Well, this is hardly unexpected.

Still, considering how PvE was supposed to be the pillar of Overwatch “2”, and the outwards-facing reason for the switchover, it’s sad. There was actually some cool promise in those PvE ideas, and now even the “light” version seems to be cancelled.

  • Neato
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    596 months ago

    It was never going to happen. It was a scam to get into a new monetization scheme.

  • Rentlar
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    546 months ago

    I was under the impression that they had fully shelved PvE for OW2. They basically lied and released the same game with a few tweaks to the match format. Was there actually any hope for even a pared-down co-op mode?

    • @[email protected]
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      216 months ago

      There was right at the very start, to help push units. I believe it was less than six months into ow2 when they realistically cancelled pve

    • @[email protected]
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      76 months ago

      There was hope initially, but as a huge overwatch fan, when Jeff Kaplan, the former game director of Overwatch, left Blizzard, I could see the bullshit that lay ahead. It took too long for others to realize.

        • @[email protected]
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          66 months ago

          Apparently, he and some ex Blizzard people created a new studio. But itl be a few years before they have any games to unveil. And honestly, that’s fine. I mean he could announce he’s retiring and it’d be fine. He earned it as far as I’m concerned.

  • @zipzoopaboop
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    316 months ago

    Blizzard is dead. Don’t expect them to do anything good

  • t�m
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    236 months ago

    Why do companies not want money but yet screen and shout about wanting money?

    • @[email protected]
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      126 months ago

      They were able to sell a video game which came with an IOU instead of a major component. I think they kept a lot of money by doing that

  • @[email protected]
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    226 months ago

    Wait I thought overwatch 2 a story mode and that was its entire point. Tbf I haven’t been keeping up with the game

        • @[email protected]
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          26 months ago

          Burned all of my rope with the battle.net “2.0” complete with Facebook integration, rmah, “get the game for free with a years subscription to world of Warcraft” and killing deckard Cain in act 2 of D3 (along with ACT 1 being the only ACT with any love put into it, and that being the entirety of the demo, also pretty clear that’s when Activision bought blizzard)

          Never played any of the sc2 expansions, never watched another blizzard tournament, never bought a wow expansion (after TBC), I lost a lot of really great memory associations, but the nostalgia isn’t worth supporting the corpse-puppet of blizzard.

  • @[email protected]
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    86 months ago

    Unpopular opinion but I think the game is in it’s best state currently. I spent $40 on 2016 and haven’t had to pay a dime since and I’m not playing this PVP game for it’s PVE so this stuff doesn’t matter to me. Blizzard is a husk of its former self and I’m still bitter about HOTS but am actually having a lot of fun playing comp this season.

  • @[email protected]
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    46 months ago

    They took away access to a game we payed for and replaced it with an inferior product with the hopes and dreams to one day have single player content… which you would have to pay for anyway. Thats all i have to say on the matter of overwatch. Fuck blizzard.