Goodbye Overwatch...
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- čas přidán 15. 09. 2023
- ✅I have played Overwatch since 2017, and I feel now the community has finally hit the breaking point, understandably. In this video I talk about how Overwatch 2 is a worse game than the original, not a real sequel, a predatory attempt to squeeze money out of fans, make the game as boring as possible as well as destroy promises made to the community like y'know, making the game what they said it would be.✅
Also i seem to be getting a lot of comments about it so when i was talking about tanks being op and supports being weak that was talking about on launch, i should of specfied as most people seem to think i meant currently (roadhog being op etc), just to clear things up I am aware of the current meta.
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I genuinely assumed you had like 100k subs and then got disappointed, the quality is quite admirable:)
This Comment shall fuel me for many months to come
real
Me too lol!
Same, damn i thought he had 100k subs, his content is pure quality.
Monsieur, does this mean Overwatch is [Dead]?
*Yes.*
2016-2018 was peak overwatch. You had to be there to experience the joy ride.
bruv fr i was a middle schooler then and hell it was a ride
@@senori6145legit I remember my dad letting me play a round on Anubis (idk the spelling) before my mom took me to school, 😭 it was so fun
overwatch was always a shitty shooter only driven by hype targeted at casual morons who have no idea about what a good fps needs to be.
2016 was beast!! Playing the game in the Open Beta was awesome.
They should make a 2017 game mode.
When game companies quit because the "scope is too big" it means their greed outweighs their incentive to make a good game
For game studios with as much financial comfort as activision, 100%. But scope getting out of hand happens all the time to anyone creating anything, not just the video game industry. But that's why they can pull on the heart strings about it, because it's relatable. Until you realise that they could have hired hilarious amounts of new staff or kept things exactly as they were without any worry about paying their staff for years and years, unlike the rest of the world.
@@pierrealexander8183 Seriously, companies like activision just take an advantage of loyal player bases. Copy and pasting the same game with a different theme every year. It's all about advertising and getting people to pre order their lazy unoriginal product. Why spend all that money planning something new when there's a cult of idiots that will buy it because it's new.
i smell hong kong
I find it so baffling how good the execs of these companies have it. I can not, nor will I be convinced that the work of someone like Bobby is difficult in any capacity. They throw shit at the wall all willy-nilly, then immediately pull the plug when it isn’t immediately lucritive in its returns.
@@princesscadance197you would be correct lol
The day before OW2 dropped, I remember so many quickplay games were just...both teams sitting around with each other until time ran out... It was a genuinely depressing feeling.
You mean OW1.2
@@DanielVast you mean OW0.1?
People forget that Overwatch died somewhere in 2019 and that OW2 was Blizzard's hail-Mary to save a dying IP. I honestly question whether Microsoft will continue support for the franchise
@@johnsonspark171 the way these decisions were made...so blatantly obvious that the shop overhaul was the "update." You're right that it died in 2019 and I have a sneaking suspicion as well that Microsoft will cut losses
@@johnsonspark171 It died with the overwatch league. Nobody wanted it, they still released it, and it was shit. The game didn't have updates for months afrerward
A majority of my teenage years were spent playing OW with my closest friends, and it had to be the most fun I've ever had playing video games. The second I heard they cancelled PVE, I knew it was the end. RIP Overwatch, may you live on in my memories for the rest of time.
Damn I’m old
Worst thing they ever did was not cast Terry Crews as Doomfist.
Edit, stop replying to this I don't care
real
even for the April fools event hearing the POWER! meme back again would of been more funny to hear from terry crews
Terry Crews isn't Nigerian so it wouldn't even fit...
@@DruidsCalling 🤓🤓
@@bxsh719 um ok?
im just so sad because overwatch is so precious to me, I hate how they ruined it so hard. I want to keep playing, and keep trying my hardest to enjoy it but it wont ever be the same. It is just upsetting.
This sort of opinion is why I made this video, it's the one I have and most people I talk about the game with do
I want to be on the art team so I’m especially sad as the dev team actively destroys my dream job.
right like bro 2016-2019 this game bought me so much immense happiness. i'm not even joking when i played the beta, i fell in LOVE.
i wasnt there for overwatch 1 and I DONT HAVE THOSE MEMORIES. So what to do then?
@@adamk.7177 u sound so sad, brother overwatch 2 is still fun??? it isnt over.
It's sad that we will never have the same community again. This game made my college.
We have a student lounge where no faculty or any school personnel can go inside. I see a group of seniors playing this game and asked them if they want to play with us. We can be as loud as we want. Countless hours of fun and laughter. Best game ever.
the steady shift from team based abilities and cooperation being the big impact, to haveing individual actions being the most impactful things, seriously hurt the games core player base (those that kept playing over the years)
This was my final straw. I loved the maintank role. Its focus on teamplay and being the center of each group fight, really made the game into something i loved.
Then they removed Maintank and offtank and tried to make each tank able to do what you normaly had your buddy for. It removed my tank partner. I never went back after that.
Good point, never thought of that. Zenyatta or Mercy could not have come out any time other than the original release.
Well atleast now you will stop complaining about your dps being bad ;)
@@t4kumi704 i kinda was the guy that poured his heart out (shot calls, encuraging, filling, adapting to team mates streanghs and weaknesses....)
i was a bit annoying to play with since i would tryhard quite a bit. Many got annoyed by questions like "do we go top left or bottom right?"
and in the end i often blamed myself for not trying hard enough....
honestly made me very depressed over time...
I'm a TF2 player, I have been since 2016, I briefly played overwatch and overwatch 2 for short amounts of time. To all Overwatch fans, I am genuinely sorry for the loss of a game that had so much potential.
