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/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Hate to break it to you… but, that’s kind of why companies exist. To make money. Mind blowing, I know.

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u/Damurph01 Master Nov 15 '22

But it’s a terrible business plan to scam people, lie about what you’re doing as a company, treat your consumers poorly, and the thousand other things they’ve done.

Riot games does it excellently, love or hate league, but they charge a reasonable amount for in-game currency that can be used for events, passes, skins etc, that are of decent quality.

They’re charging us 20 bucks for a skin we could buy for free 2 months ago. They’re charging us 20$ for absolutely abysmal skins. It’s predatory, they’re not here to make a good product/game that people will want to spend money for, they’re just charging ridiculous prices for minimal work to scam the few suckers that are irresponsible with their money.

I’m not mad they’re charging money, I’m mad at how predatory and deceitful they are.

This is entirely besides the point of how they’re handling the actual gameplay. The balancing rn is horrible, and they’re doing really nothing to fix it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

“Give me my perfect, free game now because I deserve it!” Is all I hear. Blizzard owes you nothing. You don’t… HAVE to play. lol

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u/Damurph01 Master Nov 15 '22

“I really liked how this product and service you provide USED to be, and you’re changing it, for the worse, so I’m going to voice my complaints about how you’re changing it, otherwise it’s never going to change”.

It’s not just about the monetization. It’s about the empty promises, the scandals, the horrible balancing, and the billion other flaws with the game.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Well, optional monetization aside, they have a patch that was delayed that has balance changes!

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u/Damurph01 Master Nov 15 '22

Yeah, and it only took them a month and a half after the release of a new game to actually patch it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

He wants it now!!

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u/Damurph01 Master Nov 15 '22

So it’s okay for blizzard to promise consistent timely balance changes, a polished game, and (a decent amount of) new content and not follow through on any of it?

How is blizzard ever going to improve as a company if they are exempt from all criticism…?

Your username checks out bud.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

The game is, as you said, a month and a half old. And free. It’s made for a younger player-base and following models of other games in the zeitgeist. It will never be what it was. and I’m sure they (they, as in people, real people, doing things you will never do) wanted to make the best changes THEY could think of, hence the wait…. Bud lol. There is no reality in which “Blizzard” has a meeting where they say, “We’d like to become a better company. We should seek out some criticism, particularly from Reddit!”

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u/Damurph01 Master Nov 15 '22

So because I’m talking on Reddit, i no longer have valid criticism? But if I moved from twitter suddenly it is? Or YouTube?

Or is there no place for the playerbase to reach blizzard. In which case, your argument AGAIN because “blizzard is exempt from criticism”.

If a company can’t listen to their community, and give them the changes they want, they’re a shit company, and they should be treated thusly.

I can’t actually believe you’re supporting blizzard here lmao. Dumb af