ABK has taken one major loss after another this year, and their responses to these losses have been completely underwhelming. Overwatch 2 is essentially on life support. In fact, Overwatch 2 was arguably dead on arrival. It was a pretty tough pitch when the company selling it just about destroyed the first entry. I'm sure just about everyone here understands how. Activision-Blizzard's "solution" to this problem has been to pretend there isn't one. Their approach seems to be new skins, half-assed events, and soylent comics explaining the lore of their diversity rangers. Mediocre art is about all anyone who works for the Overwatch team is capable of, so look for nothing but skins and comics until they inevitably announce Overwatch 3 sometime next year. "We promise it'll be different this time!"
I was going to go on a tangent about the equally abysmal state of other Activision-Blizzard franchises, but I don't have the energy to spare for it right now.
The biggest problem with Overwatch is that everyone wants to play DPS, because that's the only role that's fun. It's an FPS, no I don't want to hold left click to heal and follow someone around who is actually playing the game nor do I want to stand around holding right click to put up a shield protecting the two players who get to play a game.
Active healing sucks in FPS games, Doc in R6Siege gets to play the game, and the assault in the Battlefield series just drops health, so you can still play the game.
Overwatch has always had a problem with the support and tank characters.
ABK has taken one major loss after another this year, and their responses to these losses have been completely underwhelming. Overwatch 2 is essentially on life support. In fact, Overwatch 2 was arguably dead on arrival. It was a pretty tough pitch when the company selling it just about destroyed the first entry. I'm sure just about everyone here understands how. Activision-Blizzard's "solution" to this problem has been to pretend there isn't one. Their approach seems to be new skins, half-assed events, and soylent comics explaining the lore of their diversity rangers. Mediocre art is about all anyone who works for the Overwatch team is capable of, so look for nothing but skins and comics until they inevitably announce Overwatch 3 sometime next year. "We promise it'll be different this time!"
I was going to go on a tangent about the equally abysmal state of other Activision-Blizzard franchises, but I don't have the energy to spare for it right now.
The biggest problem with Overwatch is that everyone wants to play DPS, because that's the only role that's fun. It's an FPS, no I don't want to hold left click to heal and follow someone around who is actually playing the game nor do I want to stand around holding right click to put up a shield protecting the two players who get to play a game.
Active healing sucks in FPS games, Doc in R6Siege gets to play the game, and the assault in the Battlefield series just drops health, so you can still play the game.
Overwatch has always had a problem with the support and tank characters.