Can you explain what you mean?
The point of playing a game is to play the game, it’s not to buy the skins. The skins are just extras if you want to look a little extra cool
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You don’t have to have every cosmetic.
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Oh, more denial from the shill. I love how you’ll come up with literally anything to justify garbage being handed to you and everybody else lol.
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Can you explain what you mean?
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Your dwindling down of the content you prefer in response to games taking more and more away from your initial purchase is your personal taste and issue, not a standard for everyone.
I don’t need any single entity telling me what i need in a game I bought.
Do I need a car if I can walk to work? I don’t care.
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Why’d you buy a team game if you don’t like team reliance. Could you imagine me playing an RPG and saying “good riddance to strategy!”?
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Take the rose tinted glasses off and I might bother.
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How is anything being taken away from my initial purchase? I’m literally still getting more playable content (seemingly for years) for the same $40 I spent 6 years ago 
Overwatch is among the best money I’ve ever spent.
How am I wearing rose tinted glasses?
I spent $40 6 years ago and am still getting more value from it seemingly for several more years
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When will you stop living so far out of reality?
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I see, your first tactic in this argument is simply to deny reality in order to even make the rest of your argument function.
“still” is such a bad word to use. Nobody wants to use this word when they’re buying something. “I still have the whole burger, you cant blame this restaurant for not having pickles when every other restaurant had pickles on their burger as a standard and this restaurant is now making you pay extra for pickles for no actual reason”
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Chief flaw in all these analogies is that they equate digital and physical goods and ignore the fact the festival did run fine for years with a less avaricious model. The festival has already shown it doesn’t even need to charge for beers and shirts if it just charges a one-time ticket price. Would you rather get in free and pay for beer and shirts or pay a reasonable ticket price that includes all the music, free t-shirts and unlimited beer? I think most people would say let me pay the ticket price and then declare it octoberfest baybee. Especially if you’ve seen the prices they charge for stuff at music festivals. Jesus Christ, 12 dollars for a bottle of water.
Also, tangent time here but a music festival needs to pay acts, presumably, and among those acts you’re going to need headliners who will draw the crowd. Such people one assumes could make demands whereas blizzard cycles through a lot of faceless mooks it doesn’t pay enough to eat at the cafeteria off the promise of working for a legend. Like some kind of jerkbag rockstar who expects their roadies to pay their own way and still chews them out for their lack of professionalism during mic check while sexually harassing the women on the tour and forcing one of them to commit suicide. Come to think of it, that all does sound very rock and roll.
I’m imagining the biopic now, with Blizzard stumbling around in their trailer while Jeff Kaplan (played by Paul Rudd) is like “Calm down, I think you’ve had enough.” and Blizzard responds: “DoN’t YoU KnOw WhO I aM? I MaDe tHe LosssSST ViKiNnGs MaTe!” before it falls into Kaplan’s arms and barfs all over his back. Then it mutters “Do you people not have phonnnnes?” before it passes out. Blizzard comes to the next day in the afternoon and it’s like “JEFF! Where’s Jeff!” only to find Jeff has left.
Look, I got a bit off topic there but the chief takeaway is that I need to shop this script around, stat.
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That’s my point, you could have just not said anything because the argument isn’t useful. Me responding in that way is equally not useful and intended to demonstrate to you how pointless and unnecessary that type of statement is.
Your argument quality is declining. If you write a song or poem or doodle/paint something that even 1 person likes (even if that person is you, or if you hate it over time but it made you feel better getting it out in the moment), it has value and nobody should say it shouldn’t exist or isn’t worth it to keep around. This is the nature of creating art.
If your mom creates your sibling and nobody really likes them, should you keep them around? 
People still play TF2, prefer it to Overwatch, and bring it up in comparison to this game. People still play a lot of ‘old/dead’ games. And as I stated, blizz could make the PVE or Workshop offline or available to run on private servers and over time the player community will fix/improve this game with zero Blizz resources or input.
If you want a real-world example of this from another Microsoft entity, check out Age of Empires 2. It was released in 1999. Due to keeping that game up and fan appreciation and work over the last 22 years, Microsoft themselves were able to release AOE 4 last year. AOE 2 got its latest DLC in April '22.
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Feel free to explain what you mean. All I’m saying are facts. I spent $40 6 years ago and I’m still getting rewarded for it
Can you explain how anything is being taken away from the $40 I spent 6 years ago? I’ve gotten all of my moneys worth & then some. In my view, you are denying that reality.
Saying that I’m still getting value out of the $40 I spent 6 years ago is something everyone would like to say. That’s a great use of $40.
The fact of the matter is that a small amount of people liking something does not always make sense to keep around. Whether OW1 is worth keeping around is an argument that can be had, but I think it’s clear it’s not.
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Yes, we get it, you only care about yourself. It’s pretty gross honestly.
As long as you get things that is all that matters, screw everyone else who gets screwed over or told to just move on, accept FOMO, and whatever other garbage you think is acceptable so long as you get things. I can’t even make up how selfish that sounds lol.
May not be obligated to care but that isn’t the point, you cannot blindly say it is fine just because it is fine for you.
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Sometimes you actually do it seems.
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Overwatch 1 a multiplayer only game is being shut down, if your fantastical notion that Overwatch 2 exists is reality.
So, final answer. Is this overwatch 2 or just an update to 1?
If it’s an update to 1, you forfeit that overwatch 2 is a thing period, to keep your argument that $40 spent was well placed.
If it’s overwatch 2, your $40 were deleted.
Anyone else smell blind fanboyism? The foundation of such? I knew the answer already, but I do so enjoy exposing such a mindset.
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See or try and refute:
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I think the core of your argument seems to rely on this, which I think is an opinion that is not necessarily true. I think your grossly underestimate the value that secondary mechanics within a game play when it comes to the actual experience of the player.
I see this style of argument used a lot, but it rarely has a lot of substance. “Well then just don’t do it” is a bit of a cop out, and is often something I hear from people who are like super pro-capitalist to avoid asking the question of why it’s being done in the first place, which we all know is just money.
The game isn’t becoming free because they are nice people who want the most people to enjoy it, it’s just to shift the business model to something that’s more exploitable. There are a ton of ways they can improve accessibility to the game without resorting to the BP/microtransaction model they are gravitating towards.
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You gonna come up with any amount of logic rather than posting the lowest effort response you can? What more to tell me that you’re defending something without any thinking?
Passive aggressive nonsense is never powerful. I hope you come up with something far better next time when you decide to get enough energy to post.
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These analogies make some sense, but I don’t go to movie theaters. If I like something then I wait for a physical copy that I can own and watch again whenever I like.
On my shelf I have the Star Wars trilogy and I love that I can just watch it whenever I want.
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