They don’t need the money…if they NEEDED it they would just flat out charge for it….if it’s available for free it’s because it doesn’t need to be charged for….they do it this way precisely because they know they can get people to spend on something they don’t have to….they have psychologists/analysts that work on these things
People need to stop buying into the lies that they HAVE to do things this way….it’s all BS…it is a conscious decision that they made to try milking as much money as possible from everybody and the game is being designed around that
Having a lot of heroes you can’t use can scare away players, as that pile of unavailable content will only grow with each new hero. And you do not want to scare away future customer with view of 30-40 heroes they would have to grind/pay for.
Its revolting on how much **** they are expecting us to put up with. This company have hit us down with there game over and over again with more and more bad news…I had a friend who i wanted to introduce to overwatch 2…thats not happening now.
F2P model makes the game accessible for more people, so they will have more players. The game is free to play, but like every other F2P game they have in-game purchases. You don’t have to buy anything that directly impacts gameplay, but an incentive to buy them is that you’ll unlock them faster.
They do need money, but you don’t NEED to spend your money at all to play the game. If you don’t want to pay for the character, then don’t buy it. You are incentivised to buy it because you get it faster, but you can play the game without spending a penny if you want to.
Yes, that’s called running a business, but those professions aren’t what you seem to think they are. Psychologists are not magicians that can make people do whatever they want. Also, psychologist are bound by a code of ethics not to exploit people, so any credible psychologist would not engage in predatory practices.
What does an analyst have to do with this? They can look at data to see what marketing tactics are most effective, but anybody with a spreadsheet and two brain cells can do that.
Where are you getting your information from? It just sounds like you’re pulling it out of your a**.
Untrue. They need money to fund the project. Just because they have initial funds to get it going doesnt mean they’ll continue development if its unprofitable.
Battlepasses arent inherently bad, but in this case where its P2W, its horrible.
The only thing bothers me if devs start using the benefit of bad balance in their favor. Speaking differently, we all know what was the state of every new hero released, and then they got multiple nerfs until balanced. Now they will earn money for breaking the game, which lead to even less balance. And speaking about balance, I mean value to effort comparison. Hope we don’t get another brig or moira.
That how they justify everything now….because that’s the license that “the game is free” provides for them
Charge whatever we want…we can always claim it’s to compensate for game being “free”
That’s the magic trick they have pulled on everyone over the years….and every year they add more and more “necessary” sources of $$….and next thing you know you have Diablo immortal getting people to spend $100000+ and that’s acceptable apparently……it was “necessary” since the game is free
For the first time I am actually starting to believe this game is going to flop. Why piss off the playerbase you have left? Why stay so silent on this topic, knowing it was something OW1 championed its success on? This is a devastating blow to my opinion of OW2. They were doing so good until this announcement…
For the record, you buy champions in games like LoL… but in games like LoL you use the items to counter pick, not the characters. Looking at Overwatch’s gameplay, locking characters behind a paywall is 100% pay to win. I am not spending $1 on this game if this ends up being the case, they can shove it.
I have a job, so I always buy battle passes or subscriptions for F2P games because I like convenience. If I had no money, I’d just play the F2P versions and unlock the content slower. I certainly wouldn’t go to a game’s forums and complain about it.