It isn’t boomer logic, it’s common sense.
The only people playing OW are uninterested in spending money.
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it’s not, specially if you’re someone who… how do i say it? doesn’t have buying pixel items as their top priority…?
You’re completely correct
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yea… i also find it insane that most “online” video games do this. its trumping the arcade days of put a quarter to get more time
i use to love arcade games when i was a kid. watching everyone play tron, kung fu, rampage, the last starfighter, karate etc
then later in life with the introduction of “ONLINE GAMING” i played unreal tournament and unreal championship. 1999-2003
soundtrack for unreal tournament is still sticks to me as the best ever. was an arena based fps game while not like overwatch heroes it was just as fast paced
Depends
For me in my current unemployment situation, yes
For someone else it probably might not.
But for you and me, who have surely grown up watching how the world of video games expanded and evolved, I understand that it seems strange to us because for that price you used to buy 3 second-hand games xd
I was tempted a lot by soi tracer too but for that price currently I can get
Hogwarts legacy
Spiderman remastered
Uncharted thief legacy collection
Cyberpunk 2077 + phantom dlc
Rdr2
Heck cod mw3
God of war
On the cheaper end
Mafia trilogy + quake collection+ doom collection
So i think about it and stop spending to blizzard.
I will probably go with Spiderman and miles Morales or Hogwarts legacy.
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Nah im with you chief 25 bucks is just rinsing the pig at this point man…
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I wish I had your discipline, I did buy 3 bps despite detesting the whole monetization of ow2 and wanting not give them a dime.
I’m a tracer hanzo two trick and they got me with their mythics.and kiriko.
But i haven’t bought a single shop item even though tempted so.much by cupid hanzo and le serafim.
I even have the coins in left from buying for bp, so it’s so tempting to hit buy on soi tracer
But so far I have held.good
It’s getting to the point where I’d almost rather pay $300 for a fully polished box price title than have this F2P engagement driven live service battle pass cash shop sludge.
I don’t care if the game doesn’t get perpetual updates - Especially if they constantly wreck the game’s balance, are lazy half-baked events or consist of mostly overpriced cosmetics.
Get this garbage out of my video game.
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Sadly the next wave monetization strongly points to nfts
If you consider other Games charge 26€ for a Weapon skin, thats kinda fair tbh.
NFTs have been and gone. That ship hasn’t just sailed; it’s already hit the iceberg and the cello player is neck-deep.
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That’s what people think but it’s secretly blooming as new games released for free in epic store, they are not AAA yet but AA quality games
this microtransactional bs is a good part of why AAA gaming is total fecal matter.
Overwatch 2 was a total sellout. F2play is just selling your soul to the devil
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Lol, good luck with that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHZru-6M8BY
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No, no, it’s not just you: the prices are ridiculous.
Haha, I’ve wanted to link that clip so many times. Yeah, I know. I’ve accepted it’s not going anywhere. They wouldn’t do it if it didn’t work.
Would much rather spend $25 on a bundle of loot boxes with the chance of getting multiple event skins. The new shop is tra$h in comparison. But if you only have a hero or two you play, then you can at least buy specifically the items you want. $ucks though for hoarders, collectors & completionists that just gotta “have” everything.
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Yea I think your heroes might have gotten some cool skins. I play Brig/Lucio and I didn’t start playing Brig til like S3
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Then don’t buy it?
The pricing is usually set to a high sweetspot, so they can later put it on sale. For the impatient kids/man-children that need it day one, they’ll spend that no problem. Down the road, if they put it on sale for something like $10, another chunk of people will buy it then. This lets the double-dip between the consumer-bases.
There’s a lot of research that goes into picking the prices. At $25, they might sell like 100k of them, but at something like $10, they might only sell 200k, which would mean that pricing that low would be a loss of revenue in comparison. This is where the double-dipping comes into play: They can get that 100k@$25 early on and then maybe another 50-100k@$10 later on when they put it on sale at some point.
This is a F2P game, they have to make their money efficiently or it will be shut down.