Overwatch 2 is the worst game on Steam, according to user reviews | “The people who make Overwatch porn work harder than the people who make Overwatch”::undefined
I truly detest the “review bombing” culture, but in the same breath - Blizzard has really screwed up on OW2.
OW was honestly one of my most played games of all time - and I loved it. The loot boxes were annoying, but hey…if I wanted to, or chose to - I could buy more and got a decent chance of getting what I wanted. The issue was that I had nearly everything by the end, and rarely bought loot boxes. The content wasn’t there to keep people buying cosmetics.
The new shop/token/battle pass stuff is really really toxic to gaming. I will admit that I have bought a few battle passes. When the content is there, I will pay. I would totally buy skins if they were in the vein of $5-7usd, and were for a hero I liked… but there is no way in the world that they are getting me to pay 20-25 on a skin. Its honestly so disgusting.
I really was unaffected by the single player stuff, because I only enjoy multiplayer games - but the way it was done showed disregard for the loyal players so it makes me lose trust in the company. I am honestly just sad about what happened to the OW universe. The only way for people to voice that feeling/emotion is to vent and move on. I guess the reviews serve as a good warning to potential new players.
I love review bombing culture. Because companies always (always) push to have more money. Ten years ago we wouldn’t think that loot boxes would be so common. Now lootboxes are more common and games more shittier.
And sometimes people snap and just bury the game that crosses some lines. Imo those lines were crossed long ago. Now we notice it when the game is both bad and have loot boxes.
But it’s funny to look at overwatch because they also gambled to push as much shit into the game and lost (at least I hope so, the game still have 50000+ players)
But what does “review bombing” accomplish?
You mention loot boxes. SWBF2(2) was so notorious that governments got involved.
And… we still have loot boxes and people are actively defending gacha games.
And that ignores that most review bombs aren’t even about the game* and are mostly about “woke politics” and similar stupidity.
*: I would also very much argue that SWBF2 had very little to do with the loot boxes and was mostly chuds angry about TLJ.
EA BFII released before TLJ (Nov 17, 2017 vs Dec 15, 2017). And the controversy for BFII happened before it’s release, more than a month before anybody had the chance to see TLJ. On top of that, because of the extreme amounts of negative press, all paid loot boxes were removed from BFII within like a week of its release, and all future content would be entirely free. So while sometimes review bombing may be people clamoring about ‘wokeness’ or just ineffective, BFII is not the example to use as it’s probably the singular hardest pivot in game direction in modern AAA due to player outcry.
I have never even heard of anyone reviewing BF2 for the movies. Everything I saw and heard were for loot boxes, the levelling system, the guns, skins, or pride and accomplishment.
Its speculation but it lines up with other debacles over the years. There is a genuine problem/concern. A group of chuds who actually are angry at something else it does pretend this is what they care about start the angry mob going. And then said mob tries to ignore the chuds ranting about other shit. Gamergate is probably the most well known example of this.
And it really does line up here. Funny enough, Overwatch had been batshit insane with loot boxes and shit drops for a year or so by that point and plenty of the same articles and arguments were made (although, I don’t think you could buy sexy nurse Mercy? you had to get her as a drop? Or an SFM clip…) but nobody cared and… many people were actively defending it all while being angry about a Vader skin.
And since? Nothing has changed lootbox wise, people genuinely like SWBF2-2 (or just hate BF2042 that much. It is hard to tell) and gacha games like Genshin Impact are defended by every outlet. And you still have the crowds who can’t hear about TLJ without writing an angry rant about how it ruined Star Wars.
Maybe I am just a cynic. But having been around for more than a few of these: Outrage on the level of SWBF2-2 doesn’t happen without ulterior motives. And those ulterior motives are almost always horrifically chuddy.
