SVB's Group Up

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

1:20 Current Feelings of Overwatch 2, Six Months In

23:35 Stacking... Again!

36:07 Staleness & The Downside of Years of Overwatch History

48:50 Expanding Overwatch Beyond Ranked

1:06:30 News On Microsoft Acquisition

1:24:34 The OWL x Contenders Pro AM

1:42:14 Concluding Thoughts & Looking To Season 4

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

05:40 Should Aim Assisted Crossplay Be In Competitive?

58:40 Ximmers Ruining Console?

1:07:10 Console Specific Problems

1:23:20 Console Balance

1:30:00 Console Competitive Opportunities

1:54:12 Concluding Thoughts

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions & Opening Stances

09:17 Can Hero Bans Solve Balance Issues?

16:30 Hero Bans in OWL

1:13:00 Each Member's Idea for OWL Hero Bans

1:46:30 Hero Bans in Ranked

2:55:45 Concluding Thoughts

Timestamps

0:00 Introduction & Season 3 Opening Thoughts

17:10 Mercy Changes

36:30 Discord Orb Needs A Rework?

1:08:40 Tank Carry vs Support Diff

1:24:40 Matchmaking & 'SR Inflation'

2:04:30 Activision Working From Home Policy

2:34:50 Loverwatch & One Punch Man Collaboration

2:50:54 Concluding Thoughts & Rest of Season 3

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Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

1:43 Smurfing & The Ethics of Unranked To GMs

51:20 New Comp System & Matchmaking

1:03:22 Ego & Mentality Needed for Improving

1:23:27 Shift To OW2

1:37:25 Hero Reworks

1:54:20 Balancing

2:14:00 Game Dev Resources & Design Philosophy

2:31:10 Concluding Thoughts

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

02:58 Dev Feelings on Box Model to F2P Model

5:42 Why Are Skins So Expensive?

10:12 How Long Do Skins Take To Make?

11:20 Why Do Old Skins Cost As Much As New Skins?

14:04 Changes To Reward Systems

18:24 Why No Premium Currency in the BP?

27:45 Why Are Heroes In the BP?

31:15 How Will S3 Work With No New Hero?

38:25 How Much Do The Devs Play The Game?

45:00 How Much Dev Resource Goes to PvE versus PvP?

47:50 When Can We Expect PvE & At What Frequency?

52:20 How Devs Plan to Communicate in the Future?

56:50 What Is The Best Way For Community To Feedback?

59:55 Overwatch Not Being Operational In China

1:00:55 Workshop Returns Confirmed

1:02:11 Experimental Card Returning?

1:02:40 What Do Jon & Jared Want The Community To Know?

1:07:00 Pet The Dog

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

02:24 Overwatch No Longer Available In China

13:02 Activision's Management

32:11 Aaron's Developer Update

45:30 Patch Frequency

53:25 Casual Game & Top Down Balance

1:39:00 One Shots

1:49:00 5v5 vs 6v6

1:52:14 The Forgotten Heroes of OW2

2:08:45 Live Service Era of Gaming

2:13:15 Season 3 Coming Soon

2:30:40 Quickfire Questions & Conclusions

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Timestamps

0:00 Introductions & Opening Thoughts

4:30 Reworking Mercy's Blue Beam?

43:30 Does Ressurect Need To Go? Plus General Mercy Discussions

1:28:08 Hog Hook Rework - Healthy or Unhealthy for the Game?

1:44:07 "Hog's Hook Is The Most Fair Oneshot in the Game"

1:54:05 Is Kiriko The REAL Problem?

1:59:40 Should New Hero Abilities Have Stricter Limits?

2:14:45 Does Balance Need to Be More Proactive?

2:34:20 Chat Questions & Concluding Thoughts

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Timestamps

0:00 General Feelings on OW2

7:00 Ranked & The Lack of Motivation To Grind

41:37 Balance Is Wrong, "I Miss Geoff Goodman"

1:10:50 PVE Extras So Far

1:21:35 Monetisation & Going Forwards

1:41:23 PVE In 2023

2:00:40 PVE Monetisation

2:11:00 Microsoft Acquisition

2:19:45 Quick Fire Questions - Ranked Changes?

2:35:20 Quick Fire Questions - Toxicity In OW2

2:38:20 Quick Fire Questions - PVP With Skill Trees?

2:39:15 Concluding Thoughts

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

1:45 General Thoughts on 2022 For Overwatch

07:00 Do The Guests Regret Sticking With OW Through This Time?

20:00 Reflecting on the Optisim of Early 2022 & Twitter-gate

32:13 Do You Miss OW1 At All?

1:04:20 Lootboxes & Monetisation

1:34:12 Betas 1 & 2

1:36:20 October 2022 Onwards

1:44:00 Concluding Thoughts