It's no secret that Activision/Blizzard are spending a small fortune on attempting to establish Overwatch as the next...

It's no secret that Activision/Blizzard are spending a small fortune on attempting to establish Overwatch as the next big thing, as well as expanding it into other avenues (Comics, spin-off novels, there were even reports a while ago that they were in talks with some Japanese studio to come out with an anime pilot). Question is, how successful do you think this will all actually be in the long-run?

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Very

>likable characters
>pleasing artistic style
>fun gameplay

it's really bland/boring to me so I wouldn't know

The more overwatch I see the less I want to buy it because I'm just sick of hearing about it. For a small group of people all of this effort will have the opposite effect, but I think the game will be very successful its been tailor made for the kids that were 4 when TF2 came out

Respectably. Nothing on the Scale on CoD or TF2, but I see it being a decent earner for them.

All I know is that I'm tired of seeing this dumb bitch plastered on everything.

Sup Forums sure can't stop talking about it despite hating it so much and claims of shilling going on, this game is gonna sell millions at this rate.

It will sell very well, but the players will drop off quick because there is so little variety and once you've tried a character twice you've pretty much figured them out

I think it will have something of a scene though I don't know if t will keep up the twicth views as it is kinda dull to watch (but I think most big twitch games are)

yeah it might be pretty popular

but not because Sup Forums won't stop talking about it

>pleasing artistic style

You can't honestly mean that. This neutered, inoffensive, it-looks like-shit-but-at-least-it-runs-on-toasters-let's hope-it-won't-age-as-badly-as-realistic-looking-games-usually-do lowest common denominator cartoony
>art
style is the worst thing AAA developers ever came up with. It's the Coldplay of visual styles.

Played the demo and it's basically baby's first team fortress,if that makes any sense. The fact that they even have to explain the basics of a fps tells you what kind of public they are aiming at. So it will be very popular.

>Comics, spin-off novels, Anime
they are throwing their money away, i see, typical Blizzard.

none of that shit matters, none of it will have an impact, literally 0 people will give a shit about those things and start playing Overwatch because of it.

Valve is the company that is saving the future of Overwatch, SFM Porn bring more players to Overwatch than any of that other shit will ever do

you're an idiot

realistic artstyles are boring, they're abundant like sand at the beach

not defending overwatch in the least but I have to point out that you're dumb

I personally have zero interest in it, even from the get go when they came out with the first trailer. So from my perspective? Meh. But there are a lot of Blizzard fanboys, so it will probably do well

despite you wanting to be that super skillfull gamer who impresses gamer girls online, there's nothing wrong with explaining your videogame's mechanics to the players

of course, I'd have preferred to see it implemented into the actual gameplay in a sort of "don't tell, show" manner instead of just outright telling you to press X to shoot

>Japanese studio to come out with an anime pilot
If they keep the same VA's, i'd be all for it.

youtube.com/watch?v=_YPGMJBHHDs

it's the next twitchbait by blizzard, twitch-chat autists will hype it up regardless

fully expect to hear your dudebro friends ask you to play overwatch with them soon

I'm not saying realistic is better than stylized in general, far from it, but the kind of dime a dozen style Overwatch was drawn in is objectively shit.

well I can potentially agree with that

>throwing money away
>none of that shit matters, none of it will have an impact

Financially, that shit's always going to make them a killing; we all know how deranged Blizzdrones are. Just look how well they did off all that WoW and Diablo tie-in garbage. Those novels are probably even shittier than all that D&D crap from the '80s like Gord the Rogue, but it didn't stop them from flying off shelves into the hands of ronery neckbeards.

>it's the next twitchbait by blizzard, twitch-chat autists will hype it up regardless
their shitty card game still has 3x the views of overwatch right now, it'll probably go the way of hots/sc2, a small community on twitch

So does activision own blizzard or something or why is it called like that?

and yet miles bigger than tf2, valvecucks :)

Activision and Vivendi merged a good 7 or 8 years ago now.

well maybe

tf2 is just as boring by now

another question though, how come you feel the need to defend overwatch by bashing tf2?
could it be that you're insecure about your favorite company's newest game? :^)

>"Its not muh mature game for grown ups like TF2"

kill yourself

tf2 is just as cartoony as overwatch though

No its not

TF2 has SOUL and LOVE and EFFORT put into it

Plus it has blood and guts and people say bad things to each other

plus TF2 is like an M rating, what is overshit? E10+?

Game will be dead in 1 years time with only a small dedicated player base.

Game is stale as fuck

>>TF2 has SOUL and LOVE and EFFORT put into it
kekking my ass off friend

I think it will be the next HotS or HS.
A huge tidalwave at first with everyone yelling it's a revolution, then it will deflate quickly and just continue living on a handful players.

>fps
>in 2016
it will die soon like nothing can compete with CS.

>not really interested in the game since it's yet another MOBA
>friend keeps talking about it
>don't care, I have no plan on ever playing it
>he gifts me a beta key
>feel forced to try and play with him for a bit
>turns out it's fun as fuck
Can't fucking wait for the release now.

>TF2 has SOUL and LOVE and EFFORT put into it
Which they subsequently destroyed with low-effort hats and crates.

This is the most boring IP Blizzard has. Story is a joke and gameplay is obviously TF2. Fanboys are going to buy it because it's Blizz.

Still, I like the fact Blizzard makes new IP instead of butchering memory of Starcraft, Diablo and Warcraft.

>not even over 8hours
kys normie fuck

Why do people keep calling it a MOBA? Is TF2 a MOBA too?
Fucking retards.

Not very because Blizzard is too stupid to make the best call and have Platinum make a Genji and Hanzo action game, Sumo Digital to make a Roadhog and Junkrat vehicular combat game, Machinehead or hell even the in-house team of ravensoft since they are activision-blizzard after all to make a Solider 76 and Reaper game

take the cinematic universe approach, have all the characters appear in outsourced spin-off games and lead up to Overwatch 2.

It's a SHOBA. Blends shooters with elements from MOBAs, namely the special abilities that you charge up and the focus on team battles.

tf2 was good at some point around 2010 but since then become a hat simulator for eastern european slumdog millionaires and a place for edgy 14 year olds who spam lenny face and watch filthyfrank videos.