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The Overwatch 2 Leak Was Extremely Demoralising For The Development Team
- Thread starter NeoRaider
- Start date
Welcome to Internet in 2019 I guess.
I wonder what Avalanche Software devs were feeling when Harry Potter RPG early demo was leaked
I wonder what Avalanche Software devs were feeling when Harry Potter RPG early demo was leaked
I imagine.
Working on stuff like this for a long as time only for a shitty pic to ruin the suprise and give people meh first impressions
Working on stuff like this for a long as time only for a shitty pic to ruin the suprise and give people meh first impressions
This. I still have no idea why this is being called OW2 after their presentation. And tbh, the only thing the leaks got didn't reveal was whether or not your cosmetics were going to carry over.
What's giving meh impressions is that it's not clear what exactly makes this a sequel rather than an expansion pack if the original game gets everything but PvE anyway.
I mean, stuff gets spoiled ahead of BlizzCon every year. There's nothing about this year that seemed particularly intentional.
Then why was the OW2 team so heartbroken if the expectation is, that everything will be leaked anyway?
Kind of funny. When we had just had the leaks of what was going on about this game, that was when I was most interested. Now that I've seen the gameplay reveal, I'm much less interested in the game.
I guess that feeds into the point though, maybe if they'd revealed it on their own terms, I wouldn't be slightly disappointed.
I guess that feeds into the point though, maybe if they'd revealed it on their own terms, I wouldn't be slightly disappointed.
I'm glad nothing happened to de-moralise the artists working on Diablo Immortal.
I honestly feel like the leaks conditioned people to make more sense of it, not less, because at least beforehand we got leaks saying "yes, it's called Overwatch 2, but it's all about PVE like an expansion pack, I have no idea what the PVP is or if PVP is still just Overwatch 1." Imagine if they had come out and revealed that for the first time on the Blizzcon stage. People would have had no fucking clue what Jeff was talking about. Just picture the whiplash of "Overwatch 2!?!? HOLY FUCK!!! Wait, the PVP, the whole core of Overwatch, is still exactly the same and you don't even need to buy OW2 to get it? What????".
Because "you never need to buy another game" turned out to be an issue w/ how to monetize large scale updates to the game.
They can't brand it as an expansion even though that's basically what it is.
Not only this but Diablo IV too. It would have been a great Blizzcon but so many leaks made it felt kind of whatever. Excited nonetheless.
Its a case by case basis I think. The Mario + Rabbids leak positively affected the reception of the game for example.
What does the development team have to do with that? Should you be accountable for your boss' actions? Sigh.
Leaks/spoliers suck for everyone but they're just unavoidable it seems these days, really stinks.
When asked about it what is he supposed to do? Not answer the question?
I feel bad for dev teams at Blizzard right now, must stink to be under the thumb of such a cowardly corporation.
They could have. They were never going to, but yeah, they could have refused to answer. They weren't forced to say what they said, and I'm going to continue to laugh at the situation because it's better than letting the absolute fucking evil of the company overwhelm me. I don't feel like being too bummed out right now.
Since when are the developers of Overwatch automatically taking China's side? That's the execs, not the people creating art, sound, programming, designing for Overwatch 2. Maybe some of those people are taking China's side, but guess what? You don't know.
And it's not like they should leave the company to show support, because that a) wastes years of work that they've put in and b) puts them out of a job without income. It's not like anyone in the gaming community would even know, because most people that work in game development are unknowns that people don't recognize.
It's kind of an underwhelming reveal though isn't it? It's basically the same game just with PVE missions, it could probably just use the same client like how Fortnite has its PVE and PVP separate.
Like they were saying, they're looking to 'change what it means to make a sequel', which is convenient considering this seems like a DLC add-on.
Like they were saying, they're looking to 'change what it means to make a sequel', which is convenient considering this seems like a DLC add-on.
Ya because the artists and Jeff Kaplan working on Overwatch 2 automatically take China's Side because they are associated with Blizzard amirite?
That is exactly what's happening. Overwatch 2 is going to overtake the current Overwatch client and update the PvP and have the PvE as an optional purchase.
Really the problem is just them calling it Overwatch 2 and calling it first and foremost a sequel even though all the details added later is confirming this to be an update.
This. And in the end, they were still "We're not even sure when the game will come out". Blizz just being Blizz with super early announcements as always. Soon.
yep
who knows what things were like internally, but a few of them have been teasing about it good-naturedly on twitter every now and then.