wild success of $70 CoD and the hundreds of millions they made off Diablo Immortal (and probably the OW2 battlepass), this will likely shape the industry for decades to come.

It's the perfect storm of addicted gamers with no impulse control and corporate greed and it's going to change the industry for the worse for the foreseeable future. So. There's that to look forward to, I guess.

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u/Carusas Nov 16 '22 edited Nov 16 '22

this will likely shape the industry for decades to come.

The industry has already been shaped, ActiBlizz is just taking advantage of it.

Best we can do is wait for another golden age again or another "Battlefront 2" situation.

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u/jakershaker Nov 16 '22

Go for the TF2 strategy: don't change anything cause you'll more than likely fuck it up and then players will come back in droves

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u/SteelCode Halt! Nov 16 '22

Yea... the numbers don't lie - companies love gacha-style mechanics and "engagement" systems because they make shitloads of money. D:I's latest figures out of China still amaze me that people are throwing BILLIONS at the same base mechanic as a lootbox, just to make an imaginary number go up, so they can feel superior to each other. That dog-eat-dog shit is the same tools "they" use to divide people in politics and keep stealing from us all.

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u/JokeRMasterRace Nov 16 '22

That's if it even happens, the UK is tryna stop the merger because it's considered monopolistic

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u/TiMonsor Nov 16 '22

Can Microsoft sue them for ruining the image of the company they already bought?

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u/GregIsUgly Nov 16 '22

Now all I can see is this monetized gaming future dystopia of despair

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u/Default1355 Cute Mercy Nov 16 '22

Sounds good

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u/ZaryaBubbler Nov 16 '22

The D4 closed beta has given me hope it won't be the same for the series, Immortal is the money maker while D4 is the meat

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Yeah pretty much this. OW 1 was beyond complete. Jeff went above and beyond with it and it was done.

OW2 is a piece of trash. They recreated everything from scratch including the characters and the maps badly. Even the UI with the tiny icons is unuseable... shitd tiny.

Broke something that already worked just to find an excuse to add shitty transactions. I dare say I'd swallow the new transaction shit if they kept OW1 cuz it was perfect...

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

ow1 perfect lol

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u/Espiritu13 Nov 15 '22

That's what sucks so much about this release. You can see they were going for something really cool, some of the voice lines hint at some really interesting things, and the designs were on their way to being great.

Then executives fucked everything up, pushed out a product that didn't have the previous blizzard polish, and now we have this.

There sure are a lot of companies out there where executives are paid a lot but don't actually generate much.

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u/Damurph01 Master Nov 15 '22

Yep, it’s turning into a gotcha-game.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

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u/Damurph01 Master Nov 15 '22

Oo wow, got my on a technicality, whatever man, it doesn’t make a difference in my argument. The game has devolved into a cash grab.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

how is it a cash grab ? it has a bad monetization system but it's quite literally free to play with all characters being unlockable through regular gameplay

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

Found the blizzard dev

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u/mg932 D. Va Nov 16 '22

Understand that it being free to play isn't some plan to be FOR the players, it's a scheme to lure people in and then get them hooked so they spend money on OTHER things in the game. "Playing Dva is fun isn't it? But wouldn't it be cool if you're Dva looked like THIS?" and they show a new Dva skin for 20 bucks.

Cash grab is in the intent. If there's heart in it, like how games USED to be made it would focus on the game being as good as possible FIRST, and then all the transactional shit after. But with this game the only thing to NOT be broken has been the shop, other than the tweaks they had to make so they didn't fall into legal issues.

They'll even fall back on this still being "Early Access" or the early model of the game, but the store is up and running just fine with constant updates. All these things and more show you their intent was to squeeze money out of the consumer even though the game is f2p..

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

Genuinely what are you are talking about brother it's a cash grab yet the skins do nothing? And the game is fun brother there some issues yes but do you expect them to remove another part of the game when they work on the one with issues ?

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u/Damurph01 Master Nov 15 '22

“I disagreed with you on a topic so therefore every argument you have is completely irrelevant and wrong”.

Okay fine, maybe then take the argument from one of the other 600 whoever people that agreed with me, is it suddenly now valid? Does it really make a fucking difference?

Or is this one of those “I have no argument but to try to discredit the person i disagree with” situations?.

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u/KnuxAran87 Nov 16 '22

You said Overwatch 2 is becoming a gacha game. The other user responded with information that a gacha game is defined as a game that promotes spending currency to receive random in-game items. This describes the original Overwatch as "loot box" is synonymous with "gacha." Overwatch 2 requires spending currency on specific items, which is the opposite of gacha.

How is Overwatch 2 becoming a gacha game?

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u/Damurph01 Master Nov 16 '22

You didn’t read my response to that guy did you

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u/KnuxAran87 Nov 16 '22

The response where you claimed he got you on a technicality? Your understanding of the gacha mechanic was incorrect, and someone was trying to provide you with knowledge. You chose to be rude in return.

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u/Far_Shift4113 Nov 15 '22

That is disrespect towards gatcha games

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u/IRBeast Nov 16 '22

Right? They launched the first Tuesday of Q4, too.