NEW VIDEO: Goodbye Overwatch (Patreon)

https://youtu.be/dtyjJMHyQCE 

At long last, the Overwatch video is done. A 40 minute exploration of the bad vibes of a game that has had its soul sucked dry by a mixture of utterly ghoulish capitalistic greed, and innovation for innovation's sake, fuelled by the aforementioned capitalism most likely. Gotta have features for a sequel, hit bullet-points for the store page, no matter how misguided they are.

This video has exhausted me. I've been worried about getting my feelings on many aspects of this game expressed accurately. From its disgusting microtransactions, which dominate the online discourse, to the suffocating miasma of compromise and poorly thought decisions that went into this "released product". I wanted the video to come across as even-handed too, I didn't want to just make an angry rant video. There are plenty of other people flailing their arms in front of their webcams about this game, as is their right to do so. But I liked Overwatch for many years, and I wanted to express that I'm not mad, just wildly disappointed.

Big thanks to Andrew Huntly for helping with the script and also contributing his own peppy prose for the production. The video is better off because of it.

I wish I could tell you all what's going to happen next, but Overwatch 2 is a black hole that has swallowed everything I've tried to do lately, and so strong is its pull that this includes projects in the future. I had wanted to do a video on God of War 2018 before Raganarok came out and that's just no longer possible. Not just because I can't physically finish the video in time, but I don't have the energy to go into another big video right now. I don't think I have much for a small video right now as I type this, but it is the end of a long road now. There is time to sit, drink some tea, look out to the ocean and wonder where I want to be next. 

God of War will still happen, but at a future time, where I'll likely weave Ragnarok into it in some capacity, but we're not counting our Gods before Kratos has hatched their heads against the stones. Whatever the next video ends up being, it will likely be a small thing that I can find passion in.

Unlike Overwatch 2.

- Jack