Blizzard added first-person shooter Overwatch 2 to Steam on August 10 alongside its stacked Invasion chapter, and the sport is already getting review-bombed to the bottom circles of Hell.
The contentious however, comparatively, nonetheless tremendously fashionable shooter was beforehand solely obtainable to obtain for PC on Blizzard’s proprietary on-line store Battle.web, which doesn’t permit customers to go away public feedback. The sport’s unwilted Steam web page, then, which went up almost a decade after the unique Overwatch got here out in 2016, is getting dirtied by years’ price of unsaid rancor.
Overwatch 2 has, as of writing, over 42,000 critiques lending itself to an “Overwhelmingly Destructive” ranking (“11 p.c of the 42,107 person critiques for this sport are optimistic,” Steam presents sheepishly). The preferred assessment with over 25,000 “useful” scores is a declaration that “The individuals who make Overwatch porn work more durable than the individuals who make Overwatch.”
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The few fashionable optimistic critiques additionally commend Overwatch 2 for its porn; “Dangerous sport, good porn,” says one well-liked remark. “Buen porno,” says one other for the bilingual crowd.
OK, yeah, high-def cartoon porn is cool. No matter. What’s mistaken with the precise sport?
Nothing quick. Devoted gamers simply actually miss what they really feel Overwatch was—a very good shooter that didn’t consistently beg in your cash with a battle move. Although Invasion introduces a brand new assist character, PvE mode, a free seasonal occasion mission, and way more, gamers are feeling too slighted by its pay-to-play system, which has been largely lackluster since its 2022 introduction, to care.
“Should you like accumulating cosmetics, Overwatch 2 expects you handy over your complete pockets,” one damaging Steam assessment with over 13,000 upvotes mentioned. “The sport is enjoyable, I nonetheless really feel the expertise I like a lot in there, it’s simply broken by such intrusive greed I can’t advocate it to anybody.”
“OW2 is a money seize—a depraved try and generate extra income on a preferred sport [Blizzard] made years in the past,” says one other bitter Steam assessment.
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Gamers are coping by delivering flippant one-liners and dramatic dangerous critiques. However are you able to blame them? They simply came upon {that a} $72 billion firm that allegedly systematically harassed its staff has no scruples about making extra money at the price of customers’ happiness. It’s virtually unbelievable.
