I was unable to play the missions right when they were released.
I tried to play them now, I’ve been in queue for 10 minutes for the Rio one…
What gives?
That’s very weird. It should place you with bots after 2 minutes.
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I heard the story missions were a ghost town after like, a week. Looks like not many people were sold on an hour of gameplay for $15.
So much for permanent access…
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Only the “Normal” one does that. But you can’t complete all the challenges on Normal, you need to do Expert & Stuff.
But there’s nobody to do that with.
Nice going there, Blizz.
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If they get added into the game without me having to shell out more money, I’ll be happy to play them. But the cash demand is well beyond what I can pay for.
lets see:
-lack of replayability
-paywall
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They probably will never be free, can’t think of many campaigns that are in the thousands of games I have played, but they could at least sell it separate from the BP.
They take 10 mins because they are boring and nobody plays the free ones so theres 0 chance anybody is still playing the pay to play ones now.
Hard to say. It’s a pretty hard sell to demand 4 people to buy it to make it work though.
I mean co-op campaigns are nothing new either. I don’t know of a single free one. I am assuming one or two might exist but the overwhelming majority are not. It’s the general problem of a co-op campaign in that you need bots but the bots need to be useful enough to help but not more useful than a player.
Even if it’s free, people will just burn out from them eventually.
Look back at OW1 Anniversary volume 1-3, I could barely get an Archive game because everyone felt burnt out.
I see many content creators, streamers, etc. They all play the Archive in Legendary difficult in couple of times, and then they all moved on and went back to Competitive.
Nah, homie. A LOT of people were sold on it. They are fun for a couple run throughs… The problem is, after that, they are simply not very replayable in their current state.
You can’t play as ANY hero, you HAVE TO play as the very limited heroes the game forces. And there’s no skill trees to change anything about those heroes up. And there are no mission modifiers to change anything about the missions themselves to create surprise/variety.
So while most people who cared about PvE bought them and played the hell out of them during the first couple weeks…by now, a full month later, there’s just nothing new or fun to do in the missions. Just more of the same. Can’t even use your main/favourite heroes to progress your stats etc.
I love PvE. I would play the hell out of those missions, but ONLY IF I could play as Ana or Illari or Ashe or any hero I actually enjoy playing as, because Bastion/Torb/Brig is like writing a thesis on the most boring gameplay possible in OW. So until they give me an actual reason to play it again, I’m out.
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I don’t play it because people leave too easily or try to farm which turn into unneeded losses. And when we do all die because they did that, they leave meaning we get piss poor bots
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No one’s playing them now
I know the free missions, I completed all challenges on legendary and all. I’d play them if I had them, but the price tag is kind of steep. I’m in the ‘I don’t eat every day’ budget. So 15 dollars a mission is just not happening.
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they could have easily done like $50 for all missions this year. and include any new missions this year. then $50 (Canadian) next year. but $15 for one mission? and I don’t get to play dva or jq and use it as an escape from the unplayable garbage that is comp right now? no thanks. i really want to play them, but they’re way too expensive and i missed the boat so no one is even playing them anymore 
they’re pricing themselves out of having a playerbase. which is hilarious for a “free to play” game.