The game has been out for quite some time now. It's only just arrived on Steam. Battle.net had no way to post game reviews, so now everyone is giving their opinion since they have the platform.
Just because the game is new on steam, it doesn't mean the game is actually new. People finally have the ability to let Blizzard know what they actually think, and they're doing just that.
I’ve played around 1000h of OW2 alone and I’ve since given up on the game and would give it an honestly negative review.
It’s a shadow of its former self, unbalanced, full of toxic players, and full of predatory MTX and pay to win unless you grind obscene amounts (it was not having a battle pass that made me quit, having run out of the coins I’d earned and been given for stupidly preordering OW2 - the time sink to get a single skin is ridiculous).
1/3 games you have to deal with other players being racist, homophonic, antisemitic, and just generally abusive. This was so much less of an issue in OW1 I can only assume the influx of free players paired with brain drain at Blizzard has caused this and there’s no sign of improvement.
Ok but is this a freah review after playing it on Steam? So you do this with all games? Carrying your grudge from platform to platform to make sure it’s thoroughly shit on?
It’s the same game with the same microtransactions and the same community and the same devs. It’s totally valid to leave your negative review on Steam. Nothing he said is fixed by launching the game through steam, lol.
I really don’t think you’re grasping what’s happening here. This is not a new game. No development went into making it available on steam. When you open it in steam, it opens the battle.net launcher. It is literally the same game.
Imagine there’s a food truck around your neighborhood that has given people food poisoning and is known for having poor quality. Now imagine they move the truck to an adjacent neighborhood. Does that change anything about it? Are people’s complaints about the truck suddenly invalid? Should they just get over it and stop holding a grudge?
Lots has changed, now it’s just petty. Why are you spending your time going to every platform because of one bad taste? It’s not like people were being poisoned after all.
Dude it's literally the exact same game, with a different launcher.
Any complaints from within the past few months are still entirely valid. This isn't a review bomb in a sense of a brand new game comes out and people shit all over it because the dev said or did something stupid. This is people finally giving feedback they've wanted to give for awhile, but couldn't give in official channels until now.
Mate, it's literally the same game that's been out for almost a year. There's nothing fresh to review, and the only platform it was on before didn't allow reviews. It was incomplete shit then, it's incomplete shit now, so it's getting exactly what it deserves.
Its identical to the game on Battle.net its THE EXACT SAME GAME. He has played it. Just because he didn’t launch it through steam doesn’t mean he didn’t play it.
Do you buy something at the grocery store and not like it? So you then go onto walmart.com, amazon, bestbuy.com, etc etc etc and review it on each? IMO it’s a retty waste of your time and your voice. Move on.
My dude, its the same platform. Its the battle.net launcher. Now you can just buy it through steam and launch battle.net from steam without just adding it as a “non steam game”.
The reviews are 100% valid. Hows it devalidate a users gameplay experience becuase the battle.net app launches from steam all of a sudden?
I launch my battle.net client from steam for all my battle.net games via “adding non-steam game”.
You can lose 1000h to heroin too and I’m sure many recovering addicts wouldn’t give it a good review.
What changed was when I realized the experience for non-battle pass holders when I finally ran out of coins to buy it since I got a load by preordering and earned a few coins playing with the battle pass.
Without it, the game is a grind with little reward and skins can be €20. And when others have the latest hero that you have to grind for a month playing several hours a day to get, it’s incredibly predatory.
If I had to guess it’s the microtransactions designed to squeeze every cent from their players. This game has an insane cost and it’s not just cosmetics. They lock characters behind microtransactions. I bought overwatch one, they ended it, and have me Overwatch 2: athe Money Grab!
OW2 is OW1. They just added a couple maps, removed some maps, took away a tank, and filled it full of grind and micro transactions. Absolutely no reason for “2”.
The OW1 client is gone, but Blizz migrated most things to OW2. The exceptions were the team size (changed from 6v6 to 5v5) and 1 match type (1 type dropped with 2 new types added). Collectibles and anything that could be purchased was also migrated from 1 to 2.
oh yeah they also abandoned the first game that was already good to make a campaign then cancelled the campaign at the last second and nobody can play the first one anymore.
