Blizzard Cancel Overwatch 2 PVE Mode Development, Disillusioned Players React

What an astronomical failure in management on the part of Activision Blizzard. The PVE mode was promoted as the flagship feature of Overwatch 2 that was supposed to justify the "2". It's the thing everyone was looking forward to. Now Overwatch 2 stands as a monument for deceptive marketing and how not to make a sequel. PATREON: www.patreon.com/yongyea TWITTER: www.twitter.com/yongyea TOP PATRONS [CIPHER] - Devon B - Joseph Lavoie [BIG BOSS] - Jonathan Ball [BOSS] - Gerardo Andrade - Michael Redmond - Peter Vrba [LEGENDARY] - azalea - BattleBladeWar

Almost like the whole game was a cash grab

I’d love to see a false advertising lawsuit against Activision/Blizzard since this PvE story mode was the entire reason OW2 was made in the first place. Unbelievable as hell

Basically, “PvE won’t make us money, let’s focus on selling things on live service” I knew this was going to happen.

The insane part is that if you pay attention, they kept talking about PVE long after they had already decided to scrap it. They knew what they were doing, they wanted the pushback to happen after the battlepass and BP locked heroes had already been normalized

"The real sequel was the money we made along the way"- Blizzard

I love how Blizzard manages to make me feel like I've been scammed even without spending a single penny on the game

I really hope someone takes legal action against this.

Lets be real OW2 exists because Activision wanted to sell a battle pass.

Game developer: fails to develop game. Also game developer: succeeds in adding payment options.

It’s honestly impressive how Blizzard takes every thing that should be positive for them and turn it into a shitstorm

"So because it's a hard thing to do, we're scrapping it" ~ A Large Game Creator

To me, the writing was on the wall when Jeff Kaplan left. I always felt it was so abrupt when he left, especially for someone who was the face of overwatch like he was, but it seems like Jeff maybe saw the sinking ship and decided to bail before it went under. Think of all the controversies and poor decisions made by Blizzard since then. I don't think Jeff's sudden departure and everything else falling apart was a coincidence. I feel Jeff decided he didn't want to be associated with any of it. Good for him, he was such a great dude! I hope he's well :)

Some indie dev: "We made a fun and playable game with a handful of people, paying out of pocket while living pay check to pay check. It only took several years!" A multibillion dollar company: "We don't have enough resources!"

1 - We need to make a new game to include PvE 2 - ... 3 - Profit 4 - We can't add PvE

I have no doubts Blizzard was planning this from the start. Promising customers single player then axing it at a later time to sell them a exclusive live services game sounds exactly like something they would plan out.

I think to sum it up would be "could we be sued for false advertising"? Blizzard lawyer: "not in the eye of the law "

Never trust a publisher when they tell you "We'll be adding this part of the game later after launch"

The most surprising thing about Overwatch failing is that people still even have an ounce of faith in Blizzard to do anything right.

Man it’s so easy to enjoy indies these days, Deep Rock Galactic has given me life this last year and next month we have a new season with brand new free themed content and a completely free battle pass with no FOMO. The guys at Ghost Ship Games are doing it right I can’t wait to hop back in for season 4, rock and stone brothers