Overwatch's Revamp Has Leaked Amid Brutal Dev Team Layoffs

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  • @BellularNews
    @BellularNews  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

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    • @zazamaza8648
      @zazamaza8648 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You should do so live comentary . That way people will join you in membership easier

  • @nunyabiznes7446
    @nunyabiznes7446 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +331

    Just a reminder that they already knew as Overwatch 2 was launching that it wouldn't deliver its promised PvE content

    • @imarobobot8795
      @imarobobot8795 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      And kept advertising it before, at launch, and after until they publicly admitted they nixed it.

    • @Nikoemmp
      @Nikoemmp 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Nah this is not true. They knew the wanted the game to be more pvp focused, but they didn’t know they were going to cancel pve until later that year. This has been confirmed by people that no longer work at blizzard.

    • @RemyBeast
      @RemyBeast 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      ​@@Nikoemmp Cope harder. This is not how it works.

    • @Nikoemmp
      @Nikoemmp 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@RemyBeast it’s not cope when I’m literally stating a fact. That’s what they said. If you don’t want to believe that’s a you problem lol.

    • @RemyBeast
      @RemyBeast 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @Nikoemmp A company known for sexual assault, discrimination against minorities, taking advantage of consumers all while pretending to be the opposite, nah not a me problem. Also employees have said the opposite, employees have also said they knew it wasn't happening long before they announced it. As a Software Engineer, I'm confident they knew. Like I said, it's not how it works.

  • @isk3397
    @isk3397 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +568

    Man, it sounds more and more like Kotick and company set fire to the building on the way out. I guess pushing rapid, short term growth at the cost of long term sustainability has consequences, who knew.

    • @T.R.75
      @T.R.75 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      its my money, and i want it NOW!!!!

    • @isk3397
      @isk3397 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      @@T.R.75 People seem to forget the important thing about explosions, be it chemical or business growth, that shit has a tendency of levelling everything around it.

    • @qualiacontrol
      @qualiacontrol 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      he wanted to screw over Phil Spencer. Probably wanted the deal to fail and go to Sony so he could get more money

    • @Tere225
      @Tere225 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      Overwatch 2 was complete garbage. Little more than monetizing while claiming they needed to overhaul the engine for single players. Single player that blizzard didn't even bother working on.

    • @joeandrew8752
      @joeandrew8752 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@Tere225as a fan of OW when it came out all the way till past echo that’s one thing I can never fully get over what OW2 is.
      Like it was literally unthinkable before, that a company could basically remove a product completely and replace it with a fully lesser version just to fit in more ways to charge while not delivering on any of the promises. I can never play OW1 again, never, and in its place is this thing that just feels like a shallower version with just as many problems as before, maybe more, but also the occasional controversy cause blizzard.
      It’s like it opened the box of possibilities I didn’t even know a company could do and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s not the last company to do so. Golden eye brought fps to many, halo brought multiplayer to many, ff10 brought voiced live action cut scenes, gta brought the open world to many, WOW brought the mmo, cod brought map DLCs, battlefront 2 ea brought loot boxes to its extremes, now OW2 brought sequel to be redefined as the same game but less.

  • @sirbear9396
    @sirbear9396 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +146

    So OW2 made barely more money than OW1 in roughly the same timeframe with MTX.. yet the avg player gets waaaay less value out of the game (in terms of skins). What a disaster.

    • @Icipher353
      @Icipher353 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      OW really is the gaming bag fumble of all time.

    • @MistyKathrine
      @MistyKathrine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@Icipher353 OverWatch was game of the year in 2016 and was completely squandered by mismanagement.

    • @timokampwerth1996
      @timokampwerth1996 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      honestly, sounds like a perfect example of a modern game sequel. Give'em less and let them pay more for it so we end up at the same income for less work.

    • @Relhio
      @Relhio 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you want loot boxes and want people buying them be like GGG. At least they're putting effort in their skins and they're always top tier shit.

    • @OLONOODLE
      @OLONOODLE 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Icipher353 Diablo 4 is up there if you play arpgs

  • @SonySteals
    @SonySteals 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +182

    I’m frustrated when I hear that “games are now so expensive to make” and the next day I read on how much Kotick got in his paychecks and how much money actiblizzard games made for investors. It’s just beyond me. Disgusting.

    • @ub3rfr3nzy94
      @ub3rfr3nzy94 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Games do cost more to make than 15 years ago, but they also make 10x more money than they did 15 years ago. Imagine you run a gold mine, and in the last 10 years the operational costs doubled, but, your sales increased x10. Thats what happened. They are making more money

    • @timokampwerth1996
      @timokampwerth1996 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@ub3rfr3nzy94 Mah man, haven't you heard? They're making less. The billionare paying himself hundrets of millions every year said so himself. And would Uncle Bobby lie to us?

    • @SuzakuX
      @SuzakuX 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Koticks golden parachute was nearly $400m, which is enough to fund two or three entire AAA games, for the record.

    • @peterpan4038
      @peterpan4038 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@ub3rfr3nzy94 I get your point, but the numbers are even more insane.
      - Games are sold as digital keys, boatloads of them (AAA games can sell 10+ million copies!).
      Obviously digital keys are cheaper to "produce" and distribute than boxed copies.
      - Microtransaction BS was cranked up to eleven, further making every player much more profitable.
      - AAA titles get sequels and re-releases that actually make money AGAIN much faster than in years past.
      Meaning less effort, for more money.
      AAA titles don't make 10 times more than in the good old times, they make at least 100 times more.
      Spending 100 million, to make a billion is the minimum goal most folks like Kotick have, hence maximum short term profit is the one and only goal.

