Overwatch 2 director acknowledges negative Steam reviews, proceeds to ignore them

Overwatch 2’s recent Steam debut has made PC gaming history, but probably not in the way its developers intended. With over 20,000 largely negative reviews stacking up within the first day, which show no signs of stopping, OW2 has rapidly become Steam’s worst-rated game in the platform’s twenty-year history, and after more than a week of being put on blast, game director Aaron Keller has put out an official statement acknowledging the overwhelming negativity.

The majority of complaints from players are levied at the game’s monetization scheme, which has become far more pervasive after OW2’s shift to a free-to-play model. Blizzard has never been one to shy away from microtransactions—one need only take a cursory look at World of Warcraft to verify this—but OW2 introducing them retroactively, blocking off ways to obtain cosmetics for free, and even going so far as to lock core gameplay-affecting content like heroes behind separate purchases has drawn the ire of fans in droves.