Overwatch

This is so frustratingly lazy I lack the words to express my anger.

Overwatch has been in maintenance mode for at least the last two years. To be so lazy as to not even flip the switch for the regular events blows my mind.

Loot crate revenue must be in the shitter if they're not even willing to make 24 new skins a year for events. So I guess the last original OW skin is the $10 OWL Sombra thing they just had.

How sad.

So Battlefield 2042 will somehow still get updated, despite having a much worse launch, while Overwatch is still crickets in terms of updates?
 
God, when did they implement this retarded role lock system?
I remember joking about something like this back in season 8, but the general consensus was that something like this would kill the playerbase, and Blizzard would not be retarded enough to do it.
What the fuck happened.

also, how do i derank consistently, its hard to do solo.
 
also, how do i derank consistently, its hard to do solo.
if you're tank you have to just walk into the enemy to feed. if you're a healer, gotta actively get picked. if you're dps you might have to do some major trash talk since they don't really effect the games. i deranked to get into the same bracket to derank with a friend like a year ago.

role queue definitely killed any playerbase the game had by splitting it, i think locking roles might've made the game more toxic by letting griefers have more impact on games. instead of a rage torb, you have a winston who doesn't play.
 
The new Anniversary event came out yesterday, and the recolors are the laziest shit imaginable.

They basically took existing skins and make them white. Just white. They're not themed to the skin. They're not well-designed recolors. They're just white.

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I deleted the game from my PS4 homepage. Game's dead, so I'm moving on.
 
I never thought I'd say this, but Paladins is better than OW.
I wouldn't have believed that kind of statement when overwatch was newly released but the game has been in such a shitty state these past years. I don't have any real faith in Blizzard to make overwatch 2 any better I think they're gonna repeat a lot of the same mistakes they made before
 
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"Overwatch is representative and inclusive of all the people in the world, except for those filthy Russian subhumans". - The OW Team.

Another reason why Paladins is better, Evil Mojo sidestepped potential real world cultural baggage by making it a fantasy setting.

Will Blizzard take the next step, and remove her from the game completely? Given that some people actually want to see Russians get the Holocaust treatment...
 
They released pictures of the new “Canadian”hero for overwatch 2. Is this supposed to be Justin in black face
Sojourn's a cyborg, so I guess that is Justin.


Also, it looks like Sojourn's just another typical DPS. The slide is similar to McCree's roll, and the bomb is just Orisa's halt.
Also, the ultimate is just a raygun version of McCree's Deadeye that only focuses on a single path.
 
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"Overwatch is representative and inclusive of all the people in the world, except for those filthy Russian subhumans". - The OW Team.

Another reason why Paladins is better, Evil Mojo sidestepped potential real world cultural baggage by making it a fantasy setting.
Who else remembers when Blizzard banned players for supporting Hong Kong while they were being invaded by China?
 
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"Overwatch is representative and inclusive of all the people in the world, except for those filthy Russian subhumans". - The OW Team.

Another reason why Paladins is better, Evil Mojo sidestepped potential real world cultural baggage by making it a fantasy setting.
Pointless virtue signaling strikes again in a years-old game that has been replaced by Elden Ring and literally any other game that is not dead.
 
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Hard to believe just 5 years ago, this game was being treated as the greatest thing since sliced bread and now look at it.

That Tracer cameo in Ready Player One has already aged like milk.
It's like the time between introduction of an IP and the IP being ruined is shortening with each release for Blizzard.
 
It's like the time between introduction of an IP and the IP being ruined is shortening with each release for Blizzard.
You know, I was thinking this game wouldn't last at all back when it first came out and I heard you couldn't change your loadout. Or the fact there was no community servers.

It just took blizzard forcing esports and competitive formats on everyone, bullshit rebalances, and having hypocritical practices to get people to quit the game. The only remaining legacy Overwatch will leave 10 years from now is going to be the copious amounts of SFM and cosplay porn all over the internet and people will probably be shocked to hear Overwatch was once a game not a genre of porn.
 
You know, I was thinking this game wouldn't last at all back when it first came out and I heard you couldn't change your loadout. Or the fact there was no community servers.

It just took blizzard forcing esports and competitive formats on everyone, bullshit rebalances, and having hypocritical practices to get people to quit the game. The only remaining legacy Overwatch will leave 10 years from now is going to be the copious amounts of SFM and cosplay porn all over the internet and people will probably be shocked to hear Overwatch was once a game not a genre of porn.
I only played it in open beta and didn't like it at all, but then again I thought Heroes of the Storm had potential, though I also understand what killed it was you couldn't carry games as an individual and it's in large part why I quit the game. Though I did like the varied objectives and more action oriented style of play, they just needed to find a way to let people be a hero, instead of just having Lost Vikings be able to do it and then nerfing it to shit.

Really I just hate where gaming is going lately, the lack of chat in games outside of team members is a pain as shit talking was part of the fun, and sometimes you'd just make friends because your opponent was playing a deck you wanted to know more about in Hearthstone and they actually accepted your friend request. I don't mind games being an esport, but trying to make the game about an esport is pretty dumb, because you should be able to grow it on a smaller scale before going all in.

I also just hate all of the microtransaction, not because they're wrong in themselves, but if you're going to have loot boxes and other shit, let me sell my account when I want to or trade shit easily with others. Modern online card games are the worst with this, especially Magic, as you can spend a shit ton of money and you can neither trade nor sell what you've bought, fuck that, at least in the past I could sell a used game. Don't nickel and dime me if I'm forbidden from making a profit on my end.
 
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