It’s decently likely that the monetization rework is being detailed during the developer update on Tuesday. Realistically, what do you expect from it?
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Nothing that actually respects the customer that is for sure.
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The ability to buy OW2 cosmetics for the white coins 18 months after their release.
A slight drop in store prices from absolutely ludicrous to massively overpriced. 
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What I think is likely
- shorter wait time for shop items to come back
- the shop having some kind of sales on older skins
- getting some influence over what rewards you get from the battlepass
- getting some influence over what order you do the battlepass in
- some system of everyone getting a free trial of the new heroes at the start of the season
And for some more far fetched ones
- They will put out multiple mythic skins during season 10 so that in future seasons you will always get to make a decision on what mythic you get
- Weapon skins in the battlepass
I wonder what the company known for disgusting anti-consumer choices will do? What will the people who put their name on Diablo Immortal, the game where it took 500k USD to max out a single character, do to make their monetization better?
Yeah buddy, its just getting worse. They’re going to make things worse, and act like its an improvement.
Game is donezo. Toast. Fun and passion are long gone, and Overwatch is instead focusing on turning into the most bland and broadly “appealing” game to get as many casuals with loose wallets in the game as possible.
they can’t make it worse when nobody is buying to begin with. Look at the sale numbers, this game is not making money on anything other than battlepass and crossovers
They have been telegraphing removing unlocking of heroes. Unsurprising given it is becoming a barrier to new players. So I am going to say that is in the announcement.
At the very least, automatic unlocking a season or two later. So the backlog is already unlocked.
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Pretending like Blizzard isnt inept my man. What do you think is more likely? Blizzard making genuinely pro consumer choices? Or Blizzard just attempting to making their anti consumer garbage less apparent in the hopes they get away with it this time?
Blizzard is no longer a company that will back down on scamming.
Not much of anything, because people keep buying the things they release. Why would they change? They’re still making money.
Store prices will increase
Really? Way back in S1 I said I’d drop the game the moment I had to grind for heroes, and that’s exactly what I did. I wonder if removing the locks would be enough to bring me back in…
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Only you can answer that.
I’m not playing much, Nightingale, and soon Dragons dogma 2, and Rimworld: Anomaly is seeing to that.
I play for fun, and fun only. So I bounce between games often if there is something good to play.
Aaron and Jared get chopped and their salary is divided up amongst the playerbase in the form of in-store rebates!
Everytime i click one of those lil itty bitty gatchas i can say “thanks for doing the right thing, aaron”
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They should copy Helldrivers 2.
There’s a good chance that the recent leaks on monetization changes were genuine, so I expect… that.
It will prolly be worst than previous version and will prolly take people some time to figure out that they get less value than this monetization… It is the same copium they used when they begged to get rid of lootboxes, and hyped monetization till it was released then went into complete denial ever saying they thought it was a good thing…
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It’s possible, but there is decent evidence against it now
That’s not really evidence.
I agree. Nitpicking at semantics. There’s a number of explanations for this minor discrepancy that do not refute the possible veracity of the leaked information.
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