This is such a blatant and greedy cash grab. The Pink Mercy skin was a lot at $15 but it was fine because it benefitted BCRF.
They’re releasing maps and heroes on a very rare basis while putting their time into cosmetics, which benefit the game far less. Please, vote with your wallet and stop encouraging this. Entire games from indie developers are often $20-30 and Blizzard is asking more than that for JUST A COSMETIC ITEM.
Which cosmetic item is $40? All I saw was a $59 bundle of 4 skins and a bunch of extra equippables or $19 for each skin individually. Both still overpriced for sure, but which one cosmetic cost $40?
I’d charge $40 for a cosmetic too if there were people dumb enough to buy it.
Well I personally wouldn’t but I don’t blame blizzard.
The have some dumb fans
Yea they’re not some indie company. They have a responsibility to charge as much as possible for anything and everything
Shareholders be like “you’re giving away what for free??”
Don’t get me wrong it’s morally wrong.
But
I can’t really blame them
I feel the morals (i guess) when I see people just itching to buy these things. oh well.
I just wish the people with the expendable cash would stop buying them for the good of gaming
At least at that price
Gotcha
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Don’t buy it then. Duh.
Milk the whales!
But seriously though, they I should just have an algorithm that analyzes your spending habits, and determines whether or not you’re a whale.
Then they can bump the skin prices up to $100 for those people, but only those people, and milk the ever loving s*** out of them.
They have no concept of the value of a dollar anyway, and they feel pride through buying things, instead of accomplishing things.
So make the whales spend more money to get their good feeling.
I just don’t get who we’re buying the skins for
Our teammates telling us how bad we are or the enemy team jumping off the map because they think their team stinks
of course they do, yanno cause it pays for all this great content you are receiving!, right guys…right…
also what do you expect they killed the game for greed. sad
I’ve been doing that since ow2 released, I have not purchased anything with real money since, I was tempted for the mercy pink but I resisted spending the money cause there is no guarantee blizzard didn’t pocket any of that so I made my own private donation to BCRF. F blizzard
Not even a cosmetic item… a cosmetic item you don’t actually own.
The steam sale is on atm (ends tomorrow) and you can get a lot of games for that much atm.
They need to partner with Gamestop or someone similar and include some physical trinket you can go pick up with some of these “micro”-transactions
Nintendo and FromSoftware must be super tiny indies, because they never have microtransactions in their games.
But if Nintendo is indie, then Blizzard is ultra-small indie, because Nintendo second largest IP, Pokemon, is 30 billion dollars more valuable than ActiBlizz (Blizzard).
But if Blizzard is ultra-small indie, then they shouldn’t charge so much for everything…
Cyclical paradox detected, abort, ABORT!!!
This is the free market doing what it does best; trying to supply the demand people have for exorbitant skin prices.
This is a corporation, which is institutionally identical from an exxon mobile, apple, citi bank, etc. Whatever passion you think you see inside blizzard is purely marketing.
Money talks, and money is flowing into skins. I wish it weren’t that way but gamers now are easy marks compared to previous generations where horse armor and DLC locked within the game disk when sold was rightfully called out for being a greedy grift.
All these micro transactions turned to macro ones that exceed the cost of a single game and all we have to show for it is an ocean of new games with nothing but shops and battle passes.
GG
No it wasn’t. They should had done the skin while incentivize folks to donate. Not “donate” through their channels. This kind of thing gives them excuses for this:
While folks should had been voted with their wallets and donated directly to the BCRF. Instead of doing so, through their channels because of a skin. If blizzard was “good” would give the skin as freebie for folks who had receipt of the donation. Like some other promotions they did through other mediums already in their other games.
So, no. Wasn’t fine 15$. Is because of that they keep “pushing” boundiaries until folks stop paying.
Folks use BCRF for “guilty free” reasoning, which is either to convince themselves about the money they spent on something they wanted(skin) or simply are innocent thinking that blizzard did it as “goodwill”.