Goodbye Overwatch

This turned into a real long goodbye, but I wanted to be fair and balanced to the unreasonable and greedy game. I need a rest now...

My Dad still plays Splatoon 1's multiplayer. It's the only video game he plays. He's probably got thousands of hours on it at this point

Boy, this aged well

Winning a game with every one of your teammates on fire felt so great

As small as it sounds on paper, losing the post game cards was saddening Cant tell you how often you could get a good laugh out of seeing bastion's shield damage, or mei freeze timers

As usual Blizzard had a good thing on their hands and managed to ruin it through greed and stupidity.

so the moral of the story is: no matter how much valve fucks up there will always be another game to prove TF2 is eternal.

Update: PVE is cancelled. Meaning overwatch 2 is literally just overwatch with balancing changes.

I'm glad someone actually mentioned Blizzards disgusting internal practices in a review of this game. The biggest streamers and YouTubers who claim to hate the practices buy the battle pass and make videos of them enjoying the game.

I enjoy how much focus you put on the shop and the battle pass. The fact that I paid for OW1, can't play it anymore, but also have to pay horrendous amounts for the skins I could've gotten for free, is straight up evil. Blizzard fully intended to make OW2 just good enough for people not to complain about their singular goal of changing the monetization method and raising prices. Too bad they failed in that too.

What I find weird about the “on fire”system is that the new heroes have voice lines for it as well. Makes me think it was a last minute decision to cut it out and maybe they’ll add in it later with all the other features removed…

In defense of people playing more kiriko and moira, I've heard the argument that since there are fewer tanks and everything hyperoffensive now, that means that most healers need to both be in Line of Sight to heal and also stay out of Line of Sight to avoid the snipers and Sojourn railguns that will end them very quickly. Moira and Kiriko have teleports which allow them both to reach their teammates safely and also to try and bail when things inevitably go south.

This video keeps aging like fine wine

Not being able to endorse the enemy team was the first negative change I noticed, I always tried to endorse the enemy team if they did well, now I just have to settle for endorsing teammates

It's hard to make a game with a soul when the company itself has no soul anymore.

"Im not even adding in the PvE stuff" Yeah, neither will Blizzard:D:D:D:D:D

I think the thing that really hammered the nail in the coffin for me was removing the find group function.. here's a team based game but gfy play by yourself

I actually really liked the loot boxes you would earn through leveling for somebody who only casually played every once in a while...didn´t spend any extra money but got some really nice skins...in comparison I would probably need to waste like $500 to buy the same skins now lol

I've heard that the reason for removing things like the end cards and the medals was a sort of toxic prevention. Like they're trying to stop people from using those things to put themselves above the rest of the team and shit on them as bad players or something. But if that's the case, then this new scoreboard of everyone's stats make this 10 times worse. Think about it, it's easier then ever for a toxic player to single out a teammate who is "underperforming" and get on their case about it. now all they have to do is press tab, look at the numbers, and boom. a one-way ticket to 'Uninstall game you trash 1IQ noob' station.

As a OW1 support main, I wholeheartedly agree that since OW2, the more I play the less fun I have and the less I find myself playing whatsoever. I started out playing maybe half a dozen games in a session, and now by the time I finish my second quick or ranked play I feel no desire to continue playing and just straight close the game. I especially love how the Halloween event (one of my favorite parts of overwatch seasonal stuff) has turned into something that I played twice, felt like I got nothing out of it, and never played it again. I would play those for a fun change of pace to get me new cosmetics (at least the loot boxes gave me a little bit of something and could get them for free), and would still at least let me level up my account. I’m pretty close to just deleting OW2 outright. Actually, after writing this, I think I’ve given myself all the reasons I need to stop playing altogether