Tried a bit of TF2 but I was so shit at it, Its like every player played the game for 10 years aahah. Is it still worth it tho?
@@Dwarf_Enjoyer tf2 is definitely still worth it, you will definitely get totally rolled in some matches but I think overall it’s worth it. There’s so much to do and so much fun to be had it just never gets old
Yeah titanfall 2 is the best lol
@@AndreJones-wh2pc team fortress 2
@epicsandvich014 I know. I'm just trollin. Titanfall is my shit tho
Bro i can’t even imagine what the creators of overwatch feels about all that... that must be an horrible feeling, you work hard to make a good game and suddently there are assholes who only want to make more money who destroy your own creation....
Dude something like that would absolutely crush me if I was the creator of Overwatch, I can't fathom the heartbreak.
if corporations got it through their heads that a good game sells, and will make money cause it's a good game, not cause you stacked mtx after mtx on it, maybe we'll get a new golden era of games.
No wonder Papa Jeff when grey so abruptly
@@fireblast133 They are incapable of doing that. We would have to live in an entirely different financial system for that to be possible. This is the inevitable end result of corporatization of the arts. Ever since the self-canabalization of GE for the short-term profits of shareholders changed the meta for the financial sector to a focus on the infinite, constantly accelerating "growth" of a company instead of consistent and reliable profit, this path was already charted for us. Big money was always going to enter the medium of video games, and they'll bring with it the same philosophy they do everywhere, because they view all industries and all commodities as essentially the same. It just happens that the philosophy they brought in is inimical to making good art.
Jack Welch destroyed GE: he was only able to return those kinds of profits for shareholders because he essentially carved off and sold parts of the company, crippling it in the long term. We're seeing the same thing with video games: they're cashing out on all the reputation and goodwill that these companies had built up to deliver the short-term profits. And the way the system is now, a publically traded company can't shift gears back to long-term sustainable yield, because that's not the meta, and the meta decides what a company is worth: they'd tank the value of the company for shareholders.
Just like every other sphere of our lives, as new frontiers dry up, they won't pivot to a different way of doing things, they'll just squeeze everything dry, and try to suck as much money out of it as possible, no matter the cost.
Good execs will not solve the crisis in the gaming industry. This is a systemic problem.
What we can do is support indie developers and burgeoning game developers' unions. We need to empower the people that care about the art to be able to fight the little battles they can within their companies. Check out Game Workers Unite if you want to learn more.
The original creators are the cause for this tho, all u have to do it read aaron kellers blogpost to understand that
The idea of locking new heroes (A core element of the game) behind the battlepass is a punch in the face of every player lol
I was never into overwatch, tf2 just called out to me more, but I feel so bad for everyone who loved the game. I really hope they get their stuff together and make the game you guys deserve much love from the tf2 community.
On behalf of the OW veterans, we appreciate it, king 👑
Its over. They won't ever care anymore
Luckily with some serious AI platforms on the horizon, the fans will probably be making their own games as 90% of the effort is creating assets and that's what AI is gonna be good at. AAA quality games will no longer be only doable by massive studios with large numbers of employees.
Well i personally, im one of the veterans who has been grinding the game for more than half a decade, i just grind comp i think for the people still played ow2 at the end, this is still better than ow2, atleast its fresh and getting new content
@@Mahoney20x6 im sorry but i still think AI tools are super bad for this industry because its perhaps the biggest and a no turning point into a synthetization of the midia, which if you think games are souless now, if AI gets widespread than they will be much less than a lifeless husk.
Those final months of OW1 where I could tank duo with my brothers were so precious to me
literally nobody asked for the game to be downgraded to 5v5. Will never forgive Blizzard for this bullshit.
Well I have idea, and no I am not mentioning Team Fortress 2 as it has been mentioned, you should try find a 100 player server and have a glorious hilarious blast! I have a lot of fun playing with my brother on those!
@@Soundwave142 we went for deep rock galactic and haven't really looked back
@@matthewblainey4254 Good to hear! I do suggest trying out a 100 player TF2 server if you want try something wild or different, really different.
@@zimzimzalabim Recently Valve upped the player limit in TF2 from 26 to 100!
They took a perfectly good game and ruined almost every single aspect of gameplay, slapped predatory monetization on it and then didn't even deliver on the main selling point for all the changes. It's astonishing how they managed to completely ruin this game.
yo i love your videos
Almost as if it was deliberate.
making it f2p was the worst choice ever. I legit cant stand to play this game anymore so many Trolls and "YOLOS" even in ranked its just a sad stage.
Can we sue them for not delivering on what we should of gotten for buying OW2? False avertissement
@@MrFoolDI think you can cause like you said some people paid money for the sole fact of being able to play pve once it was released and then they turn around and say everything. That was promised isn’t coming and you have to pay an additional 15$ so I think you can sue them cause not only is that fake advertisement it’s borderline a scam
I met a bunch of people on ow and when I got out of a really bad relationship those friends were still there and helped me pick up the pieces. I genuinely can’t forgive Blizzard for fucking up this game so badly
You know the thing that hurts the most of all things? The lore, it had potential to be a BIG, with good animations, a good lore team behind it, it could really be an independent team regardless of the game.
When you think about it though, this was DESTINED to happen. They abandoned their initial plans for an mmo to release Overwatch after all.
@@narius_jaden215 Agree, this was destined to happen as soon as Blizzard owned the game, in another universe, Overwatch is in a company that really cared about it.
I mean, look at the lore, it touches so many topics of today, specially about the discussion around A.I and our projection to the future.
The lore was pure cringe. You have a hamster a main character lmao
@@johnwhatever8000problem?
