People migrating to OW2 from other F2P games (fortnite, Apex, League, even less obvious games like Genshin) are basically used to 20$ for a skin, that’s the standard outside of Overwatch.
While people who were used to the lootbox system may see 20$ skins as very overpriced and unreasonable compared to what they previously had, it is nothing out of the ordinary for people moving to the game, and in my (very limited experience) it’s not a very big problem or complaint. New players are more concerned about how powerful Moira is, not how much skins cost. As they play more and understand the game they may change their opinions on skin prices, but in it’s current state there’s nothing out of the ordinary for them.
People are more willing to spend however much the Kiriko skin because that the average price of a skin for them in other games. It’s not that “a lot of people are shelling out to blizz” it’s literally just that buying skins for the price is nothing new.
I said, that for players who have not previously played OW1, a skin being 20$ is nothing out of the ordinary. They don’t see it as overpriced because it’s a standard that they’re used to.
As long as people are willing to pay for skins, there is no reason for blizz to lower the price. Clearly, considering the number of people I’ve seen with witch Kiriko, there is not a reason to lower the skin price. There’s demand at the current price.
Either way it is less profitable to market towards older players. Someone who’s been playing since OW1 has less incentive to buy skins regardless of the price because they already have lots of skins. You have more reason to buy a skin if it gets you off default than if it just gives you another options. Blizz will make more money getting people without skins to pay than it will getting people with skins to pay. There’s more demand on one side.
standard shill arguement, disregarded and placed in the trash where it belongs. this is not a new game, you cant just take an old thing people love and make it worse - see star wars.
the battle pass should ATLEAST fund enough credits to buy the next one. Like, at the BARE minimum give people with maxxed out passes coins on every level or something.
I also love how the only way for a f2p player(And really this isn’t a f2p game, most of us bought this game and lets not kid ourselves that OW2 is a new game from OW1) to get unique skins now is to help Blizzard artificially inflate their stupid twitch crap. Can’t do it by having fun/playing the actual game of course.
Yea compared to apex it’s nowhere near the same value it’s more expensive.
Skins are in general more expensive, in Apex you get packs of 2, and skin costing around $10 as well.
Once you buy one BP you never need to spend money again as long as you play the game meaning apex is a 1 time $10 purchase w/ $7-20 skins w/ excuss currency left over. Overwatch is $10 every 18 weeks + $20 skins… which is more expensive.
You still get loot boxes, and crafting materials for just leveling.
I think part of the problem is you might spend money on skins, but $20 for a skin when so much is still missing, non-functional, or unbalanced. Just feels wrong when you compound that with already paying $40 for the watchpoint pack.
I know some people are way more fast-and-loose with their cash, but the vast majority of players from ow1 and those coming who aren’t coming from moba/gacha/br f2p games are used to being treated a bit better overall.
Apex skins are usually ~2300 credits right? That’s 20$.
Absolutley. Battle passes should be earnable after buying one.
I am level 300 in Apex and I have gotten more heirloom shards than (Legendary) skins for the character that I play from boxes. I don’t even have enough crafting metals after all this time to buy one skin. TBF, I also never buy battlepasses or spend any money… still.
Problem is not the $20 for a skin, the problem is paying $20 for a stupid recolor, a $20 skin in most games is something with a very high quality, meanwhile here you get a f*knx chroma for $20, its just stupid.
You can get really good skins in League of less than $10, also you get a nicer bonus of RP each time you buy RP. Prestige skins are league’s biggest scam, legendary skins are way better and cheaper. You pay $15 for a REALLY good skin.
Don’t know about Apex, but Fortnite is kinda the same, they offer you a good bundle for $20 and the skin quality is way superior that the recolors we get here.