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p1138 said:
Makes you wonder how the game might have turned out years later if blizzard hadn't focused on the OWL bullshit.
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can tell you this much, less money for blizzard

p1138 said:
yet everyone else who seems to have touched this thing here and elsewhere on the internet says it's fun.
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for now. give it a month or two and you'll inevitably have sweats and "no-fun-allowed" fags while the casuals leave to play the next FOTM.
then if a dev doesn't change anything you get the loud retards raising a stink on social media how "they don't care/have no clue" asf.

you're not exactly wrong, but you have to remember blizzard didn't change the shit they did because they were bored (besides thinking they gonna make a lot of money and start a new NBA or some shit).
 
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ZMOT said:
can tell you this much, less money for blizzard


for now. give it a month or two and you'll inevitably have sweats and "no-fun-allowed" fags while the casuals leave to play the next FOTM.
then if a dev doesn't change anything you get the loud retards raising a stink on social media how "they don't care/have no clue" asf.

you're not exactly wrong, but you have to remember blizzard didn't change the shit they did because they were bored (besides thinking they gonna make a lot of money and start a new NBA or some shit).
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It's only a couple week long thing. They're basically just testing it.

Obviously changes for balance and additional content would have happened over time. The important difference being that if it weren't for their NBA esports bullshit, the game might have been balanced around what the bulk of the playerbase wanted rather than spending years trying to balance the shit for their esports crap to look "good" on screen. Yes, they were doing shit like trying to force esports teams to end up with big ult combos that way the casters could follow fewer perspectives and avoid missing flashy shit to have on screen. So it wasn't even like they were making changes just to cater to the top 1% of the playerbase, they were making changes to try and cater to audience appeal on stream... that's not how a fucking video game should be designed.
 
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ZMOT said:
can tell you this much, less money for blizzard
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That's actually pretty unclear - OWL made a bunch of money but it also cost a bunch of money too.

It sounds like Blizzard mostly buried the sponsors/team owners with the burden of costs - but it sounds like it never made too much money, not enough to basically ruin the popularity of Overwatch and drastically reduce the customer base for various skins.
 
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If the answer was as easy as 'just play Paladins', none of the people still giving Overwatch a chance would still be playing Overwatch.

I've played Paladins. Didn't really care for it. Once I got my hands on Overwatch, I never looked back. I do wish it had tickled my fancy more if only to avoid the lows that have come from OW, but that's a 'the grass is always greener' scenario.
 
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Gender: Xenomorph said:
Dude just play Paladins lol.

>Why is this septic tank filling with feces?
Bro just move.
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I tried to get into Paladins, I just couldn't. Big issue for me was the whole "no swapping heroes mid-game" thing that other MOBAs do being carried over into Paladins. It doesn't work in a class-based FPS, especially one where certain heroes hard-counter other heroes. You can pick a hero, load into a match where the enemy team is running multiple heroes that hard-counter you, and then spend the entire game either dying constantly or struggling to do anything.
The matchmaking was pretty bad too, especially in the competitive mode. I somehow placed in high Gold, and my first match had me put in a game with a bunch of people that were level 150+ on their heroes (my highest was around level 15), and they were all several tiers above me when I asked what ranks they were. It's like if Overwatch matchmaking decided to place a Gold player with a bunch of Grandmasters. Needless to say, I lost that match.
 
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New Hero dropped and it's...

Scottish Punk Sigma
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I don't know what's going on any more.

The amount of industrial glue they must be sniffing in the Blizzard 3D modelling lab.
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NGL when I found out that this skin was for Widowmaker, I was incredibly baffled.

Seems like the sameface issue in OW2 is absolutey rampant.
 
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Okay guys, so what if.... Sigma... with a Mauga torso? Huh? Huuuuh??? Isn't that just human Ramattra? Of course not, he's got flesh! We're fine!

I remember complaints around Ashe's release about a lot of the women having same face syndrome, which they do. But looking at their overall designs, I would never mistake Ana for Mercy or Pharah or Symmetra or Moira or Widowmaker. Their designs had a personality to them or at least clearly distinguished one character from another. It's the only reason why the whole 'we can't do fun things with skins because silhouettes!' argument could be made: a lot of the characters were visually distinct even from a distance from their height, weight, build, and posture alone.

In contrast, some highlights since OW2's release (based on their default design):
  • Junker Queen: the skinnier Zarya
  • Ramattra: Omnic Sigma (who I personally forgive due to his voice actor's performance and some of his writing)
  • Sojourn: The most boring DEI hire on earth; a crash course in how to make cybernetics dull
  • Venture: Flesh blob that eats rocks and has a drill I guess; arguably a shorter/inferior Zarya
  • Illari: DEI Hire 2: Sun-fueled Boogaloo! Flesh blob that carries a weapon (again) but this one has overt depression!
  • Kiriko: The westernization of her appearance and her being so young severally weakened her appearance; her Amateru skin is where it's at, also suffers from not having her fox with her more often which would help distinguish her further. But she's more of a YMMV choice than most in this list
  • Lifeweaver: The persistent flower motif works and does a lot of legwork to distinguish him; his biggest issues are his persona-sexuality and his name being at odds with his design
  • Juno: Haha baby D.Va go vroom
And yet we have some of the weakest skin designs in the game's history being locked behind paywalls, even less personality than OW1's roster, and some of the worst character assassinations I've seen since 76 was forced into homosexuality.

I do not give a fuck about new characters which is hilarious when contrasted to the excitement of new hero drops in Overwatch 1. Because they're all going to be some level of shit, have little to no connection with the feeble amount of lore to this game, and have a one dimensional personality, if that.

Yet I still long for Mama Hong...
 
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New Hero dropped and it's...

Scottish Punk Sigma
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NGL when I found out that this skin was for Widowmaker, I was incredibly baffled.

Seems like the sameface issue in OW2 is absolutey rampant.
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Look at how the massacred my boy...
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He was gonna be this sick ass cyberpunk lord humongous fiend, but instead we got a gay valorant reject. Fml. They didn't even keep the cool edgy name.
 
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Hazards design looks like he's from another game entirely than a overwatch character ever since Ramattra and Venture the new character proportions are all out of whack. Hazards torso is too big for his head and limbs that and the big purple crystals look like ass which makes his silhouette cluttered.

Sidenote like I've previously mentioned the OW2 funding is getting slashed because Blizzard implemented a system in where if a game doesn't meet projected monetary expectation the game gets its budget slashed which is obvious from the half assed "Cinematic" trailers and the heroes' new abilities being rehashes of old ones(hazard has Meis icewall ability and Orisas gun).
 
Jesus, have we not been bombarded with enough fucking purple in all these slops?

Having said that, Hazard's design seems like a desperate effort to get bara artists to put him in various sexual situations with the guys from the Pokemon franchise.
 
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BlankSpaceBaby said:
Jesus, have we not been bombarded with enough fucking purple in all these slops?

Having said that, Hazard's design seems like a desperate effort to get bara artists to put him in various sexual situations with the guys from the Pokemon franchise.
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Then they should have picked a VA who doesn't sound like Shrek.
 
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