Elijah Andersen

Look I played a lot of Overwatch and wanted the game to succeed but I won’t be blinded by “nostalgia for the first launch” or having some starry eyed expectation that “this time it will be different.” Blizzard abandoned Overwatch 3 years ago and left it in a severe content drought, promising all that development time was going towards a sequel. They stated it would be PVE focused, but that isn’t here and doesn’t have a solid date. Thankfully I made it past the login issues and queue times of the release day fiasco, so I can at least give my opinions of what currently exists. Yes the game is fun, however; this is not a sequel. After 3 years we got 3 new heroes (which used to get released every year), a new game mode (while also removing one game mode), a couple new maps. This is a content update with a glossy new UI. What else is new? Well they took much of the existing content and stuck it behind a pay and grind wall. And to top that off you need to link your account with a phone number, meaning that people who previously paid for Overwatch now cannot play a F2P game because their carriers aren’t supported. Innovative! Let’s say it how it is. They threw the number “2” at the end in order to get PR and interest going for a supposed sequel in order to show off their new monetization model and that’s it. This content should have been added into OW over the past 3 years to fix their existing issues. The fact that this is a soulless corporate cash grab (like most of Blizzards recent projects) bitters my opinion of the whole thing to the point that I don’t want to support this, it doesn’t matter how long I’ve been waiting for something, anything new.