The skins are the max price that Blizzard has determined through DECADES of market research to maximize profit. Which is their legal obligation as a publicly traded company.
“Ya but, if skins were $5, they will sell way more!”
Except they wouldn’t. Again, if Blizzard thought they would make more money offering skins for $5 vs $20, they WOULD DO THAT.
It’s kinda funny watching people complain when games offer Pay-to-Win models, and say they should just charge for cosmetics. Then when company’s make cosmetic only purchases, with no pay to win, it becomes the “no, not like that” meme.
And in the end, hate companies like Blizzard all you want for being “greedy”, but the entire onus is and always has been on the players. The vast majority of gamers seem to have no issues with paying for skins. We bought the horse armor. We bought The Sims “stuff” packs. We are now reaping what we sowed.
this is something i notice apologists increasingly do just about everywhere… they try to gaslight people into forgetting heroes are also monetized now.
no, being on the free track doesn’t change anything you can also get every store skin “for free” but no one would say they are not monetized
inb4 “it’s not a big advantage” that’s not the point, overwatch has no other self balance tool aside from swapping heroes and counters are still a part of the game.
other games have stuff like gun economy, finding loot on the map or item stores to allow you to adapt to an ongoing match.
ow offers hero swapping only
When somebody says “too expensive” it obviously means too expensive for me. I thought any adult got that. Personally i wouldn’t pay more than 2$ for a 3d model.
honestly with how much here, on reddit and on 4chan you see people who talk loke they conveniently forget heroes are now monetized it makes me think it’s actual unironic shills and people mimicking shill talk points cause they look like they make sense if you don’t think about them critically.
seriously, notice how often they say something akin to “it’s just cosmetics”
I’ll tell you one thing, if you have an Ana on your team or a JQ and you guys are making my team Purple and I’m on Support, I’m hopping on that new hero. Can the same be said for your team? Your Supports have the hero unlocked yet?
That’s nice, but can we also discuss the ethics of consumer-friendly behavior while trying to scrape the bottom from the barrel? While we’re at that can we also discuss how Blizzard used to be a company that brought the most polished games to the market without them being filled with micro transaction garbage?
People expect better.
I would consider locking heroes behind a three week grind, or unlock them now for [$] the definition of pay to win, but we can discuss semantics if you want.
ah, i get it, you are worse than a blizzard shill, you’re a corporate shill.
no Nydas, being “the norm” doesn’t make something tight. You know there’s a metric ton of consumer laws specifically to prevent corporations from exploiting consumers and workers?
btw it’s only the standard of tripleA games and gachas, ever tried playing actual single player games? or online doubleA games?
ever played overwatch 1?
