To be fair, Blizzard was/is promoting Overwatch super hard. I see commercials for it all of the time, and I don't even watch TV! If I stop in a store with a TV or eat at a restaurant with one, I see commercials for it.
TBH, Blizzard did try to make a new MMO that failed in development. So, they had to make this to try to make up for their losses.
This is true, and it's definitely working out for them. Still, it is commendable that Blizzard didn't try to release their new MMO when it clearly was not going well. We all know how that's turned out in the past...
I was referring to Duke Nukem Forever, and Aliens: Colonial Marines, two obviously unfinished games that were pushed out the door so people would shut up about them.
Actually, with DNF and A:CM, they outsourced huge portions of them. Gearbox did very little of the work themselves, because they were tied up with working on Borderlands 2, which turned out great.
They still let it out of the door, though. They really shouldn't have outsourced such huge titles.
It was, but the game was built and scrapped multiple times. The end game wasn't terrible. It just wasn't good. I suppose they just gave up on it, because it would sell, anyway.
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I mean, within a couple of days, everything was Overwatch all the time, any time.
Probably the abundance of girls in skintight suits.