I wish you all a beautiful Wednesday! BlizzCon 2015 is behind us, and although I am completely thrilled by most of the announcements, and even a new WoW hype has gripped me, there were a few personal disappointments for me. This is once again “complaining about little things”, but especially because a game like Overwatch moves me and has sparked my anticipation, the small setbacks are often the hardest.
There can never be enough heroes! – But. 21.
Maybe my “More and more!” expectation for games has only grown further in recent years, but the final number of 21 heroes at the release of Overwatch disappoints me a bit. When the game was announced at the last BlizzCon, 12 or 13 heroes were already known (I believe). At that time, it was said that many more would come and there would be virtually no upper limit in sight. Personally, I just find the ratio a bit unpleasant. With 12 players in each match, I find a selection of 21 heroes relatively low, even though they can be picked multiple times.
Diversity is lacking various heroes
Overwatch as a cheerful, colorful project, in which all players, all nations, and every way of life should somehow be represented, requires an enormously large selection of characters. Although the existing heroes are great and all very different (By the Nether, I already love D.Va), there is still a tremendous amount missing to truly represent almost every player group.
The unresolved question of DLCs
What bothers me further is the question of DLCs. Overwatch will cost 40€, or 60€. In response to the reasonable question of whether there will be more heroes after the launch and how these will come into the game, one evasively replies that “they are currently only focused on the 21 starting heroes. Nothing has been planned for the future.”
If I have learned one thing in recent years, it is that developers always plan several years into the future. I am very sure that they already have some concrete ideas for the time “after the launch” and are just waiting to see if and how to sell the subsequent heroes to the players.
Don’t get me wrong, I have already fallen in love with the game and will probably play it so extensively that Schuhmann will again tap annoyingly on his watch when my articles are not finished on time. But the unresolved questions that are deliberately dodged unsettle me a bit. How do you feel about this topic?