    • @M_reapr
      @M_reapr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wonder how much pal world cost to make

  • @vareos9874
    @vareos9874 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +210

    i cannot believe they let Soe (who is the most recognizable face in OW esport) announce the new OWCS only to lay her off a week later. genuinely unbelievable

    • @mattisjouy392
      @mattisjouy392 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      must not have been planned she probably pissed off the wrong person

    • @o0_VanYsH_0o
      @o0_VanYsH_0o 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      ​@@mattisjouy392Soe was the face of the league, and was well respected by all peers, genuinely didn't have a harmful bone in her body. This is nothing but sad, there's nobody to blame but Blizzard. Genuinely evil.

    • @BooleanDev
      @BooleanDev 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@mattisjouy392esports are being outsourced under microsoft, so unfortunately there was nothing she could have done to stay in that role

    • @Akeyins
      @Akeyins 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      that's honestly really sad. i watched OWL for the first 2-3 years and she was always so fun to watch. it sucks that they did her dirty like that, she deserved better

    • @xtremescript
      @xtremescript 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Like what role would she have there? Blizzard isn't hosting any esport anymore. Everything is offloaded to FaceIT. What would her job description be?

  • @Nightstalker314
    @Nightstalker314 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +202

    Nobody can tell me that Bobby's move of "adding a 0" to the League fee was anything but pure greed.
    Having teams cost 2.5m instead of 25m $ would have looked way better from the start.

    • @elLooto
      @elLooto 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      A fool and his money are soon parted.

    • @doc-vg9lq
      @doc-vg9lq 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      it's dumb to me there is that much money involved in a game with constant balance issues for a pro sport competitive environment. I never really understood why world of warcraft arena became an esport too. thats way too much money predicated on wishy washy power balancing.

    • @LanceThumping
      @LanceThumping 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@doc-vg9lq Meanwhile TF2 could be great but it doesn't get the attention that it deserves.

  • @DeltaDragon79
    @DeltaDragon79 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    I don't play Blizzard games anymore but I always seem to return to listen to Bellular describe how many more decks of the Titanic have submerged.

    • @Michael-ul4dr
      @Michael-ul4dr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Exactly. I no longer buy blizzard games and I don't plan to

    • @Akeyins
      @Akeyins 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      same. it's like watching a plane that i was supposed to get on crash. i can't help but watch news about it and go "wow, i'm glad i missed that flight"

    • @MuShinnen
      @MuShinnen 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I haven't touched a Blizzard game since the situation with Blitz Chung, and I never will. Fuck that company. I only feel for the people just trying to make a living.

  • @T.R.75
    @T.R.75 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +160

    ah esports, its like owning a boat, cool at first, then you start shoving money into it nonstop, and what once was interesting, becomes a moneypit. they never learn.

    • @fang_xianfu
      @fang_xianfu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Morhaime didn't care, he just felt passionately about it. When he left it was the beginning of the end.

    • @SpinningSideKick9000
      @SpinningSideKick9000 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      It’s great when it’s a grassroots response to people already loving a game.
      Absolutely terrible idea to build a game off of

    • @DDoig1
      @DDoig1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It sounds like you have owned a boat before.

    • @jaywerner8415
      @jaywerner8415 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      "The 2 happiest days of a boat owners life are the day he buys it, and the day he sells it" - Tory Balachi, MythBuster.

    • @HappyroosterYT
      @HappyroosterYT 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thing is it doesn't have to. Bandai Namco doesn't shove a huge amount of money onto esports. It is sustainable. Riot and Blizzard look at the NFL and go like: "oH, ESpORTS sHouLD Be ProFeSIonAL LIke thIS!!", then monopolize the leagues/tournaments and make a shitshow that doesn't generate enough revenue due to having a lower fanbase and esports being mostly online, while the teams deal with a fuckton of costs.

  • @Lucky_Drive
    @Lucky_Drive 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Mere hours before this video was posted, they literally just laid off a ton of people integral to the new Overwatch Esports project. Pretty sure that venture is going to fail now too.

    • @georgealvarez1195
      @georgealvarez1195 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Pretty sure its more likely to succeed now that it isnt so inflated with a bunch of bloated contracts. They needed to downscale massively and people who dont see that, dont know anything about business.

    • @zztzgza
      @zztzgza 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      ​@@georgealvarez1195 you really think that an Esports project for Overwatch will succeed now, that people have been fired after the previous Esports league failed spectacularly. Yeah, cause you know about business lol

    • @Mmachine88
      @Mmachine88 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@zztzgza well a more focused approach can lead to better prospects. This happened with 343 on halo infinite. This past year they did very well once they restructured

    • @marloncebo242
      @marloncebo242 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@zztzgzathem deciding to stop wasting money is only a positive thing. How would that even be a bad decision?

    • @giversinner971
      @giversinner971 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Do you really think investing in employees-who do all of the actual work and labor-is just “wasting money”? Do you think work magically happens without people doing that work? If they layoff that many people, it’s clear that they don’t care how the product turns out.

  • @Layanor
    @Layanor 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    September, the name OVERWATCH: NEXT was making the rounds and it was being said this was Overwatch in maintenance mode after a major update. I guess everyone forgot?

