Really appreciate wasting time checking my email several times a day for weeks, closing and reloading the bnet launcher each time I check my email just in case, and feeling disappointed every time I do so.
I love knowing I won’t even get four days to check out the (terrible) changes to my support main(s) because I don’t have forty dollars to magically pull out of my butt. Money had to go to more important things this month, like my dying father-in-law and my sick dog.
Maybe it was too much to hope for that ‘everyone will get in the beta’ was actually a truthful statement. Way to crap all over your poorer player base. But who cares about them, right? Not like they’ll be buying Mythic skins or anything.
I checked my email three times. Once the day phase 2 went live. The 2nd At the end of the first week, and the 3rd, when I realized after the 4th of July weekend I hadn’t even thought about OW and seen that I had received an invite on the 5th. It was already the 7th.
wouldn’t be surprised if their idea was to keep a constant stream so queue times don’t increase, but they either overestimate the number of total players or underestimated how many to get in every wave.
but we all know that the real reason is to exploit people’s “fear of missing out” so they would buy the watchpoint pack
I mean, I don’t think anyone’s gonna buy that pack the farther they are from the start date of the beta. There’s less and less time to play it, and one of the perks in that pack is drying up.
You’d have to be misinformed about the beta. Some people actually thought that for the money they spent, the beta would stay open until October.
I got entry on the second day but god damn they still don’t have Singapore servers and playing with 200 ping feels awful so I play ow1 instead , don’t get me wrong I ring ow2>ow1 but damn add servers please
Imagine the salt when the $40 people learn that they need to pony up another $40 for the next beta…wait sorry, I meant beta, skins, and battlepass points. An amazing 800% value that you can’t afford not to buy!
I don’t know about that. Anyone who spent 40 dollars already on an unreleased game should get access to all betas moving forward. Blizzard is already destroying its credibility as it is. I honestly don’t have hope that this sequel will do all that much better for the numbers. Which… will drop anyway, because people can’t use smurf accounts without jumping through hoops.
You had over a million people interested in beta 1. I’ve never seen Overwatch at over 28,000 viewers during this 2nd beta on twitch.
A good philosophy to live by. Personally, I don’t really care about getting into the beta all that much, my issue lies with Blizzard making a promise they don’t intend to keep. Of course, the day is still young, so they could actually surprise us and keep their promise, but when a corporation makes a promise, they have to keep it. In short, I personally hate being lied to more than not getting to play a beta.
It was over 100k I believe yesterday but that is not really important because you are comparing 2 different things. Number of people interested in PLAYING the beta versus the number of people interested in WATCHING the beta which are two very different numbers.
Also I fail to see the difference between the people who would effective preorder the game (as that is what the Watchpoint pack effectively is the equivalent of) and the people who buy it day 1. You are not particularly more informed of the product. When I think of the games I preordered, I cannot think of one where I knew more the day it came out then I did when I did the preorder.