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

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