@@arnowisp6244 I assumed their voices would be recognized, but you're right. Here's a list to every creator in the order they first appear in the video: www.youtube.com/@videogamedunkey www.youtube.com/@mrmanghoe7518 www.youtube.com/@cosmonautvarietyhour www.youtube.com/@TheDandyKeef www.youtube.com/@TheActMan www.youtube.com/@theScoreesports www.youtube.com/@AsmonTV www.youtube.com/@ToBinge www.youtube.com/@Savantics www.youtube.com/@TheWhatShow www.youtube.com/@sirswag01 www.youtube.com/@YourOverwatch www.youtube.com/@NYXLOverwatch www.youtube.com/@AdjectiveGaming
my now-passed grandma bought overwatch for me when I was a kid the Christmas after it dropped, to see it reduced to such a pathetic, money-hungry state is honestly beyond heartbreaking
I'm surprised Bobby didn't just tell the devs that OW2 should now be reduced to 9 characters and they have to implement a gacha system unlock the others.
Just remember. The cost of a skin in OW2 is basically insulting to indie devs. They work years on something like Subnautica. While a single skin. That was most likely made in bulk, with other skins. One of the easiest things a game can make. Compared to programing, level design, sound design etc. Costs 80% of Subnautica's price.
what I dont understand is why its 20$ if they make it 2$ and 1M players buy it thats 2M$, but at 20$ like 100 players might buy it thats just 2000$ like... wake up 20$ to me is like 1day worth of food something I can actually use
@@GTB_PR00 Simple because there's always a large portion of people that will never spend a dime on a f2p game. $20 is too much for a skin but according to blizzard and all of their market analysts have come to the best revenue ratio and decided it's the best price, for them. Whales simply carry any game's profits by a large margin
@@finesseandstyle They rely on simply the whales. Or people who don't critical think. If the world thought like me. the F2P model would fail. I love them to make skins. But I want 40 skins for $20. Because we use to get those amount of skins in a $60 game. The live service model cannot live like that. Because they could never keep it alive. If they made it fail to consumer. They'd have to produce 40 skins per season. They'd have to pay to make full games in development. So they couldn't exist. Except in this BS piece meal rip off price way.
It was part of the fault of the players, honestly. First it was crying about teams being able to multi-pick the same character in quick play, then it shifted to bitching about team comps, demanding players be forced into 2-2-2 comps... *in quick play.* Really, I knew the game was going downhill with quick play increasingly becoming an unranked version of competitive, all because of bunch of shitters that thought they had any chance of escaping silver wanted a safe place to "practice" for a competitive setting, implying they were ever going to get better. Sure there were other game modes, including one that mimicked the old quick play, but they were hidden behind the equivalent of page 2 Google search results. No one goes to page 2. The gist of it is Blizzard sacrificed the core audience of their game on the altar of a game mode that most people don't care about for the sake of try hards that weren't worth a shit. Such a shame games like Battleborn and Gigantic had to die in the shadow of this slow burning dumpster fire.
@@littleman6950 I don't remember players wanting 2-2-2, I remember we wanted character Bans before a match started, and I do not understand why Blizzard was so against it, that is such a staple feature in any competitive game with a large cast of character, because then you can just get rid of OP characters like Brigitte and don't need to worry about it until it gets balanced.
The fact that they went all in on the Sombra teases before finally releasing the character is nuts. So much work went into their little bread crumb trails. All to be tossed out with the bathwater when Overwatch 2 came along. Can anyone honestly say they've felt a real sense of care over the handling of Overwatch 2 since it launched? Whole thing was a three ring circus from hell. It was like riding a psychotic horse into a burning barn.
Hell, just compare the release of Lifeweaver to Illari. It's so blatantly obvious Lifeweaver was a rush out the door job an illari was actually planned. It's weird.
It took time for the corruption to set in, but it was fairly obvious this was going to happen as soon as I found out Activision bought Blizzard all those years back.
Overwatch was the one who made lootboxes popular in other games. It started to be a problem, which is now banned in some countries. From the start Overwatch tries to suck the money from the players.
I believe when the merge with Activision occurred is when everything went down hill. They’re having the same issues across games. Removing content and the re-introducing the content as new material is top tier deception.
im going to add some: hollow knight - $15 bloodborne - $20 (on sale for $10) inscryption - $20 the longing - $15 fatum betula - $6 (on sale for $1.50) paratropic - $5.50 (on sale for $1.50) celeste - $20 fortnite - free journey - $15 ori and the blind forest - $20 the stanley parable - $15 fear and hunger - $8 fear and hunger: termina - $12 slime rancher - $20 my friend pedro - $20 post void - $3 undetale: $10 deltarune - free braid - $15 superliminal - $10 inside - $20 (on sale for $2) deaths door - $20 hylics - $3 baba is you - $15 stick fight - $5 olli olli switch stance - $15 super meat boy - $15 shadow of mordor - $20 papers, please - $10
@@_peepee_I agree with you on some of these but Fortnite is not free. It may be free to *play*, but I'm not ready to really call a game with that many microtransctions "free".
It's honestly heartbreaking. Overwatch was the first FPS game I ever bought, and I have played it since release. I have so many memories of playing with my friends, and while I took a 2 year hiatus pretty much before overwatch 2, I always loved the idea of the game. It just died from a lack of support. The story always had me hooked and god do I miss the animatics but Blizzard crushes all hope for a better game when they release dev updates.
@@creflef I'm going to assume you didn't play peak overwatch 1, this game is a shell of what it once was, the upcoming seasons are going to either make or break this game
God... the opening of the video, back when Aaron Keller looked happy and excited. It is kind of heartbreaking when compared to the last time I saw his face in the pve cut announcement. Maybe I'm just being overly empathetic, but I hope things get better for the people on the team. I haven't played much OW2, but I did feel like some of the old excitement wasn't there, from both myself and the team. It's natural for things to chill out or slow down after many years, but this wasn’t that. All the controversies around them, all the expectations to be one of the well-loved dev teams, the team that gave people hope and comfort. I am not talking about the expectations from the fans. _Blizzard_ used and abused the team's good image. It couldn't have been easy. Eventually, something like that eats at you too much to put on a cheerful face anymore. I feel for them.
@skillgamer76 Are you a blizzard exec? Sound like one. If you are, please do the world a favor and stop existing. If you are not, stop justifying the actions of money grubbing parasite executives that just are appalled at the idea of making others happy.
@@skillgamer76 still years of your life spent working on something that won’t even be used/finished. If you’ve ever worked on a painting or any art piece you’d know how crushing that is
@@zathias6154 i can see that for some of the changes *cough* ashe dynamite. It really is a shame we aren't getting the pve experience we were PROMISED, *PROMISED* And instead we're getting archive missions with a coat of paint splashed on
Except for those poor Ashe mains who had the character locked out of the mode after her dynamite was wiping people out a lot more effectively than intended lmao. That mode was so much fun tho
@@MothDax "PVE is cancelled." "PVE isnt cancelled guys! PVE isnt cancelled!" blizzard doing 2 PR AT ONCE back to back opposing each PR yeaaah, i know what we dont get is *X Y Z* , but we are supposed to get *A - V* that was what were promised
@@zathias6154 they literally made a joke about "oh these changes could never work in pvp", and that's why the talent trees were for pve. The entire leadership team for overwatch changed during OW2's development, and it shows. At least they tried to balance the game in overwatch 1
It is interesting how Jeff's final message seems to exclude bobby. It makes mention of those that support, those that create and those that play which I personally would not count Bobby in any of those categories as all he cares about is the revenue and not the time, effort or enjoyment that goes into games.
