• Vogi@piefed.social
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    15 hours ago

    Overwatch is close to being a decade old btw.

    It’s so unfortunate what they did to Overwatch, wonder how Jeff Kaplan and the original Team feels about all that.

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      5 hours ago

      As great as Jeff was, he’s the one that did all the stuff to Overwatch.

      As far as I’ve heard/read he was never really interested in making a PVP game, he wanted to make Titan, the MMO. Then he got another chance with OW2 and the PVE mode, and even got an offer to make a separate dev team that would focus on PVP, so he could put his all into PVE, but declined, so the game was left to die (even though it never really died). Then PVE in OW2 was a bust again and he left.

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        25 seconds ago

        Oh, I have never heard of that. Also forgot that he was still around when OW2 launched. Still believe it sucks big time to see a project go down this route especially after being such a big success. It might not be dead, but it definitely is just a shell of its past.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      14 hours ago

      IIRC he just washed his hands and moved on from it, which probably was the right call given the Acti-Blizz merger and Microsoft buyout.