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Jared Neuss, executive producer of Blizzard’s ‘hero shooter’, says there won’t be any more story missions until two seasons after the premiere on August 10...

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[–] KyoStarr@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a disaster. I feel sorry for the fans who were lied to by ABK on what they were receiving with OW2. It definitely feels like the point of moving to OW2 was just to pivot to a more exploitive monetization model.

[–] Mortuaire@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I strongly suspect that's exactly what happened; OW2 was a "New Coke" style smoke screen to cover the transition to a predatory battle pass monetization scheme. I don't think they ever seriously intended to add a fully-realized PvE mode.