>top 5 most popular game universe during 2016-2017
>still a recognisable name to this day, for better or worse (mostly worse though, as Overwatch 2 is bad)
>tons of fanmade goonslop
>an initial cast of universally beloved character designs, post-launch heroes notwithstanding

>literally the only other game with Overwatch characters is HotS, a relatively niche MOBA
>no further Blizzard games focusing on the universe
>no fangames
>very few mods with Overwatch characters for other games; those few mods that exist are purely cosmetic
>most characters' appearances are basically limited to one online PvP game, some promotional material for said game and a swarm of explicit audio/visual/audiovisual material, if they're lucky they also appear in one other online PvP game
What went so wrong? Why do people just don't care about Overwatch characters after busting nuts to them?

>>712657265 (OP)
I find matches pretty easily. OW should make more lore stuff btw. Like an animated series.

OW2 is better now with 6v6 and I like Stadium

>>712657570
>blatant bot reply
Sad!

Games just boring and Blizzard never listens to the playerbase or I should say never listened when the game was alive

>>712657265 (OP)
>comp is filled with diaper wearing tryhards
>qp/arcade is filled with retards who can't play for shit
>stadium is busted and insanely unbalanced more than the base game is
For me it's more the playerbase that makes the game shit. Blizzard games in general seem to attract the biggest retards in history.

>>712659472
I still play once in a while.
I just play Zen, put a healing orb on someone and live my life putting my balls into the ennemy sniper's face.

I haven't found anything that can scratch that itch yet.

Really liked 2016 overwatch but I doubt I can play genji, tracer, mccree and carry myself to grandmaster anymore with how gimped dps are. Why bother.

>>712660597

Blizzard is a shit company full of incompetent retards. I liked Overwatch and still do

I like the magical girl shit they did

>>712657265 (OP)
>What went so wrong?
Extremely slow update cycle, and when the updates finally came, they just made the game worse and worse and worse.

Nowadays I just can't care anymore. I was so hooked in the beginning and spent so much time and money on and around the game, but they just abandoned me and the playerbase. I will never forget that.

>>712657265 (OP)
How much do you really expect people to care about the characters in some online PvP shooter? What is there to care about? The "characters" are basically just classes you pic for the sake of their mechanics in the PvP game, there's barely any characterization to these "characters" at all.

People care about characters when they're attached to shit like enjoyable or striking stories.

>>712657265 (OP)
Overwatch was never "naturally popular".
Blizzard burn fuckton of money on PR, for YEARS. The second ROI becomes shit - they dropped it hard.

>>712657265 (OP)
No Jeff no fun

>>712657265 (OP)
they failed to make a sequel and then afterwards just pretended they did

I quit the day ow2 came out since that was finally the day I realised the game had no future

also it sucked that they kept making the characters less attractive. widowmaker looked better before they reduced the size of her ass multiple times for example, and it's really sad how small and flat it is now. having a huge spider butt even made sense thematically. it's not a good sign that the people maintaining the game were focused on changing things like that instead of making new content for the game

Another one outlived.

>>712657265 (OP)
Triple whammy of blizzard being shit at post release, the rise of BRs/pubg, and fortnite retooling into a BR