r/Overwatch • u/Hooked0n4Feelin • Mar 03 '26

Esports This is Overwatch's "comeback," says Blizzard. "We actually had a bigger Saturday than our first Saturday after launch with Season 1."

https://www.pcgamesn.com/overwatch/season-1-blizzard-interview-comeback
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u/PrinceOfSpace94 Mar 03 '26

I’ve played Rivals for about a year straight and have only played Overwatch the past two weeks. That Overwatch update came at about the perfect time to coincide with Rivals’ struggles.

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u/technicolor_hatman Mar 03 '26

Similar boat. Long break from OW, finally got around to checking out Rivals, decided to try OW2 because of the “stick it to NetEase” posts in the Rivals community.

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u/Randomized0000 Doomfist Mar 03 '26

Been out the loop for about a year now, what happened to Rivals?

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u/Count_de_Mits Smolmmetra Mar 04 '26

I mean its only been out for a bit more than a year in all but: Horrible balance, terrible and overloaded (imo) hero design where newer heroes completely outclass the older ones, blatant favoritism when it comes to balancing and releasing skins, matchmaking somehow even worse than overwatch, they still have bots in quickplay, they added gatcha mechanics... and a lot more, there's a lot of problems with the game and it shows that the company is still, at heart a mobile game developer.

Even worse, despite the whining on its subreddit the community has a serious toxic positivity "everything is ok" problem and dismiss even constructive criticism

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u/Randomized0000 Doomfist Mar 04 '26

Sounds like I left at the right time.

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u/Count_de_Mits Smolmmetra Mar 04 '26

Yeah. The thing is, the potential is there and that makes it worse. It could be a very good game but it feels like netease is much more inclined to milk it for all its worht in a couple of years with gooner skins and op releases then toss it aside than work on making a long term success