A friend asked me to play Overwatch 2 with them, despite me telling them that I fucking despised the first game with all my soul.

I decided to give it a shot eventually and to my surprise, I found myself actually having some fun with it. Granted, whenever I play this, I tend to not get anywhere near the competitive mode, because I simply refuse to relive those days.

I do think gameplay wise, this game is an improvement over the shitshow that the first game had turned into. There is only 5 players per team and only one tank; this seems like a minor difference, but it actually makes matches a lot faster, easier and less prone to sitting behind two shields to shoot another five shields.

However, even tho I think this one is slightly better than the first game, I have to give it a single star, just because literally everything else about this game is a scam.

This game has no reason to exist. The whole point of this game, the PVE mode, was cancelled MONTHS before Blizzard even announced it publicly. There is no meaningful new content to justify a "sequel", the loot boxes are gone and instead replaced with another scummy and shitty battle pass.

The skins, emotes and new heroes that used to be FREE in the first game are now so expensive that you will have no other choice that to grind for hours and hours on end or spend insane amounts of money just to get ONE item (I know that new heroes are now free for everyone, but that happened only recently).

I honestly don't give a shit about any of this, because I already got most of the cosmetic items I wanted for most of the heroes from the first game. And it isn't like I am as invested in Overwatch as I once was, to grind for days and days just to get a shitty Mei skin.

Of course, this doesn't mean that what Blizzard did to this game and what it is doing to their customers is remotely ok. People should just wake up and stop spending money on this disgusting fucking crime of a game, but they won't.

Overall, I don't really hate this one, but I don't exactly like it all that much either. I do absolutely despise Activision/Blizzard and what companies like them are doing to this industry.

Fuck this game and I still wanna fuck D.VA.