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Fucker

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Why are you like this? The only voice people have is when they speak the approved narrative, heres the best example;

www.nbcnews.com

YouTube suspends Sen. Rand Paul over a video falsely claiming masks are ineffective

The suspension was “a badge of honor," Paul tweeted.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

The irony being the cdc itself said just a few months after that yes, cloth masks are indeed worthless.
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She's like that because she is a liberal and was raised in a Ziploc bag.

Speaking of censorship and not following the approved narrative, Twitter suspended the account of the guy who invented the mrna vaccine because he was "spreading disinformation."
 
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Fucker said:
She's like that because she is a liberal and was raised in a Ziploc bag.

Speaking of censorship and not following the approved narrative, Twitter suspended the account of the guy who invented the mrna vaccine because he was "spreading disinformation."
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LIBRULL TEARS LOL

Take it to the politics forum, gramps! ;)
 
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Zindan

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jayrebb said:
The question is whether Microsoft going to take the Blizzard label off of D4. OW2 is too close to launch before Bobby and the boys are out (2023). D4 isn't.
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Why would they? Blizz will still be the developer studio that made it, like 343 does Halo.
 
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I assumed the 'side projects' the one producer referenced were things like cross-promotions with different companies or setting up the ability to do Fortnite style events.

I could easily see a CEO looking at Fortnite cash and asking why their similar game wasn't doing that kinda exponential revenue shit.

Overwatch was freaking everywhere for a time there...on chips and toys and everything until the announced OW2 and everything instantly dried up. Even people I know who aren't gamers but who liked the overall art theme of the thing ask what happened to Overwatch.
 
Chris

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Overwatch was freaking everywhere for a time there...on chips and toys and everything until the announced OW2 and everything instantly dried up. Even people I know who aren't gamers but who liked the overall art theme of the thing ask what happened to Overwatch.
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Overwatch 2 must be the most disasterous game announcement of all time.

They could have just said "We are developing a single player DLC for Overwatch like the ones we do for Hearthstone, please look forward to it." and charged a suitable price for whatever single player content they made.

Instead they effectivly announced that Overwatch was dead because a better version was coming out soon and reinforced that by withholding new multiplayer updates (which were previously free) to justify charging full box price for Overwatch 2.

They deserve this.
 
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Cybsled

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Chris said:
Instead they effectivly announced that Overwatch was dead because a better version was coming out soon and reinforced that by withholding new multiplayer updates (which were previously free) to justify charging full box price for Overwatch 2.
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Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Activision side of the house was mostly to blame for this. They probably thought "Hey, we sucker morons into buying a new Call of Duty title every year or two, let's do the same for OW and make money!"
 
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Cybsled said:
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Activision side of the house was mostly to blame for this. They probably thought "Hey, we sucker morons into buying a new Call of Duty title every year or two, let's do the same for OW and make money!"
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That's because that's how the gaming industry was built. Listen to some of the interviews Shawn Lord has had with old EQ devs. The theory at the time is that you make a game, ship it, and then MAYBE work on one expansion pack before starting a sequel. That theory still persists to this day, obviously..
 
Pyros

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Cybsled said:
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Activision side of the house was mostly to blame for this. They probably thought "Hey, we sucker morons into buying a new Call of Duty title every year or two, let's do the same for OW and make money!"
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Which would have been a fine move, had they actually released OW2 in a timely fashion after that to get the big money. Instead it was over 2years ago now, and it seems it's likely ~6months off still. That'll be close to 3years since they announced it.
 
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Pyros said:
Instead it was over 2years ago now, and it seems it's likely ~6months off still.
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Holy shit, has it been 2 years already? With Covid going on and all the things surrounding it, the past 2 years have slowly amalgamated into an incoherent "shit times" mess.
 
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Chris said:
Overwatch 2 must be the most disasterous game announcement of all time.

They could have just said "We are developing a single player DLC for Overwatch like the ones we do for Hearthstone, please look forward to it." and charged a suitable price for whatever single player content they made.

Instead they effectivly announced that Overwatch was dead because a better version was coming out soon and reinforced that by withholding new multiplayer updates (which were previously free) to justify charging full box price for Overwatch 2.

They deserve this.
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And to think, OW was supposed to originally be an MMO. I'd like to hear the story behind that colossal fuck up.
 
Cybsled

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Project Titan, from what has been revealed, was going to be like part-action game, part-life sim or whatever. Like you would work a job during the day or whatever, then at night become a hero or whatever. It's one of things that sounds cool on paper, but they could never make it "fun" and the project got shutdown.

OW2's problem is they announced it, and it came across as not just a PVE OW, but a PVP replacement as well. But the PVP wasn't that different than OW1.

What they should have done is just announced the PVE shit, gave it a different title than "OW2", then kept Overwatch as the PVP vehicle.

By basically saying OW2 was going to replace OW1, people immediately realized OW1 was a dead game walking and started to dump it, realizing it would get no meaningful updates to shake up the game.
 
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Cybsled said:
Project Titan, from what has been revealed, was going to be like part-action game, part-life sim or whatever. Like you would work a job during the day or whatever, then at night become a hero or whatever. It's one of things that sounds cool on paper, but they could never make it "fun" and the project got shutdown.
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What is their idea of fun at the time Titan was cancelled?
 
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Who knows, but I suspect they couldnt find a balance between those two things without making the "job" thing completely optional. It sort of sounded like their idea was City of Heroes, but you have to be Clark Kent for half of the in-game day.
 
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Neranja

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jayrebb said:
What is their idea of fun at the time Titan was cancelled?
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Back then was a wild time, and development studios wanted to move the MMO genre from the neckbeard crowd. Remember when "The Sims" was a casual hit in 2000, so that even EA greenlit "EA Land", aka The Sims online? Even SOE made "Free Realms" as a casual MMO in 2009 or so.

Roblox finally achieved what they set out to do with children. Turns out that grooming is the better strategy. Just look at Fortnite.
 
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Pyros

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Holy shit, has it been 2 years already? With Covid going on and all the things surrounding it, the past 2 years have slowly amalgamated into an incoherent "shit times" mess.
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Well I'm too lazy to find the exact time, but the OW2 announcement was nov 2019 and pretty sure the last content patch was right after, so yeah been 2 years now, probably will be 2.5 years total. They did patch a few things over time, but they basically stopped adding characters and maps to the game entirely after I think Echo(I wasn't playing anymore already at that point so not 100% sure).

Overall it was absolutely botched execution. Either they thought they had close to a finished product, but then ended up having to scrap a bunch and rework it all, or they just ended up with massive delays(partly due to covid reorganization and such) but they completely missed the window of "let's just cash in free money" and right into "we half killed one of our new promising franchise".

And they're not even guaranteed this thing will sell decently anyway. It will probably, cause it's Blizzard and all, but it'll likely do "disappointing" numbers.
 
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