Overwatch

[FatalTater]

So.

Overwatch 1 is going to be taken down forever on October 2.

Overwatch 2 is to be going up on October 4, whatever and however its supposed to work.

When I clicked on BattleNet just now, I got a message saying

To prevent account abuse, we are requiring users to
register a unique mobile phone number to play this
game for free. This requirement will help to reduce
disruptive behavior and ensure a positive community
experience for all players.

With money from my own pocket I purchased this game. I just want to shoot other players to death. Why is this too much to ask?

They are not getting my phone number.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Between the phone number, recording voice chats, shutting down the old game, making you unlock all the characters including the old ones…I feel bad for people who play this.

 

[Autistic Spergout]

I have no idea why they are killing off OW1 except to force people to play OW2 (Which will be a flop just because of that). I know I'm late on this but didn't they say about a while ago that OW1 and OW2 players will be able to play together? Beyond that I was half excited for the PvE playing with some mates destroying the AI.

Now with this shit I don't think even my normie friends will want to look at this. I'm guessing that people who bought OW1 will be told to go fuck themselves and to go through their joke of a battle pass without any benefit and be treated like the plebs that picked up OW2 because it's free.

I even doubt I would keep the shit I've unlocked from OW1

 

[The Last Stand]

since the site has been down, i have not been able to post about overwatch two battle pass

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the amount you will have to play normally to get her is insane if overwatch one exp gains is anything to go by. alot of the rewards are just stickers. who the fuck cares about stickers?

the first game shuts down oct 2 so, play a few matches before than.

I'm getting Halo Infinite vibes with their battle pass and season model. What differentiated OW from other FPSs, even Team Fortress 2, is the synergy between each character's abilities, counters, playstyles, and meta right out the box. You didn't HAVE to grind for characters; they would be unlocked from Day 1.

Locking characters behind a paywall or grind will create an imbalance in the sandbox.

Even worse, the point of OW2 was supposed to be the PvE. Now that it's delayed, what's the point of this product? The 2 is just marketing.

 

[BrunoMattei]

So.

Overwatch 1 is going to be taken down forever on October 2.

Overwatch 2 is to be going up on October 4, whatever and however its supposed to work.

When I clicked on BattleNet just now, I got a message saying

To prevent account abuse, we are requiring users to
register a unique mobile phone number to play this
game for free. This requirement will help to reduce
disruptive behavior and ensure a positive community
experience for all players.

With money from my own pocket I purchased this game. I just want to shoot other players to death. Why is this too much to ask?

They are not getting my phone number.

What's more is that the phone number cannot be a VOIP or pay-as-you-go phone either. If I were a game journo, perish the thought of course, you could make the argument that this is discriminatory against poor gamers that rely on pay-as-you-go and Obama Phones. How is someone like @Deadwaste supposed to play Overwatch 2 when all they have is an Obama Phone? Won't someone please think of the poor unwashed gaming masses?

 

[The Last Stand]

When I clicked on BattleNet just now, I got a message saying

To prevent account abuse, we are requiring users to
register a unique mobile phone number to play this
game for free. This requirement will help to reduce
disruptive behavior and ensure a positive community
experience for all players.

With money from my own pocket I purchased this game. I just want to shoot other players to death. Why is this too much to ask?

Evidently, it's to prevent smurfing and hacking. I know that some countries do that either with cafes or account creation. If true, the era of plug and play is over.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

What's more is that the phone number cannot be a VOIP or pay-as-you-go phone either. If I were a game journo, perish the thought of course, you could make the argument that this is discriminatory against poor gamers that rely on pay-as-you-go and Obama Phones. How is someone like @Deadwaste supposed to play Overwatch 2 when all they have is an Obama Phone? Won't someone please think of the poor unwashed gaming masses?

im getting deju vu here.

 

[FatalTater]

There was a lot of "poor shaming" on the reddit threads. Shills? Bots? Idiots? Probably.

Don't like this newest bullshit? Oh, you must be poor!

I lived through middle school and remember this tactic. Shame the naysayer so they either change their opinion to avoid the label or the shut up to avoid negative attention.

 

[The Fair Lady]

I miss Jeff.

 

[The Last Stand]

Yeah, if OW2 requires a cell phone number to PLAY, no thanks. I predict a fair bit of outrage and a massive player drop after boasting about high launch numbers.

 

[FatalTater]

Phone numbers as a security feature... You know who has phones? Trolls and smurfs. This ain't about security.

Imagine what scammers can do with your phone number and a recording of your voice. Yes, voice.

Not only requiring personal information like phone numbers, but they're going to record voice chat.
Parents, is it okay that this big company records your children? (I assume they've been recording people already but didn't admit it.)

Overwatch 2 Will Record Voice Chat, Requires a Phone Number to Play

Blizzard details some ways it will combat 'disruptive players' in Overwatch 2, which includes voice chat recordings and a phone number requirement.

gamerant.com

Overwatch 2 Will Record Voice Chat, Requires a Phone Number to Play

archived 27 Sep 2022 23:50:15 UTC

archive.ph

 

[Tanner Glass]

I know I'm late on this but didn't they say about a while ago that OW1 and OW2 players will be able to play together?

Yes and it's true. OW1 players can play OW2 with OW2 players. Now, if you want to say that was worded remarkably dubiously as to be intentionally misleading, well, yeah, of course.

