This is shit tier level art/writing.
Back when the game was lauched I expected they would explore the lore bit by bit. The animated shorts showed a lot of potential. But then they kept spitting these fucking comics, one worse than the other.
Given the different skills of the heroes, they also had the potential for making indie-like games exploring other genres and reaching more public, like LoL is doing.
Before I was hungry for every bit of new lore, now I fear anything they develop because it's such low quality shit...
I wish I was as emotionally invested in LoL as I still am in Overwatch. Arcane and Ruined King were really fun to watch/play. LoL fans are lucky.
Editing to add that they did this McCree name change the most exceptional way possible. These idiots have already stated that McCree is prone to using fake names since the beginning and they didn't exploit this characteristic to justify the sudden name change, they just forcefed the new name with no glimpse of an excuse in lore. I'm mad.
I remember when D.Va's cinematic dropped. I think it was a while past the game's release and people had been starved for content. The cinematic introduced new characters, fleshed out her side of the world a little bit (giving her a mechanic to help with her MEKA, acknowledging she wasn't the only pilot in the country, nodding to her popularity, and also fleshing out her character a little more), and was generally really good stuff. A juicy bit of fluff to go alongside the gameplay. And in all honestly, that's all Overwatch needed to push out: good fluff pieces.
The fandom they attracted who enjoyed the game outside of the gameplay itself were fine to imagine their own stories and head-canons, all they really needed was a few jumping off points every so often. And for Blizzard to work that into its game now and again - more events in the vein of Archives would have been enough. They didn't need heavy lore - the bulk of their audience were casuals after all. It was a really different beast to how I hear fans of WoW speak about story and character development, etc. I just don't think they ever realized what they had. In more ways than one.
And yes, the McCree name change is quite possibly one of the stupidest things they have done, and that's saying a lot. I, too, am mad. Still.
its sad the lore got ignored since it had a very good build up at the start and alot to work with. i was sorta hopping they would do it like team fortress 2 but in a much greater scale. alas, it got ignored in favor of e-sports.
E-sports gutted this game from the get-go. I remember the first time there was a proper content draught, the excuse was "all of our resources are being poured into the OWL!"
From then on, the game never recovered. There was a glimpse of hope when they dropped the first Archives event but things never panned out after that.
I think the OWL has more skins available per-character than the base game, including all event outfits. All locked behind a currency you either purchase or earn by (shudders) watching the OWL. And they're mostly recolors of the default skins. As someone who still plays this game, I almost never see these skins in action. But we definitely needed 2-3 skin recolors per team over 2-3 skin recolors of legendries that are less niche and more accessible to people's rampant desire to dress up their murderous wifeu/husbando machines.
I'm mad.
What are you guys on about? They had no freaking idea about the "lore" and wrote shit as they went, thats why they kept retconning stuff like Reaper being "revived" by Mercy being changed into "it was this new character you never heard about before lol".
Then again I didn't care about the comics after the roadhog and junkrat one, the 'IM GAY' Tracer comic turned me off from reading any further OW comics.
I thought he had still be revived by Mercy, he just got tested on further by Moira? ...Why do I still care when Blizzard doesn't?
Dyke Tracer is cool though and I like her ginger gf.
This bitch is basically Brigitte design-wise. Wise they had bitten the bullet and just combined the two characters so we could play as her. Because with lore and story being as sparse as it is, having named characters be playable feels like the obvious choice.
But the same could be said for the Junker Queen, buff and edgy The Rock from Moana, the unnamed character from the last substantial Archives update, Mama Hong, Jetpack Cat, the chick who's been in development since before OW2 and will never see the light of day much like OW2...