According to YourOverwatch, Jeff would try his best to keep any drama/problems from upper management away from the dev team. He has always loved and respected his development team, and I have no doubt his exclusion of mentioning Bobby or upper management in his farewell message was a metaphorical middle finger.
He’s short sighted too. It’s not wrong to care about profit. The profit is what tells you you’ve done right by the customer, that’s its entire point, and it lets you employ a bunch of men and yourself so everyone’s families are fed. Bobby isn’t profit-motivated, he’s greedy. Greed leads to short term schemes for fast immorally gotten cash. No one ever holds the immorally obtained for long, and we can see how the business of Blizzard is succumbing to the disease of its own immorality as we speak. Before that, blizzard was very good to the customer, and in doing so made a shitload of profit. It was one of the best game development companies ever, and was of course, and as is deserved, one of the richest. Now it is dying, because now it is functioning incorrectly, the profits are dying with it, as they should.
I really hope Jeff and the rest of the team is doing okay. It has to be so hard to watch your dream project, one of immense passion, be tarnished to the point of no-return. I used to love Overwatch. I met friends, I loved the lore, the characters. It's hard to watch for me too, but these people poured years of their lives into this game. I wish them peace.
@@natrielka If anything, it *feels* like Jeff resigned exactly because he knew what is coming and doesn't have the heart to see it all come crashing down...
@@MadcatMashupMayhem he likely resigned because management was going over his head to get the things they wanted (battle pass, $20 skins, overmonetization all around), and that was the excuse they needed to put someone who would lick their boots in charge of the overwatch team
This hits hard personally. When Overwatch came out I was very hard on it because of the rivalry its community had with my previous favorite game TF2 but, Reinhardt's design and playstyle opened my eyes to the point where I decided to try it. I was hooked, extremely fond of the game to the point where I played it more than nearly every other game. To have such a connection to the game and then watch Blizzard basically take it out back and execute it guts me. I certainly miss when games, not just Overwatch, were made for the enjoyment of the players not just a way to slither into their wallets.
Oh man, that cinematic at the end, I never got to play overwatch, but liked the world and the characters, and that one in particular, never failed to make me cry
Unchecked greed ruins even the brightest and most beautiful ideas and ideals. The ill fate is all the fault of Bobby Kotick and the ones licking up to him.. I am so sorry.. hearing Jeff talk with so much passion.. I can only imagine how much crap and pain he went through.
Overtwatch was the first “competitive” game I played the shit out of. I remember playing the pre-release beta back in 2015/2016 and fell in love with the game. I got sucked into the Characters and world. It gave me the same feeling of reading Marvel/DC comics back when I was younger and I was stoked for them to develop the world. After a while with no real story updates I gave up on Overwatch until they announced Overwatch 2 and that it would include story and PVE character progression and I felt the same excitement I had back in 2016. Now PVE has reigned in/cancelled, story is going to be released episodically over the seasons and I’m just sad and tired of this.
When it first came out I fell in love with Reinhardt. The knightly-inspired mech-armor with rockets and a giant hammer. Shouting 'honor and glory!' as I charged through enemies. Defending my team behind that massive barrier, living an absolute power-fantasy as an unstoppable bulwark against the enemy. I remember looking up videos of Darin De Paul acting goofy at Blizzcon. I've been addicted to the characters and world Jeff and his team created ever since, and it wrenches my heart to see it all crushed for the sake of lining Bobby's pockets.
@@Silveraxed you did great job at covering all of the issues except for missing one, they lied for doing a poor collab to one punch man manga from 4 skins we are getting, 2 of them are poor recolor and they even charged one of it 20$ calling the poor quality as cosplay even though other blizzard collab skins exist (WoW, starcraft, diablo) i forget that we are supposed to get weather system than just of night and day seasonal changes the new roadmap released just pushed EVERYTHING in season 6 & 7 which means, all the promised stuff is given 1 YEAR after release... all we got so far is mediocre
When you look at how League of Legends spun off part of their world and cast (and not even the most major part of it!) into a hit animated series that's been almost ubiquitously praised for its characters and story....it's truly jaw-dropping how Blizzard bungled the lore and character side of Overwatch.
Overwatch was the first FPS shooter game I bought. During the lowest point in my life, the idea of anyone can be a hero really gave me hope. So sad to see how the game became how it is now.
"But only now do I realize what he truly meant: Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere" - critic from Ratatouille.
@@MonkofVibes yup, as much as nintendo is quite strict and over protective of their IP. atleast no one can deny that their first party games are really good, back then and still is today. But unlike nintendo, Blizzard just fell off on everything. All their games now are not great anymore... As a software dev I had 0 hope for OW2 especially when Jeff said before launch that "they made multiple prototype of OW2" (which is not something you would want to hear in any software or game development, since that indicates no clear direction or the higher up making massive changes frequently) ...But I still got disappointed. Heck, I was waiting if Diablo 4 would be better... but now that it's released, That's not the case as well. Blizzard is now something you wouldn't want to see on a game's title anymore.
Wow, nice touch with the comparison from skins to steam game prices... that really did hit home there. Edit: Also love that while Reinhardt was returning to Overwatch when he set that coin down, "answering the call"... you turned it around to a somber departure from Overwatch, answering the call of other games to move on to. That was damn good
Do you know whats the worst part about this entire situation? The fact Blizzards going to get away with throwing away PvE and other promised content because its inevitable nostalgic players will return and new players who dont know the full story will start and continue playing.
@@ghoulbuster1 f2p didnt even got anything, though the art are very great so they would stick for a while you need 3-4 months to get a single battlepass and then you NEED to play for one and a half to get everything on it i swear doing anything than playing the game is actually gives you more
This video covered every single problem that I’ve had with OW2, without fail. If someone asks me what happened to OW, this is the video that I will show them. Thank you for making this video.
OG here, I remember nights spent with my friends messing around and guessing the story. I remember when we had duplicate characters for quickplay and grinding out lootboxes with them for character skins and losing. I met some of my bestfriends through this game. Seeing it's passion lost forever and realizing I'm never getting it back is still so surreal to me. Despite it all I have hope, a smidge hope, but they really did fucking fumble it man.
Honestly, I respect the balls on Jared to deliver the bad knews when he KNEW people would use him as the face of the outrage. Upper management is really just throwing out 3+ years of game development. These poor devs man... to be fair, I would be surprised if most of the devs originally working on the pve quit or were fired. After the allegations. So they were probably set back a year or 2 as new employees needed to learn how to do things. I still stand behind most of the new designs and animations being worse than OW1. Sifting through code you dont know is a pain in the ass.
@Silveraxed That's true but Microsoft usually gives their studios creative freedom, and they're getting rid of Bobby and some of the other higher ups, so there's a legitimate chance we could get pve back
@@Silveraxed Honestly.. It's kind of frustrating to listen to this response. Yes you are right that Microsoft may not be much better of an option.. But I would still rather see them try instead of everything staying as it is. Otherwise nothing will ever change, not like we have another better company to follow through with this, it's the only chance.. Even if it fails.
"Avoiding Tokenism and Stereotypes" All of the aussies are criminals, all of the Japanese characters are Ninjas. All of the black characters can jump. The American hero is Call of Duty: Letterman Jacket. It's nothing but Tokenism and Stereotypes.
Remember the cheer and genuine happiness when overwatch was announced at blizzcon? That's what they killed. The love and passion inside the hearts of people. Shame.
