Game News Overwatch 2: “shame on you”, “the joke of the year” … Players dismantle the game and plunge its Metacritic rating
A few days ago, Overwatch 2 took over from its elder, to which players had to say goodbye following more than six years of good and loyal service. On the side of Activision-Blizzard, we were more than happy with the launch of this sequel in free-to-play, but, inevitably with the American publisher, nothing happened as planned and the outcry ensued. The players, more than irritated, reserved an anything but warm welcome to the title, causing its Metacritic rating to plummet.
Summary
- Overwatch 2, a catastrophic launch
- A Metacritic score close to 0
Overwatch 2, a catastrophic launch
With the release ofOverwatch 2the developers had the ambition to satisfy the players above all and to allow them to find the sensations ofOverwatchand much more, in an improved version. The three new heroinesSojourn, the Queen of Junkers and Kiriko, were in the starting blocks and expected an ovation from the public: first dream steps that turned into a nightmare. The reason ? A problematic launch where the quacks were chained, bubbling the anger of the players whose discontent was increasingly heard. It hasn’t even been a week and this sequel must already take out the oars to restore its image, seriously tarnished by various factors and, in particular, by this scandal around double authentication.
Overwatch may have impacted the world of video games, the players do not have the ambition to spare the errors of this title, both in its mechanics and its communication. So much so that the title has drawn the wrath of the most virulent players who did not hesitate to speak out by orchestrating yet another review-bombing, almost a year following the one experienced by the publisher with Call of Duty : Vanguard. In the space of six days, the game was completely destroyed (and even in the literal sense !). At this moment, Overwatch 2 undergoes the onslaught of players on Metacritic who do not go there with the back of the spoon to say what they think of this sequel.
In the space of six days, players who have managed to brave connection problems and queues have managed to form their own opinions on Overwatch 2. Sur Metacritica hundred of them posted an encouraging opinion, but it is ultimately only a drop in the ocean of hatred that is sweeping over this sequel since the title currently collects more than 1200 extremely unfavorable opinions – 1235, to be more exact – and sees its overall rating plummet. The zeros and the notes of “1” are linked and, contrary to the average opinion of the press, it is not really encouraging. Currently, and compiling over 1400 reviews, the average user rating on Metacritic is 1.4 out of 10.
Beyond the murderous notes that the title of Activision-Blizzard collects, it is the players’ arguments that leave their mark on the launch of free-to-play. Among the comments, some are surprised that the game is presented as ” a new title so few are the novelties, while others get angry with excessive grind needed to get your hands on a legendary skin. The anger goes up a notch and the players go so far as to use strong words saying that the developers ” should be ashamed “, that it is ” biggest joke of the year “, that it is neither more nor less than ” of a waste of time » as well as a « disappointment “developed by a company” who should sit in a trash can ».
