A founders pack…is this what ow2 will become…cash grabbing game?
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yes they need money to help them eat pizza
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Oh boy, wait till you find out about battle pass…
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So…Just don’t give them any money, problem solved.
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I would pay the overwatch 2 for 60$ not happy that it free
i would pay overwatch 2 for 60 dollar
I knew this would happen once it went F2P
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The founders pack is free. Yes, you’re probably going to have to pay for cosmetics in the future, which is how every fps game does it now. Free to play, paid cosmetics. That’s how they make money that they can use to develop more content with. Blizzard has probably been breaking even or losing money on Overwatch base game for a while now. If they don’t change it, then the game dies forever.
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Which is free.
Learn to read, it’s a valuable life skill I’d reccomend!
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No microtransactions are in the game they want to get as much money from player while just given them enough content to keep them buying stuff, if it was about making money to develop the game they would have charged a monthy subscription
Microteansactions are a virus we as gamers need to fight against and get it out of gaming
Such a cash grab, giving people a pack for free.
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Subscription services are prohibitive to people that don’t have a lot of money, are younger, or don’t have access to online payment options. And frankly, the cost per month probably wouldn’t be much different than buying a couple skins every month. At least with micro transactions you can decide not to do it if you can’t afford it.
F2P is the most inclusive and player-focused model in fps gaming. It just is.
I would agree with you all day if it was like Candy Crush where you’re paying money per match just to play, or paying to unlock abilities, or paying to access arcade modes or something, but it’s not. It’s not the awful predatory “mobile game” style of micro transaction. It’s just “hey, do you want these cosmetics? They’re $5!” It’s not a big deal, and you can choose not to buy without suffering.
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Totally ignoreing the biggest forced cash grab in pvp gaming now the battle pass
Totally ignoring my actual post because you don’t have an argument for my points. Lol!
I will pay for battle pass with glee.
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There was already a deluxe pack for overwatch 1’s launch (for pc anyway; for console it was baked into the game by default) that included several extra legendary skins; a pack for overwatch 2 launch is not surprising. The only surprising thing is that the only skins they showed so far were epic rarity rather than legendary.
I don’t particularly like battle passes, but are they really any worse than a subscription model like you suggested? They basically are optional subscriptions.
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Subscriptions for the most are not an optional thing. When battle passes are included in games, the gameplay becomes less fun where you feel forced to sign in just to do it…it becomes more like a chore, as if you gotta get up every morning and go to work.
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I don’t really see it any differently than the current grind for lootboxes during events, except the battlepass is better because you’re actually playing toward the items you want rather than grinding for rng lootboxes and having to hope and pray they contain the items you want with the very real possibility that you spent all that time grinding and did not get the items you wanted.
I have thought since its announcement that Overwatch 2 is primarily a re-monetization of the IP for the corporation. Parents everywhere will be screaming in agony at the pleas of their children, for just one more skin… 
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“become” - Hello, I am Ozzybwild, proud owner of the pre-order Overwatch version that got you a handful of “speshul skins” for 100€ on release, compared to the then I think 60€ retail base game.
ALSO, said “speshul” edition was later renamed so EVERYONE AND THEIR GRANDCHILDREN can to this day pay in to get the same “speshul” skins I got.
“become a cashgrab” my shiny, metal behind.