Overwatch

It's a bundle that include the mission (which unlocks for life and definitely wont ever be taken away would the Overwatch team lie to you again, again?) and Sojourn and a Legendary Sojourn skin and coins you can use to buy the BP or other stuff

You can also choose to pay them 40$ for more skins.

Oh seems season 5 wont have a new hero or a new map either, to be honest... with how the ballance has been I can kind of understand that but..

A) It looks kind of bad that we are only at season 5 and they have already run out
B) ... Maybe they should have taken the other seasons a little slower then, because how are we already at season 5.

Season 3 didn't have a hero either. It's the same release cadence as OW 1. Every 2 seasons.

No new map and no new hero. What’s the point of having a new season when they’re not adding any real content?

Charging for another battlepass duh.

Btw, they are gonna charge $15 every three mission.

Fuck you blizzard. Really fuck you. This is stupid and i hope this leads to gaming regulations cause your greed exceeds every expectation.

....Damn, when I think they can't go lower they do.

Absolute insanity, I think the only reason they are doing this at this point is they know they torpedoed Overwatch's staying power as a franchise so they are just trying to make quick bucks off the whales before it dies a slow death. There is no real good explanation for charging that much for the hero missions considering in the previous game they were free. They killed PvE and now they are charging for the replacement that was already in the previous game for free.

Either they know the game is going to die and are trying to weasel out any money before it or does or the higher ups are really fucking stupid. Probably both.

Edited by Feyspeaker on Jun 15th 2023 at 10:33:27 AM

Wait I thought they are going to add a new map and hero in August.

That's the season after next.

I’m not doing Comp. Starting comp is the game placing me in matches against Gold players where I proceed to cost my team games as a result and then get insulted by people on both teams. Oh and I gotta grind all 3 roles separately. Nope.

So apparently they are doing a miniseries taking place during the omnic crisis. It seems it focuses on Aurora and the OG strike team. Part 1 on July 6th

Also another teaser for the next hero. Looks like we have another freak accident on our hands.

The power of the sun...in the palm of my hand

Bet you weren't ever expecting to see these words: Overwatch 2 is headed to Steam on August 10th as the first in a line of select Blizzard games to land on the platform.

Edited by SonicWind on Jul 19th 2023 at 1:27:37 PM

I wonder if this is already a Microsoft thing.

I was wondering why I had heard the sound of glass breaking a moment ago.

Activision Lays off its E-Sports staff. OWL Owners are to vote if the League will continue on its current format.

Finally giving up the E-Sport scene, I see.

I feel bad for everyone at the OWL but honestly, i'm glad Blizzard esports might potentially die. They never got the chance to grow organically and were forced as hell.

Plus, super boring to watch.

I'll admit I'm not familiar with most of it, but about Blizzard Esports, does its artificial nature and death even extend to StarCraft and Warcraft (and its spinoff Hearthstone)?

It's a "OW 2's numbers are declining so better put it on a storefront where other people will see it"

Starcraft is a yes. Not sure about Hearthstone but Hearthstone is the e-sport where the Blizzchung incident occurred.

I am not sure about Wo W. I think it may of occurred more naturally there (competitions for world first in raiding was going on for years) but not sure.

Edited by Feyspeaker on Jul 21st 2023 at 2:54:04 AM

It's happening with a lot of other E-Sports companies too. Apparently the only profitable companies are those with the top ranking players and teams. Everybody is just barely scraping along, or even operating with a constant net negative, with a good chunk of the players not even being paid for their contracts anymore or just being outright released.

If it's never really been profitable why did so many games drop everything to get a piece of that pie? Especially when it was detrimental to the game itself? (Yes in still angry about Hanzo's ability change)

I pay attention to EVO and the like but fighting game tourneys have always been more grassroots.

Because they were hoping to fleece some other poor suckers with the publicity?

Edited by Reflextion on Jul 22nd 2023 at 10:38:43 AM

Ultimately it's because even profit-driven companies aren't immune to chasing the hot new thing without adequately checking to see if it's actually profitable.

A bit off topic but I think its because they saw how popular League's E-Sports where and they just kept wanting that money now instead of trying to foster up a community that will build e-sports overtime.

The only concern they have is to get a profit over actually building a worthwhile e-sports scene naturally. OWL's massive failure though kinda shows why though that you can't force it (although Blizzard certainly didn't help with their routine awfulness).

One thing I will point out about League though. League shows that if you do spinoff lore things (Arcane) and just for fun kind of things (K.Da) that you could build more ways of making profit that people can enjoy. Blizzard had its chance to do that Overwatch and somehow fucked it up. I mean Lucio's a in-universe musician and Overwatch's trailers look like Pixar trailers, they could of done so much more with Overwatch than chasing comp and then e-sports, and then later reboot the game with shittier MTX.

Edited by Feyspeaker on Jul 23rd 2023 at 2:52:45 AM