PVE cancellation was what broke the camel's back for me, the fact I couldn't efficiently farm out the new content the same way I used to farm every bit of content in OW1 with lootboxes was already upsetting to me, 5v5 was also upsetting but I persevered because "PVE would save the game, right ?"
That cancellation made me uninstall soon after and it was the best decision I've made in a while, playing it after that felt like I was taking depression pills in whisky so I simply cut it out of my life, the hard way.
Overwatch 2 was an objective downgrade over the original, but people dealt with it because it was early access, and it was all meant to future-proof the game so it could be updated and eventually maybe surpass the original, the big issues could be hotfixed in some patches.
The reason the PVE cancellation was so bad is because not only did they lie to us about what we WERE getting, they essentially admitted that they spent 3 years making the game WORSE, when that time could have been spent on updates to overwatch 1. Everything the community endured for the sake of the future of the IP was for nothing.
"cancellation" lmfao
Played since 2017, I remember all the way back to the first iterations of Archives. God, the death of my PvE hype killed my enjoyment of this. Back to Mann vs Machine xD
Exactly the same for me, I’ve only gone onto Overwatch like 2 or 3 since they cancelled PvE and each time it’s simply out of curiosity to be like “Game still shit” and yup, game sill shit lol. I haven’t even played a match since the PvE cancellation, I just boot up the game, laugh, and then play something better. It’s just pathetic, loved Overwatch but Blizzard just ran it in to the ground and I’m not gonna support them for that.
this is the one
this is the truth
I can't remember the last time I had so much fun when this game was released back in May 2016. I have so many fond memories of it, still can't believe they messed up this badly.
I didnt played this game, what happened what they messed up?
Was a die hard OW player for 5 years. Fell out of love right before OW2 released. I have friends who still play but anytime i get drug back into the game i am reminded instantly why i left. The game had so much potential, wasted by greed and mismanagement
That ending made me so sad, I've played OW since it came out and the fact that it will never be what it used to is extremely tragic
I was laughing my ass off the entire video like “HAHA stupid blizzard lost all their ow fans” then the last section just hit me like a truck. It reminded me of all the genuine fun I had and all the friends I made from group finder. The satisfaction of hate watching ow 2 reviews will never amount to the fun I had during ow 1. I didn’t realize what I had till it was gone.
@@ethanosborn989 for real, and the fact I still play the game means my sanity is questionable
Yup, why would they ever abandon ow1, it was great, why make a completely new game to replace the old instead of just updating the original, oh well 😢🤙
@andrewyachovitz6749 because it wasn't making money anymore so they went to having the battle pass and ridiculously priced skins in the shop
yeah man that shit hurt at the end. @@ethanosborn989
I played this game non stop from 2016-2018 with my friends and we had the time of our lives, this game was perfection and we got so much fun out of it. But all good things must come to an end and I'm heartbroken about this and all that's left are fond memories of the good ol days.
at this point u should try to play paladins way more fun.
Ong bro s
Same bro rip💀
I remember my mom handing me the on-sale disc for Overwatch back in December 2016. My old friend group had literally grown up playing that game together and I’m glad I still have many old clips even after our departure from one another. I check in from time to time, but for the most part I just watch this bonfire of a “sequel” from afar.
A seven year run for me
Very poignant essay and very helpful for me. As someone who got out a long time ago, played at the beginning of ow2 but I felt the loss of the soul and dipped again, I just needed to hear these words
Me and about 10 of my friends were die hard ow1 players on PS4. Had probably THE most fun times together even went to some OWL events. Such a shame this game that was so many peoples pride n joy destroyed by corporate greed. RIP OW. You've been missed.
Thee means “you”
@@Mello675 "thee means you"🤓☝️
You know what he fuckin meant
💀😂
@@turquoisejpg5671 why the hell you are mad at him for telling the actual meaning of the word, like how miserable are you?
@@Mello675noted. Thanks.
I actually never got to play Overwatch 1, so I thoroughly enjoyed Overwatch 2 on launch. I fell in love with the PvP, the lore, and joined the og fans in awaiting eagerly for PvE. When they cancelled PvE, it really soured the game for me. Once I finish the battle pass I call it there and barely touch the game till the next season now. From the perspective of a new fan it feels more... sad, than maddening or scandalous. I'll likely never get to play Overwatch 1 ever. The closest I can experience is old CZcams videos, and they 100% helped me understand the type of betrayal this was for the fanbase.
I'm sorry you can't find your fun in Overwatch. I wish you all the best my dude!
I'm with you. My friends always talk about how OW is dying and it sucks, yet we all play it, and I just ask them what's the point?
@@baactiba3039I have a friend I’ve know for years we played the original overwatch like there was no other game available.He and I always feel the same as everyone else “it’s dying it sucks”. As for what’s the point sometimes it’s difficult to let something you love die and you just want to hold on until it’s over.pretty sure there was a bunch of guys who did that for halo 2 multiplayer
Lmao you don’t even realize how shit the game you like is compared to the OG. Sad.
Me too man i am on one side sad i never played ow 1 to experience the game in his full glory but on the other hand happy since i dont feel the agonizing pain that old players are currently feeling
Hold out man, I’m telling you, private servers are gonna happen eventually. I will play OW1 once private servers launch.
i remember begging my mom to buy me the game on 2016's christmass after i spend hours watching my favorite content creators play the game, instantly the game became one of my favorite , i loved the thrill of winning a lootbox after every other game , it felt nice and rewarding that even losing a game felt like winning , i remember grinding competitive , having fun abusing meta , raging sometimes yes , but always coming back , i remmeber the new characters being released , i remember a lot of things , i remember th game slowly dying while the hype for overwatch 2 was there , i remember downloading the overwatch 2 public beta and playing it for hours , happy to play new characters , and now , i remember how i played overwatch 2 for like a season , seeing the game i loved dying , seeing how i played hundred of hours for nothing , no pve , no lootbox , only bad battle pass and big skin store , the game died... i miss those nights i stayed up to play the game that used to be my favorite one
Ain’t nobody reading allat
Makes me feel so sad, I remember playing Overwatch in 2016 and thinking that one day its going to be old and it'll be over before I know it. I made the most of it back then with friends but... man... I miss those times when the community was less toxic and the game was actually fun, OW2 is just misery.
