If OW2 was a paid game instead of F2P?

OW2, as it has been since 2022, would have never sold as a P2P game 'cause it’s a copy-paste of OW1 at 85-90%.

There wouldn’t have been much of an incentive to buy it again.

If OW2 was an entirely a new game without incorporating OW1 at all, meaning : new concept, new characters, new gameplay etc… whether it was PVE or PVP, then of course it would have had good potential to be a best-seller in the form of a P2P game, just like OW1 was in 2016.

We’ll never since OW2 got canceled and the little PVE and story content they had in alpha / beta state wasn’t enough to make it a full game.