I guess they’re giving up on convincing people to download their launcher.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is really good and really bad news.

    On the plusside, it really seems like running Battle.net is not a requirement, and it just logs in the bnet account once ingame. Two thumbs up. More availability and people being able to use Steam as a somewhat sensible launcher instead of the frankly annoying Battle.net, even better.

    On the downside, I guess this also confirms beyond the investors call that OW2 is bleeding players quickly - and for good reason, since they’ve shown they cannot handle the fundamental design changes from the switch to 5v5 at all.

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      1 year ago

      Overwatch 2 failing is bad news? It’s everything wrong with GAAS development. If it eats shit and dies, the industry can only take away good lessons from it.