    • @Shiirow
      @Shiirow 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Overwatch : Last

    • @d4mephisto
      @d4mephisto 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Overwatch: Dead Game@@Shiirow

    • @kokorochacarero8003
      @kokorochacarero8003 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      OVERWATCH: AGAIN

  • @blooddumpster3427
    @blooddumpster3427 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    I LOVED OW1, I played it every day. It was so good, and then they took the game i purchased away and turned it into a piece of shit. I'll only go back if they change it back to it's original vision of 6v6

    • @jkune9912
      @jkune9912 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      they already revamped so many from my main heroes. i wouldnt recognize the game anymore 😢

    • @Kamishikyo
      @Kamishikyo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah I agree, I miss the days of dps heroes being so useless people started going 3 tanks 1 dps and 2 supports. I miss the days of the game allowing you to pick 2 winstons, 2 tracers and 2 lucios. Man the days of double barriers were always super fun to play as well, stacking gold damage by only shooting barriers gave such a dopamine rush. I miss the best maps ever created (voskaya, anubis, lunar colony and hanamura). I miss the days of 6v6 where nothing died until ults were used and your guns were reduced to building ult charge. I miss the glory days of 90% of the dps roster being useless and only burst heros were used since nothing else did meaningful damage. I miss the days where everyone only played zayra and hanzo and made the game into who did grav + dragon better than the other team doing the exact same thing. I miss the unforgettable days of everyone having CC and ccing everyone especially the tanks, the tanks really enjoyed that part. I miss ow1 so much, they need to bring all those experiences back!

    • @nazzify6417
      @nazzify6417 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Kamishikyo and all of those things could have been fixed without going to 5v5 and turning the game into a pile of shit

    • @Kamishikyo
      @Kamishikyo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @nazzify6417 Same can be said about 5v5, things can be fixed. Which btw a lot of people with rose tinted nostalgia glasses on seem to forget how we got to the point of 5v5. In OW1 there was an experimental playlist, which was 5v5 with super buffed tanks, guess what? The community loved it and wanted it. If 6v6 was this glorious thing, the community wouldn't of wanted it 5v5 in the first place.

    • @linusgustafsson2629
      @linusgustafsson2629 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My favorite was mystic heroes. But these days it isn't very fun. Both the downgrade to 5 team members (less chance at getting a good team randomly), and the fact there are more heroes now so chances you get something you still haven't gotten good at is larger now, leading to more sucking and losing.
      Maybe if they made Mysticer Heroes, where you get to pick 3 tanks, 5 dps, 3 healers that you'll randomly play as, it would become fun again. They did experiement with quicker play after all.

  • @BFTBGSFTST
    @BFTBGSFTST 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I just want Overwatch Classic, set back before they overbalanced, sterilizing the fun out of the game for esports.

    • @sellerie8228
      @sellerie8228 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      yeah i want the game i paid 60 bucks for back...

  • @FailingGH3
    @FailingGH3 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Im starting to want the ow1 that was dead at the end with a double shield meta back. I think i actually preferred that over every aspect of ow2

    • @WerewolfKweef
      @WerewolfKweef 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      This was peak Overwatch. Best state the game was in, ever. All they needed to do was rework sigma and double shield could have been solved. Look at all the work they did instead to create this mess. Like trying to build a pyramid upset down.

    • @kokorochacarero8003
      @kokorochacarero8003 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@WerewolfKweefor just give people some time to develop strategies against double shield... Give players time and they'll shift metas, once they get bored of blindly following whatever's advertized as strong on youtube
      Symetra-Bastion was already a thing

  • @Captain.AmericaV1
    @Captain.AmericaV1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Overwatch two was already shafting players way before this. The damage was already done, but I didn't realise they would be sinking lower.
    Then i remembered, it's Activision/Blizzard.

    • @MistyKathrine
      @MistyKathrine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ABK will always find a way.

  • @bmnbl
    @bmnbl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Left OW2 because of the direction they we're going and after cutting out all that pve content. Sad to see its getting even worse, was hoping to come back after a good major overhaul of the game.

  • @misao6397
    @misao6397 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    Nobody will ever convince me that E-sports isn't a ponzi scheme.

  • @nerdock4747
    @nerdock4747 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    And the game will still be a dead, messy hulk no matter what.
    I had no idea how good I had it in base OW.

  • @kryptyk7712
    @kryptyk7712 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    The Moira bundle killed any chance of me spending money on Blizzard MTX. It's not that I can't afford, I just can't justify it.
    Meanwhile Palworld and Enshrouded together cost roughly the same. They dug their own hole.

    • @jmjedi923
      @jmjedi923 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It gets harder and harder for me to justify buying live sevice garbage, indies and older games keep me occupied

    • @RemyBeast
      @RemyBeast 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Respect.

  • @Syllaren
    @Syllaren 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Maybe they revamp the pve commitments and I'll start caring.

  • @LordShadowZ
    @LordShadowZ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    These leaks are just more evidence that the Overwatch team doesn't have a shred of a clue on how to balance or fix the game. Overwatch is beyond redemption at this point because I know for a fact they don't have the balls to revert to Overwatch 1 style 6v6, when the game was still actually good.

    • @AMabud-lv7hy
      @AMabud-lv7hy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      If they did they would basically admit that the higher-ups made a mistake, and God forbid if those corpo stuck-ups did something so egregious

    • @tineye5100
      @tineye5100 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah. When it was double shield. Or GOATS. Or any of the other awful metas. Maybe it was never good.