I tried to love this game but I just cant. Its like an addiction that I'm slowly trying to cut out of my life. Or an abusive ex that you love but is no good for you.
I have the same relationship with it as well lol
This is the best and perfect way to compare it. and for sure many think the same. #metoo
Did I just start a new #MeToo movement?! 🤣
@wusaint it fits very well i would say :) after all this abusive behaviour from blizzard 😁
I cut it off since they announced the cancelation of pve. Haven't looked back since, not worth my time. It's way better to look at from a distance like this and just enjoy tf2 like I did for so many years. At least valve put years of love and care in the game and left it in a good state. 👍
from once being a company known for quality , to being known for not being able to release shit worth your time
Hey our ESG scores are higher than ever
It actually really sad what happened. I remember coming bome and hopping on overwatch with that bois. This game had alot of memories but looking at it now is sad
Bro really named my discord lobby at 0:50
It’s really crazy that the loot box system was better then what they turned to here
Wow. I remember playing the first Overwatch's Beta, good memories. Fell in love with Pharah. The game was something so different to me (never played TF2 or anything like that)
OW2 was just.. The same? This is sad to see.
It is, Overwatch 1 was one of my favourite games ever and i can't stand 2.
@@TheCoolJayMan but as f2p game it's decent, but it needs a lot of quality of life settings. For example floating numbers and normal HP system. As new player I want to know how much damage what do it's anoying that you need to go to wiki to see damage and healing of abilities. TF2 and Borderlands 2 let's you see how much did you do. And in my opinion it will give new players knowledge of not shooting in Dva defence matrix or in fortified Orisa when they can shoot after this effect go off.
it was not even the same they removed so much content that we paid for in overwatch 1 replaced it with push the robot mode and removed alot of the maps and never updated / add any new maps until 2023 with a new game mode that i say is a waste of time playing in quick play or rank we dont even get a option to op them out of the rank pool if we dont like the mode.
@@TheCoolJayManngl the dollar is the global currency and more recognizable then pounds no offense
@@Channel-23s right, cuz everyone in the world uses dollars... -.-
Sick video bro. Glad the YT alg recommended me this. Keep up the good work 👍. That editing looks like a pain in the ass tho.
It sucks for me purely because I had so many memories of overwatch. That was the game where I met one of my closest friends and I hate That one of my memories of him before he passed is Is tied to a game that has fallen so far from what we remember.
Overwatch 2 is a good example of how AAA game companies use anything to feed their greed. Because i believe you can have lootboxes ,battlepasses , etc and still be consumer friendly. Its always the fault of who did the deed in the first place
I do agree with you, but 99% of the time they're done in a predatory way. The main reason I hate Fortnite is for inventing the battlepass model, making almost every game rely on timed FOMO now.
They are a business, meaning they are designed to generate profit and OW is just the vehicle the use for it. Thats not greed, thats just he way the world works buddy
@@padarousou there's a difference between letting the golden goose lay its eggs until old age and harvesting it for its bones
modern day business execs tunnel vision on quarterly earnings and cut off their nose to spite their face all the time (look at Unity rn) but OW2 is exceptionally egregious in this respect
@@A.LeMayo The business side of almost any game is going to be rife with things like that, but at the end of the day those practices are a big reason why these games are even able to be developed and maintained at such a high level
(It's a bit of a long one, please don't feel attacked or anything. Just a gamer who feels really tired about the state of the industry and has to ramble a bit...)
"Maintained at such a high level"?. OW2 is hardly maintained at all, not to say "high level". The simple truth is, that companies now always search for the minimum viable product the consumers still suck up, to maximize profits. And the main work is to throw enough crumbs on the ground to not let the players starve entirely, while cashing in on every aspect of the game possible. THEY LOCKED HEROS BEHIND A BATTLE BASS FFS. Idk how you see that, but for me, it ruins the "competitive" aspect of OW. Which is, in all respect, literally the only thing now that draws people in and I thought I still might enjoy, until I tried it and realized that I do not.
But honestly, being mad or angry at you (or anyone else having that view on gaming) would be unfair. The gaming industry has changed and kinda pushed us into the situation were we defend the games we love, even when we see how they get ruined, because we know without the monetization, they'd simply pull the plug. But the thing is, with the way you think those practices are justified, don't you wonder how those companies even managed to exist? Because by that logic, every big multiplayer title coming out in the time before such heavy monetization existed, surely must've ruined the company maintaining it. But it didn't. In fact, the big players exist because they stand on the shoulders of the giants of old, namely (multiplayer) games that were just good and made people adore the companies that developed them. A bit dramatic, I know, but let me explain.