I tried the game during the recent DnD event last month after a couple years away. Hadn’t played since loot boxes were still a thing, where I was literally playing daily since release. Stopped because the player base was becoming almost as toxic as LoL. Also, the overnight nerfing made things so different that I couldn’t use my mains effectively anymore.
My experience with the new game? It’s a great wait in line simulator with a terrible deathmatch game getting in the way!
Join a queue
Wait at least 5-10 minutes for a match to open up.
Full disclaimer: I fell off Overwatch years ago, so this is just stuff I’ve picked up reading general game news, so I’m sure others will be more in-tune with what’s up but here’s an overview, at least:
So first off OW2 as a thing was always kind of bizarre. When it was a battle(dot)net exclusive, it was free if you owned 1, and straight-up automatically replaced OW1 in your library. It behaved like an update would for any other game, and that’s because it kinda just was a big update to the game. Naturally there’s some back and forth about if the gameplay changes are good or not, but the big issue is monetization.
So, when OW1 came out, they explicitly said that all content updates (basically things other than skins) would be free, including new characters, maps, etc. However, since OW2 was a “new” game, there was no risk of legal issues around false advertising if they were to start charging for new characters, which is exactly what they did. New characters now had to be unlocked via the battle pass (or purchased individually, I assume) in order to be playable, which obviously rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. (I vaguely remember this maybe being walked back to some degree after backlash, but I’m not sure one way or the other).
And all of this comes as Activision/Blizzard is going through a genuinely horrific series of scandals around workplace conditions. Like, there’s genuinely too much to list here but famously, one of the OW characters was renamed since he was originally named after an employee who turned out to be a huge sexual abuser. There’s report after report coming out on an almost daily basis, and it’s abundantly clear that management (including infamous shitbag CEO Bobby Kotik) are intentionally trying to cover things up. Genuinely mind-boggling. At this point, it also becomes abundantly clear that ActiBlizz management is using OW as a distraction from the negative press they’re getting, regularly announcing new updates or “progressive” (big air quotes due to the extreme cynical corporate nature) character details within hours of major scandals breaking.
So you’ve got all that on top of the usual toxicity that tends to form around competitive games if left unchecked. It’s kind of a mess.
New characters are free. You just have to hit level 45 or 55 (I don’t remember, I haven’t played in awhile).
Or if you plop 10 bucks down on battle pass you get it immediately.
People overreact about the character thing. You can’t even use them in comp for a few weeks after they launch, but have access in training area to at least get a feel for it
They were going to do some pve bullshit and that was literally the only justification they had for making overwatch 2 to begin with instead of just expanding on overwatch 1 and then they were like “yeah we’re not doing that pve thing” so yea
also because of the microsoft deal. Microsoft has acknowledged that the move to host games exclusively on BattleNet has failed and I think as soon as the deal is done, more and more games will move back to steam completely.
It doesn't. You link your Steam account and it's 100% through Steam after that. No offense but why don't you just spend the 20 seconds to Google it rather than spreading false info...
Non American developers seem far more open to sexy characters or exploring sexual themes in games. Look at all the action in BG3 recently, and that’s a Belgian title, CDPR in Poland with Cyberpunk, Japan in general. I don’t know if it’s a cultural thing holding back US Devs or that silly Adults Only rating that means no one will carry the game, but it’s holding back the medium.
Heaven is a temporary afterlife that is long enough for you to play through your backlog, as the afterlife ends when you decide you’ve played enough and want to be done.
So by the name of GabeN, let thine backlog grow full and large! Enrich your divine recreation before your final rest.
Computer parts are expensive. My pc specs are more of a downward graph. ddr3 ftw. Am4 b550 stuff isn’t good enough to warrant an upgrade and b650 motherboards with their stupid overpriced ddr5 ram are too expensive to be worth it.
I already have ddr4 ram from my “old” but newer motherboard that stopped working (before someone points out ram prices and is like uhm ACKTUALLY)
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