In my opinion, anyone saying OW2 is worse than the original is saying this for personal reasons and not trying to be objective. OW2 is, in my experience, much more balanced than OW1. Many of the more frustrating aspects of the game have been fixed or removed, and most of the characters added since OW1 seem fun to play and not frustrating to play against.
There are very many valid criticisms one can make of Blizzard. The history of being a shitty workplace, the objectively awful decision to make OW2 a sequel, the treatment of Jeff Kaplan by execs, the monetization, and probably more. None of those criticisms (except monetization to a limited degree) have anything to do with whether or not OW2 is a bad game or not.
But I’m speculating since the person you responded to has not elaborated on any of their views.
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Because despite the bitching it still has a very respectable user base, at least purely looking at the Steam stats:
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Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
That’s honestly not that good, when games like CS2 are regularly pulling 2million+.
According to 3rd party websites (that may not have accurate estimates, Overwatch 1 had between 600k-1mil peak concurrent players through a lot of 2020/2021. One of those same websites now says that OW2 had about 140k peak players today when combining all players on all platforms. So it would seem there’s been a huge drop in players.
rigatti@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Keep in mind that a large portion of players don’t have it installed on Steam and use the Battle.net launcher instead (like me).
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Right, that’s why the collective play amount is ~130k when the steam daily is only ~30k
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Also, the game is on consoles too with crossplay
epicsninja@lemmy.world 2 months ago
CS2 is top of the pile, there is very little that can fairly be compared to it.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I think Overwatch 1 at it’s peak could be compared to CS2.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do we know it’s average playerbase back when it was still overwatch?
SnugZebras@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
No pretty sure it was Battle.net exclusive