If Acti-money-vision ruins OW2 with microtransactions and paywalls, what if people stop supporting OW as a whole, which then in turn will make Acti-money-blizz-vision lose a ton of money from sales, and will ultimately be the downfall of all of this?
Like I said, this is just a theory, complete superstition, but it’s not impossible for this to happen.
We will just have to wait and see.
I can see Craptivision making you pay for new heros.
It’s not tinfoil hat, it’s simple business.
In caveman talk…
If big ooga booga makes little thing, and the little ooga boogas no like it, then big ooga booga make no money.
You need customers to support a business. Unhappy customers become former customers. No customers = no business.
if that happens i feel like even the most dedicated of players will leave, inculding me, there are other shooters out there.
Looks like im going to Valorant.
im staying with overwatch until it goes full blown micro transactions, but when that happens im not sure where ill go to, valorant is a game im looking into, little concerned about their kernel level anti-cheat tho.
The fact that paladins still has a player base at all suggests that people who love the game will stay and the people who threw money at lootboxes and OWL for OW, will do the same for OW2. The only factor that I see being a major issue is if OW2 is good and if the stuff they have planned for the PvP is good for the overall balance of the game. If those two things turn out the way we hope, then people will stay, and people will play, and most importantly, people will pay.
Almost impossible.
Look at Fallout 76. The game was a mess since day 0. Update after update of complete chaos. Game breaking bugs. Modders playing with the game as if it were an offline game. A monthly subscription. Limited edition scams…
And it still managed to get revenue, and even people that defend it.
Fanboys will be fanboys.
The only way something like that could happen is if Blizzard does a nosedive as hard as EA with Battlefront.
Blizzard’s diehard fans have become pretty disillusioned over the past few years and new fans have never experienced them at their best. It won’t take much at this point to push them over the edge.
If OW2 comes out with a crap ton of greedy micro-transactions I’m out. There are many other games that don’t do that.
Honestly this. Having a logical brain is a luxury these days.
It’s pretty easy. Though, the corporate logic here is pretty faulty:
If they make a game, and it’s packed with microtransactions and people don’t like it/buy things, it doesn’t make money. This is the simple part.
The faulty logic part, is What the major company takes away from that is “oh, people have no interest in this game” / “the Dev team did a poor job”. So, then they shut down the game and potentially fire people.
Of course, these major corporations would never second guess themselves or connect the dots that the rest of us could. They would never think “oh, people didn’t like it, because it was a half-baked, grindy, buggy, overpriced mess”. No. They will blame the customers, they will blame the developers, they will blame that particular genre of game (anybody remember that whole “single player/horror games are dead” corporate bull AAA company spewed, yet multiple indie developers prove them wrong?), etc.
Basically, if OW2 crashes and burns, the IP is probably dead. And all the big wigs at Activision Blizzard will blame everybody and everything else possible, other than themselves. Even though, they would have a big hand, in causing that demise.
This is just the sad, cold reality of the modern “Triple A” game industry…