Overwatch

All of Blizzard's games in the last 10 years have been either part of their established franchises or improved versions of other popular games. They hit the jackpot with WoW and Hearthstone because, at the time of their release, there were no popular, genre defining MMOs or card games.

These two latest games, the MOBA and team based shooter, will be released into a market dominated by games which offer its players everything they need. Blizzard has a huge player base so I doubt they will fail but they won't be huge hits either.

Hearthstone gave me hope that Blizzard was changing its direction but now I'm thinking it was just a fluke (I did read somewhere that Hearthstone was originally a pet project of a handful of developers and its success was unexpected). The managers are getting older, more conservative, richer and reluctant to make changes or follow up on new ideas.
 
Just had a watch of the gameplay trailer.

It does look like it would be good fun. Similar concerns to other people though. What payment model are they using for the game. How are they going to keep it balanced if they're adding new heroes.
 
Yeah with MOBA introducing new heroes as well as changing things up regularly keeps things from getting stale.

Not sure that approach would work on an MP FPS. Balancing the original 12 heroes, giving them appropriate strengths and weaknesses against each other, already seems like a tricky task. Introducing new ones into the mix afterwards... that could screw things up fast.
 
The thing I'm most impressed with is how quickly people can produce porn for a game which only got announced days ago. It took a matter of hours...

Sad, but impressive.
 
Aedus said:
The thing I'm most impressed with is how quickly people can produce porn for a game which only got announced days ago. It took a matter of hours...

Sad, but impressive.
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What's worrying is it toke me a while to find that, yet you seemed to know about it!!! :eek:;)

Looks great, signed up!
 
They mentioned during the panel that it is easier for them to balance a 6 v 6 game than it is for anything larger or smaller with so many characters. I wouldn't expect it to get any larger.
 
looks like a souped up TF2 - do like the variety of classes.

Dont like the graphics aesthetic at all - feels very very limiting palette and dare i say boring art style.
 
agnes said:
I signed up last night. This is taking an age to come to light. I want to play it!
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New gameplay on Thursday, apart from that not heard anything about when the beta is releasing but this is Blizzard after all so it could release in 5 years.

http://eu.battle.net/overwatch/en/blog/19919175

Edit Still like the look of it. I liked Dirty Bomb too but then the hackers ruined it for me and I never bothered going back to it.



 
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It looks like a TF2 clone to me, not my thing really. But quite a few of my friends are excited for it, so I think it could be popular.
 
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