Someone has crunched the numbers and found that it will take you 327 years of play, getting a whopping 60 coins each week for a grand total of 1,022,600 coins, in order to obtain all of the current/legacy skins in OW2. Or you can fork over >$10,000 for it. Oh, but you can spend $5 on a real, physically interactable Pachimari keychain… or $7.50 for a digital one to go on your digital gun.
This is a joke. This is an anti-player practice; a blatant attempt to scrape in the largest of whales. ActiBliz has made this game unrewarding to the broad playerbase. They’ve taken out the satisfaction of achieving a new level or performing well that was in Overwatch 1 (which was paid-for, mind you), and tossed it all to the wayside.
I ask that you all boycott Overwatch’s store. Play the game, force them to spend resources maintaining your connection, but don’t put in a single dime for them to recoup. Do not reward ActiBliz’s disgusting behavior and outrageous price points.
Won’t need to boycott anything, now that COD has launched I’m sure OW2 will lose a few players (i.e. COD players who were waiting for MW2 to launch and just amusing themselves with OW2).
We don’t want to pay Blizzard any more than the base game cost, and (for some) have a legitimately affordable AND reasonable shop.
They got the base game cost sorted out, but paying ten grand from my own pocket for skins from a game 6 years old isn’t business, it’s daylight robbery.
To add to this, the skins in the shop for this “event” are two new ones for about 45 bucks, and another 40 or so for the misc skins (bundles, Moira skin etc). 85 bucks for one half-assed event. Nah.
Thankfully I’ve got loads of stuff and no need to spend anything because I don’t know about you guys…but I don’t see any elf ears on me. (ok, that’s right its Halloween, maybe some of you are sporting some)
The big thing here is: Don’t buy them, any of them. Blizzard will cave if this is a disaster. But if people continue to shell out dollars for it, they will go for as much as they can a la Diablo Immortal.
My calculation was more or less a joke (with a grain of truth in it). No human lives 327 years so it won’t be possible to see that solitude principal value of 10 grand turned into 2 trillion. However the “grain of truth” is that the money wasted now is the money not invested into the future.
To illustrate - if you spend $200 every month on video-games that’s not even considered “much” by today’s standards. We can just calculate what happens if you’d instead invest those money for say a moderate 20 years. Your $200 every month after 20 years and some really average “boring” investment would turn into nice $93,199.39 assuming the same conditions I mentioned before. That’s a nice mortgage payment out of thin air.
The moment you start thinking pragmatically all that fluff like collections of pixels on some screen which you’ll forget after half a year makes no sense. I really wish more people understood this.
yes, hence why a lot of old people that were greatest gen ended up becoming rich. They just didn’t spend their money. They are not blowing $200 a month on their video games.
I probably spend less than $100 a year on video games; by choice.
(Edit: Were not* Even my grandfather would be past 100 now)
Ha, true enough. To get the most value out of your steam library I can recommend modding. Through that I “played” Fallout4 for 3968 and Skyrim for 2502 hours. Pretty shrewd for that $100 for both games, eh?
Ahh, the good ol’ it’ll bring in new players and help make it popular stuff.
Man, I remember when tf2 and csgo said going f2p was going to be good for the game.
Another bad thing about the weekly challenges in OW2 is that they are literally weekly.
Every week, they reset and you must restart from scratch.
Take Apex Legends for example:
Their weekly challenges have more variety and last throughout the season.
Meaning if you don’t complete them in the week they unlock;
You can still complete them the next and the next all the way until the season ends.
At least this way if you can’t play a few days or weeks for whatever reason;
(Burnout, vacation, school, work, sickness, personal reasons, etc.)
You can still get the rewards for the weeklies.
And their progress stack if several challenges have the same conditions.
I’m not saying Apex Legends BP is the best engagement design, but it loads better than what OW2 is offering.
OW2 is essentially saying play this game and only this game every single day/week/season.
600 hours but I own it on several systems and that’s just counting my steam copy. I bought it on release though and got to experience the fabulous backwards flying dragons.
Oh god yeah, I loved the gravity defying horses, the dragons no-clipping through Hrothgar and the sheer quantity of people attempting to murder Braith in Whiterun!
I consider both Fallout4 and Skyrim to be among the best moddable games to date. Both look like 2025 games for me (though it puts my rig to test with it). And Skyrim turned 11 y.o. this year. I swear come another decade or two - it will still be good.
Can also recommend Neverwinter Nights 1 - the persistent worlds there are like mini-MMOs. All without toxicity, with fair PvP and rules that just make sense. Highly moddable too (there are like 5000+ modules to play on vault). It’s like buying 50+ single-player RPGs and 10 MMOs for the price of one game and no further payments.
Back to the topic - when I see OW2 skins for $20 I think … hang on, WHY? Let’s boot up Skyrim and see what mods are there with armor or clothing. You’re guaranteed to find hundreds of them for free, way better quality and for any tastes. I just… don’t get it. OW2 monetization makes me want to never come out of playing older games.
