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neat to see some fan efforts to get lawbreakers playable again. the game was wicked fun and the anti-grav gimmick was well-executed

it got me to remember that period of a couple years where overwatch was the main darling of multiplayer shooters and anything even vaguely in the same orbit was derided as a cheap pretender by a fanbase that didn't even bother playing anything else. I would bet most of those dopes are now wallowing in the mud of every bit of negative press around OW2 and actively cheering on the game's death. total sheep

I was never operating on the assumption that this would be the one single change in the next season, it was plainly obvious that it was the figurehead in a drastic set of changes

that isn't why I think this is a very bad sign though. it's emblematic of a problem blizzard has had in all of their games when trying to balance systems: they have absolutely no patience for making small tweaks, and are always in a hurry to upend an entire set of mechanics instead of figuring out a means of solving an existing problem

more so than any other developer's games across multiple genres, blizzard are the masters of engineering themselves into "flavor of the month" own-goals that end up routinely making players annoyed. so then they have to do big enough changes to warrant enough pageantry that everyone stops complaining for a month or two. the cycle repeats itself

I've ditched the game again because as-is, I have no faith in them to take a step back and look before they leap. they'll spend the next years chasing their tails on this, while numerous other issues like

virtually nonexistent moderation, flagrantly pitting wildly unevenly skilled players against each other to maintain a 50% win average, events that are obnoxious grinds, monetization that shows utter disrespect to anyone invested

will go untouched. I've got better things to spend my time on than a game whose developers don't know what they want it to be

overwatch 2 greeting you with holiday well wishes on launch, followed by giving you a worthless weapon keychain, and having all the actual christmas-y cosmetics in the shop cost like $30 each is bordering on self-parody. I don't think service games are very healthy right now