Blizzard released its own game on the PC Steam platform for the first time this year, led by the MOBA FPS game "Overwatch 2", but its player reviews were very poor, with a positive rating of only 15%, "a flood of bad reviews". Recently, a former Blizzard employee said that they expected the game to be sprayed before it hit the shelves.
Andy Belford, who previously worked at Blizzard, said that a few months before Overwatch 2 hit Steam, the team had warned that it would encounter a lot of bad reviews, and that they wanted more information and resources to help them deal with new players, but they were all rejected. So who forced Overwatch 2 to be released on Steam?It was Bobby Kotick, who had just quit Activision Blizzard.
Andy Belford said this is just a microcosm of Bobby Kotick's role at Activision Blizzard, where all sorts of pressures are devolved to the lowest paid and most heavily workloaded employees, while management is busy juggling vacillating directions and unjustified decisions. In the end, everything is just for the financial service, and the player experience and employee treatment are not considered by the management at all.
Regarding Andy Belford's remarks, some netizens said that this is a bit of a generalization, they believe that the problems of "Overwatch 2" are not all the blame of the management, and the development team is also to blame, even if Bobby Kotick is gone now, "Overwatch 2" will not get better immediately. I don't know what you think?