Kacho
Gold Member
I don’t think that’s what they’re going for with the PVE content but we don’t know much atm. Gonna have to wait and see.
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Overwatch 2’s Beta Lost 99% of Its Viewers in Just the First Week on Twitch
01011001
Banned
pretty sure OW2 PvE is not GaaS, it seems to simply be multiple coop levels with character progression n stuff
MiguelItUp
Member
Correct, but what I'm saying is when people see a "2", they think sequel, so they have expectations. What was shown with the closed beta, is that those that had those expectations had them not met whatsoever. Is that a surprise to a lot of us? Hell no, but it clearly surprised some regarding how it looked almost exactly the same, haha.
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Hari Seldon
Member
I mean the goal of the marketing campaign is to generate buzz and excitement for the release of the game. This campaign did exactly the opposite of this. But the marketing team itself did do a great job getting eyeballs, but it ultimately failed because the product itself is bad and no one is excited.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Starting to really question being on the "gaming internet" at all. Like 90% of people seem to post online just to shit on games they have no interest in, or wish for failure.
Just a bunch of fucking haters, even ignoring console fanboy garbage.
Just a bunch of fucking haters, even ignoring console fanboy garbage.
MayauMiao
Member
Maybe the "2" was a typo and the real name is actually "Overwatch 1.2".
Wildebeest
Member
Seems like the sort of artificial engagement you get when you pay a lot of big streamers to play it all at once.
01011001
Banned
Halo Infishit still has less content than any Halo since Halo 2, so they better have added more than a fucking beta with half the game missing did...
also it's 4 new maps not 2
which is half the amount of maps Halo Shitfinite launched with
Shitfinite... Infishit... I can't decide which I should use going forward
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Codes 208
Member
no shit, that was my general point. The new season barely did anything and yet overwatch did essentially even less than that.
Its an update disguised as a sequel
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01011001
Banned
yeah but it didn't. the issue is Halo Infishit needs to add back stuff that was missing, that doesn't take any designers or anything really, all it takes is some programmers reintroducing already designed modes.
Overwatch takes a lot of balancing and tweaking for every new core mode they introduce because it's played in tournaments (the new pro season actually starts today I think)
Shitfinite has 1 actually new mode and 2 new maps
the BETA version of Overwatch 2 has 1 actually new mode and 4 new maps
the final game will have a whole coop mode and more new PvP stuff beyond what the beta has
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anothertech
Member
At this rate, the single player mode will be called Overwatch 3!
March Climber
Member
Just checked the numbers now. It seems to be where I expected it to be. 1.5million was way too much anyway.
Umbasaborne
Banned
Imagine having to watch cringe lord streamers “yooo lets goo boys!!!!!, please donate to me so i dont have to get a real job and provide value to society”
Codes 208
Member
Wow, the beta added two more maps than the newest season of infinite? Wooow!
Yeah i dont care. Theyre both shit. The one thing ill give infinite is that at least the map flow and overall gunplay feels a lot better than its predecessor and it does enough to differentiate itself as a sequel whereas this is just OW converted to 5v5 (but hey, its got daytime maps now!)
As for the pve stuff, at this time thats the one thing im curious about OW1.1
Codes 208
Member
Its far more cringe with single player games.
While i dont mind watching insym showing new strats and patch notes in phasmophobia, it does break the tension when, every ten second he goes “and thank you ____ for the subs!”
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Calling 911 Melts Beams
Banned
i watched 6 hours of darksidephil play this game and he almost made it past the character selection screen 1 time
The_hunter
Member
It's a beta, and they want to test out changes to see if they're good. I won't make fun of the game until it gets released and we get a definitive list of all the new content.
Having a public open beta like this is the worst marketing move ever.
Having a public open beta like this is the worst marketing move ever.
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
I bought Overwatch at launch. Played a bit. Realized you had to go to YouTube to watch videos of the characters and their lore (couldn't be bothered to add that in the game ......at least when I was playing it). Dropped it after a month.
Ghost of Caelid
Banned
People care too much about twitch viewership...overwatch 2 will be a massive success...may not be as popular as fork knife or apex but will still be huge...I will never play this game tho.
I helped inflate those initial viewer numbers, same as 99% of everyone else watching on that "highest day" nonsense. I knew the beta wasn't going to be great. I haven't played Overwatch in years because of the terrible changes made to the game and the constant shield spam.
Got into the OW2 beta. Hated their role queue system (I know they added it to OW1 but we dipped before that became a thing there).
I've no plans to buy Overwatch 2 for the PvE stuff. I anticipate it being just a slight expansion of the PvE experiences we were given in OW1. That, coupled with all the shitty things going on at that entire studio really makes me not want to buy it. And with this multiplayer stuff being integrated into OW1, there's literally no reason to buy the "new" game.
To make this long story short: I played just one round of the OW2 beta. One. Round. That was all I needed to see that the game I once loved is kind of shit now.
Got into the OW2 beta. Hated their role queue system (I know they added it to OW1 but we dipped before that became a thing there).
I've no plans to buy Overwatch 2 for the PvE stuff. I anticipate it being just a slight expansion of the PvE experiences we were given in OW1. That, coupled with all the shitty things going on at that entire studio really makes me not want to buy it. And with this multiplayer stuff being integrated into OW1, there's literally no reason to buy the "new" game.
To make this long story short: I played just one round of the OW2 beta. One. Round. That was all I needed to see that the game I once loved is kind of shit now.
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Urban
Member
i dont think it will sell well because OW2 is free for all the OW1 owners. Atleast the pvp part of it.
you only pay for the pve mode
Interfectum
Member
‘Overwatch 2’ Has Lost 99% Of Its Twitch Audience In A Week
About a week after the record was set, Overwatch 2 has lost 99% of those viewers. At the time of this writing, viewership is down from the peak of 1.5 million to 15,000.www.forbes.com
octiny
Banned
Well duh, the drops stopped. That's how it is for all popular games which do beta drops on Twitch. Happened w/ Valorant as well.
They have another drop this weekend I believe. So will you post how much it increases as well?
If anything, it goes to show how many people are anxiously waiting for a chance to play it. Not everyone gets a beta key either.
Also, streamers don't get payed by the developer to do key drops on Twitch. It's a choice to participate in collaboration w/ Twitch. If it's a popular franchise, what it does for them is increase said streamers viewership a shit load which leads to more subs/donos/ad revenue. Prime example would be XQC, 300K viewers during drop, 60-70K without.
They have another drop this weekend I believe. So will you post how much it increases as well?
If anything, it goes to show how many people are anxiously waiting for a chance to play it. Not everyone gets a beta key either.
Also, streamers don't get payed by the developer to do key drops on Twitch. It's a choice to participate in collaboration w/ Twitch. If it's a popular franchise, what it does for them is increase said streamers viewership a shit load which leads to more subs/donos/ad revenue. Prime example would be XQC, 300K viewers during drop, 60-70K without.
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Batiman
Banned
You really are 10 ten years old lolHalo Infishit still has less content than any Halo since Halo 2, so they better have added more than a fucking beta with half the game missing did...
also it's 4 new maps not 2
which is half the amount of maps Halo Shitfinite launched with
Shitfinite... Infishit... I can't decide which I should use going forward
Infishit………Really?
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
People were just turning it on and walking away for 4 hours to get a beta key. I don't think this is much of a litmus test.
-MD-
Member
Wait, what? Every character has like 3 skills and they're all detailed on the character selection screen, that's been there since the game launched.
bender
What time is it?
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01011001
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