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Overwatch Director Openly Talks About The Future

June 16, 2016 By Nicholas Anderton Leave a Comment

The Overwatch Hero Genji activates his ultimate ability.

New content will come in the future but Overwatch players can expect balance changes when they will be needed.

Jeff Kaplan, the game director of Blizzard’s Overwatch, answered a fan question on the official forum of the game and revealed what Overwatch players could be seeing further down the line.

Competitive Play was the first feature addressed by Kaplan. Since its initial release as part of the Overwatch beta, Competitive Play has seen a lot of negative feedback, most of which was well deserved.

With enough perseverance, through the beta version of Competitive Play any player could reach a high enough rank. Individual skill did not prove to be as much of a deciding factor as the time each person was willing to put into the game was.

Kaplan believes that after testing it thoroughly, the improved feature will be ready to be released into the world. Nevertheless, he does not think it will be arriving to the live versions of Overwatch anytime soon.

The director of Overwatch also stated that he would rather re-launch Competitive Play after it has been playtested on a Public Test Realm, which is also in the works. Overwatch would be Blizzard’s third game with a Public Test Realm, the other two being World of WarCraft and Diablo III. The feature has proven satisfactory for both games.

Apart from Competitive Play and a hopefully soon-to-come Public Test Realm, the Overwatch team is currently working on new Heroes. While there are currently several Heroes in different stages of development, Kaplan said, they are still prototypes.

“We do a lot of prototyping … I don’t think we’re at a point where I can really talk openly about the release schedule for the new heroes because I don’t want to set expectations and then have something come up and suddenly we’re backing out on a “promise” we never really made.” – Jeff Kaplan

Overwatch players who want to try out new Heroes may have to wait some time until they will be able to do so. Overwatch seeks to be a competitive e-sport game and, as such, the metagame and balance need to be carefully tweaked.

Kaplan has additionally stated that the Overwatch team is working hard on a new map. While he chose not to give any other details about the map, he did mention that one obstacle the team ran across has to do with the importance of sight lines. The map in question is currently offering too high of an advantage to long range Heroes.

He does hope that the map, with its current vision, will see release one day, as he firmly believes the concept and gameplay will appeal to the majority of Overwatch’s player-base.

Kaplan finalized by stating that game developers do not usually share information about features in development because they are highly likely to change. In regards to many other game titles, players have not taken the canceling of features in development too well.

Jeff Kaplan sincerely hopes that if the Overwatch team offers transparency, the player base will understand when or if such cancellations do happen.

Image Courtesy of Blizzard.

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Activision, Blizzard, Competitive Play, Genji, Heroes, maps, overwatch, PTR. Kaplan, Public Test Realm

Call of Duty Online Sets Out To Conquer China

January 12, 2015 By David Crozier Leave a Comment

Call of Duty Online Sets Out To Conquer China Chinese web gamers can rejoice the much awaited launch of Call of Duty Online.  Call of Duty has officially started its attack on the Chinese gamers market. Produced by Activision, the free-to-play first-person game is available for beta-testing after three years of designer’s hard work.

According to Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg, the game producers are set for the clients’ assault. Created with driving Chinese net organization and game distributer Tencent, Call of Duty Online offers Activision’s billion-dollar franchise to China’s a great many web gamers. Eric Hirshberg said that the company has been intensively testing the game with the help of large consumer audiences.  He explained that Activision Publishing wanted to check if the game was both fun and appealing to various types of buyers. China is a huge open door for the video game developer. Around 700 million people play featured games on Tencent’s QQ system, according to Wedbush Securities expert Michael Pachter. What’s more, the incoms generated by video games in China hit $15 billion in 2014.

Both Microsoft and Sony proclaimed a year ago their intentions to retail their console games on the Chinese market.

Nonetheless, a week ago Sony said it would defer the January 11 Playstation 4 dispatch in China while negotiations are still continuing.

About .5 million players were included in a beta-test which took place from July to September 2014.  As indicated by Hirshberg, the Chinese business sector is the greatest gaming industry and the game was developed to suit millions of users.

Apart from the single-player operations Call of Duty Online additionally features a multiplayer and cooperation options. Also, the platform features a Cyborgs game inspired by the zombie mode which old Call of Duty gamers may recall.

In the U.S. , Call of Duty is mainly played on console systems, but the new online game designed for the Chinese market will be played from  PCs.  Gamers can play free of charge or invest money in characters upgrades.

Hirshberg noted that the online gaming platform is designed to replicate all best-performing games, both in China and worldwide. He detailed that everything from weapons to characters to skins and connections are both buyable and earnable.  Skins or cosmetics are can help personalizing the characters. So, all sorts of gamers can find something to satisfy their preferences.  If players are free-riders they can climb their way to the top by working harder. If they prefer winning faster they can pay their way to the top.

Image Source: Polygon

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Activision, Call of Duty Online' video game goes live in China, console systems, Microsoft and Sony games, online games, Playstation 4, Tencent

Call of Duty: Ghosts hits $1 billion in day one sales

November 6, 2013 By David 4 Comments

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Rockstar Games exceeded all expectations when they launched Grand Theft Auto V and had already made $800 million in revenue from the game after three days, Activision has now trumped this number, announcing $1 billion in sales on the first day.

Call of Duty: Ghosts is the newest in the CoD franchise, one of the biggest gaming series in the world. Activision and Infinity Ward have talked in detail about new features added to the video game, but early reviews and first impressions hit the game for weak graphics and no ambition.

That has not stopped millions of fans grabbing the game on day one. Activision have pushed the game out to as many platforms as possible, although the dominate one will probably be Xbox 360, the hub for all Call of Duty games this past decade.

Other platforms Call of Duty: Ghosts will be on include the PS3, Wii U, PC and will be coming to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Activision has added some new multiplayer game modes but already people are stopping similarities and reworks of all games, pointing at Infinity Ward not trying their hardest for the next generation platform.

With the end of the seventh console era about to come to the a close, more and more games are hitting peak audiences. The Xbox 360 and PS3 each share around 80 million users and Microsoft reported around half of those 80 million are Xbox Live Gold Members.

This means game developers have a unique opportunity to reach an unparalleled size audience. The next generation consoles may take a few years to become the first party platform for many game titles, with the developers instead finding more success and revenue on the older generation.

Activision will be a big part of the next generation, their game in collaboration with Bungie is set to shake the console world. Destiny is a huge open world futuristic RPG and there are plenty of other open world games taking advantage of the new consoles power, including Tom Clancy: The Division, Elder Scrolls Online and Dead Rising 3.

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: Activision, call of duty, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Infinity Ward, video games

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