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Rumor: Overwatch Archives Event to Start on April 16 and There Won't be New Mode/Mission
- Thread starter NeoRaider
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I really do not understand why they are essentially letting this game die with such a small development team and minimal drip feed of content. Surely people still buy lots of lottboxes and OWL tokens that this is still taking in money.
The dates are just text that accidentally went up, it's not like they're part of the same image file as the Retribution logo, so it's a bit of a jump to assume there won't be a new mission. Especially since, if there wasn't a new mode, it wouldn't really make sense to still have just the Retribution logo at the top of the page without Uprising's as well.
Surely they must be cooking up a major Overwatch project on the side if events for the first game are no longer their focus.
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There is a "rumor" in the title.
Also why would they have a placeholder with old logo and new dates?
Man, people are pretty down on Overwatch lately, huh?
I did not get to play much of this event last year so I am looking forward to it, but it is pretty clear the fans want a serious shakeup that Blizzard does not seem to want to deliver.
I did not get to play much of this event last year so I am looking forward to it, but it is pretty clear the fans want a serious shakeup that Blizzard does not seem to want to deliver.
Because the old logo is still on the website. All the old event logos stay on the website until the new event starts. The only thing on the page that was accidentally updated was the dates. It's not an indication of anything.
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Regardless of how true this exact rumor is, it boggles my mind how unimpressive and unexciting this game's post-launch support has been. What's good took so long to arrive, and there's so many events and seaons that go by without any meaningful addition. Meanwhile there's Fortnite changing the way the game is played twice per week. Rocket League (made by an indie dev) that manages to throw in something worth playing for every couple weeks. Games like Siege or For Honor delivering maps, classes and game modes left and right. For all its flaws, Call Of Duty's 12-month cycles in which they drop like 20 different maps, a lot of new weapons, classes, etc.. Unless they are secretly working on a sequel or something, this is pretty poor for a GAAS. It's too bad because I legit loved playing Overwatch at first, but there's just not enough things going on to keep playing regularly, not when other games manage to reinvent themselves constantly.
Agreed. Year one showed some promise, with new modes, skins, and a slew of quality of life improvements. I was expecting them to build on that - and even felt happy to invest in some lootboxes during that year. They're still making money hand-over fist - where the hell is that going (rhetorical question, as obviously it's lining some suit's pockets)
It really is crazy. Blizzard is a *colossal* company, and they're doing...what, exactly? WoW expansions, HotS skins, maybe some Diablo stuff, and...Overwatch skins?
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Well said. I agree.
Archives is the only one out of 5 or 6 events that was supposed to have new mission every year. And if they scrap this... what's left exactly?
Preach. This game was so wonderful at the start, but the post-game support is barely present. Last year was dreadful for me personally and this year is starting to look like a repeat. I've moved on but I really would like something exciting to come out to make me hop back in.
Welp.
So much for a potential mission that focuses on the original Overwatch Strike Team back in their heyday.
So much for a potential mission that focuses on the original Overwatch Strike Team back in their heyday.
"Pokemon Overwatch feels like the game series with the single most wasted potential of all time"
Man. We still haven't had a single story event that pulled a bunch of these heroes together in current time with some sort of plot. That's literally all I want, hell even some single player mode chapters would be nice.
I'm actually getting bored with New Characters. I want more game modes/content that isnt cosmetic.
I'm actually getting bored with New Characters. I want more game modes/content that isnt cosmetic.
And this is why anybody i added to play OW in-game or otherwise doesnt wanna play it anymore ontop of the awful community and comp mode.
But heres 1 map and 1 hero every once and a while please understand.
But heres 1 map and 1 hero every once and a while please understand.
Considering it supposedly took them a year to make that Retribution event, I guess it's not surprising they aren't making a new one in this past year of rehashed events.
They do need to something other than new skins (for the same handful of heroes) for the 50% major updates to the game every year.
They do need to something other than new skins (for the same handful of heroes) for the 50% major updates to the game every year.
What the hell are they doing over there? The rate at content is so slow and events have not been updated for the longest time.
the game was basically put in maintenance mode a year after it launched so this isn't surprising
They are my favourite out of all of the event side modes, and I've been looking forward to each of them ever since they did the first one with Uprising.
Activision Blizzard are all about saving money while making lots of money now it seem. Cut costs however you can. Overwatch isn't exempted.
There is a big community of Overwatch PvE players who are into the lore, story, and really want a massive co-op campaign and have to wait every April for scraps. Those same people are usually the ones playing the PvE on hardest difficulty to get highest leaderboard rank. If the game devs wanted the focus to only be ranked and quick play, they wouldn't have spent time on all of this other stuff, especially archives and arcade. Sorry, but simply trashing the mode and wanting those people to move on to ranked or qp, won't cut it.
However, if all Blizzard wants to focus on is ranked and e-sports from now on, they have been doing a good job making that message loud and clear since last summer.
Big bummer for me if true :( I've been on an overwatch break for a month now (since Apex launch) for multiple reasons (toxic teammates, feeling like i can't climb in comp, i really don't care about the new years event) and was planning on using an event to get me to hop back in.
Oh well--I guess I'll just keep watching OWL.
Oh well--I guess I'll just keep watching OWL.
Not surprising, they don't have enough people working on it to ever churn out content at a decent pace.
Yeah, I'm with you. I play the event modes to get the first free lootbox win, and then go back to the meat and potatoes competitive mode. These event modes are just what they've always been - a fun, momentary distraction, so I never really expected them to spend much of their development time on them each year.
And I don't really get all the complaints that the content is "drying up". They're basically releasing the content that matters for actual long-term retention (maps and heroes) at the same pace they have been from the beginning. I mean, if you're bored with the game, I get that since it's three years old now, but the flow of that content hasn't really changed much.
These PVE missions are terrible, I cannot believe people wait a year to play a 10 minute linear mission. I'd rather them take that effort into developing comics, new characters and maps.
Really the only good PVE mode was and still is Junkenstein.