I don't know if you actually were gaming in the early 2000s, but back then, a multiplayer video game not only came out mostly feature complete and bug free. It was supported after launch to get people to buy it, because new content and an active, healthy player base, are the best reason to buy a multiplayer game. Titles like Counter Strike: Source, the early Halo's, the Modern Warfar-Triology of CoD, they all released without classic microtransactions. It was back then that both battlefield and CoD started monetizing existing players, mostly with content packages and DLCs. And oh boy, people HATED it. Because all those great players sold games en masse, and we thought, "How DARE they cut out content to sell it later?! We already paid for the game!" (idk if it was really cut, but anyway). Despite that, it was something that, ultimately, we sucked up because well...the games were just *good*. You don't have to like CoD or Battlefield to appreciate that those older titles just ran smoothly, had lots of content, and a mostly flawless server structure that made people flock back to it time and time again. The first Modern Warfar released in 2007 and was such a success not only because it was "just" a good game: it emphasized replayability not by paid seasons, battle passes and events, but by earning skins for milestones that show others what you archived, unlocking weapons, parts, leveling, chasing records or challenges. And it was good at that, people STILL play it because of those mechanics.
Fast-forward to 2019, and most of that is gone. In its place: skins you mostly have to buy, season passes with fomo, and a general feeling of lacking content in comparison to its former iteration. Sure, you get patches, re-balances, and the changing seasons somewhat kept the game fresh. But was it worth all that? Was spending 60-70$ worth it, considering the game makes you feel like you miss out most of it if you don't continue to spend money? That it now completely relies on selling you new stuff to give you a reason to come back instead of focusing on being a good game with fun progression mechanics?
To conclude: I really REALLY think we should talk abut what games are worth to us, what we are willing to pay. Games have become bigger and harder to make. The inflation is no abstract thing, but something that has eaten away from the per-unit-revenue every year for like the last 20 years or so and it only gets worse. Devs wanna get paid, the rents for studios are increasing and tech, while getting easier to use, also gets more expensive.
Yes, I would pay 80 dollars for a game. Or hell, fuck it and price the games regularly like those special editions they throw around left and right. I, for once, are willing to pay that. IF(!!!!) the game comes out feature complete.
WITHOUT microtransactions.
WITHOUT hidden, paid content.
WITHOUT additional stuff you need to buy, like map packs or "small" dlcs, to have the full experience.
JUST...a good game. With great mechanics that keep you engaged. With servers that don't get shut down when the player base dwindles after the first year or so. Idk. Please, let me dream for a little bit longer. It's probably all that's left for us who yearn for "the old days"...
@@padarousou
The ending made my chest hurt. I remember getting the game in 2016. I remember coming home from school and watching twomad, xQcow, astrokitty, lteddy, etc. I remember how mind blowingly bad I was at comp in those first months. I miss it so much
omg astrokitty. havent thought about him in years
my best gaming buddy I've known for almost 15 years died of cancer this summer. His favourite game was overwatch and we played ranked together pretty much every day. The day he died I knew I would never play this game again. It's really sad to see it in this state because it's the biggest thing that reminds me of him and of all the fun we had together...
RIP Max
this video hit me like brick. I used to have so much fun in og overwatch. the community was popping everyone in school played overwatch, the themed events with exclusive items, the free loot boxes from arcade and I remember people actually communicating in vc in ranked. now it’s all gone because of greed I didn’t think much of ow 2 and i barely played it but this just made me realize that it’s gone it’s all gone. what a terrible tragedy and a tale of greed, evil, and selfishness. went from a full priced game to something that shouldn’t even be considered a video game. it’s okay tho❤️ill always have those memories of og ow
as a tf2 player i feel bad for our brothers in arms
At least our game still lives
@@SunyataManji only through the sheer will of the community. Valve is unfortunately still so busy with csgo2
@@SunyataManjinot for long
@@SunyataManji OW2 or TF2?
@@Soulfin TF2, sadly OW is slowly fading away
I loved it while it lasted
When I watched the film Free Guy featuring Ryan Reynolds, one of the biggest things I was confused about was the concept that a massive online game would just completely be replaced by a sequel version of itself. Like what was even the idea there, that for a sequel to exist, the entire original game that people loved would have to be entirely shut down and erased?
Well… maybe that was naïveté.
Rather ironically pretty much everyone in-universe was telling the big bad that the entire idea is absolutely horrible for business
That’s what I’m saying!! It makes no sense to completely get rid of the first! If they tried hard enough, they could’ve added ALL of this to the first one. I’ve told this to some of my best friends and other people, and somehow they don’t seem to get it. OverShit 2 is NOTHING special nor different in the slightest!
I remember getting the overwatch open beta on the week my GPU died. I managed to get it to run in absolute potato mode on my core i5 laptop and had the time of my life with my brother. So many memories.
Ngl the quality of this video is really good, I hope you'll be successful 😄
Thanks for this vid mate, perfectly summarises how Blizzard ruined their game. My friends and I used to have a lot of fun on this and we were hyped waiting for pve and well, we know how that turned out
When they cancelled PvE is when I lost all respect I had left for Blizzard
Not exactly, my guy was so wrong about the tank and support thing
Supports are not the most vulnerable role or even close, supports are the most overpowered and impacting role right now in the game
Tank is the least fun role in the game right now
And DPS just has no new playstyle and sucks ass
That example was mostly about the release state, more of an example you feel but yeah probably should of clarified that @@AeroOW
@@TheCoolJayMan i wanna thank you for putting this video out. your hard work is appreciated. also biggest overwatch L is removing the april fools zenyatta mobility like COME ON MAN GIVE US POOR ZEN MAINS SOMETHING
I wouldn't say perfect it was good but there was a bunch of things he got wrong
It’s honestly insane how they had one of the best and most popular FPS and then just drove it into the ground
A lot of great points were made, and I see you captured what the average fan feelings towards the game right now, very nicely constructed.
I was revisiting the older cinematics and I found this channel that did deep gaming trailer analysis, I did some recommendations to him, but I didn't have the heart to tell him that the game those cinematics existed was no more. Just an empty shell with a 2 attached to it. Those older cinematics are still enjoyable, but that emotional connection to the game is severed for the people who played Overwatch 2016.
