If you want motivation toward Overwatch go to rule 34 ;D
Well, technically his thread is different. Heās talking about the timeline. Still, could fit into another thread pretty easily.
As far as release dates go, no that wouldnāt work.
1, marketing. Blizzard will win. Theyāre a good company. And theyāre loaded. So thatāsā¦ Thatās life 
2, a lot of people donāt have time/money for multiple games. Iām one of them. I didnāt get ow because it came out second and Iām a moba fan. A tf knockoff isnāt really my cup of tea. And their humor is pg13, not āIām going to skull f*** your entire species!ā (Imagine isic saying that while smiling). First release gave them an advantage in that regard.
3, hype. First release on a game this good got hype to build, rather than letting it build for ow. Look at it as, sayā¦ Cod vs battlefield, before bf got popular, like the bad company era. (Yes, I know it was still pretty popular then, but not in league with cod). If they both released at the same time, cod would Shrek it in sales. But, battlefield being more intense, longer, and just overall more war zone-y, it would get a following. Grow. Build hype. Battleborn coming out first let die hard fans like me get into it, convince my friends to play it, or in my case, buy them a copy and force them to play.
In all reality, they made the smart financial move. Wouldāve been better to be a couple months earlier, but they donāt have quite the resources blizzard does, as theyāre probably the second wealthiest gaming company. (EA wins from micro transactions/forcing you to pay for online on top of games).
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I really donāt think Gearbox would, or should, change their schedule according to what another studio was doing.
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Please please enough about OverHyped
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If you donāt like a topic, ignore it, or flag it. Donāt post in itā¦
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Is it possible to open a discussion thread by a moderator just to compare or discuss similarities between Overwatch-Battleborn? I really like this comparison but there are lots of those.
Well, techically, yes, of course, but thereās no guarantee that people would use it any more than existing threads.
Even if we pinned it.
And put neon flashing lights around it, spelling out āOVERWATCH DISCUSSION COMPARISON ANGUISH OFFICIAL FREE BEER THREAD HEREā.
We could of course redirect every post to the Overwatch discussion thread in the games and tech section:
but since so many relate in some way to BB, that might not be ideal either.
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Well, do it. Lock every thread about this instantly without a warning and keep locking the future ones, and voila, that can work. Pinning and using capital letters will work, good idea.
Much as I adore moderating, playing overwatch whack-a-mole isnāt that fun. We tend to take things more on a case-by-case basis. Thereās no actual harm in people posting about comparisons, even if it is a little frustrating, and where people are bringing new things to the discussion, weāre happy to let new posts happen. Mostly. Within reason.
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That means youāll keep investing your time more on going between threads by threads, doing more comments, making more warnings, more bans and more lockings, specifically for subjects like this. 
Okay, well, weāll take your suggestion into consideration. Back on topic now please. Feel free to continue this via PM.
I love you, have another slice of pizza please.
P.S: As you did in other topics, I suppose both of our comments should be hidden since its off topic, including yours.
Regards!
In this specific Itās worth keeping them visible because others might want to pm us about it.
Ugh, rightā¦
Well it would have been smart of them to take it into account. Itās a similar situation in box office, do you think any movie would release on the same weekend or even close to a Star Wars movie when they are near the same genre? (In this case both are shooters).
I think even the director of Avatar(not the airbender) didnāt want the sequel to Avatar releasing near Star Wars.
Battleborn was originally going to be released on 9th February but was then delayed until 3rd May. This was announced back in November 2015:
From what I can tell, Overwatch didnāt announce their release date until March 2016:
So it may be that Blizzard deliberately chose a release date to closely follow that of Battleborn.
Gearbox would have had Battleborn fans up in arms to then announce at that late stage that they were postponing the game until June just so that it arrived after Overwatch had landed.
I hate to break it to you guys but itās not Blizzards fault, or a result of poor marketing or some botched release date. The simple and unvarnished truth is that the game isnāt good enough to draw a large crowd. Compared to its release date this game has lost like 70-80% of its PC player base and even a massive price drop did not bring in a significant number of new players. I knew that this game would have a hard time competing against other titles but this fast decline is surprising. I thought the game would last at least three months. I now looks like itāll lose the player numbers to support its multiple queues within two months.
I would really, really enjoy having another conversation about this, but Iām getting old.
Iād say just wait? Games like this ebb and flow, they donāt really remain static. Once people realise what you have, theyāll get bored and theyāll end up looking for another game. Iāve already read on the CS:GO forums that a bunch of people have gone back there. Once this happens more, more people will be ready for a new game.
And some of them will choose Battleborn, which will inflate the community naturally. With that, word of mouth over social networking sites will serve to further inflate our community.
I think we just have to give it time.
Itās tough to say if BB will be more popular than OW even if GBX release after it,
Ya see, I have been giving recommendations to most of my friends who plays FPS (CS:GO) and MOBA (LoL/DotA2) to give BB a try. Most of them felt reluctant to try because they think that Blizzard > Gearbox. Blizzard has huge huge names on them like WoW, Diablo, Hearthstone with huge continuing player base, whereas GBXās as a brand/name is not that flourished compared to Blizzard. And if you looked into metacriticās review, BB has sort of a mixed-positive review, but OW has mostly positive reviews from well known reviewers.
The reason I preferred BB > OW is because of itās content, if Iām bored Iāll go for a few campaigns, and if I feel like owning people I would queue up for PVP. For OW, they donāt give you any story mode, itās purely PVP where I kinda lost interest in. But that is just my opinion.