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I said come in! posted:It sucks how badly Blizzard butchered Overwatch. It could have been a really great game, the premise is fantastic, and it has a great foundation for a really fun and competitive shooter. I also love the characters, and artstyle. But then you actually play it and it just feels like rear end. The balance is so bad. I just play healer these days. The lovely matchmaking and balance isn't as bad when you can just hang back and spam heals.
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Jul 19, 2023 19:37
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Looking forward to the Warcraft, and Starcraft games coming to Steam.
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You know after all these years I still don't understand why they didn't just rip off ubercharge if they were already ripping off Team Fortress 2. All the Overwatch ults just make turtling even easier.
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Looks like it may also be the end of the most embarrassing thing in the history of video games:quote:During the second quarter, we amended certain terms of our collaborative arrangements with team entities participating in the Overwatch League. According to the amended terms, following the conclusion of the current Overwatch League season, the teams will vote on an updated operating agreement. If the teams do not vote to continue under an updated operating agreement, a termination fee of $6 million will be payable to each participating team entity (total fee of approximately $114 million). Reminder that 114 million is 1/7 of what these teams paid to buy in in the first place. epic.
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Mierenneuker posted:Also, this from a couple days ago: I don't care much for CoD, but that statement is based on misinterpretation by Microsoft's lawyers. If you read further on in the article, you find that CoD did result in a bump of numbers, but Blizzard's massive loss of popularity concealed it: quote:Battle.net's alleged stagnancy during CoD's exclusivity period appears to be more about Blizzard than Call of Duty. The monthly active users for Blizzard games dropped from 35 million at the end of 2018 to 22 million at the end of 2021, a loss of 13 million—apparently enough for Battle.net's active usership to remain "relatively flat" despite Warzone's exploding popularity.
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I said come in! posted:It sucks how badly Blizzard butchered Overwatch. It could have been a really great game, the premise is fantastic, and it has a great foundation for a really fun and competitive shooter. I also love the characters, and artstyle. But then you actually play it and it just feels like rear end. The balance is so bad. no game with a tank healer dps trinity is a good foundation for a fun competitive anything unless my competitive you mean stuff like racing for world first in a purely pve raid
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Jul 19, 2023 21:03
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Now that Blizzard and EA came crawling back to steam, when is Ubisoft going to follow suit?
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No Wave posted:Looks like it may also be the end of the most embarrassing thing in the history of video games: Didn't they just announce they were laying off their entire e-sports staff? Sounds like Overwatch League is done and Activision/Blizzard is just trying to recoup any loss they can. God, OWL was such a dumb thing. Overwatch is borderline unwatchable (ha) as an e-sport with all the random bright colours and poo poo. I'm amazed it lasted as long as it did, it must have been a huge money sink. Also, one could say OWL played a huge role in why OW2 is such a disaster with all the weird balancing changes. Could a big revamp of OW2 be around the corner? I think all this news around OWL points to yes.\ Leal posted:Now that Blizzard and EA came crawling back to steam, when is Ubisoft going to follow suit? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Ubisoft already back on Steam? You can buy Ubi games on Steam but they'll route through Uplay/UbiConnect/ect. Same as EA games. I noticed during the Steam Sale all their recent titles seem to be up for offer. Snuffman fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Jul 19, 2023 |
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Leal posted:Now that Blizzard and EA came crawling back to steam, when is Ubisoft going to follow suit? in thirty years, after the failure of UbiZone, UbiPlace, and iUbi
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Leal posted:Now that Blizzard and EA came crawling back to steam, when is Ubisoft going to follow suit? blizzard were never on steam, were they?
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Leal posted:Now that Blizzard and EA came crawling back to steam, when is Ubisoft going to follow suit? They added a bunch of newer titles last year. Might not be a guaranteed thing going forward tho, I think the upcoming Assassin's Creed will just be on Ubisoft's store and Epic Games.
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Ubisoft seems to be doing delayed Steam releases currently but not by any regular amount, so my guess would probably be they’re just tossing things up after they feel they’ve gotten the sales elsewhere.
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Even with Valve cuts unless you’re Epic with Fortnite you’re probably just throwing out a bunch of money by not being on Steam and I think EA/Ubi just decided to take the more money.
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Jul 19, 2023 21:29
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I am glad that we can all finally recognize that LawBreakers>Overwatch. Can't wait for its glorious rebirth.
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I imagine this is mostly about wanting to have your high profile F2P games in front of as many people as possible with your player numbers starting to drag, but getting Blizzard used to putting stuff up on Steam ahead of the merger probably doesn’t hurt. Idk that WoW would ever make the move but basically everything else would be better off for it imo. Blizzard is one of the very few devs who might make more money keeping their 20-30%, but it feels like a battle they’re slowly losing.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:no game with a tank healer dps trinity is a good foundation for a fun competitive anything Sure it is. in hunt, I perform DPS by shooting zombies with a shotgun and alerting the map to our position. I tank by strafing into my own traps. I heal by wasting my medkits afterward. perfectly compelling gameplay loop.
