As one player eloquently put it, Overwatch 2 seems more like an attempt "to pry open your wallet" than to provide a genuinely improved gaming experience. However, a staggering 91% of the game's reviews on Steam were negative, drawing fire for its monetization model and a perceived lack of community moderation.įans felt duped, calling it the "biggest cash grab of the 21st century" and even christening it "Overwatch 1.5" because of its resemblance to the original. Overwatch 2, despite its rocky start, did manage to garner over 75,000 concurrent players soon after release. A few days later, enough of the community had voiced its overwhelming dissatisfaction for Overwatch 2 to gain such infamy. The hero-based shooter has rocketed to the ignominious distinction of becoming Steam's worst-rated game of all time, overthrowing War of the Three Kingdoms and Flatout. Overwatch 2's arrival on Steam has been anything but smooth. To top it all off, Bungie split off from Activision and took the Destiny franchise with it, sending stock prices plunging by over 50 percent.Just a few years ago, the first Overwatch won the Game of the Year award. The announcement of new mobile game Diablo Immortal was torn apart by fans of the series, and the abrupt closure of Heroes of the Storm esports left pro players and competing organizations out in the cold with no warning. Word of layoffs in the company appeared several times in 2018, but things came to a head in February as Blizzard laid off over 800 employees despite announcing record-breaking annual revenues.ĭuring this stretch, Blizzard repeatedly irked its customers. Last year the publisher began slowly pruning its workforce as rumors swirled of Activision taking a more hands-on approach with Blizzard after years of letting the company largely handle its own workings in game development. Many people internally are laying that on Pete, and it has crushed morale among the Call of Duty and Overwatch teams especially.”Īctivision Blizzard has been a steady source of news over the last year, and almost exclusively for bad reasons. “The focus has become commercializing the esports titles instead of making good programs for the community. “People are really getting tired of working for Pete Vlastelica,” one source said.
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