This is stupid. I have no love for Overwatch or Blizzard - I’ve been boycotting them for years, in fact. But there are far, far worse games on Steam than OW2. The fact that, to my knowledge, it runs properly, doesn’t have crypto miners built into it, and isn’t just made from stolen assets already puts it at like a 5/10 at minimum.
I’m all for consumers standing up for themselves and being critical or poor products, but I really wish people wouldn’t get caught up in these hate bandwagons.
Correct me if I’m wrong (I’ve never left a Steam review before), but isn’t the way Steam reviews work is that you either leave a thumbs up or a thumbs down? There doesn’t seem to be any rating scale. The “score” displayed on this page is presumably based on the ratio between positive and negative reviews, and the only thing it tells you is that about 90% of players aren’t convinced that whatever the game has to offer earnes it a recommendation, not that they all thought it deserved a 1 out of 10.
Yup. No way to give it a 5/10. With so many people (IMO rightfully) disappointed with what they turned Overwatch into, of course they won’t recommend it. Though no doubt some people now only want to pile on the negative reviews for fun.
Well it’s also easy to see this as review bombing, when infact, this is just the first time everyone is actually allowed to review the game at the source. Blizzard was just deleting bad reviews on their own platform so this is the first place the game is hosted that people are free to voice their complaints.
People feel overwhelmingly negative about the game. This is an accurate representation of that. I don’t see the issue here. It’s one of the few ways to get Blizzard to actually listen, they can’t ignore the public perception here like they do on literally every other platform. It’s a massive money hungry studio, no need to defend or feel bad for them.
It’s not representative of how people who actually play the game feel, at least not in my experience.
My old OW1 crew came back for OW2 and we’ve been playing pretty religiously since. It’s not perfect and we all have complaints, but it is such a clear improvement over where OW1 was from ~2018 to 2022.
A lot of the monetization complaints ring hollow since the game is far more generous with free hero and cosmetic unlocks than alternatives like Valorant or Apex.
Then why aren’t they voting it up to counter the negative reviews?
These kinds of lists have to factor in popularity too though. Otherwise the top 1,000 would all be shovelware with 1 or 2 negative votes. It’s not interesting or useful to point out that the games no one is going to play anyway are bad. A game that’s popular enough to even make it onto the list obviously isn’t going to actually literally be the worst game on Steam. That’s just how it has to work.
I wish Amazon worked that way. Sort by reviews and you get random Chinese garbage with 1 5* review from the importer’s mom.
Overwatch is far from the worst game on steam but it is not a good game. It could be so much better if blizzard was still passionate about making good games but they are only passionate about nickle and diming now. We ALL need to stop giving them money. I gave in and bought diablo 4 and already stopped playing it, there’s just not enough substance to keep me coming back… The seasonal stuff is just a boring grind and I just feel bad about giving them my money, especially with all I know about how they treat their own employees. Just done with them.
I’m with you there. I regret buying D4 and it’d probably the last Blizzard game I’ll ever buy unless MS cleans house when they acquire them.
Doesn’t matter the reviews or review bombing to Blizzard. The fact remains that no matter how actually shitty the game is Blizzard is making record profits off of the game.
That’s all Blizzard looks at these days. Is it making them money? And the answer is an abundant yes. So for whatever hate there is, the fact that players are still handing them fistfuls of cash indicates full success to them.
Review bombing doesn’t actually help anyone, it just makes people question the validity of user reviews in general.
I guess this could be a glass half full kind of situation.
But they also are not making as much money as they could have if they delivered on a good game. Even if they got only 5% of steam, that is still 95% of steam that didn’t buy it.
Sure, you can make the argument that they still got into a new market. However, if your product was scientifically engineered to appeal to the most demographics, then only 5% of that market is concerning.
If they’re making record profits why did they decide to come to steam?
I think their player numbers have dropped and they’re trying to boost them.
More money.
