I wish they would wave a white flag.So Overwatch 2 reveal event happened today.
Let me preface by saying it's not even worth the effort to look it up on youtube. To sum it up:
Boy, they just love waving those red flags, don't they?
- It's gonna be free to play
- Lootboxes are being dropped
- .... At the cost of the game adapting live-service/season pass model.
- The PVE/story content will be part of seasonal content, indicating always online to play the story
- ....And that pve won't even come until next year (the game is set to release this fall)
- NEw hero every other season
- Any stuff you unlocked in OW1 will be carried over
- One new mode, and six new maps at the launch
- And other PR stuff you heard thousands of times on other live-service games
I don't know what the fuck they're thinking with this game. It's just an expansion set of Overwatch 1 not a sequel.
This game screams to me that nobody had any game concepts or direction to take the project and they just decided to modify the original game to call it a sequel. All the talent, or at least all the creative talent at Blizzard is gone. It's clear that the people they have left do not know how to make games anymore. They can code and they have fantastic art teams, but when it comes to the mechanics that make a game what it is, they have nobody left to do that.