From OW1’s 21 hero launch, all the way up to its first ‘OW2 hero’, Echo, every hero had 2 legendaries and 2 recolours.
But ever since even Sojourn, a hero we first saw in Nov 2019, before even Echo released, every OW2 hero had 1 legendary and 1 recolour, until Mauga who got nothing.
I get Blizzard wants money, yadda yadda yadda, but come on now. All OW1 currency was turned into this ‘legacy’ garbage that has fewer uses every hero release.
They’ve instead taken some perfectly serviceable base legendaries and slapped a £20 price tag on them. Mauga’s beachwear skin would’ve been great, and they could’ve given it a blue shirt recolour, but then it was locked behind a FOMO BP instead.
The sheer amount of money-making schemes in this game is almost comical, if it weren’t so sad.
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something something art team lay off (is what i heard, idk how exactly true that is.)
I’m yet to find a team that HASN’T been ‘laid off’.
And also no, since Kiriko is getting 4 more legendaries this season (2 recolours) so the art team is still kicking. They couldn’t just take 1 legendary, give it a recolour and make both free for Mauga, Venture and Juno?
But then again, they are releasing 4 KIRIKO SKINS this season, so maybe money is tight?
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It really is 90% money and 10% the heroes arent popular enough so why bother
IDK, Mauga seemed pretty ‘’‘popular’‘’ during his release.
And wasn’t Venture ‘on the safe side of strong’ in Season 10 as well?
It’s really naff, OP. Even more so for Mauga, imo, because both his art that introduced him to us plus his trailer featured him wearing the Hawaiian shirt. C’mon, guys.
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You said it yourself, money. The base legendary skins were essentially free, and if the new heroes had a good looking base skin, less reason to buy the paid ones.
Yeah, but they could at least give us the option. They were giving out free skins for 6 years in OW1 when that was still a box-price game. Now they have these tacky subscriptions that funnel in money and they won’t throw us a bone?
Thats what happens in big tech merges. You have been complaining about skins for days now. You might need a break
That was specifically Venture skins, and both my posts got removed because I was too right I guess? Venture isn’t ugly, people just have their expectations too damn high.
But now I’m broadening my argument to ‘hey, WTF, we have all this loser money and you aren’t letting us spend any of it!’.
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Hey, let’s call them what they are.
Two legendaries with 2 recolors.
Many of which being mid.
Apologies, i think i misworded myself. I didnt mean popular as pick rate, more an aesthetic sense.
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How’s about you read my post first?
4 base in title = mislead
You wrote it, not me.
They’re still legendaries, since they’re recolours of legendaries. I never said they were 4 unique legendaries.
And the literal first line proves you wrong anyway.
Because maximizing profits
No other reason than that and it’s sad and disappointing
Heck even the current balance changes feel like they were aimed at Widowmaker mythic skin. You can’t tell me that they hadn’t this change seasons ago in mind
Honestly that games loses it’s identity rapidly
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Characters also used to launch with 3 highlight intros minimum. Now they’re down to 2.
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If you want to know how greedy this game has become, look no further.
They are literally minimizing content that isn’t directly making them money.
They got your money. Having nothing to spend that currency on isn’t their problem anymore.
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Because that would mean, that we could buy them with legacy credits and that will not make them money, so that is unacceptable.
God forbid we have chance to spend all those free credits somewhere.
That currency was FREE. We didn´t pay for that.
I think they meant the game’s box price.