Thread 718419957

How do we save Overwatch 2?
Or is it already too late...

Overwatch players don't care about steam or steam reviews. They've never cared about opinions from niggers who don't play the game and never will.

>>718419957 (OP)
i'm having a blast

Overwatch 1 should've at least stayed alive as a legacy version of the game.

It's still hilarious that Overwatch transitioned and started identifying as a sequel.

>>718419957 (OP)

If you only care about gameplay then it’s already saved because the engine is top tier and the game feels very responsive and smooth.

>>718419957 (OP)
6v6

>>718420253

It’s already in the game

>>718420253
It's already in (max two tanks per team)

>>718419957 (OP)
It needs new characters.

>>718420158
I avoid faggots like you. I can't stand any nigger who one tricks Sombra Dva Mercy or rat. Play a real hero faggots.

>>718419957 (OP)
that would require them to delete every addition to the game since 2018

>>718420465

>Ana, the only Arabic character in the game
>her daughter is a lesbian that doesn’t speak Arabic and nobody knows who her dad is and is also voice acted by a genocide apologist goy enjoyer

It can’t be all a coincidence right

>>718420465
Explain the graph there. Why is decual orientation all the way down, same with cognitive ability and beauty. Ana is unironically one of the smartest in the cast and it's not close. She's straight and has been married so she has a sexual orientation, and not to mention she's attractive and most people want to fuck her.

>>718420872
those are oppression points
she's not only not retarded, but intelligent which makes her more privileged
symmetra has autism so they'd probably give her 2-3 points
apparently just being female is enough to get 4 points on 'gender identity'

>>718419957 (OP)
By shutting it down and just making a TV show at this point. Nobody likes the game and only cares about the characters. Even finally bringing single player to the game won't fix this screwed pooch.

>>718420465
>>718421094
That's so fucking aids. Is this publicly available I want to see the rest.

>>718421263
they put out a press release talking about it
https://www.wowhead.com/news/kings-diversity-space-tool-a-leap-forward-for-inclusion-in-gaming-327053
i really have no fucking idea why they openly admitted to doing this, it should have been incredibly obvious that every side would hate it
>people who don't like browns use it as fuel and as an example of why blizzard is so shit
>people who worship browns are faced with the reality that this kind of thing doesn't just come naturally to people and it's being treated no differently from any other marketing analysis
>brown (and other disabled) people see that their existence is reduced to numbers on a spreadsheet to maximize profitability

>>718419957 (OP)
What do you mean WE, nigga? IT's blizzard's baby and they want 4chan shut down.

>>718421735
Holy fuck this is retarded. Taking beloved characters and reducing them to diversity points then announcing it to the world. Though it was pretty obvious when we stopped getting attractive characters with the end of ow1. Whatever I'm still mildly offended they would plot Ana like that. She's my favorite and most played by far but seeing her reduced to a graph like that is annoying. What a soulless corpo slopge.

>>718422146
blizz is taking it to a new level by doing skull-measuring on all their characters but every big entertainment company has been engaging in tokenism since at least the 80s
this is just taking tokenism to its logical extreme: trying to produce exact quantitative data on how much of a token a given character is and retroactively making changes to make the chart look better

>>718421263
There's a GDC presentation where they discuss it. They then pretended it didnt' exist.

>>718420872
The political theory being applied is modern intersectionality. Note that "cognitive ability" doesn't match 1 to 1 with standardized testing or mental feats, as "neurodiversity" is an explicit objective for diversity here, and that smart, functional people score LOWER on that axis.

>>718422374
>>718422146
They are qutie literally remaking the nuremberg race laws as far as tracking heritage of their characters.

To be fair to their Steam score, they got bombed hard by the bugmen when it launched on Steam as it was the only way the Chinese could access the game, and they used that opportunity to bitch about other Blizzard games not being available in China at the time despite all the other things Blizzard bent the knee for like censoring Heathstone for them.
Now they are giving the Chinese free skins and other cosmetics, and a second Chinese character in the game.

>>718422374
>>718422434
>>718422516
Bros.. this is actually kind of sickening. What happened to just making cool characters. Ana is a badass grandma sniper not 18 diversity points in a trenchcoat. This type of shit actually sucks so much for gamers as a whole.

I want to BE Mercy!

>>718420158
>dva
What a fag

>>718422646
shut the fuck up you stupid chud and take your meds

>>718420158
>unc takes a Polaroid of his screen

Yikes!

>>718419957 (OP)
Why would you even want to save it?

>>718422434
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZZAHDqdfE

>>718420381
>>718420405
but its an opional off mode thats not the main way to play so its not in enough for me to care

>>718421735
>>718422146
Reminder this charting system wasn't made by Blizzard, it was made by King, some random mobile developer they acquired. The OW creative team had literally no involvement with it and to this day they don't associate with it. Bringing it up in 2025 while obfuscating the context is disinfo.

>>718420164
They knew if they did that literally no one would play Overwatch 2.

>>718427659
>The OW creative team had literally no involvement with it and to this day they don't associate with it.
here are some direct quotes from the article published by blizzard:
>Described as a tangible way of avoiding tokenism, stereotypes, and exclusion, the system has already been tested by development teams working on Call of Duty: Vanguard and Overwatch 2*, with plans to release internally across all Activision Blizzard studios
>Over the past few months, King has let developer teams at Activision and Blizzard “beta test” the Diversity Space Tool, and the results have been immediate and enthusiastic.
>The Overwatch 2 team at Blizzard has also had a chance to experiment with the tool, with equally enthusiastic first impressions.
I obfuscated nothing because I posted a link to the article in its entirety and never said it was made by blizzard.

>>718427659
>some random mobile developer
They were the pioneers of shitty phone gaming on an industrial scale
Acti-blizz-king is the true trifecta of evil

>>718428108
Show me any interview with an actual OW team member talking about utilizing it and not just generic "they were enthusiastic" blizzard PR speak.

>>718429051
Why would that exist? Oh right, you only asked for it because it obviously doesn't. Sorry, I already gave you the quotes necessary to show blizzard was working with this company and using their tools for the development of characters in OW2. I don't feel the need to play your "not good enough ;)" games.

>>718429201
Okay, here's an article quoting an Overwatch character artist's comment on the tool.
https://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-creators-explain-they-didnt-use-kings-creepy-diversity-charts/

>>718429421
Here's another article I also found on the front page of google discussing developers' distaste for the tool.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/activision-blizzard-s-new-diversity-space-tool-gets-frosty-reception-from-devs

>>718429637
And here's a direct link to the twitter thread with the developer talking about it.
https://x.com/_mlktea/status/1525507447548366848

>>718427659
>>718429051
>>718429637
I hope they're paying you well anon

imagine shilling for blizzard of all companies, jesus