Gotta pay for those lawsuits somehow.
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Because games arenât making enough money (for investors).
Target audience arenât people who want to play a fun game.
Target audience are people who want to buy a 30 dollar Mime Moira.
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ShhhhhâŚ
âjussi mckriiâ wonât like this.
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You paid for it.
Imagine if you bought a statue and the person who made the statue made a new one a few years later, so they broke into your house, and took back the old statue.
Even if they gave you another statue for free, youâd think itâs ludicrous.
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You bought a license to play a game. You never bought an actual game. OW2 came out, you still have the license to play OW1, it doesnât exist any more. I personally got around 350 hours of entertainment for my $40. Thatâs possibly the cheapest entertainment Iâve paid for in years. Iâd think itâs crazy if anyone complained about that.
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âYou mean thats a thing?â -Aaron Keller
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If it was a NEW game, we would all be able to play Overwatch or Overwatch 2 at our discretion.
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Whatâs new about this game?. TF2 transitioned from paid to f2p. It was still called TF2 and not TF3.
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âCompanies never retire old games when new ones come outâ
Stop and think about that.
Easy. They really like money.
Where is it? Because all I see is Overwatch 1 with a cash shop.
This is the prime example of pure, blissful copium. Itâs way easier to justify losing the ways to earn regular content when you can just say âoh, well look at all this time and rewards I got for such a small amount of money.â and then doing your absolute best to not look at the state of OW2.
Just donât think about it. It doesnât exist. Donât let it settle inâŚ
I pay $50 to go golfing for 4 hours. $40 for hundreds of hours of entertainment over several years is an amazing deal. That people are so upset about something this trivial is bizarre. I swear gamers can be the cheapest people in the world.
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Actually some of us are smart enough to know the real worth of a game. Some people played Overwatch 1 for 1 hour while others played for 5000 hours. The game itself was still worth $40 either way. That was the price it needed to sell at to turn a profit.
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Would you also think itâd be great if your toaster stopped working after 50 toasts? Or your computer after 150 hours?
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What? Are you saying the complete OW2 experience isnât worth the equivalent of a down payment on a house?
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Iâve replaced a toaster before. Computers too. You personally got three years out of OW1. Thatâs a good return on your $40.
It should also tell you something if people who have been playing OW for the full 6-7 years since its inception are complaining about the state of its sequel, the lack of communication after beta, and thatâs not even touching the blatant greed of the cash shop.
So for the sequel which was in development for multiple years, which weâve gotten currently 4 new heroes, 2 new maps, 1 new game mode, only a small handful of new OW2 skins, and events starting to recycle OW1 skins are rewards for Twitch viewership when the previous Twitch drops introduced all new cosmetics.
But please, continue insisting that the downgrades OW2 has compared to OW1 is a worthwhile exchange.
Just wait until games are back to costing around $80 again. Weâll see how many gamers âare going to be cheapâ about that price tag we went by back in the 90s. Thereâs going to be an expectation of quality thatâs currently not in most game development these days, solely because of that price tag. And thatâs just as a starting point.
Iâm curious, can you show us your most played games with proof? I want to test something really quick
Why on earth do you think prices are set by whatâs needed to turn a profit? Prices are set by what maximizes profit, not just what lets you break even.
You literally have an updated game, new maps, new gamemodes, etc. for free and youâre still finding a reason to complain. Again, gamers are the cheapest people in the world.