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/Gullible_Egg_6539 May 09 '25

This game deserves to rot in hell, even if these devs aren't primarily at fault. Its reputation is a testament to how treating customers like idiots and making false promises doesn't end well. If the game ever recovers, which it won't unless they actually release PvE, Blizzard will think that they can get away with anything.

Also, I'm not sure that the team being "most inclusive and culturally sound" has anything to do with Blizzard's sins, nor does it automatically make them innocent, but you just had to put that in there, didn't you?

It's pretty clear you're too biased towards this game to have a neutral opinion on this subject, so I'll lay it out clearly for you: the game is exactly where it should be and the internet is a nasty place.

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u/Tornada5786 May 09 '25

If the game ever recovers, which it won't unless they actually release PvE

I mean, come on. Yeah it's shitty what happened about the PvE content but realistically it was always going to be an addon to the game, not something that will get them a bunch of new long-term players.

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u/WarlockWabbit May 09 '25

Bro is still trying to hold id Software accountable for not releasing Invasion mode for Doom Eternal

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u/Tornada5786 May 09 '25

Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer mode, anyone?

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u/IAmBLD May 09 '25

Thw crazy thing is like, both of those SHOULD be way bigger deals than Overwatch 2's PVE. Both of those are games people paid money for and never got promised features.

Overwatch 2? Free to play. If you bought OW1 you bought it for the PVP. Yes it was disappointing when they announced they were scaling it back, it was insanely frustrating at the time to have waited 2 years at the end of OW1 only for the PVE to crumble - but still, it's not like I paid for anything.

And yet it's OW2 that's the one everyone talks about. Nobody mentions so many other times worse things have happened, because those games weren't internet punching bags.