I don't want to be a dark cloud, and I want to remember all the actual good memories I have of the game because those are real. But it feels me with apathy at best and choleric anger at worst what Blizzard-Activision did to Overwatch, from 2016 Game of the Year to 2023 worst reviewed game on Steam.
It may take years if not decades to heal this damage they themselves caused by no respecting the player over enough time.
"Supports are underpowered..."
Of all the things that never happened, this is truly the neverest.
No genuinely in the start supports where fucked but now they’re so op it’s unreal
@@blackgradientman7265 they were the main reason double shield was bad
Sure, but for like two weeks when they took away most cc flankers we’re eating good. It’s not they were underpowered tho. Just a bunch of supports that needed to adjust play styles. The support passive and subsequent new characters swung them from “hit gud” to “OP”. I’d say they were fine, but everyone was playing like ass at the beginning and they won’t admit it. The genji mains never stopped playing.
supports can’t even die anymore. Diving them is pointless as they can heal themselves and each other along with almost all of them having escape abilities. 💀
I never thought id be so sad about a game i loved so much and was radiating so much energy of happiness when playing it. All of that mattered, and all that time meant so much to me. It would be nice to have some more of that feeling, but its time to move on. That game just doesn’t deserve my time anymore.
Well said. Every point you made is why I quit a few months ago. I had every single loot box item from ow1 and spent a lot of time having a lot of fun playing it. It’s sad what they did to this game. I’m avoiding any blizzard products going forward until they start putting in effort again.
They are puttin in effort, which is the depressing part.
Nah, you'll buy their next game. You're not really fooling anyone.
@@FreedomPuppymost people are slaves to consumerism
The fact that they had the audacity to act like loot boxes were a bad thing was just the biggest stroke of disingenuousness. Their loot boxes were one of the few in the industry that actually weren't predatory and you could earn anything you wanted for free. Now they're charging us like 20 bucks for skins that were essentially free for years.
@@FreedomPuppy if this was bliz from 10+ years ago you might be correct but bliz today is just another corporate dev that follows the popular monetizing trends in the industry. They no longer set the bar on quality. I was looking at d4 hoping it wouldn’t be awful but it’s trash too. Some of us have standards and there is literally nothing I find interesting or new coming out of blizzard right now. FYI Bg3 has been amazing and they don’t insult your intelligence. Give it a try if the turn based combat doesn’t scare you off.
The best year for me was 2017-2018 since I started off back in Jan 2017. I also met many players back there and got to meet them irl.
We still chat every once in a while. Looking at overwatch these days . . . I just can't go on.
Subbed even though I don't play ow, keep making more vids bro!
Man I really enjoyed Overwatch 1 in its glory days, even if I only played a bit. It really is so sad to see this ip be so corrupted beyond recognition by corporate greed.
Man I had good memories with this game ,but they ruined it now ,I'll just pretend all this never happened and I'll keep the good memories only.
OW2 isn't canon, the OW servers just went offline remember
I feel you 100%
I even competed and topped a few tournaments in OW 1
I can't even see the logo anymore
I don't know how you dont have more subs. Subbing now. Youre awesome.
Great video! Def subbed. This really was a great video of what happened. It will never not break my heart seeing this though. Overwatch was one of the best gaming experiences of my life. Had a whole crew. Had a whole community. It felt like playing overwatch wasnt something you just did at your desk, it was bigger. You could go out and find others who played. Talk to them. Now.... It's like a husk. They didn't kill a game. They killed an entire community. They killed friendships. It's honestly just sad. One of my favorite things in the world was to get home, grab a beer, and get on OW. See who's online. Rally up and get to beeeotch slapping some peeps. Now there's nothing.... It's all gone and I kinda just stopped gaming in general because.... Games feel so empty and boring now.
Its Joever boys
Good word choice lmao
Showing off unlocking The Floor is Lava achievement reminds me of a time that I helped a player on the enemy team get that achievement.
It was a competitive game on Oasis, and after getting rolfstomped in round one, everyone but one player named Tyver on the opposite team quit. He didn't want to back out for the extra large hit his SR would take, so I asked him over game chat if there were any achievements he wanted us to help him get, and of course he asked for help with The Floor is Lava. Five of us met him outside spawn and stood right on the edge of the cliff, then let him boop us off for a wall ride quintuple kill.
This also just so happened to be the day after the record feature was added to the highlight reel, so I actually still have a video of that moment.
But now Ty er can't even show off his rare as a rare Pepe pixel Lucio spray, because Boxes shut down the game just to release a worse version of the exact same game with one of the most predatory money hunting shops in video hand history.
Oh well. At least we still have mentors, and the lucky ones have some of that memories on video, too.
Damn that montage of OW1 memories was kinda heartbreaking
Overwatch is the first game I ever bought (back in 2017 or 18) and since then I've became obsessed with the story, becoming a major member of the fandom on wattpad in our country, buying Orisa book, and found my best friend I have because of us drawing fanarts of the game. I am so disappointed how it fell
I was really into Overwatch from around 2016-2018 because this was the first time I ever got engrossed in an FPS since Black Ops 1 or so. It’s really sad to see how far it’s fallen both because the original developers left and because Activision got so greedy with all their corrupt practices and everything.
Never recently had a video capture all my feelings so accurately about modern OW2. I don't have to say a thing, you said it for me here. Massive respect to ya, man. It really cuts deep having such a fan favorite game of yours just stab you in the back like this. We deserved better MILES beyond what Overwatch 2 currently is. We deserved what was promised. And now that we can't get that, It's better for everyone to let this corpse of a game crash and burn.
