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'Marvel Rivals' Crushes 'Overwatch 2' as Players Jump Ship

fictionhorizon.com 'Marvel Rivals' Crushes 'Overwatch 2' as Players Jump Ship

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This doesn't really surprise me. Overwatch 2 is basically a momument to the rot at the core of Blizzard. Its biggest saving grace is that there hasn't been a serious challenger in the hero brawler space (sorry Concord) until now.
For my money, I still think Deadlock is going to be the game that comes out on top, but it probably needs another full year to cook.
- There's no chance Deadlock beats Rivals.
  Rivals is simpler and is based on the world's most valuable franchise. It's the formula behind it's mass adoption. Deadlock requires the player to think more, and that alone makes it less popular than more braindead games.
  
  Considering Rivals has already fallen into a GOATS meta and NetEase seems poised to repeat literally every one of Blizzard's mistakes...I wouldn't be so sure. I'll keep giving Valve the edge because Deadlock is a fundamentally good competitive game, and it's backed by the guy responsible for making DOTA 2 the best balanced competitive game. Maybe it won't stay at the top, but 10 years from now it's going to be trundling on and Rivals will not.
  
  the world's most valuable franchise
  Big pause on that one, theres a few franchises above Marvel
  
  The world's most valuable franchise is Pokémon. I will say the list specifies the MCU so IDK if that includes all Marvel stuff.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises
  
  Neither Deadlock or Rivals are going to beat each other because they are extremely different and play nothing alike. Both games will probably be successful.
  
  They're different genres, not really direct competitors
- Lol, no way Deadlock gets mainstream like that. I’m a casual gamer, and Deadlock kicked my ass relentlessly. It’s way too complex, and requires a certain play style and strategy to even have a hope of being good at it. Meanwhile, you can be mediocre at Overwatch and still have fun

My friend and I were just talking the other day how Marvel looked like a carbon copy of overwatch, and we both agreed we'd still rather play it over OW because Blizzard sucks.
I wonder how many people have jumped ship just because of that.
- because Blizzard sucks
  Is netease any better?
  
  No, and i don't actually play either game. But I recently saw my husband playing OW2 and I got mad all over again at how it's identical to the first OW and the only reason for it was to more aggressively monetize.
  
  Well overwatch 2 also sucks. I think the remaining players have Stockholm syndrome
  
  They haven't pissed off the Blizzard players yet.
- Blizzard ruined OW with OW2.

Article gives zero reasons. I'll add my opinion. Newness factor. Not having the meta settled, the lack of map knowledge, etc. Just all the things that circle the "new" of such a game drives the folks at the moment. It's got the feel of early OW when you just picked your person, got on a map, and did the objective not really knowing anything.
It's yet to see how the balance patching goes for the game and how new characters for the game go. I'll say the game does one thing out the gate better than OW2 and that's the reduced FOMO in the game related to battle pass. You buy the battle pass, you have infinite time to complete it. Now you can't sit the fence on if to buy the BP or not, hence my "reduced FOMO", but this is one of those things they've started doing in a lot of other games like Halo and what not, and it's something that I think Blizzard should do for OW. But I don't think that alone is going to turn the tide massively.
But I will say that Rivals and OW2 are absolutely proving the F2P is here to stay as a model for games. So I really think those in the OW community who were salty about OW2 swapping over have basically lost the war on the topic.
Again, all my 2¢, and I'm not claiming to be some scion of knowledge in the gaming industry. Just letting you know my feels.
- So I really think those in the OW community who were salty about OW2 swapping over have basically lost the war on the topic.
  I'm still salty that the game that I paid for was deleted and removed from my account and swapped for other similar game named OW2.
- But I will say that Rivals and OW2 are absolutely proving the F2P is here to stay as a model for games. So I really think those in the OW community who were salty about OW2 swapping over have basically lost the war on the topic.
  I mean, whether f2p would contiue wasn't really ever in question. Its been a successful model for multiplayer for a decade. The question is more in how abusive monitization can be before players will move to competition or leave. Hopefully this shows that players are eager to jump ship (or at least move to competition) when the monitization is as bad as OW2.

Let's see for how long

I wonder what Disney is going to do when people start making Blender porn with their models.
- Hulk with big dick? There's already Black widow R34 content floating around.
  
  Yeah but that's cottage industry compared to what's coming if this game has staying power.
- Have you seen the original Little Mermaid cover?

Deadlock killer?
- Deadlock and Marvel Rivals' gameplay are too different to be compared imo. Deadlock is a more MOBA styled fighter; where secondary objectives like killing minions / denying points contribute quite a lot to your effective performance. Marvel Rivals is more of a team shooter, where everyone has a slightly different role in the team per design.

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