So true for Kiriko, the first hero that really feels like they're just slaping a concept without context, like they don't care anymore (a bit like Paladins, but they never had lore in the first place). It's in a way sad to see that the original idea of OW was to make a fun game before making it competitive, that didn't age well at all lol. Also the part where the guy shows you the value you can get on steam for 20$ compared to the shitty skins x'D You can get f*cking V.Rising, an early access that's worth 10 times what most triple A 80$ games offer today, for the price of a crappy cosmetic in OW2... damn.
I got OW for 10$ when a store incorrectly put a promotion if you bought any hp product you will get ow for free and the cheapest thing I found was a Ink cartridge for 10 bucks that's how my days of happiness started
i had to stop for a moment when you showed the sombra reveal, i started to tear up and almost outright started crying. i love this game but how the mighty have fallen.
I cried too when I re-discovered it. I remember all the teasing there was in-game for her reveal. The passion the dev team used to have, now completely gone.
@Silveraxe it's not developers being lazy or not having anymore creativity. It's the industry as a whole changing from in 2016 being largely centred around paying to play a game with maybe a few microtransactions here and there to being free and microtransactions being the only source of income and the suits only caring about that. On a side note as well there isn't really a character that they could do an arg on that scale really ever again. At least without making a sombra 2.
@@neonnlightt You're absolutely right, though I think you misunderstood me: the devs lost their passion through no fault of their own. Jeff Kaplan provided them a space to make something unique and amazing, and the corporate greed that is running rampant in the gaming industry took that away. The devs didn't lose their passion because of laziness, they lost it from being beaten down and dehumanized by Bobby Kotick and Activision-Blizzard.
Early Overwatch: An incredible fustercluck of a game, unbalanced as all get out, but fun as HELL. Overwatch by 2019: Dying, meta based, super competitive. Overwatch now: Soulless, Corporate, Greedy.
to be honest, i see that everyone is angry because of the treatments but this proves you can only act on the current states and not the promised, this is applicable everywhere: games, work, friends, family ect. It kinda is our fault to be such a easy to earn crowd and fall into the promises and build on the future not the now
You have a point, pre-ordering games is what's caused the current epidemic of unfinished titles being released. However, I can understand people just wanting to trust a developer who gives them a vision for something unique to look forward to.
I've been telling this to diablo 4 pre order shills. You're the problem at this point. All the news around actiblizz and all their history of lying and trying to milk fans and they still pre ordering D4 to play early and be beta testers while they adjust balance... of which is abysmal. They've already told you it's going for the destiny 2 model. You'll have to repurchase the game a couple times a year to play because the expansions will be small but completely replace the current content just like in destiny 2. That model makes money, why wouldn't blizz copy that?
@@ghoulbuster1 but if the customer continues to buy fecal matter despite company’s being shady for decades now you kinda have to look in the mirror. I would absolutely pin most of this on consumers if people cared a little more about what they consumed there wouldn’t be such rampant awful practises (battle pass etc) vote with your dollar simple as that
@@Silveraxed i do agree with them wanting it, but its unrealisitc, there are so many types of gamers wanna see different things so they must follow their own senses and make the choices, they have info regular players dont have and we have to trust in the decisionmaking. at the end, consumers can choose wheter to consume it or not.
If Bobby Kotick wasn't at the top of Blizzard granting all this Overwatch would be bigger then Leauge of Legends but its not gamers at the managment and that's what destroyed every big AAA+ gaming developer company, at least that's what I can assume in the last 20 years
You're absolutely right. Somebody who cared about video games would not demand developers scrap several years of hard work to focus on monetization instead. Like YourOverwatch said, Bobby is the problem.
I traded 3 games for overwatch when it came out. Had so much fun. Didn't have a lot of friends who played with me, but I met so many people that I played with and ranked up with over a couple years. Those first two and a half years of overwatch were just off the wall fun. I mained mercy and got to diamond without a consistent squad. Felt so proud at the time for that
Overwatch 1 was genuinely my most played game, i had everyskin that i couldve gotten through wvents and whatever else, i loved the game, then when ow2 got released, i can barely open the game before closing it and going on a different game
yeah but it was 40$ to play though now that 40$ cost really cheap than OW2 also they didnt update much AFTER 3 YEARS even though its a successful live service game tell you the dark foreseeable future
@@3takoyakis yeah, they didn't update much after 3 years because they were working on ow2 pve and shit, which didn't even make it into the game, also who cares if it was £40 for ow1? When a single skin in ow2 cost £20?? The BP cost £25 and it didn't even have currency for the first 3 seasons and the currency they give now is the old currency? I'd rather spend £40 on a game and have everything free from loot boxes every level than spend £40 on 2 skins and have to buy a pass every 2 month for a character, or be forced to play until reaching 45 to get a character if I refuse to buy the BP, basically ow2 is just a cash grab behind a fre to play, if they were going to do that from the start ow1 should've been free to play but have a shop/ BP, the fact that it never had a BP or shop but had free to obtain lootboxes that give you credits/skins is the reason ow2 is so fucking shit for its cash grab
I remember me and my friends playing overwatch 1, it was super fun, escpescially stacking a few heros. Then they removed it and immediatly when i saw the announcment, i felt like 'this is it, the point where everything will go downhill' and it did. Casual and Competitive were indestinguishable from eachother at one point and i just left with everyone else. It became boring and the charm soon faded. Overwatch died when casual died and everyone became sweaty
@@XBullitt16X I remember watching some of competitive Overwatch, and coming away with a headache. The fights were over in seconds after the first character died, they were always snowballs in one direction or the other, they were visual FX lightshows that were painful to watch, and there was little strategy other than who could ult-storm first.
I stopped playing OW2 in mid-Oct. and hadn’t thought too much about since then. The cancelled PvE news is hitting me almost like the death of a friend. I put at least 1500 hours into OW over 4 years… not getting to see these maps again… almost like losing someone
I remember going out on Day 1 to buy a physical copy of OW1 and having so much fun with it. I played right up to the last hours of the servers shutting down. Honestly OW2 has been an insult from the beginning with 5v5, one of the worst Battle Passes out there, and the cash shop. I quit a week in and the PVE lies kept me from ever returning.
Warlords of Draenor was a WoW expansion back in 2014 that got screwed over by corporate meddling too. Expansions come out every two years, but Bobby wanted to annualise WoW expansions much like CoD and have them release once a year rather than every two years. What happened was that a lot of promised content was cut during development, dev time wasted, and you ended up with an expansion lasting two years but with only a year's worth of content. And then there's Warcraft III Reforged.
"We realized that it would actually take a lot of work to deliver what we promised, so we are not going to do it." Overwatch: Reforged development team.
This is actually pretty heartbreaking. I've been playing Overwatch since the open beta for Overwatch 1. It's been my favorite Multiplayer game since it came out and now it's been reduced to this.
wow I just finished this video and was absolutely dumbfounded to see "95 subscribers" under your name, thought it might be some kind of glitch at first lol. great work, hope you get some numbers out of it because this totally deserves it.
I’ve never seen a game company build up a lot of respect only for it to come crashing down really hard so fast. This genuinely makes me feel that the MOBA genre is dying and it won’t be dazzling, but instead it’ll die with a whimper.
We just witnessed video game history. Blizzard failed in a way no video game studio has failed before.. driving away ALL the talent they had to the point where they can't ship a game even with all the money in the world. I think this case is going to be studied in business classes all around the world for ages as the big failures of yesteryear (like Atari) were due to conventional management issues. "Failing Upwards" needs to be looked at and acknowledged because that's what got such a great game canned.
The best part is that they admitted that the PvE story campaign was basically scrapped at the time they launched Overwatch: $20 Skins Edition, they just kept that under their hat to sell more battlepasses. Would love to see a class action lawsuit or something that changes the video game industry, bc publishers are at an all-time low of manipulative misinformation & consumer exploitation.
