The ignorance to not realise that this is how other esports already work lol? Overwatch is one of the only games that doesnt crowdfund its prize pools and it has been a requested thing for years
Its win win. We get cool cosmetics, they get a % of our $ added to the prize pool.
Because the $15 bundle comes with 1000 coins, a Sojourn Legendary skin, Sojourn unlocked and 3 pve missions.
If it costed coins why would they give you coins back?
They are so greedy that even when you buy these “packages” that are supposed to fund the prize pool, only 25% goes to the pool. The rest goes to Blizzard. Relatively speaking these skins cost pennies to generate.
Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but is Valve and Riot also taking 75% of the crowdfunded cut? That’s my issue with it.
Honestly that’s what companies do with sponsers anyway, that get like 12 of them to give them money. to fund their projects.
Valve is, Riot is taking 50%. Whether or not Riot compensates with higher prices for the skins I don’t know, though.
Dota’s been doing this for years. The international prize pool is almost entirely funded off battlepass sales and they have prize pools going up to 20 million and climbing every year.
The fact that games like Dota 2 and CS:GO are STILL raking in that kind of money is mind boggling to me. I mean… who’s sticking with it and paying that much for that long. Neither game is THAT great to be spending that kind of money year after year.
I will never support this system of payment. If you want to support the winner, wire the money directly to them, from Paypal. Don’t give these greasy goblins one pence.
That is pretty much sad when a company has to create a Go-fund-me for itself and its traded on the stock market.
Lemme give some SOLID reasonable advice here.
I understand they are not happy that a number of courts are blocking the sale of their company. But the solution is VERY simple (to the lesser extent).
The “Blizzard” division CAN be split off and sold. Everything on the core Blizzard side which is
Sell em off to anything BUT Microsoft or Behavior Interactive inc.
They could Send it off to Epic Games or Crytek and be absolutely 100% fine.
Take the other piece of the pie which is Activision (COD and all that) and sell it over to Microsoft and the case will be DONE.
There wont be any complaint of it being a monopoly and bobby and his friends can take their money and go home with enough money to buy super-cars, yachts and private aircraft and live their life with plenty of cash to go around! SIMPLE.
That prize pool might be looking pretty slim
Isn’t this basically the same thing Valve did (they might still idk) with DOTA for the World Championship? I never got that into DOTA 2 but I used to hear that story every year about how their fans got the prize pool higher and higher.
No idea. Some of the bundles require actual currency though.
One can only hope so. Blizzard had pulled this shenanigans before. Promised a store bought item would fund an event, only to reach the cap, withdraw their own promised contribution (since they raised more than their goal) and then keep the remaining profits for themselves. It was scummy AF but what we come to expect from modern Acti/Blizz.
It’s also only 25% of each purchase.
I honestly hope no one and I mean NO ONE buys this.
Can we have a baby mode explain for this? xD
Uh, I hate to be THAT guy, but…is there a particular reason why we needed to necro this thread (which involved similar crowdfunding efforts, but for a separate OW competition that was done last year), when there is at least 1 other, much more current thread voicing displeasure with the crowdfunding tactics employed by OWCS?
This. Plus there’s a hundred stories out there about pro players (very young adults!) getting yanked around and put in precarious situations visa-ways, salaries aren’t worth all the time you have to put in, etc. I won’t support Bli$$ard in any of their Overwatch League ventures.