I said this back in September when we learned you were taking away heroes from us, that people like me who invested time and money in the previous game would now forever be forced into spending 10 dollars a season to get heroes right away or spend an insanely long time to grind them out.
Now we’re approaching season 5, if you were to buy that pass and every pass since game launch you would be spending more money than I did when Overwatch originally launched. I feel worthless to you as someone who can not freely afford this. I no longer can collect skins for my favorite heroes either, because each of them are now super expensive purchases versus spending time enjoying myself and being able to buy some cool skins when I ground up enough currency from the lootbox duplicates.
You spent countless hours and money developing something. I understand, I empathize, game design is hard.
We were promised something and we’ve gotten nothing, absolutely nothing. You spent years away from Overwatch 1, you took away the original game we had promising it was because of this mode. Now it’s gone.
We’ve lost more than we gained. We lost a member on our teams, we have less fun because of that increased competitive load on every team member. We lost an entire game mode and maps along with it. We lost our freedom as players to play new heroes right away.
The future of this game seems bleak. I wish nothing best for you developers, I don’t want you to lose your jobs, I know full well you are making hard decisions and doing the best with what you have, that some decisions are out of your control. But at the end of the day those decisions also affect me as a player. I find it impossible to want to support this game anymore. This was the first FPS that ever drew me in, that ever showed me it was okay to play a FPS without needing to be the best or most skilled, that I still had value as a player even if I couldn’t aim as well.
You drew me in with an interesting story and world, and bit by bit that’s all been torn away and replaced with empty promises for the past half decade.