Aaron Keller pledged to improve the game for "players who are playing now."

Aaron Keller pledged to improve the game for “players who are playing now.”

  • TwilightVulpine@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    You are really trying to downplay the power of marketing, but you seem to realize that gets people playing. Not only that but live service design is very effective at keeping people playing even when they are not having any fun whatsoever. Because they gotta grind the battle pass and such. Extrinsic rewards and habit-forming conditioning making up for a lack of intrinsic enjoyment.

    Still, I would agree with you that it’s not the worst game on Steam, but like I mentioned in the other comment, that’s not what steam ratings mean. It means that the vast majority people would not recommend it, and that seems pretty reasonable.

    • Primarily0617@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      bf2042 had a playercount in the high 1000s 2 months after its launch

      ow2 released 10 months ago

      are you saying bf2042 didn’t have marketing?

      which is more likely:

      • 50k people have been brainwashed into playing the game every day, and similar numbers into watching it on twitch
      • there is review bombing
        • Primarily0617@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          i mean i ignored the second part because it was irrelevant

          “You’re entirely disconnected to reality if you think Overwatch 2 deserves to be the worst-reviewed game on Steam.” doesn’t say “deserves to be the worst game”, so if we’re playing the reading game maybe you should take the first turn

          • TwilightVulpine@kbin.social
            4·
            1 year ago

            Oh, so you have no response to it so you are gonna pretend it doesn’t matter. I see.

            I could say I’d do the same but nothing you are saying now even addresses what I already responded to you, so I’ll just call it a job done.