That’s literally any of this is lol
Steam takes 30%. If they thought they could drive people to their standalone launcher they would be doing that
I’ve been mostly out of the loop for overwatch but my guess is so that can have even more recorder profits
I shudder to think what they’ll do for recordest profits
The game is currently being review bombed. Valve will soon do a big cleaning: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valve-to-remove-off-topic-review-bombs-from-steam-user-scores
But it’s blizzard who bombed their own game…
9% of 75K reviews are positive. I’m very curious how many will be removed. Also does Blizzard have a review system for their games? Curious how these reviews could be considered “off topic” if there’s no first-party system to compare them to.
The reviews don’t get removed, they’re just hidden by default. And it’s considered off topic if the content of the reviews is about something that a team at Valve determines to be unlikely to help a new player decide if they want to play the game.
Like this “review”:
And thats where it fricking belongs.
I’m not s fan but if you really think it’s the worst game on Steam woof…
Yea, one thing I would love to see on Lemmy that I rarely saw on Reddit are level-headed gamers when it came to controversies.
Civility argument is about protecting the powerful. Let people have opinions. We all know why people are upset. Downplaying it just makes someone sound like an apologist.
it belongs there because its simply Overwatch 1 without all the features promissed for Overwatch 2. 80 gigabytes from /dev/random has more worth that this “game” and its cheaper!
For sure, agreed. Major downgrade and when I tried it at launch it still had the same queue problems OW1 had so not like they even fixed anything for a casual player.
But I’m pretty sure we both know Overwatch 2 isn’t the worst game available. (I’m not going to go out of my way defend OW2 to anyone, it’s not worth it.)
For what it’s worth, pcgamer.com just had an article talking about this. They said it’s not really review bombing but more of a pulse check on how gamers feel about OW2. Battle.net doesn’t have a review system so this is just the first opportunity for gamers to express how they feel about the game in this way
Review bombing seems so silly
Review bombing is the only impactful way in recent years that has worked against these large publishers. Plus Overwatch is F2P so the old trick of just saying don’t buy it doesn’t work, they will still get a player base with giant “whales”.
Edit: Never played the game btw
When did Flatout 3 move out of the top spot?
Good riddance, literally overwatch 1 game with more .icro transactions. Not to mention they took down overwatch 1 so you can’t play it anymore… not to me tonight the co-op was suppose to come out and be free they said nope we aren’t doing it, then they did it and it’s a paid feature as far as I know now. Blizzard is the worst
Wow, they took down Overwatch 1? That’s really messed up…
Even if you buy a physical copy of Overwatch 1 in a store, when you pop it in your system, it’ll install Overwatch 2 instead.
If there was a proper way for people to express the problem then that would be great. But, as it stands with F2P games, and ones as complicated as Overwatchs history, well, fucking Steam slaughter is AN option for most. Fuck the game and company, there are no redeeming values. Even if these there is a dilution of review efficacy, oh well.
I didn’t know it was on Steam. Had that stupid blizzard launcher just for OG Overwatch
They released it on Steam on August 10th because player engagement was on the decline: https://gamerant.com/overwatch-2-player-count-down/
Battlenet is on Steam these days?
Just overwatch for now.
Does it launch the game by itself or does it do the Ubisoft thing when it launches the launcher to launch the game?
It launches the game by itself, no (perceivable) launcher
The gameplay got a lot better when Overwatch 2 dropped, and then they just killed it with a lack of content, both multiplayer and story mode.
Pray tell how was it improved? By making the teams smaller thus lowering team variability? By changing one of the most fun mechanics to be only mild annoyances? By removing features that actually made the game fun?
Why is flatput 3 that bad?
IDK but its successor, Wreckfest, is really freaking good. I like the damage system and how stuff doesn’t despawn, so by the end of the race you have random car parts and barricades littered all over the track. The multiplayer population is small but steady; there’s always a full server or two available.
Wreck fest is a very good game, brings back memories of flatout 2 and burnout
Why all this hate for OW2?
Because they took OW1, changed very little, made it a lot more microtransactiony, didn’t release a promised co-op mode that basically was the reasoning to release OW2. I’m sure there’s more but that’s about it.
Dont forget they removed a tank slot, greatly changing how the game was played. And IMO not for the better.
Literally all the worst parts of modern gaming made by one of the worst companies.
I’m in my late 30s and I remember when Blizzard was highly respected in the industry. sigh, how the mighty have fallen.
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