Heaven forfend! They used a portion of today’s internet ration to discuss a wildly popular game! Now how will they report on one of those common Friday evening gaming news stories since they’ve used up all the internet? And then they forced you to click and read it! It’s tragic.

Yes, but this is a yearly award show. Overwatch is the game out this past year that’s developed the best esports scene—which I think is fair to say.

1700 hrs (which was only self-reported) divided by the 189 days equals about 9 hours per day, every day since release.

Sure, but your original post isn’t ‘things endure but reduce in popularity over time,’ but rather ‘we’ll all forget about Overwatch when the new hotness comes out.’ That may well happen, but I was just pointing out that Blizzard knows a thing or two about promoting game longevity. WoW may not be covered like it was…

You know WoW is 12 years old, right? Blizzard is in these things for the long haul.

As someone who hates both Mei and Street Pig I don’t know how to feel about this.

Uh, Symmetra’s alt fire passes through Rein’s & Winston’s shields on live.

I don’t think that’s true. But if it is, well that’s still pretty easy for a character that can go invisible and also teleport to do.

It definitely impacts some characters more than others. A hacked Reinhardt is a very sad man, for instance.

To be fair though, given Canada’s population breakdown, the central west doesn’t matter unless it finds common ground with either Ontario or Quebec. Everyone who lives Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan is about equal to the pop of the GTA.

I feel your pain. Blizzard adding triple immunes and making negative resistance no longer count against immunities was what killed the game for me. It just wasn’t fun after that.

I’m not sure if you’re an idiot a douchebag or both. It’s probably both.

I’m talking about Diablo 2. leyke is saying D3 has “artificially enforced replayability” but in D2 it was natural because of reasons?

What “must-have” are you spending money on in D3? It’s had one expansion that came out 2 years ago.

While I’m not sure if you can specifically wield crossbows as a Barbarian, you can make unusual builds—a thrown weapon Barb, a sword-wielding Demon hunter, a face-tanking wizard—they just won’t compete at the high end. I don’t know where this idea that you can’t make weird builds in D3 comes from. The advantage is…

You realize having to grind a character up to high level just to tweak your stat or skill distribution a la D2 is artificially enforced “replayability” right? You don’t? Hmm....

A scrub! Oh, you cut me to the quick. But seriously—being forced to re-grind a character up into the 80s because Blizzard invalidated your character build with a patch is not a good mechanic. Go sell crazy somewhere else.

Crappy game mechanics (no respeccing for the longest time) in D2 does not equal replayability. It’s a punitive time sink for wanting to try something different with a character.

That’s not actually true. 3x3 was the meta for a bit, but it’s mostly been moved past on the competitive scene. Reaper and Genji are largely recognized as better Ana ult targets these days (the Beyblade meta).

Yeah, I can get behind that.