Overwatch 2 "overwhelmingly negative" after 121k reviews on Steam

One day I will give it negative reviews as well... Just lazy at the moment.

I bought Overwatch in 2016 for full price and had hundreds of hours on record, the game was so good I even bought Loot Boxes just to support it. PvE events were awesome! They promised to give us more PvE content! But instead they stopped making new content, started to recycle the old, made awful balance changes, made punishing rules for players (like you have to paly even if you are the only one in team who is trying to win - leaving such matches lead to punishment from getting a longer queue time and up to suspension).

At some point they made the purchased game free... promising that it will lead to a better gaming environments with a lot of new players - but in fact it created a heaven for ruiners and other low responsibility people. Then they took it Oberwatch away altogether, giving a clown costume as a gift in return (seriously?). There is no way I can earn or re-buy lost cosmetics in Overwatch 2... But I don't bather a lot. Balance is ruined, only old badly recycled original content is avaiable, unhealthy player base...

They killed the game with their own hands just because of Bliz greed.

Does it really matter if there are 60k people currently playing it and growing on Steam only? I dont play it by the way.

Well, there are good points that people make about it, but I dont know... I played since season 3? (in ow1) and I came back now and its still awesome to play with friends. I can say I am enjoying it right now.

Bump - it remains overwhelmingly negative after 106k reviews.

This isn't gonna have a "No Mans Sky" redemption arc.

I'll still never understand who didn't want it to succeed this badly. The core mechanic is there, but they can't say they haven't heard the complaints. Also empty promises just to cancel later more than likely pissed people off. They shouldn't have promised a single player campaign just to cancel it with claims they will work on the multiplayer instead, because to this day they haven't succeeded to get people to like it.

worth playing then?

9% now

Sound investment there Microsoft. Yes, I'm aware that CoD generates the money, but still. 'Monetization' will be a downfall of any game.

I don't know anything about the game. What exactly makes it so bad?

I gave my negative review on a dlc, I got completely scammed.

https://mezha.media/en/2023/08/14/most-of-the-100-000-negative-reviews-for-overwatch-2-were-written-by-chinese-players/
Review bombed by Chinese players who can't play on Battle net

Blizzard initially withdrew from China earlier this year due to failed negotiations with a Chinese partner over a contract (seeking significant profit increase). Consequently, all Blizzard-related tournaments explicitly barred Chinese players from participating. This move led to a significant backlash from Hearthstone and World of Warcraft players and fans in China, resulting in an overwhelming negative sentiment, with negative reviews likely exceeding 75%.

Blizzard hasn't released a good game since they merged with Activision.