After playing in both OW2 betas, I was hyped for the game. I enjoyed 5 v 5. I liked a lot of the gameplay changes, not all but a lot. I was genuinely looking forward to it.
Then they decided to lock heroes behind the battle pass. And that took the wind out of my sails. I still say this is the single worst decision that Blizzard has made with regards to the game. But it was only a sign of things to come. The news has done nothing but get worse as we get to see what is in the battle pass, what the prices in the store will look like, how you earn (or don’t really earn) currency, what the challenges look like, etc.
The problem is that it has become apparent to me that in order to get the most out of Overwatch 2, you have to have a really nice 6 figure income and confusingly also no job or life so you can play 8 hours a day. They want to milk us dry both of our time and our money.
I want to like OW2. I really do. I’ve played OW1 since it launched. But I’m just not able to get over the obvious corporate greed here.
Neither do I. It’s not like I’m against them making money. But I think they could have been a lot more fair with how much things cost and how much you have to grind than they have been. And frankly, they’d probably make more money if people were buying more less expensive things than at the price points they’ve set.
I doubt this. I think they gathered enough data to know how better. They obbly figured out the line.
It’s like now pretzels cost 1 euro. Before, they cost like 65ct (pre-corona and war). They see people are willing to pay that much and prices won’t go down after the war .
They’d definitely get more money from me if things were a bit cheaper and less time intensive than they will with this business strategy. That’s for sure. They are alienating a lot of players.
I’m not a fan of the monetization either, but almost all of it is cosmetics. It would be 3 bpass a year with heroes in it, so 30 dollars. Minus whatever in game currency you earn from weekly challenges.
Certainly don’t need to make tons of money in order to pay 20-30 dollars a year for every hero instantly. Or take a few weeks to get them.
I am not sure if you would pay as much for way cheaper cosmetics in total than for whatever they cost now in total.
Maybe there new strategy is that many players buy a few selected skins ($20 dollar each) and this results in higher profits in total distributed over the whole playerbase instead of collectors having everything.
Or they know some few will buy everything which outshines many players buying 1 item.
I am just disappointed although I expected this.
Overwatch and the loving fanbase (yes, lots of fans still love this game. Not all are toxic or vocal about it) did not deserve that .
To get the most out of the game, you need a Battlenet account with an approved phone number. You don’t have to spend 1 single cent into the game unlike it used to be with OW1.
I know, because I will not spend 1 cent into OW2 and I will have tons of hours of fun.
There are going to be some whales who spend ungodly amounts of money to have everything. I certainly spent plenty of cash on the original game. But I am just not willing to spend $20 on a skin out of principle. So they won’t get any more money from me for cosmetics. And if the Battle Pass is as grindy as I expect it to be, I probably won’t buy that again either.
You get what you pay for. You either have to spend money OR you have to spend an unreasonable amount of time grinding. Either way, you are paying. Time is money.
There are plenty of players who love soundtracks, fanart, cosplay etc. How would they get the most out of it, if they did not have the skins to draw them from different angles etc?
Actually offensive and not here to take part in a discussion.
Nah the real issue starts as someone said earlier in Season 2 where you have to commit dedicated time or money to unlock the battle pass for more content.
Cause players that aren’t used to hitting that wall in F2p are in for a culture shock when you have to stop playing a game for fun but instead play it like a job to get progress of a new hero or reward.
I’ve played this type before and that’s where you have to make a real decision on how much time do you want to dedicate to this game when you have other games to play, other stream shows to watch, and other things to do with friends.
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