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dofferhat

hey, don’t cry. chengdu hunters volskaya point b defense against toronto defiant in owl season 2 stage 1, ok?

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discoursedrome

I don’t play either, but the gap between how much I saw tumblr talking about overwatch when it came out and the gap between how much I see them talking about overwatch 2 is stark

artbyblastweave

The whole Overwatch death spiral is one of the few things that makes me wish I were still back in undergrad because I could have pulled an incredible case study out of the sheer number of axises on which they burned goodwill and alienated the playerbase.

txttletale

people often accuse overwatch of fucking up by balancing around esports but as someone who knew a lot of people invested in both ends of it it’s actually much worse than that. they were in fact constantly trying to balance around casual players (making changes that exploded high level play every time and were never noticed by casual players) while cancelling everything that casual players actually cared about (events, new gamemodes, cinematics, comics), and therefore managed to succesfully cater their game to Nobody

severalowls

Nah it was the esports balancing too, like hero then role restrictions were Enormous changes for casual players and just fundamentally unfun. They were trying to balance for both and succeeding at neither which isn’t an uncommon problem for games with competitive scenes.

Stopping all comic/cinematic/event stuff was just them ditching the game to work on overwatch 2… which is just more balance fuckery and they’ve lost all goodwill for people to be excited about the new cinematics.