Have so many good memories of that game. I tried so hard to keep playing and loving it, even dropping atleast $100 now on content to try to up my experience (it didnt) . I miss Overwatch but like you said it's not the same game and it's not worth playing anymore. Such a tragic loss.
this is just so true all of it i remember myself buying overwatch playing a genuinely fun game and after that every dam update manage to make the game worse hundreds of hours of playing and each week a little less after the PvE coming out and costing money and being so dam short i quitted and i have no plans of coming back the game is just simply isn't fun anymore. nice video by the way
YourOverwatch says you're a Boomer if you prefer the game you paid for
Two words: Sponsorship Deals
Did you know they made a Destiny account to try and cash in on the 2nd games release? When it was awful they outright stopped posting on the channel and gave up lol
@dave7474 😂
That's so funny.
I used to watch them.
But over time they just got worse. Freedo is a jerk
You nailed it. As a player since beta, I feel dead inside when I play it . Then I played The First Descendant beta and it's had so much fun! Then the beta ended and I turned OW back on and that was it. I knew it was over after my first round. I just doesn't spark joy.
Damn, Overwatch was one of my most played games. I remember all the fun times I had. I used to be Bastion Main. I was GOD with Bastion. Always had people healing me and defending me whenever I sat in sentry mode in an important area and shred the other team. Now.. Now it's gone.. I can't even play the first game anymore. If I'm correct, the Servers for the first game were shut down. I had so many amazing memories with the first game and I wish I could go back and play it all over again
Never even played overwatch, but I feel immensely bad for whoever enjoyed it. Feels a bit like what's happening to Assassin's Creed right now, so I understand your pain.
I played ow1 from the beginning. The game got me and my girlfriend through covid while I was laid off. Ow2 literally destroyed everything I liked about ow1. Then came amazon prime, giving away skins I had earned in overwatch 1. Everything I had earned now has a price tag, which brings me to the point where I could probably sell my account for a lot to some new player with money.
At 1:47 I swear I heard the same bird noise I heard while watching neon genesis last night. It was episode 4 they kept playing that noise for like the whole episode it felt like.
It’s the noise in anime a lot of cicadas. They do sound like birds but it’s cicadas
Quoting a Reddit post but apparently it “plays a narrative role and establishes context for how screwed up the world is, because the cicadas are really only active during the summer, especially in Japan. The daytime chirping of a cicada lets you know you’re in the summer months…Except now it’s all year round,unending. This is because the Second Impact knocked earth off it’s axial tilt, placing japan closer ( if not directly on) the Equator, causing it to be perpetual summer.”
It's such a shame, the Fiance and I were just getting into support mains before this happened and 1 was replaced by 2, so many fun times playing this game together, swapping controllers each match, playing it with friends.
Overwatch was such a fun Objective shooter with a lore filled world including interesting characters left right and centre, we didn't touch 2 due to the early controversy it was getting and it was probably for the better seeing the end result.
I'll miss it, dearly.
I used to play OW1 a lot. Not as much as some but definitely enough to have some good memories of it. Now seeing what it's become just, makes me sad. :(
I think the big things for me that are killing the fun are: The monetisation, heroes being locked behind the battle pass, the ranked changes and the cancellation of PVE. I actually think that personally, 5v5 is fun. I don't think it needed to happen, but I still enjoy it nonetheless. They could've literally solves OW1's shield problem by just limiting the tank role to a single shield tank per team. Tank has always been the most oppressive role in the game, and it does feel more so in OW2 since the tanks are gigabuffed to make up for the fact there's only one of them. Supports now have actually gotten to the point where they have so many tools to defend themselves it becomes extremely hard to 1v1 them. Kiriko is easily the worst offender for this, but illari and lifeweaver also are great at keeping themselves alive. There's nothing scarier than 1v1ing a lifeweaver, then he petals and pulls another support or dps or worse, the tank to him haha.
I dunno man. I still enjoy the game of overwatch. It's still one of, if not my favourite FPS ever. But it's depressing how horribly mismanaged this game has been throughout the years.
I do agree with you, i think my problem with 5v5 is it feels like tanks had thier personality stripped away a bit to essentially become better dps, and as I tank main I found that super boring. For healers from what I can tell (very rarely play them) If you don't play the "good healers" like lifeweaver, kiriko etc, you will just have an awful time getting dived etc. Then again most my support knowledge comes from a support main I know so I could be wrong.
@@TheCoolJayManwhen you look at the comparison I think it's alot better to have it this way as opposed to shooting at 2 shields for an hour each and when you're not shooting a shield you're being stunned to death
@@pandaboss5085 I think the 6v6 vs 5v5 argument is more of a personally preference at the end of the day, i just liked the double tank format more, even with stuns and shield metas (i was a tank main so may be biased)
@@TheCoolJayManit does come down to personal preference in the end of the day. I just found overwatch 1 really boring in comparison to overwatch 1.5 I see it as an improvement. Not the greatest improvement but it's an improvement
I agree that the battle pass system is cringe and it makes me want to vomit. But honestly, I found it easy to unlock all the heroes without buying the battle pass, but maybe that was a result of me being new
When 2 came out I played with my friends and realized that dmg roles weren’t fun to me and decided to play zenyata. Turns out I loved playing him. Sadly a month and a half after we started playing, everyone got sick of the game and the terrible ranking system. My friend was hard stuck bronze because of some ranked bug and couldn’t even queue with us. Plus progression being nonexistent and me missing items i know I had in overwatch 1 really were the last nails in the coffin
I quit Overwatch around season 4 (whenever year that was) and when OW2 came out, I was excited to come back to the game. But then after seeing the monetization and finding out that we were never getting that PvE mode they advertised, I was turned off. But as you said, the biggest problem for me is the 5v5 for sure. RIP Overwatch.
