Overwatch 2 got here to Steam right this moment as a part of a brand new Blizzard initiative to publish a few of its video games on Valve’s platform. The debut is a chance to draw a brand new viewers, however it has additionally opened the gates to an onslaught of unfavorable participant evaluations.
Blizzard’s free-to-play hero shooter has acquired over 6,000 person evaluations and a “Largely Unfavorable” tag on its first day of launch. Many gamers criticize how Blizzard has dealt with the final 12 months of growth, from the transition to the sequel to the gutting of its promised PvE Hero mode. The highest evaluate below “most useful,” posted by Steam person Ornge, knocks the sport for locking new heroes behind its premium battle go and for having the audacity to promote the newly launched Invasion PvE missions for cash.
“The sport is enjoyable, I nonetheless really feel the expertise I like a lot in there, it is simply broken by such intrusive greed [that] I can not advocate it to anybody,” they wrote.
Lots of the high Steam evaluations sound like they arrive from present or retired gamers who’re taking this chance to specific disdain for Overwatch 2. Scrolling by them, I see loads of memes and ASCII artwork, in addition to individuals calling it a “money seize,” suggestions of different FPS Paladins, and one one who hates Hanzo a lot they suppose the whole sport is not price taking part in.
It is a completely different vibe out of your run-of-the-mill unpopular sport launch as a result of a lot of the evaluations are presumably coming from longtime gamers with lots of of hours below their belt. It would not be correct to name this a review-bombing, however greater than most service video games on Steam, Overwatch 2’s evaluate part reads like a pulse examine of what gamers are indignant about for the time being.
“Downloaded it simply to depart a unfavorable evaluate,” Steam person Ignite wrote.
Overwatch 1’s complicated transition to Overwatch 2 made it probably the most baffling sequels in gaming, and the cancellation of its PvE Hero mode earlier this 12 months simply made issues worse. Present and lapsed gamers alike have routinely slammed Blizzard for monetizing elements of the sport that weren’t monetized earlier than, like locking new heroes on the premium battle go and promoting $20 pores and skin bundles on the store. So it isn’t shocking to see these introduced up in a majority of the unfavorable evaluations. Disappointments apart, there’s some hope that Blizzard can earn again goodwill over time: Season 6’s new help hero Illari is immediately enjoyable, and the story missions are fairly neat (however most likely not well worth the $15).
