Sorry my fault. With media I mean youtubers, streamers and the huge fanbases that spawn new memes and fanart every nanosecond. I wouldn't give two shits about what's printed on news sites.

If you follow internet communities closely it's very easy to see what is about to become popular and what not. And let me tell you, Overwatch is mega popular right now and it will only get bigger as soon as the esports kick in. And that is not because it's blizzard or because it's hyped for no reason. It has great gameplay, is ultra polished and even more importantly it has great characters that people can get invested in.

Oh aye, I've seen some of that game ... "media" it was good stuff, sadly they were using blizzard assets in some of the "fanart"

http://www.pcgamesn.com/overwatch/blizzard-are-taking-down-overwatch-porn

This link is perfectly Safe for work, some of the links off of it... most likely are not, you've been warned... also if you haven't seen the stuff .... it's impressive!

But that's just it. Zarya can team up with the Robots, which kinda' undermines her entire disdain for robots.
All the "Good" characters can be on the same team as "Evil" characters.

There is no character development and story in the game, if anything Blizzard should have played on the Good vs Evil concept a little more.

There is just no meaty information which helps describe the events we saw in the trailers which hinted at a massively rich and detailed world and characters  that we never get to look into. Not in this game at-least.
I have zero idea why any of the characters are the way they are unless I look to outside of the game.

Those are more like little Easter Eggs.

Look. Lets be honest.
The reason why the Microtransactions are in the game is to earn Blizzard money, not to make mine or your life easier.

Blizzard also has a track record of patching, expanding their games as time goes on, which also means that the Microtransactions could be expanded upon at a later date so it's influence on the game becomes greater, which wouldn't be surprising. - They wanted to do paid maps in StarCraft at some point... And then split the game up into 3 parts.
And who can forget the Microtransactions in WoW and the horrible Diablo 3 market? Blizzard doesn't have a good track record in this aspect.

And regardless of how fair or not it is, it's a money grab in a game that is severely lacking from a content perspective and which is sold at a AAA price.

I criticise Microtransactions in every full priced AAA game, I am pretty predictable that way, GTA 5 included, don't assume I am hating on Overwatch just because it's Overwatch.

This is all just my opinion, whether you agree with it or not is entirely up to you, but one thing is for sure, I am not alone in my Opinion if you read around the internet.

by far (imho) its the best multiplayer shooter ive ever played. havent had this much fun in years with a mp game. at the end of the day this "value" is in the eyes of the beholder , i could easily blow 40-60 dollars at a movie theatre or at a fine restaurant and the experience lasts me 2-3 hours most, overwatch will last me hundreds if not thousands of hours played with close online buddies its an absolute blast. the review scores its receiving are totally well deserved in my eyes.

it should be free2play or 40 bucks without microtransactions

Clearly there is absolutely no bias for other games let alone exclusives, no way no how. When it suits your narritive and your emotions, you are more than willing to roll with it.

You haven't played a single round of the game or the beta, yet feel qualified to say the reviewers are just biased and average user scores are more in line with the actual quality of the game. That's hilarious.

Having actually got Overwatch, I can honestly say that it deserves its price, for me at least. You need to know where to look though, because if you start judging the game with the fact that it's multiplayer only and that it has microtransactions in it...you're doing it wrong.

All the maps in the game are incredibly well done. At the very least they are all balanced.
The heroes are all very unique and fun to play with, I am curious to see what heroes Blizzard come up with next.
The graphics are actually very good for this type of game. People who say that they aren't good enough for the game's price should go play Paladins, which is basically Overwatch's F2P counterpart. See the difference. Actually, also see the difference in gameplay, maps and playable characters while you're at it.

Overwatch is an extremely well done game for what it's supposed to provide the customer. That, combined with Blizzard's support, translates into an upcoming top eSports scene.

Plenty play the game and others have gotten passes for it, it just happens that each time someone does it do a few who don't buy into the game start to point it out and ignore the rest or use it as the new flavour, this also happens with movies and likely music as well.

Not sure if it would be disturbing if they didn't try it and still sold millions of copies, people just haven't had a colourful TF2 like shooter for a long time since we've had years and years worth of gritty borwn and grey military shooters or old focus on past wars.

I tell you what though, we are all biased and we all have our fave flavours, some of which we'll likely never say is our favourite to be biased for (because that would render the original stance completely moot).