    • @kielmessersmith1956
      @kielmessersmith1956 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yeah iv said it before and I'll keep saying it, Overwatch didn't win game of the year as a casual 5v5 format.

    • @roxstar5088
      @roxstar5088 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No no no, they can't go back as they really had to completely redo the engine to unable PvE..... Ooooh wait
      OW2 is just a poor excuse to strip out the previous monetization for a far more aggressive predatory monetization practices.

    • @Akeyins
      @Akeyins 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      they don't have the balls to revert it to 6v6 because then people would realize how few people are actually playing because of queue times

  • @KyleCorbeau
    @KyleCorbeau 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    13:16 ...that's literally what OW2 was suppose to be. It was _SUPPOSED_ to be OW1 revamped to 5v5 for free and OW2 tacked on for a separate cost with the focus of PVE and (most especially) lore, the thing they did best. They utterly _gutted_ PvE and wildly overcharged for it to make up for the development cost of all the things we didn't get.
    They have failed miserably at delivering both PvP and PvE because of this dogmatic survivorship bias. They insist on a failing methodology over and over and over again not seeming to understand that they systematically gutted the parts of the game that made it unique and desirable to a broader audience in favor of appeasing DPS that frankly have better options for shooters out there (which is why they will continue to leak players like a sieve). The worst part is the damage is already done; even if they did attempt to relaunch PvE as it's own thing (again) it's going to be dead on arrival because the trust on the community's side is just dead and _gone_ at the point.

  • @Zenryuk
    @Zenryuk 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    How can there be a OW3 if OW2 never happen?

    • @MistyKathrine
      @MistyKathrine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      They should just roll it back to OverWatch 1, then I might play again.

    • @linusgustafsson2629
      @linusgustafsson2629 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      OW3 will be the specialized OW2 version where they cut out the PvE to focus more on PvP. (Also, there are now loot boxes which you have to buy keys for)

    • @Crusty_Sword
      @Crusty_Sword 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As said it should be called ow.5 they have taken out more than they’ve added

    • @kokorochacarero8003
      @kokorochacarero8003 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​​@@MistyKathrinewait wait hear me out:
      Overwatch: Classic
      It costs $70, but if you own a copy of Overwatch, you can get the Deluxe edition for $40, almost half the price! You can't miss this deal!
      Also, all your unlockables from Overwatch don't transfer over
      And then they can sell you Overwatch: Classic: Fresh, which resets your collections every month

    • @77wolfblade
      @77wolfblade 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      With the new head of blizzard we thought we had a new overwatch every year like it did with Call of Duty.

  • @Spika94
    @Spika94 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    It really doesn't matter if they use the PTR for testing, because they have never iterated on any of the PTR builds anyway. "It turned out better than expected" and then they just ship it. I don't remember a time they changed anything after a PTR test. So why not just push it to live immediately anyway, lol.

    • @Newbtuber
      @Newbtuber 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi I am from the wow development side, you must be new here?

    • @Akeyins
      @Akeyins 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      PTR is used mostly to test for bugs i think

    • @Spika94
      @Spika94 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Newbtuber I never talked about the wow dev side.

  • @robertemumford
    @robertemumford 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I left when they kept breaking promises and withholding important changes to the last minute to be announced for for Overwatch 2; if I can't trust the guys in charge. I'm not going to invest my time/money in something that is not reliable.

  • @samvimes9510
    @samvimes9510 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    It's a shame MS didn't fire Aaron Keller when they were doing all those layoffs. For that matter, the entire balancing team should be fired. Overwatch has never had good balance, but it's gotten infinitely worse since OW2 launched. I don't think they even playtest half the stuff they implement, they just shove it in the game and see how it goes.
    Actually, now that I think of it...they should just delete OW2 entirely and turn the OW1 servers back on. After all, we WERE told that OW1 would run alongside OW2, but Blizzard reneged on that and forcibly "upgraded" everyone to OW2.

    • @v1kzu
      @v1kzu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bullshit, they have always said that it would be one client, one game. And the game was in a good state balance-wise up until season 3 when some devs got shifted around and we ended up with Alec Dawson and Jared Neuss who are both fucking clueless as to what they are doing with this game.

    • @samvimes9510
      @samvimes9510 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@v1kzu no, originally they said that OW1 and OW2 would be separate. OW1 players would get all the new heroes and PVP maps, but if you wanted the PVE stuff you'd have to buy OW2. Part of the reason was because the OW1 engine supposedly wasn't able to do all the fancy weather and lighting effects they talked about putting in the PVE stuff. Of course that never happened, and moving everything over to the new engine broke a lot of things, so the whole thing was just a waste of time and money.

    • @Owm_ion
      @Owm_ion 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your comment about firing the whole balancing team is soo true for me . Aaron & co are indeed clueless and they double down all the time while spewing more BS

  • @AliothAncalagon
    @AliothAncalagon 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I can't really say weither the leaks would end up being that bad without seeing it in practice.
    But thats beside the point anyway. Everyone I know who played Overwatch didn't stop due to the core mechanics, even though there were always some issues.
    Everyone stopped due to terrible support by Actiblizz. And the early excitement for Overwatch 2 quickly died again after the laughable monetization model went live.
    Overwatch didn't die through any fault of the devs. It was killed by executive greed.

  • @KarasuMayonaka
    @KarasuMayonaka 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Because adding that 2 worked out so well

  • @ArkChannel224
    @ArkChannel224 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    They're lowering the skill floor and skill ceiling at once that's crazy
    they're taking notes from Paladins now

    • @JustSkram
      @JustSkram 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      at least paladins is fun

    • @italianspiderman5012
      @italianspiderman5012 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lmao, how turn tables.

