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I'm not sure people want OW2, especially with a PvE focus. Their last Blizzcon was pretty bad ("Diablo for mobile: Don't you all have phones!?") and they someh

I'm not sure people want OW2, especially with a PvE focus. Their last Blizzcon was pretty bad ("Diablo for mobile: Don't you all have phones!?") and they somehow managed to make things worse right before this Blizzcon. Things are looking grim for a company that used to be an industry game changer.

andrewjrhill 7y ago
They could have just made a Diablo or StarCraft universe MMO (or both) and people would lose their minds and sell their kidneys to pay for a monthly subscription...
- kick 7y ago
  They could have just made a Diablo or StarCraft universe MMO It's really not that simple. An analogue in software would be "Ford could have just made a fully self-driving car." MMOs are both technically hard and artistically hard, and even Blizzard has failed at making them in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Blizzard_Entertainment_project) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Blizzard_Entertainment_...
- RaiseProfits 7y ago
  Maybe nostalgic folks over 30.
- greenshackle2 7y ago
  Maybe on release, but it's very difficult to make an MMO that people will keep paying for month after month.
elsonrodriguez 7y ago
I've played OW with people who are absolutely terrible at shooters but loved the characters and skins. Eventually they rage quit because they never actually wanted to get better at the game. This same thing happened with Dust 514, where there was nothing at all for the person who couldn't aim, (unlike EvE which has some barely passable PvE). I'm guessing that Blizzard is looking at these stats, and noticing that people log back in for the limited pve content in OW.
- eternalny1 7y ago
  > I've played OW with people who are absolutely terrible at shooters but loved the characters and skins. I absolutely love the artwork and characters also, but only from what I've watched on Twitch or seen in images. I won't play it, because it's a twitch shooter and that is simply not my genre anymore ... too old for that sort of thing. If they could pivot off that idea into something that isn't a shooter, perhaps I'd jump in.

andrewjrhill 7y ago

They could have just made a Diablo or StarCraft universe MMO (or both) and people would lose their minds and sell their kidneys to pay for a monthly subscription...

kick 7y ago
They could have just made a Diablo or StarCraft universe MMO It's really not that simple. An analogue in software would be "Ford could have just made a fully self-driving car." MMOs are both technically hard and artistically hard, and even Blizzard has failed at making them in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Blizzard_Entertainment_project) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Blizzard_Entertainment_...
RaiseProfits 7y ago
Maybe nostalgic folks over 30.
greenshackle2 7y ago
Maybe on release, but it's very difficult to make an MMO that people will keep paying for month after month.

elsonrodriguez 7y ago

I've played OW with people who are absolutely terrible at shooters but loved the characters and skins. Eventually they rage quit because they never actually wanted to get better at the game. This same thing happened with Dust 514, where there was nothing at all for the person who couldn't aim, (unlike EvE which has some barely passable PvE). I'm guessing that Blizzard is looking at these stats, and noticing that people log back in for the limited pve content in OW.

eternalny1 7y ago
> I've played OW with people who are absolutely terrible at shooters but loved the characters and skins. I absolutely love the artwork and characters also, but only from what I've watched on Twitch or seen in images. I won't play it, because it's a twitch shooter and that is simply not my genre anymore ... too old for that sort of thing. If they could pivot off that idea into something that isn't a shooter, perhaps I'd jump in.