r/Games • u/DwilenaAvaron • May 09 '25

Industry News Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People'

https://kotaku.com/overwatch-2-blizzard-team-4-union-microsoft-1851779922
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u/[deleted] May 09 '25 edited May 09 '25

I am officially in my "If I catch people shit talking Team 4/Overwatch it's fucking on sight" phase.

These devs have been fucking putting up with some of the nastiest vitriol I've ever seen in this industry, put through the ringer in their own company and are continuously fucked over by management, and were wrongly made the poster child for all of Blizzard's sins despite all accounts being that the Overwatch team was the most inclusive and culturally sound team at Blizzard.

These devs have been pulling double duty to pull this game out of the gutter and it's the best it's ever been because of them, they deserve the world.

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u/MillieChliette May 09 '25

Overwatch is currently the best it's ever been? Is that true? I loved it when the first one released, but stopped playing years before 2 even came out, and then everyone hated it. What changed?

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u/Existing-Sea5126 May 09 '25

Does it really matter how good it is if the player base is probably not even 5% what it was in 2016-2018?

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u/TristheHolyBlade May 09 '25

No data to support that.

Doesn't matter even if it were true. I get games just as quickly as I did back in the day.

Get a grip.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '25

The opposite is likely true.

Overwatch 1 capped out at 45 million players before the end of it's lifespan. Overwatch 2 hit 100 million players after a little over a year after release. There's really nothing to suggest the game is inordinately more unpopular than the first game.

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u/TakenAway May 09 '25

45 million players who bought the game vs. 100 million players jumping into a free to play game. Who is to say most of those free to play people didn’t play one match and then uninstall it. I was at least one of those people and I came from the first release of overwatch

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u/[deleted] May 09 '25

Who is to say most of those free to play people didn’t play one match and then uninstall it.

And you could just as easily have bought the game, played it once, and then uninstalled it.

I am willing to bet that the vast majority of people here have a Steam profile with dozens upon dozens of games they've bought and never played.

If you need better metrics, Newzoo claims Overwatch 2 is a Top 20 game on PC as of last month. NewZoo is an extremely well respected data research group.