Personally I don’t care, and honestly, it will help the eSport scene. Rather yay or nay, I’m curious on Blizzard’s business plans if the game does go F2P.
Will we get hero lock and have to buy bundles to unlock it? Do the same for Maps? This is Activision we’re talking about.
i think we can predict what would happen, you just have to look at COD WWII
Personally for me, instead of having to constantly buy stuff in order to play, I would honestly go back to playing MMORPGs and Killing Floor 2 / Counter-strike.
Honestly, I’m perfectly fine with playing my 2 Gacha game on my mobile phone. Although I can pull for new characters, and there’s power creep, power creep happens every 4 months or longer, but you can still beat all the content and arena without them. Can’t say much about other Gacha games on mobile devices.
Not to mention, they are generous enough with free currency for free pull, and events to get free pulls to not hinder me too much.
Overwatch is already cheap and many “limited time offers” are happening every 3 months, putting it F2P would be literally saying “No more money for us, we are good thanks” by Blizzard Activision and … HAHAHA … yeah i dont think so.
Besides that, I dont like the F2P crowd, there are MANY MANY “players” of that type that would be really bad for the game.
F2P = Smurfing will be even worse. We all want 5 dps onetricks in our matches right?
I actually enjoy f2p games because they offer cosmetics that you can stick with while wearing random gears underneath for min-max, which many p2p games were severely lacking in the past. God, the mismatch outfit were frustrating as hell to deal with.
It was until a few years ago that p2p & b2p games started to offer more cosmetics options and cosmetics dye within their game.
Nay to rampant, unfounded speculation… ![:frowning:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/frowning.png?v=6" ":frowning:")
If the game goes F2P we can pretty much kiss Competitive goodbye. The amount of smurfs that want to vent their frustration on lower bracket players because they got salty will be too much to handle.
No.
1 we have much problem of smurf already.
2 I dont want tell yell to 6-8 yrs old kid or below (mic always on in team chat)
3 Lock character behind pay walls.
4 lock seasonal skins
Okay, People who think it’s good idea to make like Fortnite and pubG “Battle pass”.
REMEMBER! they make game focus on “Casual” not “E-Sport” focus like OW (ATM). Even you argue that they have esport. Their game mostly balanced so they dont have to deal the bs everyday like OW.
Do you really think that battle pass will fuel dev to deliver more content for everyone? NO, If they still focus on OWL, they will use most of battle pass’s profit, give it to the league. If the league fall, the game also will fall.
And Remember, OW can still going because of OWL. NOT the game itself. Activision can cut development cost at any moment they like and tell blizz to move to another project like mobile games that they tell us. We all knew that Activision is in-charge now.
Personally i think 3 things could happen:
honestly, if Blizzard want their Competitive mode to be serious when the game goes f2p, Blizzard will need to implement a system to reduce the amount of throw account for the mode.
This is most likely a phone registration, or an activation card/key or of the sort.
I am pretty sure no one who have bough the game would want to see it going f2p (unless they are really trying to quit it. In that case, this will helps)
The game should have been f2p from the start condescending the lack of content. It has been treated exactly like one but now seems like being too late.
If the game goes f2p that will mean the following things:
-a proof that the game is indeed dying and needs to be saved
-blizzard can’t be trusted on their promises about this and future games (i. e. no payed dlc content. oh wait, they already broke that promise)
-the devs are not capable of evolving the game and just prefer to charge you for the already minimal amount of content that the game gets
or we can all just move to Elite dangerous haha 
I can see them charging people to reset their MMR in competitive, but only once a month after their placement, forcing them to do placement again to prevent it from being exploited.
If this irrational witch hunt on oh-so-evil lootboxes continues there wont be another choice.
Yay if they add something like a battle-pass and nothing else.
Nay, if they are gonna put in micro transactions that are not a battle pass or something like that.
In a way, I agree. Overwatch is being sustain due to lootboxes and the eSport scene. without lootboxes, they need to focus on getting new casual players to spend money impulsively.
You can blame it on greedy corporation for ruining this system for us. Looking at you EA =.=
microtransactions imply
There’s two type of F2P target to go after in terms of revenue. The fashion chaser, or the power chaser.
Nay. Not even a Quick Play free trial. Way too easy to make throwaway accounts and just troll people. Not to mention match quality will plummet.