Imagine designing a character, giving them a backsory and everything, building them for years and giving them all these cool skins, just for blizzard to decide that character is gay so they can avoid some backlash
I miss the early days of overwatch so much, some of the most fun I've had online. I remember what an absolute blast the pre-release playtest was and I remember feverishly playing demoman in TF2 waiting for OW's release. I remember the sheer hype behind sombra, I remember buying my first (and only) golden gun for torb as a joke and laughing about it with friends. It really, really breaks my heart to see how far overwatch has fallen. At OW2's launch it slowly dawned on me that the game's monetization was so bad that it made apex legends look like a saint in comparison. I guess everything has to end eventually, but seeing OW's legacy just keep getting tarnished like this hurts.
I think it’s fair to say OW has become something different from what we first fell in love with. Like a relationship, people (things) change and it’s ok to break up. Go out and find better things.
19:00 that statement probably had to be „permitted“ by Bobby Kotick and was followed by a non-compete and no-comment legal binding. So I do not fault Jeff but Bobby for this too.
Hearing 21 characters be treated as some massive number is hilarious to someone like me coming from League of Legends. We're over 160 and still climbing.
What was taken away? The heart and sincerity of the game and the company who worked hard but they were trampled by greed and selfishness. I may not be a player but the character announcement and stories made me so hype about the game and then, this happened. What a sad waste of potential
That scroll of indie games contains dozens that are worth ten Overwatch 2s themselves. It's unfortunate how companies always get crazy when they get big.
I remember when i got Overwatch for Christmas i also got was an extremely happy time. The amount of hours i put in Overwatch, the amount of friends i made and fond memories of Overwatch are something i will never forget. But now seeing what it has become doesn’t make me mad. It genuinely makes me sad.
Remember the reason they let OW1 go stale? Remember the reason they killed OW1 to make room for OW2? Remember the reason a majority of the player base was even playing? Yeah, well they cancelled it. I’m fact, they stopped working on it as soon as OW2 came out.
Great outro with the Steam price comparison! Really puts it in perspective. A game like Valheim where me and my friends have spent endless hours together, is cheaper than a skin in OW2. That's just hilarious to me. I'll keep playing OW2 because I fell in love with OW1, but that's probably the last time I download a game from blizzard. I remember always thinking "blizzard ONLY gives out quality, like Warcraft, WoW, Starcraft and Overwatch.. Pure quality..". Then these last 3-4 years happened and I realized blizzard is done.
@@Matthewexistespecially at the time. It was the best Multiplayer only shooter but it was still a multiplayer only shooter with live service launch amount of content. 40 was fair.
man. i never played overwatch but even i was swept away by the hype for the sombra arg. this shit just hurts to see. sending love to the devs, i cant imagine what theyre going through.
for 40€ you could get the persona 3 and 4 bundle, two of the best jrpgs ever made that will give you at minimum 200 hours of playtime, or you could get two skins for an overwatch hero good video mate
You could pirate those games for $0. Or spend infinitely more money to own a digital license that will be meaningless whenever the game service shuts down. Spending money on video games is a waste of money in the first place doesnt matter if you buy an old ass jrpg or cosmetics in a game, either way its waste
it’s so sad seeing the direction the game has gone since it’s first release. i loved overwatch, not for the gameplay, but for the world and the characters. i can’t remember who said it first but i remember somebody saying that overwatch “made hope feel cool” and i couldn’t agree more
I really miss when overwatch was genuinely fun and actually very freeing to play instead of “free to play.”
i would love to play overwatch again
but ow2 i dont want to play
Free to pay
@@tau-5794 ow 2 is worse than ow 1 so why should i play an inferior game
@@margok321 what's different about it?
@@tau-5794 Aww, you beat me to it.
"You gave Overwatch everything, and then they pushed you out! Why would you go back to them?" -Brigitte to Reinhardt
"I must answer, always" -Reinhardt
@@arnowisp6244 I assumed their voices would be recognized, but you're right.
Here's a list to every creator in the order they first appear in the video:
www.youtube.com/@videogamedunkey
www.youtube.com/@mrmanghoe7518
www.youtube.com/@cosmonautvarietyhour
www.youtube.com/@TheDandyKeef
www.youtube.com/@TheActMan
www.youtube.com/@theScoreesports
www.youtube.com/@AsmonTV
www.youtube.com/@ToBinge
www.youtube.com/@Savantics
www.youtube.com/@TheWhatShow
www.youtube.com/@sirswag01
www.youtube.com/@YourOverwatch
www.youtube.com/@NYXLOverwatch
www.youtube.com/@AdjectiveGaming
@@tomyoy_of_timdom1454 "what a sheep." -Brig
because the game is fun
You did this to yourself when you decided to start playing a game that was only relevant because of it's phub tags
my now-passed grandma bought overwatch for me when I was a kid the Christmas after it dropped, to see it reduced to such a pathetic, money-hungry state is honestly beyond heartbreaking
Not only that. To add insult to the injury, the game she gifted you, no longer exists, thanks to the Kotick money sucking gang.
Friend, remember, the happiness your grandma gifted you can never be taken away
@@BuryTomorrow12 Yes, Overwatch 1 copies are essentially usless pieces of plastic now.
I'm surprised Bobby didn't just tell the devs that OW2 should now be reduced to 9 characters and they have to implement a gacha system unlock the others.
Probably suggested.
A class based shooter with only 9 characters? Nobody would play that ;y
@@borkbork9541*cough* tf2 *cough*
Overwatch 2 x Genshin Impact confirmed
@@Bignjessfan tbf tf2 didn't lock characters despite being f2p
Just remember. The cost of a skin in OW2 is basically insulting to indie devs. They work years on something like Subnautica. While a single skin. That was most likely made in bulk, with other skins. One of the easiest things a game can make. Compared to programing, level design, sound design etc. Costs 80% of Subnautica's price.
what I dont understand is why its 20$ if they make it 2$ and 1M players buy it thats 2M$, but at 20$ like 100 players might buy it thats just 2000$ like... wake up 20$ to me is like 1day worth of food something I can actually use
@@GTB_PR00 Simple because there's always a large portion of people that will never spend a dime on a f2p game. $20 is too much for a skin but according to blizzard and all of their market analysts have come to the best revenue ratio and decided it's the best price, for them. Whales simply carry any game's profits by a large margin
2023 and Subnautica devs still cant program an x axis cam invert 💀
@@finesseandstyle They rely on simply the whales. Or people who don't critical think. If the world thought like me. the F2P model would fail. I love them to make skins. But I want 40 skins for $20. Because we use to get those amount of skins in a $60 game. The live service model cannot live like that. Because they could never keep it alive. If they made it fail to consumer. They'd have to produce 40 skins per season. They'd have to pay to make full games in development. So they couldn't exist. Except in this BS piece meal rip off price way.
@@Arionid why... why would you want that?
It's strange with the falling of Overwatch, first it was frustration, then anger and now just overwhelming sadness.
The stages of grief.
It was part of the fault of the players, honestly. First it was crying about teams being able to multi-pick the same character in quick play, then it shifted to bitching about team comps, demanding players be forced into 2-2-2 comps... *in quick play.*
Really, I knew the game was going downhill with quick play increasingly becoming an unranked version of competitive, all because of bunch of shitters that thought they had any chance of escaping silver wanted a safe place to "practice" for a competitive setting, implying they were ever going to get better. Sure there were other game modes, including one that mimicked the old quick play, but they were hidden behind the equivalent of page 2 Google search results. No one goes to page 2.
