Finally, after waiting for years for any sort of significant content update to the game, Overwatch fans were delighted to finally be able to try and get into the beta for Overwatch 2. Unfortunately, what awaited players who managed to get in was more of the same, with the character designs not looking spectacularly different, only a handful of heroes receiving significant, game-altering changes, and the maps being indistinguishable from each other minus lighting differences.

While Overwatch 2 was mostly sold to gamers as a standalone, co-op and PvE player mode addition to the game, with the multiplayer aspect coming second, this beta did not help to quell the players. Que times being upwards of ten minutes, champions still being unbalanced for the new 5v5 game standard, and character design choices led to a lot of pent-up frustration from the fans, which was then channeled into memes.

What's The Difference?

Just slap on some extra armor and call it a day.

Oof

This sharp of a decline in a game is staggering and should be setting off alarm bells.

It's Like A Whole New Character

Really Tho

If this were any other game, this type of content and character update would either be free or have come out 3 years ago.

What's The Difference?

Cute Teen vs. Chad Soldier

$60 For This?

… On Second Thought, Maybe You Shouldn't

(Source: Reddit)

Boring Genji

Genji being a cyborg gave them so many unique opportunities to squander.

Didn't Last Long Tho

Valorant and Apex Legends are also team shooter games, which Overwatch is trying to re-gain control of the demographic.


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winton overwat

I 100% blame this on Bobby Kotick.

There was zero need for a sequel and the OW team knew it. They just needed to keep supporting the current game, but Bobby was hell bent on making a sequel to meet some arbitrary quarterly target.

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Slapping a 2 next to the name of your live service game so you can pretend people actually care about your game beyond the rule 34 be like

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Rynjin

My main thought when I saw they'd nerfed Tracer's ass was that Blizzard really doesn't understand the singular reason Overwatch was so well known.

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RemChi

The ass actually wasn't even changed. People just know the SFM models more.

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Jon the Wizard

Are you sure you didn't mean "we hoped you were dead?"

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