    • @BattousaiHBr
      @BattousaiHBr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      what exactly is this change to skill floor or skill ceiling? i completely disagree with this take and would like to hear a real argument.
      what is certainly going to change is the TTK is going up, but that doesn't affect either skill floor nor ceiling, and removing oneshots such as hanzo makes the game less frustrating and more predictable regardless of skill.

    • @ParasocialCatgirl
      @ParasocialCatgirl 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@BattousaiHBrhonestly I don't see the issue with lowering the skill floor of a game.
      but yeah lowering the skill ceiling can be problematic.

    • @BattousaiHBr
      @BattousaiHBr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ParasocialCatgirl my point is that those changes do nothing regarding skill floor or ceiling.
      the idea that it does makes no sense, and i'd like to hear an actual argument of how it does.

  • @jacksonlefteye
    @jacksonlefteye 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    5:19 lol what is wrong about his post? that's not at all psychotic that guy is just based as hell...psychotic is going on a mass-hiring spree based on what were obviously temporary government kickbacks, putting all those people on projects that should never have been started, and then pulling the rug on all of them as soon as the going got tough, all while constantly reporting record profits, MAU's, and "bright futures ahead", basically none of the psycho's making these decisions will suffer consequences from this

  • @jamespark3510
    @jamespark3510 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    When games became commodity to make wealth (not money, wealth) from, it was down hill for the gaming industry....where games where made for the investor calls rather then for the users....

  • @modelmajorpita
    @modelmajorpita 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    So they've completely abandoned the PVE they promised and are doing a lot of changes that seem to be about making the game easier and more fun for casual players to try and make up for the lost player base of dedicated fans. While at the same time trying to make it into an esport. I hope it works out, I know a lot of people that enjoy the game and I don't want it to die, but it really seems like they are desperately trying two contradictory approaches to getting themselves out of the grave Kotick dug while spending the least amount of money possible.

    • @urazz7739
      @urazz7739 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You don't make a game into an E-sport and don't control it. It just becomes one due to the game being fun to play and fun to watch. Look at Starcraft. Blizzard didn't intend to make it into an E-Sport, it just became one.

    • @YourBlackLocal
      @YourBlackLocal 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@urazz7739??? StarCraft was made an E-sport by Blizzard…

    • @brandonb1881
      @brandonb1881 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It doesn't matter that blizzard was burned down prior to the merger. The acquisition of one of the largest game studios on earth grows the Microsoft monopoly regardless to the revenue of any of the games. Having a failing blizzard under their own ownership is far more significant than trying to compete.

    • @SuzakuX
      @SuzakuX 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@YourBlackLocal No, it developed organically through grass roots organization. Blizzard tried to be super hands on with OW esports because they wanted to control the esports scene from the jump and rake in more profit from it, but by not allowing it to grow organically they also sort of hamstrung it and wasted a ton of money up front.

  • @amerikaOnFire
    @amerikaOnFire 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Activision has always had the business plan of squeeze squeeze squeeze and then eventually kill it off. OW2 has been a product of that squeezing rather than be a product of old Blizzard. All of the microtransactions and the disappointing single player stuff and all the negative PR in general that people pass along whether they play or not has taken it's toll on the populace. Instead of trying to make current players happy, keep word of mouth positive and giving a good value for money spent. OW2 has been the opposite of all of that as Bobby only believes in SQUEEZE.
    I am hoping they are slimming down on their current direction with OW2 and plan for a reboot that delivers on what they had scoped in the past and are given the time/money to do that.

  • @eldenbling2615
    @eldenbling2615 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    None of the game designers that made Blizzard great work there any more. Blizzard owns the properties, but they'll never be able to make a great new game

  • @Xeirus911
    @Xeirus911 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    it's crazy to me that Widowmaker is getting her one shot taken away. She literally has a voice line that says it.
    She should be the only one in the game who can do that, otherwise, wtf is she.

  • @ParanoiderNutzer
    @ParanoiderNutzer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    How fitting, that they are trying to revive the Overwatch League...
    even more now as Johanna Faries - the new president of Blizzard - is the same exec, who was brought in by Bobby Kotzbrocken to establish a CoD eSports-League and who was also in charge of the (now failed) Overwatch League. Great to hear, that they are now trying a more "StarCraft II"-approach, after she tanked the league with her 12 year career in marketing strategy and business development with the NFL... But I wonder how the massive layoffs to the league-team fit into the "reviving the league"-schtick.
    At least she likes to play Diablo IV, CoD and BG3; so she is "one of us" [insert "How do you feel, fellow kids?"-Meme here]

  • @bleack8701
    @bleack8701 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have roughly 400-500 hours sunken into OW. Making OW2 5v5 and more focused on shooting rather than ability use completely lost me as a player. The game feels less like a hero shooter and more like...a shooter. Like people were saying, more like CoD. I don't want OW to be CoD.
    So yes, they've definitely lost me as a player. I haven't put more than 10 hours into OW2. And the PvE news completely killed the game for me.

  • @jackvancekirkland
    @jackvancekirkland 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    loved overwatch when it came out but haven't played in years.