The gist of it is Blizzard sacrificed the core audience of their game on the altar of a game mode that most people don't care about for the sake of try hards that weren't worth a shit. Such a shame games like Battleborn and Gigantic had to die in the shadow of this slow burning dumpster fire.
literally immeasurable sadness
@@littleman6950 I don't remember players wanting 2-2-2, I remember we wanted character Bans before a match started, and I do not understand why Blizzard was so against it, that is such a staple feature in any competitive game with a large cast of character, because then you can just get rid of OP characters like Brigitte and don't need to worry about it until it gets balanced.
acceptance will kick in
The fact that they went all in on the Sombra teases before finally releasing the character is nuts. So much work went into their little bread crumb trails. All to be tossed out with the bathwater when Overwatch 2 came along. Can anyone honestly say they've felt a real sense of care over the handling of Overwatch 2 since it launched? Whole thing was a three ring circus from hell. It was like riding a psychotic horse into a burning barn.
Hell, just compare the release of Lifeweaver to Illari. It's so blatantly obvious Lifeweaver was a rush out the door job an illari was actually planned. It's weird.
The end showing 20 dollar games vs the skins is so true but sad. Blizzard has truly lost its ways a long time ago
It took time for the corruption to set in, but it was fairly obvious this was going to happen as soon as I found out Activision bought Blizzard all those years back.
Overwatch was the one who made lootboxes popular in other games.
It started to be a problem, which is now banned in some countries.
From the start Overwatch tries to suck the money from the players.
I believe when the merge with Activision occurred is when everything went down hill. They’re having the same issues across games. Removing content and the re-introducing the content as new material is top tier deception.
im going to add some:
hollow knight - $15
bloodborne - $20 (on sale for $10)
inscryption - $20
the longing - $15
fatum betula - $6 (on sale for $1.50)
paratropic - $5.50 (on sale for $1.50)
celeste - $20
fortnite - free
journey - $15
ori and the blind forest - $20
the stanley parable - $15
fear and hunger - $8
fear and hunger: termina - $12
slime rancher - $20
my friend pedro - $20
post void - $3
undetale: $10
deltarune - free
braid - $15
superliminal - $10
inside - $20 (on sale for $2)
deaths door - $20
hylics - $3
baba is you - $15
stick fight - $5
olli olli switch stance - $15
super meat boy - $15
shadow of mordor - $20
papers, please - $10
@@_peepee_I agree with you on some of these but Fortnite is not free.
It may be free to *play*, but I'm not ready to really call a game with that many microtransctions "free".
It's honestly heartbreaking. Overwatch was the first FPS game I ever bought, and I have played it since release. I have so many memories of playing with my friends, and while I took a 2 year hiatus pretty much before overwatch 2, I always loved the idea of the game. It just died from a lack of support. The story always had me hooked and god do I miss the animatics but Blizzard crushes all hope for a better game when they release dev updates.
@@creflef PAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAH
go play tf2
@@elgatochurro I have played tf2, put about 50 hours in, overated game, nowhere near as good as overwatch
@@creflef I'm going to assume you didn't play peak overwatch 1, this game is a shell of what it once was, the upcoming seasons are going to either make or break this game
@@keithmanara2856 look at your game... vs a 15 year old f2p game... which your beloved Ow is a failed competitive copy of.
God... the opening of the video, back when Aaron Keller looked happy and excited. It is kind of heartbreaking when compared to the last time I saw his face in the pve cut announcement. Maybe I'm just being overly empathetic, but I hope things get better for the people on the team.
I haven't played much OW2, but I did feel like some of the old excitement wasn't there, from both myself and the team. It's natural for things to chill out or slow down after many years, but this wasn’t that. All the controversies around them, all the expectations to be one of the well-loved dev teams, the team that gave people hope and comfort. I am not talking about the expectations from the fans. _Blizzard_ used and abused the team's good image. It couldn't have been easy. Eventually, something like that eats at you too much to put on a cheerful face anymore. I feel for them.
When your boss is Bobby Kotick, I suppose you can only be so eager for so long.
For real, bobbert is literally just the dude from monsters inc with the scream sucking machine lol.
I can’t imagine how defeating it must be to be someone who worked on the PvE stuff. Awful.
Still got paid so
@@skillgamer76 Right, because money is all we care about. 🙄
@skillgamer76 Are you a blizzard exec? Sound like one. If you are, please do the world a favor and stop existing. If you are not, stop justifying the actions of money grubbing parasite executives that just are appalled at the idea of making others happy.
@@skillgamer76 still years of your life spent working on something that won’t even be used/finished. If you’ve ever worked on a painting or any art piece you’d know how crushing that is
@@skillgamer76 that's so far off the mark lmao
Still love that the most happy people have been with Overwatch 2 has been the April Fools mode.
A lot of the code for the April fools patch allegedly came from the devs work on talent trees.
@@zathias6154 i can see that for some of the changes *cough* ashe dynamite. It really is a shame we aren't getting the pve experience we were PROMISED, *PROMISED*
And instead we're getting archive missions with a coat of paint splashed on
Except for those poor Ashe mains who had the character locked out of the mode after her dynamite was wiping people out a lot more effectively than intended lmao. That mode was so much fun tho
@@MothDax "PVE is cancelled."
"PVE isnt cancelled guys! PVE isnt cancelled!"
blizzard doing 2 PR AT ONCE back to back opposing each PR
yeaaah, i know what we dont get is *X Y Z* , but we are supposed to get *A - V*
that was what were promised
@@zathias6154 they literally made a joke about "oh these changes could never work in pvp", and that's why the talent trees were for pve.
The entire leadership team for overwatch changed during OW2's development, and it shows. At least they tried to balance the game in overwatch 1
It is interesting how Jeff's final message seems to exclude bobby. It makes mention of those that support, those that create and those that play which I personally would not count Bobby in any of those categories as all he cares about is the revenue and not the time, effort or enjoyment that goes into games.
According to YourOverwatch, Jeff would try his best to keep any drama/problems from upper management away from the dev team. He has always loved and respected his development team, and I have no doubt his exclusion of mentioning Bobby or upper management in his farewell message was a metaphorical middle finger.
I can't imagine the fight that took place away from public eye, going on for years
He’s short sighted too. It’s not wrong to care about profit. The profit is what tells you you’ve done right by the customer, that’s its entire point, and it lets you employ a bunch of men and yourself so everyone’s families are fed. Bobby isn’t profit-motivated, he’s greedy. Greed leads to short term schemes for fast immorally gotten cash. No one ever holds the immorally obtained for long, and we can see how the business of Blizzard is succumbing to the disease of its own immorality as we speak. Before that, blizzard was very good to the customer, and in doing so made a shitload of profit. It was one of the best game development companies ever, and was of course, and as is deserved, one of the richest. Now it is dying, because now it is functioning incorrectly, the profits are dying with it, as they should.
"The world could always use more heroes" -Tracer
As I watch the company I once love become the villain
Except for you
And drink breast milk
I really hope Jeff and the rest of the team is doing okay. It has to be so hard to watch your dream project, one of immense passion, be tarnished to the point of no-return. I used to love Overwatch. I met friends, I loved the lore, the characters. It's hard to watch for me too, but these people poured years of their lives into this game. I wish them peace.
Fortunately, Jeff resigned a couple of years ago before this mess.
@@iwolfyus1385 I know he did, but he definitely knows about this mess
@@natrielka If anything, it *feels* like Jeff resigned exactly because he knew what is coming and doesn't have the heart to see it all come crashing down...
