Please do NOT introduce f2p players to the current matchmaking.
My suggestion is to REQUIRE LEVEL 100 TO ENTER COMPETITIVE FOR NEW F2P ACCOUNTS.
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The amount of work and researching videos and playing personal therapist to tilting 19 year olds just to keep them from throwing, that I’ve had to do just to climb to gold, is insane.
And I still only have a 55% winrate (62% with my main) in comp overall.
I can’t imagine worse than people who already don’t care about their 60$ account, much less their throwaway. Even a “forced” 50% would be impossible to maintain.
There are so many problems with this idea:
Illegal boosting
Smurfs would be in every game up to GM.
Literal children (look at fortnite)
Hackers
A lot of current players will quit to avoid f2p players, or angry over paying 60$ in 2016 oh noooo
Blizzard never say something about that and some random fortnite kids.I can also say tomorrow overwatch will give anyone gm rank.
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or just make a seperate premium queue for those who paid like csgo did
if u wanna play on ther other queue u gotta have bought it
but those who bought it can play on both
@BlueTwinkles it’s something that came up in discussion today from a popular youtube channel.
I could hear jeff kaplan’s wallet tingling at the idea of people buying more OWL skins and thought it’s something that needs to be nipped at the bud.
@Djawida - I worry that the already 5-10 minute queues will be affected even further by people skipping to the “Easy” queue and ignoring premium ranked. If they would even make 2 different comp leagues.
Overwatch won’t go FTP. Bans would mean nothing then. A significant portion of their income obviously comes from allowing a flawed report system to falsely ban people so they can sell them another copy of the game. Can you imagine the toxicity if you had infinitely many free accounts?
Nobody buys OWL skins. I see one once every 200-300 games, and those were probably the free ones.
100 levels are not enough. Try 250, at least 200 for F2P.
The game has nothing in place to make coin off going F2P so I’m not sure why it keeps being brought up. There is no key and crate system. We don’t have a cash shop or a player to player trade/sell. There are no items of high value like they have in rare unusual hats in TF2.
The current crop of skins are not really buy worthy as you can’t even see them as a player outside of Reinhardt/Brig and in POTG, being the game is first person.
F2P works with in a very narrow system of crates/keys and buying direct rewards. It’s not a fix all where just go just F2P and money roars in. If you look at games that work in F2P modes there is 100% different design than what we see in Overwatch.
Warframe, TF2 and most of all Fortnite are totally build around the current cash grab system of F2P gaming. Yes TF2 moved over to F2P but it already had very high demand and $$$$ level items in it’s crate system to gamble on and then sell, on steam, for real money.
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Bandwagon. Someone proposes something completely illogical and the masses eat it up as fact.
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100 is too much, I started comp at 75-80 so… maybe level 50-60.