free cheevos waow.
RANT TIME!
Things that I'm sure other people have already said, but I will repeat because I agree:
Game feels intrinsically good during gameplay but is plagued by bad company practices on the extrinsic side, so its probably not worth playing. Its hard to take this seriously as a competitive game when playable characters are hidden behind a grind/paywall and not having said character(s) can and will lose you games. Monetisation is so utterly greedy and doesn't even fund PvE because Blizzard cancelled it. It also doesn't seem to fund the competitive esport scene, which is dying a slow and painful death because of greedy exclusivity contract deals.

Things I care about that are a little bit more niche:
This game also has improper Steam input support so all controllers will show as Xbox controllers because Blizzard didn't put the time into making the Steam experience seamless. (Steamless? It's honestly the same with or without Steam, just that they get less money if you spend on microtransactions here) This is disappointing because this game actually has one of the best implementations of the Dualsense's adaptive triggers (different feeling on pulling the trigger for every single character in the game) and playing through steam will rob you of that unless you forgo all of the benefits of Steam input. (gyro, flick stick, universal rebinding tool) It pains me to say that Fortnite is more of a competitively viable game than this because it has better controller support, with explicit flick stick support across all platforms that allow controller and DOES NOT hide different playstyles behind a pay wall.

free cheevos waow. RANT TIME! Things that I'm sure other people have already said, but I will repeat because I agree: Game feels intrinsically good during gameplay but is plagued by bad company practices on the extrinsic side, so its probably not worth playing. Its hard to take this seriously as a competitive game when playable characters are hidden behind a grind/paywall and not having said character(s) can and will lose you games. Monetisation is so utterly greedy and doesn't even fund PvE because Blizzard cancelled it. It also doesn't seem to fund the competitive esport scene, which is dying a slow and painful death because of greedy exclusivity contract deals. Things I care about that are a little bit more niche: This game also has improper Steam input support so all controllers will show as Xbox controllers because Blizzard didn't put the time into making the Steam experience seamless. (Steamless? It's honestly the same with or without Steam, just that they get less money if you spend on microtransactions here) This is disappointing because this game actually has one of the best implementations of the Dualsense's adaptive triggers (different feeling on pulling the trigger for every single character in the game) and playing through steam will rob you of that unless you forgo all of the benefits of Steam input. (gyro, flick stick, universal rebinding tool) It pains me to say that Fortnite is more of a competitively viable game than this because it has better controller support, with explicit flick stick support across all platforms that allow controller and DOES NOT hide different playstyles behind a pay wall.