He is sipping mojito on a beach somewhere with all his money piled up
Don't need to worry about him
@@MadcatMashupMayhem he likely resigned because management was going over his head to get the things they wanted (battle pass, $20 skins, overmonetization all around), and that was the excuse they needed to put someone who would lick their boots in charge of the overwatch team
I love that montage near the end showing dozens of good, complete games that are cheaper than even the "epic" skins that barely change anything.
This hits hard personally. When Overwatch came out I was very hard on it because of the rivalry its community had with my previous favorite game TF2 but, Reinhardt's design and playstyle opened my eyes to the point where I decided to try it. I was hooked, extremely fond of the game to the point where I played it more than nearly every other game. To have such a connection to the game and then watch Blizzard basically take it out back and execute it guts me. I certainly miss when games, not just Overwatch, were made for the enjoyment of the players not just a way to slither into their wallets.
"Honor, and glory!"
"You gave Overwatch everything, and they pushed you away." What a lot of us feel like after PvE was taken away from us.
The PvE they advertised i mean.
Remember, Bobby needs his yacht
*his third yacht
@@razrv3lc *His fourth yacht
Bobby needs to be eaten, or held for ransom.
@@Varns_ guys...it's his fifth
Yatch are a human right!
Oh man, that cinematic at the end, I never got to play overwatch, but liked the world and the characters, and that one in particular, never failed to make me cry
Unchecked greed ruins even the brightest and most beautiful ideas and ideals. The ill fate is all the fault of Bobby Kotick and the ones licking up to him.. I am so sorry.. hearing Jeff talk with so much passion.. I can only imagine how much crap and pain he went through.
Overtwatch was the first “competitive” game I played the shit out of. I remember playing the pre-release beta back in 2015/2016 and fell in love with the game. I got sucked into the Characters and world. It gave me the same feeling of reading Marvel/DC comics back when I was younger and I was stoked for them to develop the world. After a while with no real story updates I gave up on Overwatch until they announced Overwatch 2 and that it would include story and PVE character progression and I felt the same excitement I had back in 2016. Now PVE has reigned in/cancelled, story is going to be released episodically over the seasons and I’m just sad and tired of this.
When it first came out I fell in love with Reinhardt. The knightly-inspired mech-armor with rockets and a giant hammer. Shouting 'honor and glory!' as I charged through enemies. Defending my team behind that massive barrier, living an absolute power-fantasy as an unstoppable bulwark against the enemy. I remember looking up videos of Darin De Paul acting goofy at Blizzcon. I've been addicted to the characters and world Jeff and his team created ever since, and it wrenches my heart to see it all crushed for the sake of lining Bobby's pockets.
@@Silveraxed you did great job at covering all of the issues
except for missing one, they lied for doing a poor collab to one punch man manga
from 4 skins we are getting, 2 of them are poor recolor and they even charged one of it 20$
calling the poor quality as cosplay even though other blizzard collab skins exist (WoW, starcraft, diablo)
i forget that we are supposed to get weather system than just of night and day seasonal changes
the new roadmap released just pushed EVERYTHING in season 6 & 7
which means, all the promised stuff is given 1 YEAR after release... all we got so far is mediocre
When you look at how League of Legends spun off part of their world and cast (and not even the most major part of it!) into a hit animated series that's been almost ubiquitously praised for its characters and story....it's truly jaw-dropping how Blizzard bungled the lore and character side of Overwatch.
the moment jeff left there was nothing to save
Overwatch was the first FPS shooter game I bought. During the lowest point in my life, the idea of anyone can be a hero really gave me hope. So sad to see how the game became how it is now.
Blizzard is the Nintendo of america if Nintendo didn't have any good games
"But only now do I realize what he truly meant: Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere" - critic from Ratatouille.
@@magnusm4 Anyone can cook
@@MonkofVibes yup, as much as nintendo is quite strict and over protective of their IP. atleast no one can deny that their first party games are really good, back then and still is today.
But unlike nintendo, Blizzard just fell off on everything. All their games now are not great anymore... As a software dev I had 0 hope for OW2 especially when Jeff said before launch that "they made multiple prototype of OW2" (which is not something you would want to hear in any software or game development, since that indicates no clear direction or the higher up making massive changes frequently)
...But I still got disappointed. Heck, I was waiting if Diablo 4 would be better... but now that it's released, That's not the case as well. Blizzard is now something you wouldn't want to see on a game's title anymore.
@@ashurad_fox5991 Its amazing how people will just ignore the fact D4 is incredibly underwhelming
Wow, nice touch with the comparison from skins to steam game prices... that really did hit home there.
Edit: Also love that while Reinhardt was returning to Overwatch when he set that coin down, "answering the call"... you turned it around to a somber departure from Overwatch, answering the call of other games to move on to. That was damn good
watching that sombra launch again with the crowd going wild just made me laugh and smile uncontrollably
Do you know whats the worst part about this entire situation? The fact Blizzards going to get away with throwing away PvE and other promised content because its inevitable nostalgic players will return and new players who dont know the full story will start and continue playing.
Many such cases 😢
Not this time.
The only players left are f2p clueless players that won't stick around for long.
The game is rotten.
Nah, game is half dead at this point.
@@ghoulbuster1 f2p didnt even got anything, though the art are very great so they would stick for a while
you need 3-4 months to get a single battlepass and then you NEED to play for one and a half to get everything on it
i swear doing anything than playing the game is actually gives you more
This video covered every single problem that I’ve had with OW2, without fail.
If someone asks me what happened to OW, this is the video that I will show them.
Thank you for making this video.
as a kid, 20 dollars gave you the best gaming experience year round
that sadly has not changed
unpopular opinion, I miss 2CP like Hanamura, Anubis, and Volskaya. Seeing some of those maps gave me feels.
OG here, I remember nights spent with my friends messing around and guessing the story. I remember when we had duplicate characters for quickplay and grinding out lootboxes with them for character skins and losing. I met some of my bestfriends through this game. Seeing it's passion lost forever and realizing I'm never getting it back is still so surreal to me. Despite it all I have hope, a smidge hope, but they really did fucking fumble it man.
Honestly, I respect the balls on Jared to deliver the bad knews when he KNEW people would use him as the face of the outrage. Upper management is really just throwing out 3+ years of game development.
These poor devs man... to be fair, I would be surprised if most of the devs originally working on the pve quit or were fired. After the allegations. So they were probably set back a year or 2 as new employees needed to learn how to do things.
I still stand behind most of the new designs and animations being worse than OW1.
Sifting through code you dont know is a pain in the ass.
Thank you for this compilation! This truly helped me grieve with the loss of OW2. You genuinely gave me some closure.
I'm genuinely rooting for Microsoft to buy Activision and Bobby getting the boot!
Looking at what's happened with Halo, I'm not sure a Microsoft acquisition will change anything.
Bobby gets a huge Payout either way and given The flagship that is Halos state I wouldn't be hopeful
@Silveraxed That's true but Microsoft usually gives their studios creative freedom, and they're getting rid of Bobby and some of the other higher ups, so there's a legitimate chance we could get pve back
Copium
@@Silveraxed Honestly.. It's kind of frustrating to listen to this response. Yes you are right that Microsoft may not be much better of an option.. But I would still rather see them try instead of everything staying as it is.
Otherwise nothing will ever change, not like we have another better company to follow through with this, it's the only chance.. Even if it fails.
Sometimes I go into the game, look at the heroes, animations, and skins, and cry.
then we go to a place with 34 rules
showing ow still reign still
"To my enemies: Those were the best days of our lives."
"Avoiding Tokenism and Stereotypes" All of the aussies are criminals, all of the Japanese characters are Ninjas. All of the black characters can jump. The American hero is Call of Duty: Letterman Jacket. It's nothing but Tokenism and Stereotypes.