Also OW2 doesn't even exist as a product so every single man, woman, and child on planet earth is "technically" an OW2 player.

This release is a disaster for Blizzard and I have no idea what the fuck they are thinking - it's not even greedy, because they don't have a great setup for monetization currently. There has to be some major executive who has "Release OW2" as a Golden Parachute goal just kicking this out the door before the company gets aquired - it's the only thing that makes sense.

 

[HIVidaBoheme]

Phone numbers as a security feature... You know who has phones? Trolls and smurfs. This ain't about security.

Imagine what scammers can do with your phone number and a recording of your voice. Yes, voice.

Not only requiring personal information like phone numbers, but they're going to record voice chat.
Parents, is it okay that this big company records your children? (I assume they've been recording people already but didn't admit it.)

Overwatch 2 Will Record Voice Chat, Requires a Phone Number to Play

Blizzard details some ways it will combat 'disruptive players' in Overwatch 2, which includes voice chat recordings and a phone number requirement.

gamerant.com

Overwatch 2 Will Record Voice Chat, Requires a Phone Number to Play

archived 27 Sep 2022 23:50:15 UTC

archive.ph

You know, aren't there credit card numbers also linked to accounts if you've made any purchases before?

It reeks of the chink overlords and their invasive social credit shit and it also stinks of harvesting data to sell. And it looks like a major opportunity for anyone willing to breach their data.

Game killed days before it releases wow.

 

[WULULULULU]

I remember Overwatch being the big hyped game that dominated 2016, cucking out DOOM and Dark Souls III on the same year. With the fate of OW1, I can safely say OW1 aged like putrid shit.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I remember Overwatch being the big hyped game that dominated 2016, cucking out DOOM and Dark Souls III on the same year. With the fate of OW1, I can safely say OW1 aged like putrid shit.

I’ve heard it described as “it was really great at launch…and then every patch made it more and more terrible.”

 

[WULULULULU]

I’ve heard it described as “it was really great at launch…and then every patch made it more and more terrible.”

So basically every single "always-online" type of game, say it ain't so!

 

[Tanner Glass]

I’ve heard it described as “it was really great at launch…and then every patch made it more and more terrible.”

It was fun for a bit until people figured the game out.

OW1 was extremely limited (it's an online only, PVP only, 6v6 only game with very limited characters and maps) but was decent enough to be a "have fun for a few hours" type of game for the entirety of 2016/2017.

The game never changed enough (or at all) to ever be considered a "live service" game as the game was limited to the 6v6 mode forever - with a few "events" doing wacky things for an extremely shallow and limited time. Very few new heroes (and none that shook the game up), very few new maps, 0 new game modes, 0 single-player content - not enough to keep a base going.

They really, really, really wanted it to be an e-sports game and didn't put any real content into anything else (and still haven't, considering how shallow OW2 looks).

 

[WULULULULU]

They really, really, really wanted it to be an e-sports game and didn't put any real content into anything else (and still haven't, considering how shallow OW2 looks).

Funny. During the zenith of OW's popularity, TF2 decided to take the game into a matchmaking competitive mode and it basically killed a lot of attention of the game, so much so that their latest string of updates are just a desperate attempt to bring the game back to relevancy. You'd think that the current OW devs would look at the mistakes of every single game within the industry that tried to compete with them and try to reiterate their game with learned lessons? But nah, they are turning into the same path that Meet Your Match-era TF2 did and this time, they won't survive, especially when Genshin, Apex and Fortnite are the unholy trinity of live-service games.

 

[Professor G. Raff]

I found out about how OW2 works during the downtime and HOLY CRAP what a shitshow. It seems worse than OW1 in pretty much ever way and I actually laughed when I found out they were deleting OW1 after basically just lying about it being cross-compatible. The hero locking behind season passes is hilarious, having all the heroes was something good about OW1 but into the trash that goes.

I played OW1 in the beta, and then for like 2 weeks after release and it was fun, but even coming back for a check in a few years later the glut of horrible changes that made the game less fun like the role queuing and lack of duplicate characters had me uninstall it again after a day. I can't believe how much they are outdoing themselves in awfulness, and I thought changing McCree's name was embarrassing.

I truly hope it fails fast so Blizzard can get another nail in their coffin because they deserve it.

 

[RSLUG30]

I played OW1 in the beta, and then for like 2 weeks after release and it was fun, but even coming back for a check in a few years later the glut of horrible changes that made the game less fun like the role queuing and lack of duplicate characters had me uninstall it again after a day.

this explains my feelings on overwatch precisely - they got it right the first time around and had an actual competitor to tf2 in terms of fun, but what happened is that they decided to make the casual gamemode inherit the restrictions of the competitive mode. notably the restriction on duplicate characters; this didn't unbalance the game by existing and was a fun round gimmick to do, but having multiple of the same character is difficult to cast/commentate over in a competitive league so instead of just disabling that feature in competitive, they chose to disable it in both.
so a change for about 10% of the games community affected the community as a whole, leaving just that 10% happy and the rest pissed off as they now fight over who gets to play hanzo/the new hero.

it's heartbreaking to see good games built around having fun slowly lose that fun aspect to appeal to hardcore gamers and tournament players.