#vyrelis

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Why yes, what a fine choice! Here, let me get the catalog out...

@vyrelis​

Ngl I’ve been active in the (admittedly American and english-speaking) nonbinary community for nine years and I’ve never heard that word! 

Is this based on a different language? Sorry if I sound ignorant I’m just genuinely really curious! My brain sees “ser” and goes “ah yes, Spanish” 

I, being nonbinary myself, personally in my day to day life tell people to use “Mx.” (if they ask. They usually don’t.), and that’s if they MUST use an honorific. I actually prefer people don’t use honorifics on me because goddamn does it make me feel weird. I just tell them to please for the love of god say my name. That’s what names are FOR. /tangent 

You're expressing a strange lack of critical thinking skills

It’s almost like I oversimplified the matter to make a concise, pithy text post making fun of a portion of a fandom infamous for not being satisfied and for themselves oversimplifying and misconstruing everything relating to this media property!

I know that there is discontent over the idea of Blizzard making an entirely new game with its own full price tag instead of putting all the potential PvE content into the existing Overwatch game and there are fears of Blizzard abandoning the existing Overwatch game for a second Overwatch. They are indeed valid concerns. However, the matter is also a lot more complicated than I’ve seen a lot of this debate states it to be.

At this time, we just don’t know if Blizzard is going to abandon the existing PvP Overwatch for this PvE Overwatch. (Are there similar concerns that Blizzard is going to abandon WoW because they announced Warcraft III: Reforged? Not particularly.) Blizzard has, additionally, talked about franchising Overwatch for the past six months to a year; the idea that the existing Overwatch will be the only Overwatch title isn’t remotely new, including when considering how Blizzard likes to expand its IPs. (History also tends to suggest that Blizzard will try running two Overwatch titles with different playstyles alongside each other, but again, we just don’t know at this time how they will handle them, or even if Overwatch 2 is truly a separate title, though it seems very likely that it will be.)

Additionally, it is also true that there is a general demand of Blizzard to invest in expanding its lore, narrative, and character. The current Overwatch has been criticized since 2015 for being a poor format to deliver narrative content, character development, and world-building due to its nature as a PvP game. (It’s true.) The demands for PvE content within Overwatch is inextricably linked to the forward thrust of narrative and other story content within the game itself. The best way for Overwatch to deliver narrative content is within a PvE setting.

However, the architecture of the existing Overwatch itself is not designed to handle PvE at all. The engine cannot handle it, and if there is a demand to see narrative content developed in-game through PvE content, it’s either continue to invest a massive amount of resources (the equivalent of developing an entirely new game) into the PvE content we have through Archives, which even at its best are intensely limited, or actually create a game that has the architecture to sustain that.

That’s what I’m finding missing through this debate about Overwatch 2. People are acting like the existing Overwatch can sustain the content they’re asking Blizzard to make, when Blizzard has stated continuously for three years that the architecture simply cannot unless you invest all of your development time into forcing the engine to do tasks (like, critically, fully functioning NPCs) that other engines find a piece of cake.

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