Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller has taken the time to not solely reply to the sport’s unlucky assessment bombing on Steam, but in addition to reassure followers how a lot content material is ready forward for them.
For these unfamiliar, Overwatch 2 launched on Steam on August 10 and shortly turned the worst user-reviewed recreation on the platform ever. As of the time of our story, Overwatch 2 had a rating of simply 0.96 based mostly on an approval score of 10% from 92,028 votes.
On Blizzard.com, Keller addressed the assessment bombing in stride. Whereas he admits it isn’t enjoyable to have your recreation be the goal of those on-line assaults, the enjoyment of seeing new gamers be a part of the sport far outweighs it.
“We additionally launched on Steam final week, and, though being review-bombed is not a enjoyable expertise, it has been nice to see a lot of new gamers bounce into Overwatch 2 for the primary time,” Keller wrote. “Our aim with Overwatch 2 has been to make the sport extra accessible than ever for extra folks than ever earlier than.”
Keller then talked in regards to the controversial resolution to cancel Overwatch 2’s long-awaited PvE Hero mode and the way that has absolutely been an element within the assessment bombing. As well as, he shared the imaginative and prescient for Overwatch 2 going ahead and promised it is going to be one price seeing via.
“Lots of the critiques on Steam point out the cancellation of the a lot bigger part of PvE that was introduced in 2019 as one among their main causes for dissatisfaction with the sport,” Keller stated. “I get that. That announcement was about an formidable venture that we finally could not ship.
“If we will’t flip again the clock, then what can we do? We will maintain including to and enhancing Overwatch 2. That’s how we transfer ahead. This implies extra maps, heroes, recreation modes, missions, tales, occasions, cool cosmetics, and options – an ever-expanding, evolving, and enhancing recreation. That is the way forward for Overwatch. One the place we are going to frequently create and innovate on what’s making the sport nice now for the gamers who’re enjoying now.”
Regardless of the PvE Hero mode being canceled, Overwatch 2 followers will nonetheless have smaller PvE story missions to sit up for, together with these discovered within the recreation’s newest season – Invasion. On this new season, the story missions see gamers preventing again in opposition to Null Sector and can present how such heroes as Lucio, Reinhardt, and others met earlier than Winston banded collectively Overwatch.
For extra, take a look at how Overwatch 2 has now moved on from early entry and the way Activision Blizzard admitted Overwatch 2 engagement and participant funding is declining.
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