Blizzard Leisure’s first step in direction of Steam has met with enormous criticism, as Overwatch 2 has already grow to be the worst-reviewed title on Valve’s platform.

The sport has managed to achieve round 70,000 critiques, with solely 10% of them being constructive ones. Overwatch 2 has dethroned ” Warfare of the Three Kingdoms” to acquire the notorious title of the “worst-rated sport” of all time on Steam. The sport has been experiencing a wave of “overview bombing” with gamers criticising Blizzard’s method towards the sequel and complaining concerning the lack of in-game content material.

They launched Overwatch 2 as a free to play enterprise mannequin, which leans extra closely into microtransactions, overpriced skins and predatory behaviour. To make issues worse, they shut down the primary sport, making it unplayable for individuals who bought it, that means the playerbase has to maneuver over to this free to play enterprise mannequin to maintain taking part in the sport.

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Aside from this, avid gamers have complained concerning the resolution to largely scrap the extremely anticipated PvE Hero mode, which was believed to be the only motive behind the sequel’s existence. To overshadow this, Blizzard did announce three totally different PvE missions, however that too with a $15 price ticket which many customers consider is not definitely worth the money and time.

Whereas some critiques have offered constructive criticism, a lot of them are concentrating on matters not associated to Overwatch 2, such because the Activision-Blizzard acquisition by Microsoft and the reviews of sexual harassment throughout the firm.  Whereas such components maintain their significance, they should not be listed as destructive factors within the overview of a selected sport. Valve’s moderation will doubtless take away them.

Blizzard had initially hoped to open up a brand new userbase to Overwatch 2 by launching on Steam, however sadly, the initiative has backfired for now. The corporate’s resolution to launch Overwatch 2 as its first title places up an entire argument, however we can’t go into particulars for now. We anticipate that with the launch of Overwatch 2: Invasion, issues may enhance since it’s the title’s greatest replace and is about to function new in-game content material.

If you’re fascinated about studying concerning the replace, you may view our roundup right here. By the way in which, if you buy an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 graphics card at choose retailers, you may obtain the Invasion bundle free of charge.