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Looks like they already confirmed on a blog post that a “selection” of games will be coming to Steam. Curious if Hearthstone would be one of them - people seem generally happy with that game and there’s very little immediate competition in that space on Steam atm.
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Diablo 2 seems a safe bet, and I’ll buy the gently caress out of it as soon as it does.
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Mordja posted:I am glad that we can all finally recognize that LawBreakers>Overwatch. Can't wait for its glorious rebirth. In all honesty...I wouldn't mind this rebirth, having been one of the suckers who bought LawBreakers and yet barely got to play it due to how fast it crashed and burned. Least I'd make up for sunk cost. But I think rebirth was already teased on twitter and nothing came of it.
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it would be cool if we could register our existing bnet keys on steam but lol. lmao.
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Trackmania is on steam and iirc thats the only good ubisoft game
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Weedle posted:it would be cool if we could register our existing bnet keys on steam but lol. lmao. if the microsoft deal goes through then they might sunset bnet eventually like they did with bethesdas launcher, and the reconciliation there was allowing users to move all their games to steam it'll be a while before that happens though, if it ever does
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thank you Sonic Mania for teaching me that I am awful at Sonic games now  if they ever make a Sonic game where the objective is to lose all your rings right before the boss, I will be #1 world pro
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I said come in! posted:It sucks how badly Blizzard butchered Overwatch. It could have been a really great game, the premise is fantastic, and it has a great foundation for a really fun and competitive shooter. I also love the characters, and artstyle. But then you actually play it and it just feels like rear end. The balance is so bad. Both blizz and the player base would never accept that at some point you need to just stop adding new characters for the sake of balance, game was destined to become trash eventually.
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At least it gave us the best healer in videogames - Lucio
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JollyBoyJohn posted:At least it gave us the best healer in videogames - Lucio I liked the robot monk more
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The 7th Guest posted:how the turn tables 
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I said come in! posted:It sucks how badly Blizzard butchered Overwatch. It could have been a really great game, the premise is fantastic, and it has a great foundation for a really fun and competitive shooter. I also love the characters, and artstyle. But then you actually play it and it just feels like rear end. The balance is so bad.
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RBA Starblade posted:I liked the robot monk more robot monk was more fun around launch when he was a high damage glass cannon, then they rebalanced him to be more homogeneous with lower damage and higher survivability like every other healer
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Give me my games i own on the dumb lovely platforms for free please Valve. I will also accept heavily discounted
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RBA Starblade posted:I liked the robot monk more Zenyatta is in fact the superiorist
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I'll probably just never buy another Blizzard game on Battle.net ever again in case it eventually comes to Steam, but I'm not sure this is what they were going for.
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Why does the back button take me to my library instead of going back one page in the workshop, who made this decision I want to drop legos all around their bed while they sleep so they step on them when they wake up
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TOOT BOOT posted:I'll probably just never buy another Blizzard game 
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Leal posted:Why does the back button take me to my library instead of going back one page in the workshop, who made this decision I want to drop legos all around their bed while they sleep so they step on them when they wake up For a lot of people, the back button's been buggy and weird since the big update they pushed out a little while ago; I don't think this is intended behavior for it. Some people say it goes away if you update to the latest beta but I'm not sure if that's a guaranteed fix for it.
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Anno posted:I imagine this is mostly about wanting to have your high profile F2P games in front of as many people as possible with your player numbers starting to drag, but getting Blizzard used to putting stuff up on Steam ahead of the merger probably doesn’t hurt. Idk that WoW would ever make the move but basically everything else would be better off for it imo. Blizzard is one of the very few devs who might make more money keeping their 20-30%, but it feels like a battle they’re slowly losing. Most likely this, but opening themselves up to Steam's player chart and review features may not be worth the increase in playercount. And I'm not sure why they think new players on Steam won't go the same route as players on Battle.net do. If they're truly in a player deficit at the moment then it's hardly because the game exists. Seems more like a temporary solution but if they don't actually fix the issues people have people won't play it on another platform either. This is all self-inflicted, too. Instead of fixing the issues and undoing all the crap people don't like they'd rather double down on their FOMO-laden bullshit and watch the game die, all the while screaming unto the void "WHY ARE WE LOSING PLAYERS? WHY AREN'T WE MAKING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY PICOSECOND OF THE DAY?" Their philosophy for player feedback has long since been "We know what you want better than you do" and "You think you do but you don't".
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