I very much agree. Once I saw the hardcore monetization of the game and the one less tank role I pretty much stopped playing it completely as I was so angry that now I basically cant earn anything good I have to pay for everything and for tons of money. I would buy a skin here and there if they were no more than $3 but for $20 no way.
One of my best video gaming memories is a round on Gibraltar in the first few weeks of overwatch's launch. I was on the attacking side and held the cart in overtime for 5 minutes as Mei, the rest of my team getting repeatedly wiped just as they made it to the cart. I don't remember if we won, but that was when she became my OW main.
And I can never have that experience again, because the original overwatch doesn't exist anymore.
Fr, OW1 is just a million times better than OW2.
The ending of this video made me feel so depressed because everything you said about the game is completely true. The heart and soul of the game is gone. I even enjoyed playing back when they weren't releasing any new content because at least the original game was still intact. I love this game, but seeing the devs let both it and the players down time and time again has just completely ruined a once beautiful thing.
man i preordered ow 1 and it was probably the most fun i have ever had in a game AND I WAS SOLO QUEUEING the soullessness of the "sequel" is incredibly disheartening. I miss the good ol times
No you’re totally right, I was gonna try playing it again but honestly I needed the reminder. Hard to move on, feels like it was the only game I played for a long while.
Great vid homie, overwatch is a tragic tale and you told it well
Thank you, i appreciate it :)
I have so many memories thanks to Overwatch. I played it for 6 years, it influenced my growth greatly and it was seriously the best thing that I had back in the day.
Now I only have memories and bittersweet nostalgia.
Season 8 was my last ow season. After watching a couple vids i decided to install the game and try it. Literally after 4 days i uninstaleld...the game feels soulless. i'm gonna miss it dearly
I remember back in the day there was controversy over loot boxes, how it was basically gambling. But I bet at least more than half of the people in this comment section would trade an arm and a leg to get them back. That time I got the legendary skin for 76 on Halloween was one of the most beautiful moments I've had in that game and you're telling me now that I have to pay $20 just to buy it?
got a chuckle out of me within the first minute, good content my mans
I appreciate it :)
I remember playing OW1 since the beta, I fell in love with the game. I thought Overwatch 2 was going to hit hard, but after awhile of playing OW2 I miss 6v6, I miss the rank XP I can grind for or the old kits of some heroes and the borders. “Because of toxicity” they removed it, I still get flamed because of my rank even in QP matches so it doesn’t even matter if I have a border or not
In Australia and probably most countries with strong consumer laws and protections what they did with Overwatch 1 is completely illegal.
While they are probably within their rights to stop supporting it with active servers and such they can't just completely delete and remove the game that was purchased from everyones system. This is something that should definitely be class actioned and then we can support our own OW just like decades of hosted CS
Playing johnnys grave in the background really hits the mood
how do you not have more subscribers!? this video is so good
Would be hilarious if they re-release Overwatch 1 and all the players flock to it instead, like with Retail and Classic WoW. Nothing says, "You are a failure and a disappointment" like people ditching the 'superior sequel' for the much more enjoyable(though certainly not perfect save by comparison) original work.
that would be funny AND sad
you def need more subs sir.
quality content.
it is shame that OW came to what it is...
doesnt need a video essay to find out but thanks for the dedication
Jeff leaving the team should've been a big red flag. Someone like him wouldn't have left his dream project for no reason, this probably was a long time coming and Jeff couldn't accept something like that, so they probably gave him the choice to either stick or leave... Hope he is doing well and that he may direct some other games in the future (PvE ones please, we know how Blizzard balances PvP)
he's probably gonna head over to frost giant games, like all the other great devs from old blizzard who left the garbage fire that is the company now
I loved this game. Now it's nothing to me but good memories. I'm glad I missed ow2.
Twomad, thatpunchkid, man i miss the days of 2017 2018 griding trying to get to diamond 😢
How does this man not have over 500k subs, this is amazing
because he has a trash take on overwatch
@@gamerbeast3616 Even with all the facts layed out infront of you.
You still choose to shill for it, you have gotta be trolling no way you're not.
I'm sorry for your loss genuinely. OW1 was great, many good time and i hate that it ended the way it did.
OW2 on the otherhand, it's just a sad sight.
@@Freestyle_HD i mean a lot of stuff isnt facts in this video a lot of it is opinions, also some stuff is just plain wrong like he clearly doesnt know how the rank system works in ow2 its literally the same as ow1 other than you see your rank change after 5 game wins instead of after 1 game
but ow2 is still ass just some of the stuff this guy says is wrong and he missed some stuff
Maybe its just because i started playing during overwatch 2 but i just dont feel the same way. The only thing that annoys me is the way pve is paid and also their servers, a its almost a daily thing for me to lose connection for no reason
Recently managed to get myself to uninstall the game, and it really breaks my heart. I'd been a loyal addict since 2016 and OW2 removed any joy left in the game. Still sad to see my favorite game reduced to such garbage. Doesn't help that they completely removed off tank, which was what I most played.
YES, offtank was the best Pre OW2 Roadhog was my fav
Tank role is scuffed beyond repair as a result, heroes designed for offtanking are either hilariously bad or blessed by the blizzard buff carousel into being megabusted until they eventually get cycled for the new flavor of the month. There will never be a happy medium because OW was designed as a 6v6 game.
Nice use of the Cyberpunk OST at the end
2018-2022 I played everyday. Would love getting drunk and playing comp. But these days I barely2 games and get very bored. I think I’m done :/