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about
Steams reviews have a much higher weight in regard to a games success than any other form of review. The new Battlefront games came to Steam way later, when EA Play got introduced and a big chunk of EAs exclusive library moved to Steam. By that point the Battlefront games got all patched up and were somewhat beloved. But a native Steam release like BF2042 was met with harsh criticism, which ultimately let to the game’s failure. There is a reason why AAA studios like Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft or Microsoft prefer not to release their games on Steam and each have their own launchers. The lack of transparency is also why the Epic Games Store is an attractive alternative for publishers. I’d like to think that Steam has the most solid review system one could ask for, something that other launchers are severely lacking. An “overwhelmingly positive” status for a game is an automatic success and everything below “mixed” is nearly a death sentence. Even games that are successfull, like the recent CoD titles start out “negative” or “mixed” on Steam release. But that doesn’t matter anymore, because the publisher already got his money from their own launcher and console releases.
I pretty sure that at least 50% of the the blizzard staff who was laid off started to make overwatch porn. The single beauty mark on the back of the Pink Mercy skin is all the evidence that I need.
If my claim is correct so yeah, people who make overwatch porn work harder than the current overwatch team.
Beauty mark on the mercy skin?
Look closely on the pink mercy skin, one of the few skin that Mercy has a open back side, it’s has a little beauty mark in the middle of her back.
What’s the relation to the porn?
The person who designed the skin purposely put that beauty mark, is not from Mercy design and others skins with open backside doesn’t have it. If this is not some kind of fetish I don’t know what it is.
This quote from the article is exactly why I absolutely won’t bother with OW2–“free” or not:
“I somehow purchased Overwatch 1 for $40, which Blizzard then deleted and created this predatory microtransaction simulator instead”
I don’t understand the hate the game gets, it’s a free game.
It didn’t use to be.
People give a negative review because they consider the game to be much worse than it was in the past.
they ruined the game with false promises of PVE for the last 4 years and then released monetization and nothing else. they just released a shitty pve gamemode thats 15 bucks for like 3 missions i think which is a slap in the face
What kind of attitude is this? You’re still being used by them as content for the paying users. I’d at least like to get dinner before i get forked.
Huh?
Nobody is forcing you to play overwatch 2. I am disappointed, because I loved the first year or so of OW1, but I fell off that game a long time ago.
Like, if your date is insisting you make the beast with two backs before you head out to the Olive Garden? Just leave? Rather than sitting in their living room yelling about how you need at least four cheddar bay breadsticks before you choke down their breadstick.
so youre saying if that wouldve happened you wouldnt leave a bad review due to the fact its a bad experience you would just leave?
thats a crazy argument you just made and it’s even crazier that youre implying the other guy is being crazy. lots of mental gymnastics on this one
Negative reviews are important. I never cared enough about overwatch because most of the things I didn’t like are things the rest of the playerbase did. But I have left my fair share of negative reviews on other games.
So yeah. I just left. I also just left online Escape from Tarkov (SPTarkov is awesome though). If someone asks me for my opinion, I’ll give it. But I am not going to make wild ass claims about how they need to buy me dinner before I let them fuck me.
But that is not what “review bombing” is (and I also think you replied to the wrong comment but whatever).
Review bombing is the idea of encouraging everyone to get their hate on and spam one star reviews in an attempt to hurt a game. It is right up there with sending death and assault threats to cod developers over nerfing the AKM. It is stupidity and hate and mostly just makes people ignore you
Whereas games that naturally get to “mostly negative” and the like? Those are incredibly valuable. When I see a cool steam game in my discovery queue during a sale or I hear that Nookrium played it, I check it out. And seeing the general trend of those reviews are incredibly useful in knowing if it is in a good place or not. Whereas just seeing a massive spike of reviews lets me know “Cool, all of these are worthless”
On a small scale, people play this out as the idea of sitting in your date’s living room telling them they better get an uber xl or else you are going to give them a one star on the dating app. And on a large scale? This is like calling all your buddies to report this person’s tinder account because they are only 5’8 instead of 6 flat.
