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Isakk86, do games w That's The End Of Activision Blizzard's $120 Million Overwatch League

From the comments here, apparently I was the only one who really enjoyed watching OWL.

Yeah, it wasn’t perfect, yeah it always had a meta, but it was fun to watch.

Yewb, do games w That's The End Of Activision Blizzard's $120 Million Overwatch League

Miss you Jeff Kaplan

Pxtl,
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

I mean I like Jeff but the OW1 eras of pretty bad gameplay and pretty long time waiting fixes happened on his watch. He designed a crazy fun game, but I think his stewardship in making it stay balanced and various and fun once you get good at it was a bit more lacking.

good_girl,
@good_girl@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The PvE pipe dream was also a result of Kaplan’s direction.

Pxtl,
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

Yup. And Overwatch PVE has never been good… I know a lot of players were pumped for it, but we’ve never seen any evidence they had a good plan for how to make it fun. They had lots of zany ideas for powers and RPG elements and whatnot, but all the PVE content for Overwatch released so far has been mediocre-to-bad.

Imho telling the story through PVE has never been a good idea for OW. It’s not a PVE game. Finding some way to tell the story in PVP, even with massive ludonarrative disconnect, would have been better.

rbesfe, do games w That's The End Of Activision Blizzard's $120 Million Overwatch League

ESports leagues only work when they come from the community. No amount of money will make people care about a random assortment of franchised teams

Jumi, do games w That's The End Of Activision Blizzard's $120 Million Overwatch League

I’m not mad, e-sports ruin games for casuals imo.

zipzoopaboop,

It ruined Overwatch as a whole imo. Fuck role queue and fuck single tank

Jumi,

I prefer role queue and I’m glad that it only cost one tank to get rid of cc/stun for everyone

BeanGoblin, do games w That's The End Of Activision Blizzard's $120 Million Overwatch League
@BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Oh no!..

Anyway…

PeWu, do gaming w Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable

Isn’t it just first steps of enshittification? Hardly anything shocking.

Muffi, do games w Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable

Epic Games launcher/store is nothing more than Tencent spyware using “free games” as bait and masquerading as a Steam competitor.

kagemushablues,

Well. It’s required for downloading Unreal Engine for development. Not really sure about spyware.

rengoku2,

Yeah I am not buying that spyware argument either.

Underwaterbob, do games w Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable

I was up for a Steam competitor. I signed up for the Epic store a few years back. Tried to get the first free game. It wasn’t available in my region despite being plastered all over the store in my region. The exact same thing happened the next month. Both of those games were available on Steam in my region at some pretty low prices by then.

Then, Epic started paying for exclusivity, making games not available in my region at all. I had at least deleted their stupid app by then anyway. Fuck Epic entirely.

fox_the_apprentice,

I was up for a Steam competitor.

GOG Galaxy has been good even before Epic Store existed.

Underwaterbob,

GOG is great. I have an account and have bought a few games there when I think of it. I just wish they had Souls games.

shroomad, do games w Night In The Woods Devs Cancel Highly Anticipated Follow-Up
@shroomad@kbin.social avatar

I'm no doctor but sounds like a side effect of covid :/
Keep masking! Covid can cause damage like this to your heart, your lungs, and/or your brain.. being vaccinated is not enough, it just softens the blow

interdimensionalmeme, do gaming w Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable

That’s what you get for bringing platform game exclusivity to the PC, trash!

canis_majoris, do gaming w Assassin’s Creed Publisher Continues To Downsize, Lays Off More Staff
@canis_majoris@lemmy.ca avatar

Huh, it’s almost like when you make the same game 12 times, force shitty DRM, and then outright disable access to content, people are not going to support your business.

CriticalMiss, do gaming w Assassin’s Creed Publisher Continues To Downsize, Lays Off More Staff

I guess Mirage didn’t do that well.

apprehensively_human, do gaming w Assassin’s Creed Publisher Continues To Downsize, Lays Off More Staff

I think people know who Ubisoft is, Kotaku.

Norgur,

I think you can't take that for granted anymore.

canis_majoris,
@canis_majoris@lemmy.ca avatar

Nah, people know individual dev studios, they just don’t know which major tech organization owns and publishes their titles these days.

Norgur,

I was more along the lines of "they messed up so many titles, nobody knows them anymore"

canis_majoris,
@canis_majoris@lemmy.ca avatar

People still remember the old, good AC games. And FarCry, I guess.

muhyb,

For some weird reason, someone really loves to unlock areas by climbing to a tower.

canis_majoris,
@canis_majoris@lemmy.ca avatar

I remember seeing it the first time as a kid on AC2 and I was like “wooooooaaaaah look at this kick ass view and sick spin around” and then I saw it for the next 10 games and I was less impressed.

Zahille7,

“Oh, this is pretty cool.”

Then it turns into: “can I skip this? Please?”

hogunner,

My guess is that the Venn diagram for the set of people who know Ubisoft is the publisher and the set of people who would read this article is pretty much a circle.

Metal_Zealot,
@Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml avatar

They made Crash Bandicoot, right?

MDKAOD, do gaming w Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable

I just bought the only game I’ll likely ever buy on EGS. It was Alan Wake 2. Being published by Epic, it will unlikely ever be anywhere else until EGS shuts down.

My justifications are as follows: I love the developer and want to support them.

That’s it. The experience was… fine, but far from streamlined. The Epic achievement system is terrible. Imagine walking around in a horror game, immersed in the atmosphere, then a loud cheery mobile app chime blaps through your headphones and a giant banner splatters across the top of your screen announcing your achievement totally jarring you out of the atmosphere.

Then, imagine you find out you can turn on a ‘do not disturb’ mode by pressing shift+f3, then imagine you need to turn it on every time you launch the game. That’s the Epic Games Store experience in a nutshell.

PenguinTD,

Lol, this is something they could have done before the layoff.(no seriously, how hard it is to just disable any notification with a preference?)

Coreidan, do gaming w Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable

Good reason to shut it down then. No one needs their crap anyway.

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