How would you change the current monetization? I honestly think the battlepass right now is ok (Haven’t bought it yet but I might). Only problem I have is the cost of everything else not on the battlepass. Its way too overpriced. They need a decrease in cost across the board at least.
Ideas:
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A separate battlepass for OW1 skins/items. People who had OW1 will have it for free. Basically a battlepass for all OW1 items that you slowly grind for. No expiry. I think $20-30 would be a fair price, maybe a bit more if blizzard wants to make more money.
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Battlepasses shouldn’t expire. But just make it so you can only level one battlepass at a time.
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Non battlepass store items need some reduction in cost. Even heroes of the storm wasn’t this expensive.
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Some ideas I wish the gaming industry would adopt (not just Blizzard) are:
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Allow us to buy the Battle Pass at regular price in current season. Then when the season ends, sell it at a premium price. This way people ‘get a deal’ when purchasing in the current season, but can still buy it later if they missed out on the season.
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Further on to the above point. Make Battle Passes permanent, and allow us to switch between those we own to progress whichever ones we want during a given play session. Maybe lower the XP requirements for older Battle Passes.
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Implement a Skin Shard system, similar to how League of Legends does it; Earn capsules that contains skin shards and then be able to trade them in for the skins we want. These capsules can be included in the Battle Pass too.
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Allow us to earn non-skin cosmetics by just playing the game and earning “Free” currency. Even the most egregious F2P games out there have both a Premium and a “Free” currency, like WarThunder.
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I’d get rid of everything.
**** Monetization!
Actual credits that can be used to purchase battle pass like destiny 2 does. Hell even the free lootboxes gave you credits that were pretty darn good.
Never tried apex so I can’t relate.
Basically: Old OW system to unlock base skins, battle pass lets you earn your currency back, events have free skins but also paid shop skins.
points at Magic: The Gathering Arena Mastery Pass and makes that mad starey face
Apex isn’t great either tbh, they still use Lootboxes and hold ‘Collection Events’ that partially guarantee you get everything… after spending like $100.
They still allow you to earn Lootboxes from playing but its rare to get anything good out of them, save for your level 500 lootbox.
They’re not great, but they’re a billion times better lol
At least there’s stuff to unlock outside the pass in Apex.
The ability to earn currency for free is definitely whats missing the most at the moment. 60 cents per week is a pittance.
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This! Literally all they have to do is let us earn legacy coins and the system would be a lot better.
Also, levels back pls.
replace the random voicelines and spray on the BP, both the free and premium track with actual nice cosmestic like highlight intro emotes , epic skins or return currency.
after level 100 the BP will give 10 coins per level for premium players, so anyone who reach lvl 200 basically got the next BP
this will make the BP incredibly good for f2p and low spender, while keep the overpriced cash shop almost exclusively for whales
Let us “buy” Overwatch 2 so we are no longer free to play anymore. In return all battlepass items are free to earn and we can earn credits then everything is right in the world again.
no, thats exactly what happened with OW1, remember how that went down ?
The chief problem isn’t the battle pass.
It’s the Shop.
Items cannot be purchased individually and must be purchased in bundles, forcing players to spend more on things they don’t want.
We’ve traded $1 lootboxes for $20 lootboxes.
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I’d rather just have a way to unlock everything through gameplay feats. New Dva skin? Get a 5 man explosion kill. Mei highlight? Headshot a pharah over 20 meters from the ground with Mei.
We didn’t have to insert $10 each time we wanted something and could earn things through gameplay?
And the result is the game doesnt make any money after the first 2 years
I just want them to add some sort of legacy/premium status that gives you access to the old progression aka lootboxes and also shop items should be added to them after being only in the shop for a year for the sake of new content to unlock + this could fix the event progression stuff if premium/legacy players can get it for free(technically) + old players can still keep playing normally and new players could have a way to get into it aswell after getting a taste of the game itself