  • @Legeden
    @Legeden 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    To be brutally honest. I was set to never touch Blizzard product again. They made one product worse than the other, I removed their game client in anger cutting ties with people still staying there.
    So far removing Bobby, removing the ppl who couldn't make a product worth it's price and weeding out the rotten culture the only way it's possible... a move like this was the only way that could restore some trust in Blizzard.
    Now let's wait for what comes in the future and maybe I'll even give Blizzard another chance now that it's barely Blizzard anymore.

  • @vonarkesh2361
    @vonarkesh2361 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    They've ruined a great game ans no amount of "balancing" or "overhauling" can save it.

  • @kekitech
    @kekitech 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Commenting for the algorithm. Keep it up, you are doing great work.

  • @speedingoffence
    @speedingoffence 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Economic 101 is that, if you're not selling enough, particularly of a product with an ongoing unit cost of basically zero, you lower the price.
    These guys decided to sell a $40 thing to 100 people instead of a $10 thing to 1,000.

  • @cryocranberry512
    @cryocranberry512 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great to see that things are getting worse and blizzard is worried more about monetization than player experience. 🙃

  • @titan5525
    @titan5525 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Remeber how the overwatch teams keeps promising to be more transparent, well they broke that promise again, and now they have no control over the narrative, again. Sorry but Keller is not up to the task.

  • @LouisGuidetti
    @LouisGuidetti 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I want this game to fail 100%. I am furious with how they have treated their loyal player base who supported them in OW for years

  • @Arkancide
    @Arkancide 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I miss Overwatch 1. Had a lot of fun on that game over the years, without spending any money beyond the purchase price. Overwatch 2 feels like crap to play, I hate the way it looks(like a barely modified version of 1, but worse), and I despise the monetization model. Oh, and no Single Player Story campaign.

  • @neileaston1712
    @neileaston1712 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Customer support is going to be 100% outsourced to gpt, I have had gpt like experiences with support tickets already. I am surprised no one is talking about this

  • @Andy_Van
    @Andy_Van 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I always felt Paladins was a way better game then overwatch. I love playing the test level templates, so much more creative level design and experiences than what overwatch ever offered. I should clarify I haven't played either since 2020 though, got bored of the format.

  • @nazotech7590
    @nazotech7590 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    K.P.I. means Key Performance Indicators a industry term that relates to a company meeting it goals in the timely production, stocking and sale of the product to the customer, many forklift drivers and stock workers dread this term.........

  • @Haunsa1
    @Haunsa1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    unless 6/6 returns and MASSIVE changes to TTK BS the game is boned 5/5 is just SUPER boring to watch and play.

  • @Michael-eb8nf
    @Michael-eb8nf 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    At this point, given the sheer amount of time that we all have known just how crooked and systemically broken this massive corporation has been, I no longer feel like I should only be critical of leadership. If you're still working for these gluttonous, greedy, vaguely man shaped skin tags after all this time, you kinda deserve an unceremonious layoff. And I'm saying this as someone who trusted one of these corporations and got a surprise holiday layoff.

  • @fated2pretend
    @fated2pretend 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I stopped playing Overwatch before Overwatch 2 launched, not because the game wasn't fun - in fact it was a blast. I quit because the community became too toxic.
    People screaming about not running the meta in quick match unranked games was a real quick way to make the game unfun.
    The game doesn't need fixing, the community does.

    • @fated2pretend
      @fated2pretend 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Garrus-nu2hh That doesn't feel good though. That's just a band-aid to cover up the real problem.

    • @fated2pretend
      @fated2pretend 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Garrus-nu2hh true, there are a lot of toxic communities. I feel certain brands attract certain player types that can sometimes become toxic, Blizzard being one of them. Most FPS games are full of them too. Maybe it's an unsolvable issue as long as testosterone hyped teen boys are involved. Lol

  • @zimti7390
    @zimti7390 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Overwatch: Great launch, smashing success
    Overwatch 2: Barely even an update, absolute trashfire
    Overwatch 3: Life support???

  • @fredq6118
    @fredq6118 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've seen takeovers happen, especially of failing companies. There is a lot of fat to be trimmed when a company and its teams cant produce good content. And lets not kid ourselves, if anyone at microsoft has been keeping up with overwatch content, or god forbid has played it, then it was pretty obvious that the overwatch team is utterly incompetent based on their track record post-release of OV1.
    Yes it's sad that people are losing jobs, and quite a lot of the crap was likely not their fault, but holy shit can we face the reality of the last 5+ years for a second?

  • @javeh_
    @javeh_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Overwatch was killed and they are failing in not killing the "sequel"

  • @000Dragon50000
    @000Dragon50000 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Nah, Former Overwatch player here. Never made the jump to 2, and I'm not playing Valorant now, I'm playing splatoon :p

    • @EMMmaximino
      @EMMmaximino 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      monster hunter world bro, wish i made the jump head first when i bought it at launch, the oW viel was too much for me to shake :(

  • @marxman6896
    @marxman6896 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    They can relaunch and rebrand and revamp whatever they want. They have killed any interest in their franchise by mismanaging, lying, and misrepresenting the sequel as, well, a sequel. It's not a sequel. It's a cash shop patch. It is a net negative for the game as a whole, and I for one will not give them my MAU metric or especially any of my money for a game that treats me like a moron. No fuckin' thanks.
    I'm super happy to hear Overwatch is doing poorly. It should do poorly after the dogshit stunt they pulled. They somehow managed to make a *GREAT* game into a pile of shit in under 2 years.

  • @nrran6835
    @nrran6835 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Counterpoint: they made a bad game that failed and deserve to be out of a job. Failure has a price.