Hell, their only canon neurodivergent character is obsessed with control and order
Remember the cheer and genuine happiness when overwatch was announced at blizzcon? That's what they killed. The love and passion inside the hearts of people. Shame.
I like that the final message from this video is to go give your money to a company that isn't trying to rip you off
So true for Kiriko, the first hero that really feels like they're just slaping a concept without context, like they don't care anymore (a bit like Paladins, but they never had lore in the first place).
It's in a way sad to see that the original idea of OW was to make a fun game before making it competitive, that didn't age well at all lol.
Also the part where the guy shows you the value you can get on steam for 20$ compared to the shitty skins x'D
You can get f*cking V.Rising, an early access that's worth 10 times what most triple A 80$ games offer today, for the price of a crappy cosmetic in OW2... damn.
@@Nayutune Support character for DPS characters already existed, too (cough cough moira and zenyatta) Idk why we needed another
Was kiriko even mentioned by genji or hanzo before ov2?
@@thegreatpapyrus2306 what about bap?
Kiriko is a Mary Sue
Blizzard Activision saw the League Ahri VU and wanted a piece of that sweet nine tailed fox aesthetic
well edited, true summary of this wild ride/shitshow of a game
I got OW for 10$
when a store incorrectly put a promotion
if you bought any hp product you will get ow for free and the cheapest thing I found was a Ink cartridge for 10 bucks
that's how my days of happiness started
The opening gave me goosebumps. This game was special. I miss it dearly.
"What? What do you mean?!"
"I reject my humanity, JoJo!"
i had to stop for a moment when you showed the sombra reveal, i started to tear up and almost outright started crying.
i love this game but how the mighty have fallen.
I cried too when I re-discovered it. I remember all the teasing there was in-game for her reveal. The passion the dev team used to have, now completely gone.
@Silveraxe it's not developers being lazy or not having anymore creativity. It's the industry as a whole changing from in 2016 being largely centred around paying to play a game with maybe a few microtransactions here and there to being free and microtransactions being the only source of income and the suits only caring about that.
On a side note as well there isn't really a character that they could do an arg on that scale really ever again. At least without making a sombra 2.
@@neonnlightt You're absolutely right, though I think you misunderstood me: the devs lost their passion through no fault of their own. Jeff Kaplan provided them a space to make something unique and amazing, and the corporate greed that is running rampant in the gaming industry took that away.
The devs didn't lose their passion because of laziness, they lost it from being beaten down and dehumanized by Bobby Kotick and Activision-Blizzard.
@@Silveraxed my bad b completely with you there
I really love the Crowbcat style video like this. It really shows just how depressing the state of modern gaming is.
Early Overwatch: An incredible fustercluck of a game, unbalanced as all get out, but fun as HELL.
Overwatch by 2019: Dying, meta based, super competitive.
Overwatch now: Soulless, Corporate, Greedy.
to be honest, i see that everyone is angry because of the treatments but this proves you can only act on the current states and not the promised, this is applicable everywhere: games, work, friends, family ect.
It kinda is our fault to be such a easy to earn crowd and fall into the promises and build on the future not the now
You have a point, pre-ordering games is what's caused the current epidemic of unfinished titles being released. However, I can understand people just wanting to trust a developer who gives them a vision for something unique to look forward to.
I've been telling this to diablo 4 pre order shills. You're the problem at this point. All the news around actiblizz and all their history of lying and trying to milk fans and they still pre ordering D4 to play early and be beta testers while they adjust balance... of which is abysmal. They've already told you it's going for the destiny 2 model. You'll have to repurchase the game a couple times a year to play because the expansions will be small but completely replace the current content just like in destiny 2. That model makes money, why wouldn't blizz copy that?
Never blame the customer when the product is at fault.
@@ghoulbuster1 but if the customer continues to buy fecal matter despite company’s being shady for decades now you kinda have to look in the mirror. I would absolutely pin most of this on consumers if people cared a little more about what they consumed there wouldn’t be such rampant awful practises (battle pass etc) vote with your dollar simple as that
@@Silveraxed i do agree with them wanting it, but its unrealisitc, there are so many types of gamers wanna see different things so they must follow their own senses and make the choices, they have info regular players dont have and we have to trust in the decisionmaking. at the end, consumers can choose wheter to consume it or not.
If Bobby Kotick wasn't at the top of Blizzard granting all this Overwatch would be bigger then Leauge of Legends but its not gamers at the managment and that's what destroyed every big AAA+ gaming developer company, at least that's what I can assume in the last 20 years
You're absolutely right. Somebody who cared about video games would not demand developers scrap several years of hard work to focus on monetization instead. Like YourOverwatch said, Bobby is the problem.
I traded 3 games for overwatch when it came out. Had so much fun. Didn't have a lot of friends who played with me, but I met so many people that I played with and ranked up with over a couple years. Those first two and a half years of overwatch were just off the wall fun. I mained mercy and got to diamond without a consistent squad. Felt so proud at the time for that
This is so well done, crowbcat can stay at home with whatever he’s doing these days. Great editing and compilation of Blizzard’s foul-up.
Bought the first season pass for Overwatch to discover it didn't include seasonal events.
Instead, the event was just a timed purchase window.
i'm surprised crowbat hasn't made a video like this yet
Overwatch 1 was genuinely my most played game, i had everyskin that i couldve gotten through wvents and whatever else, i loved the game, then when ow2 got released, i can barely open the game before closing it and going on a different game
yeah but it was 40$ to play
though now that 40$ cost really cheap than OW2
also they didnt update much AFTER 3 YEARS even though its a successful live service game
tell you the dark foreseeable future
@@3takoyakis yeah, they didn't update much after 3 years because they were working on ow2 pve and shit, which didn't even make it into the game, also who cares if it was £40 for ow1? When a single skin in ow2 cost £20?? The BP cost £25 and it didn't even have currency for the first 3 seasons and the currency they give now is the old currency? I'd rather spend £40 on a game and have everything free from loot boxes every level than spend £40 on 2 skins and have to buy a pass every 2 month for a character, or be forced to play until reaching 45 to get a character if I refuse to buy the BP, basically ow2 is just a cash grab behind a fre to play, if they were going to do that from the start ow1 should've been free to play but have a shop/ BP, the fact that it never had a BP or shop but had free to obtain lootboxes that give you credits/skins is the reason ow2 is so fucking shit for its cash grab
I remember me and my friends playing overwatch 1, it was super fun, escpescially stacking a few heros. Then they removed it and immediatly when i saw the announcment, i felt like 'this is it, the point where everything will go downhill' and it did. Casual and Competitive were indestinguishable from eachother at one point and i just left with everyone else. It became boring and the charm soon faded. Overwatch died when casual died and everyone became sweaty
Casual and comp are indistinguishable now. The matchmaker is broken lmao
Yep Blizzard killed the game when they went too hard into competitive, instead of focusing on making a fun game.
@@XBullitt16X I remember watching some of competitive Overwatch, and coming away with a headache. The fights were over in seconds after the first character died, they were always snowballs in one direction or the other, they were visual FX lightshows that were painful to watch, and there was little strategy other than who could ult-storm first.
I stopped playing OW2 in mid-Oct. and hadn’t thought too much about since then. The cancelled PvE news is hitting me almost like the death of a friend. I put at least 1500 hours into OW over 4 years… not getting to see these maps again… almost like losing someone
This game meant so much to me. It's really sad to see how it ended up. RIP man, you were loved.
