Because people genuinely still don't understand how long it takes to develop major features and entire new game modes: Gavin Winter (Senior Systems Designer OW) on Emongg's stream mentioned that there's been a whole separate team dedicated to making the new Stadium mode for "a lot of the time"... Gavin has been at Blizzard. For context, Gavin has been at Blizzard for nearly 4 years. He also mentions that gameplay engineers have been working on Stadium "for the past few years". Stadium having been worked on for 3 years lines up with the timeline of Hero Missions being publicly announced to be cancelled in May 16th 2023, with strong rumours that indicate Hero Missions were internally scrapped at least a year before that. Meaning that if developers were reassigned from Hero Missions to Stadium in early 2022; it has now been 3 years almost exactly to the day - lining up with the timeline Gavin alluded to in his comments. People also need to remember it's been nearly a year and a half since the Diablo collaboration when we first got to see some of the early testing of perks/skill trees in gameplay publicly. We just didn't know what project we were publicly testing for until now. It makes sense to reassign developers and convert the work done on PvE into something more in line with the true direction of OW which is PvP game play. Stadium is the result of that, taking the best parts from the old Hero Missions project and transforming it into something else that works better for the current game. All of this to say; development doesn't happen in 2 months. To the dismay of the far too many people that somehow think it does.show more

Another fun one for the people who think developers just wave a magic wand and 3rd person gameplay magically appears overnight.

Experience the bot completely reimagined. 🌟 A completely new design, reminders for match prediction, notifications when games are interrupted, continued or postponed. New commands like /features and /standings and new languages and much more.

This is the reason I always thought it was funny when people would claim Paladins copied Overwatch or Overwatch copied Paladins. Now we're just going to have it with Marvel Rivals and Overwatch

Everyone copies everyone. It doesn't even bother me. But people who unironically try and use it as a vehicle to shit on OW for introducing something like 3rd person is just so ridiculous. Hardly any games actually innovate and are original now. I genuinely don't even care who copied who. Just wish the haters would actually use a good argument for once instead of one of the absolute dumbest arguments they could possibly make. Like Marvel invented 3rd person game play or something 😂

b-but... they made the third person mode as a response to rivals! cause i said so okay! they made it in the 3 months since rivals came out!

People will never give blizzard props for anything they do anymore when it comes to OW besides actual OW supporters. It's always they only did this because of MR when it's obviously not true. People are stupid for thinking that all this stuff happened in 2 months because of MR

I swear youre one of the only voices of reason I hear

Anyone who genuinely believes that the dev team could put any of this together in only a couple months is someone who knows NOTHING about how game development works

It’s actually so ridiculous how Rivals glazers actually think the Devs just whipped up 3rd person in 3 months when it’s been in the works for a long time. I’m an enjoyer of both games but the Rivals fan base is just terrible.

Knowing that I appreciate even more the work they put into it. Originally I was excited for PvE-Missions mostly for the talent-system and having new ways of playing the game/the heroes. Even so PvE-Modes are cancelled they stilled worked on a Talent-System for us to play with.

How do people think games are made?

By waving magic wands I guess 🤷‍♂️