it’s legal just very very scummy and a better reflection of blizzard’s values and perception of their customer than any PR statement from this point forward can mend, which i hope people keep in mind before making big purchases. only way this changes is if we dont buy. unfortunately there might just be that small percentage of superspenders who keep monetization like this alive and kicking
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no, OW1’s lootbox system was unmanageable both in terms of future legal surety and profit. neither myself nor i think the vast majority of people vocally against the new shop believe that any monetization whatsoever is intrinsically bad. on the contrary, i really want to support the game, i just want blizzard to value their customers. over $12,000 for the sum total of OW1 items?? come on. $20 for legendary skins that don’t have new voicelines, ults, UI differences, VFX, SFX? the sojourn and zenyatta packs are worth thirty bucks???
at fairer prices, i’ll spend money. i bought the battlepass because i think it’s genuinely good value. the shop, however, is absurdly overpriced
that mean OW2 is OP’s first F2P games because the thing is almost every F2P game does this
welcome to the otherside
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Thing is, skins aren’t what you buy with real money : it is coins. They can do whatever with their prices as long as it is obfuscated behind a virtual currency.
I’d say OP has a legal case to take to court, but winning it may be a different matter, especially with Blizzard’s legal team.
I’m offering you a dollar ice cream at 25% off. no, I started selling it like this and I intend to sell it only at this discount.
I don’t know if it’s illegal but it’s certainly stupid: the discount is true, but there isn’t really the context in which you could pay the full price to say you’re inviting users to save on a non-cheap alternative … nonexistent .
Other companies likes Bethesda did it a while ago for Fallout 76, they’d put new items in the store with a -50% tag on it, others have done it too, it’s not illegal at least not in a virtual shop, IRL is probably different.
that literally doesn’t matter, it’s not a discount price if you have no other method of purchase.
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So is s–ual harrassment, but that hasn’t stopped Blizzard
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No, even mobile games have better and fairer monetization than OW.
TF2 is F2P, no?
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idk what the hell you guys are all mad about. shameful!
It’s 800% value!!! go get your 50$ skins now!
Didn’t they do exactly the same in Diablo: Immortal with their 800% VALUE advertising for a cosmetic that never was available before?
Really, this bothered you? Come on…
I mean, it’s low hanging fruit but Diablo Immortal is right there on the launcher.
TF2, the game where some items go for thousands of dollars on the marketplace? That TF2?
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Ok but I speak about what I know.
Yeah, who actually cares about ugly pixel hats? Nice, polished skins seem much more engaging. Bunch of us got used to getting many of those for free. Plus it’s not really F2P if you paid for the game initially, is it? It’s not like I can still play OW1 (even with no updates).
Even if we don’t go for low-hanging fruit like DI, Overwatch is pretty on par with other F2P shooters in terms of monetization.
If you were to play OW2 today (as a fresh player, for which the F2P grind should be judged), you start with I think like 20(?) characters and unlock 10+ through just playing games and then Kiriko through the BP at 55 (without paying).
You’re looking at a similar grind for characters in Apex and a longer one in Valorant, though both those games have the advantage of letting you choose which character you unlock in which order, which is weird that Blizzard doesn’t do that.
For a F2P player, a reasonable grind for player power (or unlockable characters in the case of all those games I’ve listed) but Cosmetics being hard/impossible to get is fairly normal.
Apex has lootboxes, but there’s a lot of crap and no real dupe protection so getting the actual good skins (character and weapon skins sold separately) is pretty difficult. You can buy the skins, which are roughly same price point/quality as OW skins.
Valorant has much higher weapon quality, but a much higher price point with bundles going for like 100 bucks worth of in-game currency.
Then why bring up TF2? 
Such is the way of live service games. When League of Legends, or World of Warcraft, or Valorant, or Hearthstone or any other game like those gets shut down, then your thousands of dollars of cosmetics and hours you’ve put in are gone.
i believe in UK the items have to have been at a higher price for x amount of days / weeks beofre they can be marked as sale items . u cant just pop out BRAND NEW stock and say its on sale
Ok, but I don’t play other F2P shooters, I play OW. IDRC about other F2P shooters, there’s a reason I don’t play them. I also don’t care about being a new OW2 player, I am not one.
Does not exist, imo. Or rather it’s playing enough to earn lootboxes and therefore get all the skins you want, if you keep earning them. Or use game-currency on duplicates. Pay2Win is also not for me.
Because it’s an F2P that imo has a better monetization model than OW2? Which is exactly what I said.
Can’t you still play TF2 as-is?
Have those been shut down? WoW is a sub service, so not F2P. Are you just trolling, or do you have something useful to respond?
Can’t the game creators just allow fans to host/be their own servers? Why can’t OW have an offline/friends only/LAN PVE? Are they still upset about DOTA?
Having paid for an OW1 license has no real bearing on OW2 being F2P. You can literally create infinite accounts for play on OW2, you could not on OW1.
Don’t I need infinite postpaid phone #s? Who has those?
Didn’t you just need $20 and an e-mail address?