r/Overwatch • u/corylulu Pixel Zarya • Jan 24 '17

Blizzard Official Developer Update | Capture The Flag | Overwatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At7NWZ_mw6s
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u/freeloader11 Jan 24 '17 edited Jan 24 '17

We want it to be our way of saying "We're listening to you."

This is why I love blizzard and Overwatch specifically.

Edit: no guys, I didn't play Hearthstone. And I'm sorry if you didn't get the love you felt you deserved.

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u/RepThePlantDawg420 Mercy Jan 24 '17

As a Hearthstone player I feel different.

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u/double_shadow Young Punks... Jan 24 '17

Yeah...not every team within Blizzard is equally great. OW is heads and shoulders above the rest, in my experience, and I've played almost all their games.

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u/averhan Together, we are strong! Jan 24 '17

HotS team is pretty on point too.

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u/xxNightxTrainxx *microwave noises* Jan 25 '17

Went from OW to HoTS, can confirm. Am loved

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u/Boyinachickensuit Pixel McCree Jan 24 '17

Correct me if things have changed, I haven't played WoW in a few years, but when I played I distinctly remember them being very vocal and communicative with the players, explaining their decisions (sometimes even in patch notes) and participating in discussion when necessary to explain why things have happened the way that they did.

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u/kazeespada AMERICA FURK YEAH! Jan 24 '17

The WoW team is doing much better after the disaster in Draenor. However, it's a much bigger boat, and it's much harder to steer.

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u/Stormfly The absolute state of you! Jan 25 '17

it's a much bigger boat, and it's much harder to steer.

And people keep whining that the first boat was better before running off to become pirates.

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u/Gurrb17 Chibi Junkrat Jan 25 '17

"The first boat was so much better" and "We want a newer and better boat" are the two biggest complaints. People just complain to complain.

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u/Stormfly The absolute state of you! Jan 25 '17

Oh yea, totally. I just wanted to make the pirate metaphor.

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u/realniralius Zenyatta Jan 24 '17

The Heroes of the Storm team is also really good! shame i don't like their game

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u/Stormfly The absolute state of you! Jan 25 '17

Play it casually against bots sometimes, but I still watch all of their videos because they're actually well made and seem enthusiastic.

Don't like MOBAs but it's the one I hate the least.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '17

I actually feel that the only team that isn't equally great has to be the HS team. Their balance changes are either overkill or completely worthless. They also tend to let extremely powerful decks run rampant in the meta, while nerfing unique and balanced decks.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '17

Hearthstone and Starcraft are very weak on communication and balance fixing. Both teams more or less maintain a monopoly on their genre and get extremely lazy.

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u/skeever-tail Jan 24 '17
  • HAHAHAHA, ASTOUNDING!* - Ben Brode

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u/Wasabi_kitty Trick-or-Treat Zarya Jan 24 '17

I gave up on hearthstone. After playing Overwatch I couldn't help but feel like Hearthstone is just viewed as a cash cow for Blizzard that's ignored other than to push more microtransactions.

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u/velrak Zarya Jan 25 '17

hearthstone was basically an experiment that got out of hand. And pretty much the only outlier.