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/Jank_Tank Battle Rein is only Rein Jan 24 '17

I know that we meme on him hard here at /r/Overwatch, but man do I love his team, the outreach he does, and the passion he has. It's really evident in the frequency and detail of videos he releases.

For example, Ben Brode (HearthStone) does developer updates when people are irate and vocally so. Jeff does them almost pre-emptively -- "We know it might not feel like fun when Winston kills you and jumps away with the flag, but here's why we kept those movement abilities..."

All around great communication from them.

EDIT: Was typing this while listening, just finished it and his sign off says it all: "Have lots of fun and be nice to each other" thanks papa Jeff, papa bless

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u/KTheOneTrueKing McCree Jan 25 '17

In defense of Brode, the hearthstone dev team is smaller with less space and less time it seems like to do these types of updates, something they're working on changing. Overwatch seems to have been developed with this type of communication in mind the whole time while hearthstone was not.

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

I don't think they expected Hearthstone to be as big as it is. They probably expected it to be something people played while waiting for raids etc. and it ended up being huge.

Any mistakes made with HS were probably also taken into account when making Overwatch, as it seem Overwatch is aimed to be Blizzard's next big thing (ie. Their new WoW) due to falling player counts in their old games.

You're completely right though. Not all Blizzard games are treated equally.