  • @Swatta637
    @Swatta637 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was a great view! I'm starting to like your news channel quite a bit! Thanks!

  • @VrisviPilverCh
    @VrisviPilverCh 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I haven't touched OW2 for many seasons, and I played OW1 almost daily. The core game is always fun and I want to go back. The issue for me is I have nothing to play for.
    Ranked has been terrible so why go for those rewards; and all the good content is now paywalled with no free track. I just see no point anymore

    • @jMewsi
      @jMewsi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      used to spend ~50-150$ a year even during content drought but boy do they not see a dime with OW2 from me

  • @RobertStoll
    @RobertStoll 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    "We're turning all the bullets into nerf darts. Wait, where are you guys going?"

  • @Startrance85
    @Startrance85 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    i would say Microsoft should kick evey single dev in the Overwatch team and re-hire people that actually know what they are doing.

    • @GhostDieM
      @GhostDieM 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's funny that you could say the exact same thing about the Diablo 4 team lol. Bless their hearts for trying but somehow they manage to mess up in a spectacular fashion every season.

  • @hightierplayers2454
    @hightierplayers2454 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just another trash game with trash developers making trash decisions and then doubling and quadrupling down on them. These are only leaks and already its gonna be worse than the POS we have already as "OW2".

  • @clericneokun
    @clericneokun 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    14:47 if you pair this with the axing of OWL, it certainly feels like the devs are trying to cater more to the casual crowd (aka their market majority) now. That being said, they also abandoned PvE mode which was arguably the biggest feature that the casual crowd wanted from the game so....good luck with that, Blizzard. 🙃

    • @WerewolfKweef
      @WerewolfKweef 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      New and casual players consistently get matched with Master and Grand Master level players in non-competitive lobbies... if this is Blizzard "catering" to these players, the revenue drop tracks HARD...

  • @arcadia9589
    @arcadia9589 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I love that after skyrim horse armor we got blizzard putting all their effort into cosmetics and charging twice what the horse armor cost and it has become their entire identity

    • @keit99
      @keit99 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Horse armor was oblivion Not skyrim

  • @TheMcNeo
    @TheMcNeo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I loved Overwatch when it released. Then they spent six years systematically destroying everything good about it. I wish I could feel sorry for the devs who worked to make that happen, but I simply don't. Hard reset needed, fire them all, reconstitute a new team with a new vision and respect for what Overwatch was supposed to be. These layoffs don't go far enough.

  • @Iloveidiots1
    @Iloveidiots1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    OW is a terrible game, that is terribly managed, and everyone believed that MS was going to save the game, and they could have. How much more is the OW community willing to take before enough is enough?

  • @ncascini01
    @ncascini01 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Overwatch Devs and the community- it's like the saddest kind of love story where it starts amazing and falls apart slowly over years with constant hopes that it'll be what it once was with all new ways to massively break your heart. They accidentally made the best game that ever was and destroyed it because they are not capable of understanding gaming/rewards systems or anything of why the game was actually good. Homogenized bs where everyone can be happy on torb and junk and mei while Cass and Genji players laugh at themselves for reaching for greatness and being stomped on by noob booster memes. At least all the casuals will be happy for 14 seconds until they do sometime else because that's what casuals do. What's our newest answer for this? Lets make all hard to play heroes easy too because any would anyone ever want to apply themselves to do challenging things in our game again? That's definitely not what this game had the allure of, once upon a time

  • @thatepicwizardguy
    @thatepicwizardguy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    overwatch has been doomed since competitive released, people just didn't see it at the time. there's no saving this game at this point, it's over.
    EDIT: also I know how the game will play if those changes are real - characters like widow will become completely gutter tier trash because she already struggles to one-tap most targets. brawly style combat will favor certain champs and others will get dumpstered and it's unfixable because of the inherent design differences and intentions that exist. Overwatch 2 sucks right now and it's about to suck worse. have fun with your garbage game folks.

  • @vividdaydream1516
    @vividdaydream1516 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Take the Overwatch content creator's takes on the leaks with a grain of salt. The vast majority of them are hyper-focused on the top 0.01% of competitive play, and constantly campaign for the game to have _higher_ Barriers To Entry.
    Meanwhile, the leaked patch notes make it clear that _lowering_ Barriers To Entry is one of the dev team's primary goals. Which makes sense, seeing as how a free-to-play game's survival depends on how good it's "new player experience" is.

  • @Evelaraevia
    @Evelaraevia 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I have almost 0 faith in their ability to balance a more brawl OW. Goats was the most brawly it has ever been, people hated it, and blizz couldn't fix it. I can see a world where the brawl becomes such an issue they drop a support and make the game 4v4.

  • @sokar_rostau
    @sokar_rostau 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    8:45 Why is Puerto Rico counted separately to the US?

    • @DerekLippold
      @DerekLippold 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Because it’s not part of the US - it’s a territory.

  • @straitjacket1930
    @straitjacket1930 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    OW2 matches will take much longer, and thus be even grindier for all the *checks notes* [damn near nothing] that players can grind for.

  • @ElPsyKongroo
    @ElPsyKongroo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow subscribed I like how you talk professionally with personality as well as adding bits of educational components, like using google trends to correlate the ow2 timeline

  • @pallenda
    @pallenda 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I bought 4 physical OW statues, many OW1 event loot boxes. When I saw the OW2 shop prices and how much time it would take to complete the battlepass, I was out of interest.
    I will maybe spend money on OW2 if all shop prices are lower to 1/10 of what they are now. It is beyond ridiculous, paying $20+ for a skin.

