Every standard battlepass has 200 - 300 currency throughout tiers, which accumulates to having enough to buy the next season battlepass, or some skins. Overwatch doesn’t do this, why? Good question.
Including Overwatch Currency into the battlepass would make it one of the best, if not, THE BEST battlepass in modern-gaming history. This is an extremely positive change to the overall environment of micro-transactions if they change the system.
Therefore:
Buying the Battlepass is a net gain for everything.
More insentive to buy the battlepass.
Less predatory for players.
Actually worth the money.
There’s literally no Cons for adding Currency to the battle pass, for players, and for blizzard.
THIS RIGHT HERE!!! this is something that would be appreciated all around and they could get back some goodwill which they have been short on for years
I was just accumulating the “10 per tier” I suggested into bigger amounts without affecting the total amount gained. Of course the more coins earned, the better.
This alone would make a HUGE change in the pass. Hell, doesn’t even have to be that much. I feel like anywhere in the 300-500 range as you level the pass would be fine as getting at least 50 coins per week on weekly challenges should be doable for most folks that play OW a bunch. Even a more casual player should at least be able to hit 30 coins a week.
400 would likely be a good sweet spot when combined with weeklies. If you hit 60 every week, between maxing out a pass and weeklies that’s 880. 2-3 more weeks on top of that gets you another pass (or you could spend a few bucks for a small amount of coins)
It doesn’t make sense for them to give you enough coins to buy a new battle pass, otherwise whats the point in paying for a battle pass if you can just grind for it.
A bare minimum 1,000 credits from the BP is mandatory in terms of the bigger picture. Every other BP I’ve seen has at least that and usually offer more as well. While it’s kind of sad OW2 BP doesn’t do at least this, I expect that to change. Since it looks like another quick and easy money scheme to finesse as much at launch as possible. Gotta keep them investors interested…
I’m calling it now. They will change the system to be more consumer-friendly in the future, then act like “Aren’t we SUCH a great company to listen to our customers?.. even though we intentionally bloated the prices and crap in order to figure out what we can get away with (and get fat quickly from the whales) while still having this leeway to adjust them later but PLEASE PRAISE US NOW! This is totally not a PR move.”
But yeah, I agree they absolutely need to do something since the amount of coins you earn (8 months grind for a single Legendary skin??) and the prizes are preposterous.