I remember going out on Day 1 to buy a physical copy of OW1 and having so much fun with it. I played right up to the last hours of the servers shutting down. Honestly OW2 has been an insult from the beginning with 5v5, one of the worst Battle Passes out there, and the cash shop. I quit a week in and the PVE lies kept me from ever returning.
Warlords of Draenor was a WoW expansion back in 2014 that got screwed over by corporate meddling too. Expansions come out every two years, but Bobby wanted to annualise WoW expansions much like CoD and have them release once a year rather than every two years. What happened was that a lot of promised content was cut during development, dev time wasted, and you ended up with an expansion lasting two years but with only a year's worth of content.
And then there's Warcraft III Reforged.
"We realized that it would actually take a lot of work to deliver what we promised, so we are not going to do it."
Overwatch: Reforged development team.
Damn, this was a great video! RIP to overwatch, you were really something special :')
This is actually pretty heartbreaking. I've been playing Overwatch since the open beta for Overwatch 1. It's been my favorite Multiplayer game since it came out and now it's been reduced to this.
wow I just finished this video and was absolutely dumbfounded to see "95 subscribers" under your name, thought it might be some kind of glitch at first lol. great work, hope you get some numbers out of it because this totally deserves it.
Please give credit to the original creators. Links to their channels are in the description.
@@Silveraxed for sure. but definitely it takes some effort to compile all these clips in a cohesive way that tells a story.
I started crying... In this game I felt like a real hero, I found a bunch of friends and had fun. It's a pity that it can't be returned...
I’ve never seen a game company build up a lot of respect only for it to come crashing down really hard so fast. This genuinely makes me feel that the MOBA genre is dying and it won’t be dazzling, but instead it’ll die with a whimper.
We just witnessed video game history. Blizzard failed in a way no video game studio has failed before.. driving away ALL the talent they had to the point where they can't ship a game even with all the money in the world. I think this case is going to be studied in business classes all around the world for ages as the big failures of yesteryear (like Atari) were due to conventional management issues. "Failing Upwards" needs to be looked at and acknowledged because that's what got such a great game canned.
The best part is that they admitted that the PvE story campaign was basically scrapped at the time they launched Overwatch: $20 Skins Edition, they just kept that under their hat to sell more battlepasses. Would love to see a class action lawsuit or something that changes the video game industry, bc publishers are at an all-time low of manipulative misinformation & consumer exploitation.
Man its kinda sad how these newer characters will never be loved as the entirety of older ones I mean not even a fraction of that love
I miss this game - dearly. You could see they put their heart and soul into it in the beginning.
Imagine designing a character, giving them a backsory and everything, building them for years and giving them all these cool skins, just for blizzard to decide that character is gay so they can avoid some backlash
I miss the early days of overwatch so much, some of the most fun I've had online. I remember what an absolute blast the pre-release playtest was and I remember feverishly playing demoman in TF2 waiting for OW's release. I remember the sheer hype behind sombra, I remember buying my first (and only) golden gun for torb as a joke and laughing about it with friends. It really, really breaks my heart to see how far overwatch has fallen. At OW2's launch it slowly dawned on me that the game's monetization was so bad that it made apex legends look like a saint in comparison.
I guess everything has to end eventually, but seeing OW's legacy just keep getting tarnished like this hurts.
This made me shed tears, not joy but anguish.
I think it’s fair to say OW has become something different from what we first fell in love with. Like a relationship, people (things) change and it’s ok to break up. Go out and find better things.
"Such potential...WASTED"
19:00 that statement probably had to be „permitted“ by Bobby Kotick and was followed by a non-compete and no-comment legal binding. So I do not fault Jeff but Bobby for this too.
We really need a video games publisher crash similar to the 90s.
I've seen this sentiment going around and I'm beginning to agree.
Overwatch became famous before it was even finished because of the story. It dies now because of the (lack of) story.
Hearing 21 characters be treated as some massive number is hilarious to someone like me coming from League of Legends. We're over 160 and still climbing.
What was taken away? The heart and sincerity of the game and the company who worked hard but they were trampled by greed and selfishness. I may not be a player but the character announcement and stories made me so hype about the game and then, this happened.
What a sad waste of potential
That scroll of indie games contains dozens that are worth ten Overwatch 2s themselves. It's unfortunate how companies always get crazy when they get big.
3:56 You're a real one for including Mightykeef's OW2 vid. His skits are GODLIKE.
Damn I remember how exciting it was to see a new OW cinematic short being posted on UA-cam. Good times man. They’re long gone now.
Same 🥺
God, still today I get chills from that Reinhardt video. I will forever morn what overwatch could have been
I remember when i got Overwatch for Christmas i also got was an extremely happy time. The amount of hours i put in Overwatch, the amount of friends i made and fond memories of Overwatch are something i will never forget. But now seeing what it has become doesn’t make me mad. It genuinely makes me sad.
Man, Id play the hell out of an Overwatch MMO.
I cant get over Matt Mr. X Morello just sitting there nodding his head when Jerad Neuss dropped the bombshell.
Why does his face look like plastic??
Remember the reason they let OW1 go stale? Remember the reason they killed OW1 to make room for OW2? Remember the reason a majority of the player base was even playing? Yeah, well they cancelled it. I’m fact, they stopped working on it as soon as OW2 came out.
excuse me where are your subscribers man ??
the edit at the beggining was beatifull really showed how there was this passion at some point ...
Let it burn, lessons need to be learned from this insane bag fumbling
Billion dollar companies: Over promise, under deliver.
Blizzard: Over promise...... don't deliver. $$$
Hearing Jeff at the beginning... It hurts
Great outro with the Steam price comparison!
Really puts it in perspective. A game like Valheim where me and my friends have spent endless hours together, is cheaper than a skin in OW2. That's just hilarious to me.
I'll keep playing OW2 because I fell in love with OW1, but that's probably the last time I download a game from blizzard.
I remember always thinking "blizzard ONLY gives out quality, like Warcraft, WoW, Starcraft and Overwatch.. Pure quality..". Then these last 3-4 years happened and I realized blizzard is done.
Overwatch 2: Virgin f2p with 20$/15$ per skin
Overwatch: Chad 60$ with free skins
it was 40 at launch on PC. We've fallen so, so far.
@@BelimaiSykes i agree with you on this one, i think 60$ was too much
@@Matthewexistespecially at the time. It was the best Multiplayer only shooter but it was still a multiplayer only shooter with live service launch amount of content. 40 was fair.
I will never forget the joy I felt when I got Overwatch on PS4 as a Christmas gift in 2016 and booting the game up for the first time.
You can tell you put a lot of your heart and soul into this video. Great job.
Thank you, but please give credit to the original creators. Links are in the description.
@@Silveraxed Thanks, for recognizing those for whom you owe credence to. It's not often someone does so. Stay golden, friend.
man. i never played overwatch but even i was swept away by the hype for the sombra arg. this shit just hurts to see. sending love to the devs, i cant imagine what theyre going through.
Getting crowbcat vibes from this video. Well done
Bro really pulled a Crowbat and it is amazing
for 40€ you could get the persona 3 and 4 bundle, two of the best jrpgs ever made that will give you at minimum 200 hours of playtime,
or you could get two skins for an overwatch hero
good video mate
You could pirate those games for $0. Or spend infinitely more money to own a digital license that will be meaningless whenever the game service shuts down. Spending money on video games is a waste of money in the first place doesnt matter if you buy an old ass jrpg or cosmetics in a game, either way its waste
it’s so sad seeing the direction the game has gone since it’s first release. i loved overwatch, not for the gameplay, but for the world and the characters. i can’t remember who said it first but i remember somebody saying that overwatch “made hope feel cool” and i couldn’t agree more