  • @JustSkram
    @JustSkram 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    people who play this game still are enablers.

  • @Necropheliac
    @Necropheliac 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Let it die, guys. It stopped breathing a while ago. Pull the plug.

  • @shadowboy0126
    @shadowboy0126 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The problem with removing OHK’s is that Widow is going to be useless, just remove her as a character at that point. The issue of OHKs from her was that some maps were too good for her. No cover and long sightlines. If you headshot someone and they dont die theres a good chance they just get healed to full and you wasted your time.
    OHKs should be in the game, but they should take skill and perfect execution.

  • @SuperLifestream
    @SuperLifestream 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    OW3 is on the way... we didnt even get OW2

  • @saltywings41
    @saltywings41 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    OW could literally be the best most polished shooter on the market and I likely still wouldn't play it due to the battlepass and seasonal bullshit they decided to lean into.

  • @jfh667
    @jfh667 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    QA is now the first 3 to 6 months after release.

    • @steel5897
      @steel5897 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Release of what? Every major patch is a new release. QA is forever. Welcome to live services.

  • @matthewkeating-od6rl
    @matthewkeating-od6rl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Just miss the days when games didn't have to make millions or billions to make the company happy, maybe we just have to go back to developing games in unreal 1 instead of 5.

    • @benjaminbaer5485
      @benjaminbaer5485 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Or waste less money on marketing. Witcher 3 had a 100 million budget, the game itself cost 5 million (artist, dev, etc salaries). Marketing the rest. Its disgusting how little the actual people that make it get paid, while marketing and management guys suck limitless money.

    • @avery.a5948
      @avery.a5948 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@benjaminbaer5485whoa it only costed them 5 million??!

  • @Castitalus
    @Castitalus 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Overwatch 3 with even more lgbt representation! Oh, you want a good game? Try somewhere else. - blizzard.

  • @rofflezwafflez1023
    @rofflezwafflez1023 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Oh no they fired the people who were wasting all the development money to impress their peers instead of make a good game.

  • @astrealove1
    @astrealove1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So if Overwatch wasn't already a sinking ship... now it is.

  • @Mecks089
    @Mecks089 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    And I say again:
    *G O O D !*

  • @GaiusAnonymous
    @GaiusAnonymous 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    man the original hanzo projectile size nerf around o1s3 was so incredibly depressing

  • @victorvondoom2457
    @victorvondoom2457 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Quick note: Everyone likes to make the point that the Moira Lilith skin was in $40 bundle and it was :( But everyone leaves out the fact that you can buy any shop skin outside of their respective bundles in the hero gallery (while the skin is in the shop)

  • @jmbrady1
    @jmbrady1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    overwatch's revamp will actually just be overwatch 1 again with more payment methods than available in the current and previous overwatches

  • @FluffyChaosSheep
    @FluffyChaosSheep 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wont play till 6v6 is back.

  • @Skullrayge
    @Skullrayge 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Inflate the value in a shallow unsustainable way, seal the deal, profit wihtout actually adding any value

  • @positivewaves4522
    @positivewaves4522 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Overwatch 2 is becoming more like paladins everyday, i do not mind

    • @sol9059
      @sol9059 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i mind, i dont like paladins

  • @shadeblackwolf1508
    @shadeblackwolf1508 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Outside gaming it's common to lower prices to increase traffic

  • @Alcanox
    @Alcanox 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I take the view no one seems to know where these "leaks" come from or how accurate they might be, so I'll wait until actual announcements and patch notes turn up before I get too bent out of shape. However, nothing that has happened lately gives me any sense of optimism about OW2 - things were looking pretty bleak before the alleged leaks and wide-ranging layoffs, so I assume things will just continue to deteriorate.

  • @alex132788
    @alex132788 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Making aim more forgiving sounds like a really fuckin stupid idea...

  • @CalciumChief
    @CalciumChief 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Forget Overwatch "3", they need to do Overwatch "we're sorry edition". Really, just turn this thing around to OW1. Have it be that $70 (cause no way we'd get $20 these days), but you will get EVERYTHING in there and in the future. You ain't making a Fortnite out of this IP, so just forget about it.
    13:41 Blah blah blah, there is no "in context of other changes". It's just making it so DPS mains can run around not worrying about their healers, because the whole game has always been catering to DPS mains (second tank got removed just because DPS hated "shooting at shields all day").
    17:05 The only reason the game is any kind of good is cause it's using the skeleton of OW1, as that was still made with some passion for the game. It was better as a product with lootboxes in it.

  • @RookMeAmadeus
    @RookMeAmadeus 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Has problems for months on end with short-sighted updates that end up needing massive rebalances every time at minimum, if not tremendous bugfixes for being literally broken.
    Has a playerbase furious with them for poor decisions and lack of clear communication.
    Proceeds to start cutting the dev teams and laying off most of customer service and QA.
    Having been a fan of Blizzard since the days of Diablo 1/Warcraft 2...It still hurts to see them fall harder than Tyrael did in the intro to D3.

  • @dantebzs
    @dantebzs 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "This is overwatch 3"... If you consider 2 a 2, not a 1.x... otherwise, this is a league of legends Season chance.

  • @rumotu
    @rumotu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Imagine taking away objective play and changing game to "everyone by themselves" game

  • @Clarkwater
    @Clarkwater 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Overwatch patch bullet points sound absolutely horrendous...