Seria injusto da minha parte não dar, pelo menos, 4 estrelas para esse jogo que me proporcionou horas e horas de diversão, além de ter tido grande impacto na minha vida social: fiz amizades e fortaleci alguns laços com esse jogo.

Foi, ainda, o jogo que mais me dediquei nas filas ranqueadas, pois eu genuinamente tive uma experiência saudável com elas.

Muito além do multiplayer, OW tem um universo incrível. A história e os personagens são cativantes, o que é bem único para um jogo pvp online. As cinematics lançadas pela Blizzard eram um dos pontos altos para o desenvolvimento da história, muito mais interessantes do que os eventos pve. Sem dúvidas, Overwatch foi um marco. Afinal, esse jogo até ganhou o GOTY de 2016.

Infelizmente, ele tem uma história triste, por conta de diversos fatores que a Blizzard não foi capaz de lidar.

Imagino que cada mapa, cada personagem, era um parto para ser feito, devido ao nível de detalhamento, entre outros fatores. Isso gerou o primeiro problema: o jogo foi ficando estagnado, e isso é péssimo para um multiplayer competitivo.

O segundo problema era o de balanceamento. Basicamente, o jogo nunca esteve balanceado.

O competitivo era outro problema: chato de assistir e tinha que ser levado em consideração na hora do balanceamento, o que deixou o jogo casual ainda pior.

Enfim, existem mais outros inúmeros problemas que fizeram o jogo afundar e nenhum deles parece ter sido resolvido com o tempo, tampouco com Overwatch 2.

É realmente uma tristeza o jogo ter morrido, mas, pelo menos, tive bons momentos com ele, que tem um espaço especial no meu coração.

I loved this game with my whole being, all the universe it was set in, the community around it, the (early) safety of the team chat, the polish of the mechanics, the art, the unique gameplay.

The shorts they released about the characters were so good, the team that developed the game showed they loved it. I felt I was part of a great piece of art, and Jeff Kaplan updated us about how nicely everything was going, and how much cooler it was going to keep getting with his videos.

Then people started leaving, Blizzard started to squeeze, scandals, forcing the game to the point of breaking, more creators of the game leaving. The game wouldn't stop sinking more and more. At first I decided to stop playing for a bit inmediately after every time they made changes. Then even with the effort to avoid hotspots, good moments to play stopped existing. Overwatch 2 was going to be the revival, good moderation, fixing the frustrating points, nice new art, revival of the competitive sphere, and more. I played 3 matches when it came out, I never played again and never will. They brought it back to life but it came back wrong.

Every so often I go though a process of grieving when I remember this game existed.

I was very excited about this game when it came out. I bought it and had fun with it for the first couple of months....But it really didn't last.

The way Blizzard and the OW team fumbled this game is baffling. The stupid metas, the lackluster events, the broken ass "balancing", the excessive focus on comp; too many fucking shields and too many fucking heroes that were just absolutely boring or tedious to fight as or against.

I wasted too many hours of my life trying to enjoy this game that I paid 60 dollars for, just because I wanted to re experience the same fun that I had experienced with TF2 those first few years...Needless to say, that never happened.

Yes, I am upset that Blizzard doesn't allow me to play this shitty ass game that I PAID for anymore. But this game took years off of my life that I won't get back, so I don't really care all that much.

Fuck Blizzard and fuck this game. 2 stars just cuz D.VA is hot.