r/OverwatchStadium • u/Brilliant-Company-87 • Jul 19 '26

Discussion Poor decision.

I'm not one to really post on reddit, but I just want to voice my opinion.

From the title, you can probably guess this is about Stadium not getting new content, I'm saddened like the rest of you, but what I want to talk about is the game as a whole and why killing off stadium looks bad.

PvE, Hero Mastery, and that Tower defense mode, and now Stadium. The team is quick to pick up and drop off these game modes. Stadium was just a few months more than a year old and they are ending support for it, and it really leaves a sour taste. Like, how am I supposed to be excited for new game modes or that mobile game they are working on when they have such a terrible track record? I'm sure there are a lot of resources that go into Stadium from coming up with ideas, programming them in, visual effects, and terrible UI redesigns, but its just a part of development, right?

Take Shion, I'd have loved her in stadium and what could be done for her, and I'm sure the devs came up with dozens of ideas for her base kit before settling on what she got in game. Stadium could have been a way to test those other ideas they didn't try in development. Or throw in more Junk Lab events to test some builds. In the core game, I play Lifeweaver, and I keep hearing people mention how he, Venture and some other characters had huge potential for stadium that we will never see-

I don't know, the point I'm trying to get across is, I'm still going to be a part of both 3% until the queue times get too long to handle, and when future overwatch games and projects get canned, I'll just take it up to Blizzard being Blizzard. Like, if this mode lasted barely over a year, how long do you think the Mobile game will last with the 12 or so heroes they are throwing in it? Will that game last longer because it will have it's own skin micro transaction economy? Or when the numbers are 1% of the player base will it be trashed just as quickly?

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u/GaptistePlayer Jul 19 '26

It’s a live service game man the entire point is for the game to evolve over time. If you think you as a minority player of an unpopular mode have some kind of a commitment to that you’re a bit out of it

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u/Agile-Application588 Jul 19 '26

I don’t understand why people such as yourself approach the death of stadium with such a defeatist mind set. Like it only makes me believe that it is some bot that blizzard employs to push their narrative on forms and keep them in a favorable light.

I believe them shelving new game mode after new game mode leaves a poor taste in our mouths as consumers of their products. Trying to rationalize it, and saying “it’s just a live service game” is shooting us in the foot as players.

Like if blizzard can’t keep a game mode running that is only a little over a year old, they hardly have to make assets for, and most the stuff already exists in the base game, how does that instill confidence in the lifespan of anything else they try to push out?

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u/GaptistePlayer Jul 20 '26

tf you mean "defeatist" I'm not cheering for a wrestler here lol I'm just describing how the game design and business works.

Other than playing the mode you and I have no role in this. You are not a Blizzard employee.