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After 27,000+ Steam reviews, Overwatch 2 is graded as 'Overwhelmingly Negative' (www.gamesradar.com)

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[+] simple@lemm.ee 188 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

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[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I know next to nothing about neither Ow1 or OW2, but from the sound of it they turned OW2 into a game focused on grinding, where you can pay to skip (part of) the grind. Is my assessment correct? If so they must've looked at War Thunder and taken that idea.

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yes. OW1 cost money, but you got all the content. The only paid service was cosmetic outfits for the different characters. You could buy loot boxes for cosmetics. But you had all of the characters, maps, game modes, etc available to begin with. You got the whole game, then could grind for cosmetics.

OW2 takes that and flips it on its head. The game is free, but each character costs money. The problem is that they shut down OW1, so now the players who owned 1 are having to grind for everything. They’ve also had some weird server bugs, with players getting indefinitely locked out of characters they already own.

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[–] Delusional@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's a wonder to me why anyone would ever continue to play overwatch 2. 1 was fun for a time and I played a single match of 2 to realize that they ruined the game and never went back. The game died when 1 was shut down because 2 was never going to be successful with how shit it is.

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[–] Zuberi@lemmy.world 185 points 2 years ago (31 children)

Good. They ruined the game. I paid for it and Now I need a battle pass to unlock the 2 champs? Blizzard, eat a sack of shit. Free Hong Kong. Fuck the CCP

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[–] theodewere@kbin.social 86 points 2 years ago (2 children)

unlike Baldur's Gate 3, absolutely everything about this game was designed specifically with microtrans in mind

[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 70 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh my God, you can't just say microtrans. The proper terminology is "gender dysphoric little person"

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Actually that's the wrong use of that word in this context. It's actually a "queer questioning point of sale system" he's talking about.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No no no thats also wrong, it stands for micro transmission. Ya know for small vehicles.

[–] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even you got it wrong! They were talking about the micro figurines for transformers! How you could miss that!!!

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[–] theodewere@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

could be short for microtransient, and then we're talking about little hobos.. and who doesn't want to talk about little hobos..

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

https://www.pcgamer.com/how-blizzards-reputation-collapsed-in-just-3-years/

Blizzard used to be great. Now they are awful.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They've been awful since Activision got involved. I knew that was the end the day the news broke, people told me I was wrong. I wish.

Also they sexually harassed an employee to suicide. That tells you all you need to know.

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

Blizzard has been on a downward trend for a lot longer than 3 years.

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[–] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago

As it fucking deserved, honestly.

Fuck Blizzard, shutting down OW1. Pieces of shit.

[–] verysoft@kbin.social 65 points 2 years ago (21 children)

Good, they absolutely fucking butchered the game just to sell cosmetics and heroes.

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[–] sp6@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago

It's currently at 10% positive reviews. I think once this chart updates in ~11.5 hrs, it will officially be the worst-reviewed steam game of all time: https://steam250.com/bottom100

[–] koyo@ani.social 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

blizzard is ass. i hope they go bankrupt one day.

[–] DarraignTheSane@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As if there weren't enough money behind Activision-Blizzard, Microsoft is about to buy them. You might as well wish for the oceans to dry up.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/11/23779039/microsoft-activision-blizzard-ftc-trial-win

[–] echoplex21@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I really hope MS doesn’t take a laissez faire attitude with Act-Blizz and actually take a real hands on approach. I know they’re not the best at handling things but there has to be some type of change for their studio.

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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because it's s shit game

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 19 points 2 years ago

From a shit company.

They earned their reputation pretty hard

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

They probably had it coming.

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