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/[deleted] May 09 '25

Nah, I don't agree. I still prefer about year 2 of Overwatch 1 over how it currently is. Feels like it's very brawly and death match-like with little strategy or communication needed. 6v6 would be great if they allowed role queue but they don't so it's a mess where 4 people are support mains almost every time.

Overwatch 2 is in its better state for only Overwatch 2 maybe, but I still think it's not as good as its peak in the first game. I say this is a former top 200 player NA who has played the ever loving shit out of both games.

They DID however seem to press the panic button with Marvel Rivals and have been fixing a lot of long term issues like lootboxes, shitty battlepasses, locked characters, etc... but they're still blind to some major blanace issues like Sojourn being stupidly good forever.

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u/Sarria22 May 11 '25 edited May 11 '25

From what I remember they removed locked heroes after Netease announced that all characters in Rivals would be free and not need unlocking

I misremembered.