Why is this game so popular when it isn't very good?

Why is this game so popular when it isn't very good?

STOP HAVING FUN! IT'S NOT A GOOD GAME YOU CAN'T BE HAVING FUN! DON'T YOU HEAR ME? THE GAME ISN'T GOOD!

No need to be mad, just wondering

Game is popular cause it's fun.

Blizzard games are hyped to obscene degrees. OW has touted as being the king before it even came out any any other game like Battleborn or Paladins was an imitator.

Surprise, Paladins is far superior.

blizzard is the king of marketing

It's pretty obviously pandering to hype culture

I always hear this from Sup Forums but I've always had fun and the general consensus (on anywhere not Sup Forums) seems to agree with me. What are your reasons for not liking it?

Popularity =/= Good

Are you new here? Like really? Like... everyone on Sup Forums knows that "majority does not equal quality."

It's popular because there are more "gamers" with bad taste than there are with good taste. For example OP

INCOMING YEAR OLD WEBMs CHERRY PICKED FROM OPEN BETA

It's a fun game if you don't play it like a retard in quickplay. Just hit level 1100 last night

We're not casual scrubs who didn't grow up playing Quake. We know good games.

well that isn't how positive emotion works.

positive emotion has nothing to do with fun. Companies know this. They employ people to figure out how to engineer normalfags like you to release dopamine on their command.

If you enjoy Overwatch, that's fine. but don't pretend you are anything more than a rat pushing levers

How’s ur F2P kiddy mobile quality servers?

Because your definition of good is meaningless.
It's not too complex, not too simple, it's pretty looking, but scales extremely well across all PC hardware, and even runs well on consoles. The cast is varied and memorable, full of waifu bait, the marketing is on point, and the balance despite having issues tends to be pretty decent even at its worst.
And at the end of the day what really make it popular is that TF2 is way past its heyday. For years TF2 meandered and gradually got worse and worse, objectively, as a piece of software, TF2 is worse than it has ever been. It's fucking embarrassing that such a storied game has been neglected but for monetary reasons. Crysis could probably run better at this point.
And so finally Overwatch stepped up to the plate, and nothing came close to competing with it. People played it, people enjoyed it, and with Blizzard establishing a consistent update schedule people have reason to come back every couple of weeks.
But you know all of this. You just wanted to start another bitching thread. Overwatch is popular because it appealed to everyone, and delivered.

Where's this we bullshit coming from?

Waifufaggotry and yurifaggotry.

I know right? Why isn't everybody playing League of Legends instead??

>Paladins
>more russians, brazilians, broken competitive system, very odd hitboxes, and borderline broken casual mechanics with the new cards unbound system
>draft pick for comp

I played it for 100+ hours. It's a breath of fresh air from Overwatch but it honestly just seems like a budget Overwatch,.

>not too simple

>It's designed to make you feel good AND THAT'S A BAD THING

i honestly have no fucking clue what you are trying to say. Is this a jab at lootboxes again?

See in this case I'm blizzard and you pressed the lever I wanted (you) too.

Hope you learned a lesson blizzcucks. It's easy to manipulate people.
Sorry about the rodent brains

this post encompasses nu-Sup Forums. this is what Sup Forums has become

Nice job with those totally objective reasons there champ.

Man this fucking game pisses me off so much when I play it. I can't pinpoint why but there are so many reasons. I have never felt that way when I played Counter Strike or Team Fortress 2 or even Call of Duty.

because it's easy and casuals can pretend they have skills in it. Also it's not a bad game just a boring one

Its very easy to play. The both the skill floor and ceiling are very low, so even someone who's not very good ar other shooters can get decent plays every now and again.

It's popular because it looks nice and is fun.

The game feels cheap.

its a bad game

Normies are retards. Next question.

its not fun and dose not look nice who wants to look at a pink haired tranny with a fake russian ascent

Paladins has a lot of problems and let's not pretend they're not a thing but it still manages to be more fun than OW because it has more mechanics to make it more fun to play. OW is like this game that wants to be competitive but then every other week there's some new patch to make the balance go all over the place because people complained enough. I can play Paladins and be entertained. I tried to play OW last night and had to uninstall it after. It's just not fun anymore.

It's too polished and constrictive. Like everything is very elaborately designed. The feeling of freedom and choice other FPS games run on isn't there either.

It's the most polished game I've seen in awhile.

It's colorful and there are waifus.

>Paladins
>Superior
At being super pay2win maybe

>not too simple

I feel kind of bad for Battleborn with all the work they put in it

I wouldn't when Gearbox decided to lock horns with Blizzard instead of delaying the game until later in the year. That was only the tip of the iceberg

>playing team FPS games with pubs

lmao'ing at anyone who puts themselves through such hell

Artstyle. Cinematic trailers. Cool futuristic-fantasy setting. Good characterization, especially improved with the trailers. Why do you think many people have said they'd play this game if it had a single-player campaign?

Characters have some good designs too. I also wanna make a note here to take notice on how the original cast that are probably from the ProjectTitan team are pretty well-designed, and all the newly-designed characters are literal garbage.

who else was hoping it would be a SMNC clone.
after playing tf2 smnc felt kind of restrictive but it's nothing compared to OW's boringness and lack of freedom. at least you could do some shit with the jumppads and melee-rolls in smnc

>ITS PRESS Q TO WIN xDDD
Yeah, there is no positioning, map awareness, accuracy(inb4 WAHHH BUT THE MELEE CHARACTER DOSENT HAVE TO AIM :(((( ) TEAMWORK, and of course mastering even heros skills to the best of their abilities,
If you say its too easy youre either a Sup Forums hivemind or never made it past the plat rank.

>I don't like it so therefore it's bad.

It’s flashy, has waifushit up the ass, and leads you to believe that it has lots of variety with so many characters to choose from when in reality most of them have the depth of a puddle.

Fun gameplay, fun characters, bright and cartoony Pixar artstyle that normies like

The skill level to get in is very low so more people play it. How is this a hard concept to grasp.

That's been Blizzards shtick for awhile, easy to learn hard to master. It's why WoW was so popular, people were calling it babies first MMO back during vanilla.