Which sucks. But hey if you’re a real OW fan you can just ignore every other game on the market, right? I will either have to ignore Siege or ignore OW, or try to get as much items in both games as I can each season. Sucks…
This is why I quit playing single player games which I love. Or shelf ones I am in the middle of (Tiny Tiny’s Wonderlands, The Quarry, etc.)
If you love them, why would you stop playing them to feed into a system that you think is unfair to you? OW2 isn’t even out. Is siege alone making you grind that much?
As much as I say battlepasses are good, if you don’t like them and you buy them anyway you are hurting yourself and your peers in the long run.
Because I paid for the items I have to work at to unlock. Yes that’s my fault/issue but I simp hard for both games.
well, hopefully because everyone hates Moira she’ll have her skins early in the pass lol
FOMO is a disgusting system
ok
Why?
Fear Of Missing Out indicates you value the things you could miss. It shows the things they’re making have value. Its up to you to decide how you invest into things you value.
What’s the difference between the two, OP? I’ve never played R6 so I don’t know.
Because it forces someone to play that specific game all the time as they are worried they will miss out if they don’t, plus they can be very time consuming if you don’t have enough time due to work etc thoughtout the day, so if the item someone wants from a battle pass is later in the pass itwill hog up a lot of their free time and a lot of people don’t have as much time as I do
I took a break from the game and I was forced to play like 15 games to get the Reaper skin, it was not fun, it was depressing and i was so bored and losing my mind, it felt more like a chore than having fun.
So just because you still actively play the game all day every day, there are others who don’t play all day everyday and also play other games too.
I have a friend also who plays like 4 different games, he ignored his friends because him getting this stuff on Dota and other games was more important than talking and hanging with his friends, and we wait weeks/month for him to be done with everything then he say he has some free time to do the thing me and my other friend wanted to do like 2 months ago and we no longer wanna do it, and then a few weeks later the cycle begins again. So people who are true victims to FOMO are literally giving up all their social life etc to do these things on 4 games as they love the games, then the friends they ignored for a game evnetually stop caring for them.
This friend in particular you literally have to “book” a session to play with him. I don’t talk to him as much anymore, not does my other friend talk to him much, and we were very insulted that we have to book time to spend with him when he’s online like 18 hours a day. He ignores us like 80% of the year for battle passes etc, so unless you’ve experienced it first hand with a friend like I have, you’d never understand the true affects and strain it can have on a friendship. Gosh I love that friend to bits, I hope he wakes up one day and realises “WHAT AM I DOING” and finally comes back to us, bcs I miss him.
FOMO is also exploitative by placing artificial scarcity on items that otherwise have little to no intrinsic value, and creating undue psychological stress in what is ostensibly a leisure activity. Play video games to relax, not because it’s a second job.
Or we can all realise that at the end of the day it’s a video game that you’re not gonna play forever. I may be sad that I miss out on a skin in a game but it’s not gonna force me to put the game before real life just so I don’t miss out.
You have to accept that sometimes you’re gonna miss out on things, and when it’s as little as a video game it really isn’t something getting stressed over. If you feed into the fear of missing out you’re just making things worse.
Objection: Speculation.
Source? Because it really looks like Apex BP.
Its funny when you see people:
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So you have a personal problem with them, while never experienced it and fall into your own “trap” that you laid out to be there while saying its not important…
What?
sadly FOMO is very powerful, and i expect battle passes will work like Siege and not Halo but since microsoft own blizzard there is a very slight chance it will be like halo but i am not holding my breath
Expiring battlepasses put more pressure on completionists and collectors to sit there and hard grind the game. I don’t value cosmetics enough to do this, but I do regret missing the Halloween Bastion from 2017 because I was away the week that skin was available.
Games that respect your time are always more enjoyable than ones that aren’t. Designing a game around MAUs and estimated equivalent dollar per user turns a game into an timeclock with a fancy GUI.
Then why do you care? Dont speak for people who you dont know. I personally love it. It makes items special and you can flex a bit. I understand that its not everyones cup of tea but its optional and has gameplay impact.
Especially for people like you who only want to play the game OW2 will be perfect. You dont need to spend anything and get everything! Let people like me pay for the servers 
Wouldn’t that mean you just buy the skins? 
Correct, and the BP. I enjoy it and you guys can play the game for free. Its a win-win right?
It doesn’t at all which is the point. You don’t know what you will want in the future so you have to get everything now. If you had all the time in the world then you can really see what you care about which is probably not much.
I’d rather have the challenges we have now, and not a giant checklist of “get 15 multikills in a single game” style cheevos like Halo does for its daily/weekly/overall battlepass.
Maybe I’m wrong and just playing the game (without hard throwing for specific challenges) for a few hours a week will max out progression, but based on other F2P games that have battlepasses, it’s pretty obvious that it won’t respect your time in the slightest.
I think thats exactly where the issue is with most people, they are bad at managing their time.
I could potentially hard grind a BP in a weekend (which I already have done twice because I forgot about it) or I can spend 15 to 30 minutes each day to finish up my dailys and whenever I feel like it I will play some more and do other quests/Story or just play for fun for a few extra EXP. This also works really well.