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I've never played Overwatch, it was just an example, but my point stands regardless of whether players want changes or not; I simply want there to be some accou

by rekoil 4y ago

I've never played Overwatch, it was just an example, but my point stands regardless of whether players want changes or not; I simply want there to be some accountability for mega corps so they can't just abandon games, release the new iteration for $60, and then kill the old version off. Or rather, so that when they eventually do, a potentially still popular game isn't rendered unplayable since there are no official servers and no software for me to use to host my own. It's more aptly fit to use CoD as an example to be honest, I just used Overwatch because I'd read some were unhappy how they just killed it and replaced it with "sort of but not really the same game". Since I'm not in the Overwatch scene, can you answer something I'd been wondering? Did they migrate cosmetics from 1 to 2? Cosmetics seems to be the big cash cow these days so if the new one has similar characters, but they kill the old one off and don't let me bring my hard earned or bought cosmetics then I'd be pretty pissed personally.

vel0city 4y ago
> Did they migrate cosmetics from 1 to 2? Yes. Your whole account got migrated. > I simply want there to be some accountability for mega corps so they can't just abandon games, release the new iteration for $60, and then kill the old version off. Well then definitely don't point to Overwatch for that, because they released the new version for $0 and migrated everyone's equipment. > It's more aptly fit to use CoD as an example to be honest You mean the game where I can play multiplayer for games released well over a decade ago? I haven't heard of an instance where they shut down the old servers for that series yet at all. Other than that they'll be doing that for their free to play platform, but that's practically the same argument as Overwatch to Overwatch 2. You should be able to import accounts, it's no cost for the new version, etc. EDIT: I guess some CoD versions ran on GameSpy which shut down a while ago. That was a third party system not made by the publisher though, dunno if you can really hold the publisher responsible for that third party service going offline.

by rekoil 4y ago

vel0city 4y ago

> Did they migrate cosmetics from 1 to 2? Yes. Your whole account got migrated. > I simply want there to be some accountability for mega corps so they can't just abandon games, release the new iteration for $60, and then kill the old version off. Well then definitely don't point to Overwatch for that, because they released the new version for $0 and migrated everyone's equipment. > It's more aptly fit to use CoD as an example to be honest You mean the game where I can play multiplayer for games released well over a decade ago? I haven't heard of an instance where they shut down the old servers for that series yet at all. Other than that they'll be doing that for their free to play platform, but that's practically the same argument as Overwatch to Overwatch 2. You should be able to import accounts, it's no cost for the new version, etc. EDIT: I guess some CoD versions ran on GameSpy which shut down a while ago. That was a third party system not made by the publisher though, dunno if you can really hold the publisher responsible for that third party service going offline.