Let’s say this had been achieved:
Who would think little of spending say two full price game’s worth of cash on whatever was in the store?
i rarely get anything myself just because the prices are so high relative to other games. only other thing i can compare it to is another blizzard game, WoW, and the $25 mounts and all the boosting / character services, but unlike WoW you cant even get any of the skins by doing anything. you can only buy them or grind for a few weeks for enough creds to get a single skin. makes me miss lootbox
This sounds like something a lawyer would say to me to get me to shut up and not go to court.
Anyway, no, I probably wouldn’t. Freemium is pretty much lame and on a tight rope for nonexistence. The level of playtime you need to invest to earn cosmetics is massive, they included a large amount of junk collectibles that have no aethestic purpose or are interesting. Keychains were interesting, holding up a digital item was not. Needed more diversity in skins and weapon skins which are the main thing people care about.
If they gave back free loot for the game for playing matches and made it easier but it was only sprays and those digital emote trophies, that still wouldn’t really matter. and I still treat this game’s progression of earning things just like OW 1 where you play matches upon matches because you’ll work your way to obtaining something even if now the ability to do so objectively has been made extremely more drawn out and difficult even with a bought Battlepass.
And the skin recolors? Don’t even get me started on those.
Back in the day, I might’ve and did drop some money for lootboxes like once or twice. Just for fun because I had spare change. Now, I feel the system is too hostile and skimp for me to consider it and coupling that with things like global events and inflation adds to the issue.
Nope. I’d still spend my money on buying other games instead of buying cosmetics for this one.
Yes, it does feel a lot like that. After WoW allowed transacting real game assets in cash / convertibility to cash.
That’s very honest of you to say.
Maybe if all of them were like, $5 cheaper (at least). That’s the quality of this game. They overestimate it. Blizzard isn’t amazing anymore, and everyone knows it.
The way the game plays has no influence on my decision to buy or not to buy from the shop.
That is to say, no. If the game was perfectly balanced, had regular updates, no cheaters etc… I would still not buy more items than I do already
I’m more like… it should cost $5 for the skin, not $5 less than now (19-5=14). I’d probably buy a lot of skins if they were $3-5 each.
I still wouldn’t, no.
First, I don’t really buy microtransactions to begin with. I don’t like them on principle, and feel like they just make games worse when they’re included.
If a company added a microtransaction that people weren’t inclined to buy (for instance an XP booster isn’t needed if the leveling process is already quick,) then no one would buy them or whatever Dev/Published put them in is effectively selling people nothing, which I don’t enjoy. And if the microtransaction is made to be incentivized to buy, then that means they had to in some way make the game slightly worse without it, in order to make people want to buy it. It can be things like slowing down XP/currency gains and then selling boosters, giving players limited inventory and selling them more, giving players less or blander cosmetics in order to be able to sell the better ones, etc., etc.
Either the microtransaction isn’t at all incentivized and the company is essentially selling nothing (which feels like a scam and thus makes the game worse,) or the game is changed in some way to incentivize buying the microtransaction, thus making the game worse. Either way, their inclusion leads to a worse experience, so I tend to not buy or play games with them in the first place, and don’t buy them when I do wind up playing a game with them.
Second, I bought Overwatch at launch. I pre-ordered it less than a week before it came out, and got the Origins edition because I was so excited about it. For them to take the game I liked, remove the ability to play it while replacing it with an (in my opinion) inferior game,) doesn’t make me want to give them more money. And on top of that, even if they effectively turned the game back into Overwatch… it would just be Overwatch where I had to pay for rewards instead of being able to earn them from playing.
I didn’t buy lootboxes back in Overwatch, and I really liked that game. So I just don’t see any way I’d spend any amount of money on anything in OW2, especially not $120+.
No. Because I could spend $40 on lootboxes a walk away with 3-5 legendaries, all the other cosmetics, and coins to get more items down the road. Now if I spend $40 I get 1-2 skins and a few extra items. It’s no longer worth it at all.
Addressing the games issues would be important, but the biggest thing is they’d need to be much cheaper.
That other games may float even more ridiculously priced cosmetics - something extensively reported on for years - hardly exonerates $20-25 skins. Indeed, it’s more a pointed example of the effectiveness of “anchoring”, something else that figured prominently in exposes of the way game companies rip players off. “Those guys demand an arm and a leg, but we’ll stop cutting at the knee” is not the selling point some imagine.
They’d probably move a whole lot more $5-10 skins.
Or if they want to get really creative, make the battlepasses non-expiring and let people advance whichever one they wish. Then old battlepasses could be in the shop - new players could pick up past passes they missed and advance them as they see fit. That would be a lot of stuff in $10 chunks and would give people an incentive to play.
Get a new matchmaking algorithm and call it a day
I don’t read devs comments any more in regards of matchmaking quality
This confuses me explain?
No cus i rearry dont care about cosmetics , as others have alredy said id rather just buy a diff game or literally anything else tbh , a pizza would be money better spent then getting a skin or whatever
If they make Overwatch classic
Honeslty, if i wanted to spend money on something that makes my head burst, ill go buy the elden ring dlc instead.
I will never spend a dime on lootboxes or in-game skins. These predatory practices need to be discouraged, but fools and their money are soon parted.
Addressing the underlying problems in the game wouldn’t inherently lead to me spending more money directly, but it would lead me to playing more which would give them more of an opportunity to convince me to purchase things.
Like others have said, my main issue is the pricing is absurd in my opinion. I dont think any of the skins are worth the price they are asking for them. If skins were $3-$8 I would likely buy them occasionally, but when they are $19+ and bloated with miscellaneous stuff to justify the price, I have no interest.
I honestly don’t think there is anything they could entice me to buy.
For instance, I subscribe to Discord Nitro mainly because I like to be able to share larger files. That said, I’d never purchase any of the little perks that let you spruce up your profile.
It’s the same thing with overwatch. I’m not interested in anything cosmetic. If there was something you could pay for that made your QoL with the game as you played better, I might be interested in that, but that would basically fall underneath the ‘pay to win’ category at that point, so wouldn’t be feasible.
Cosmetics in OW mean nothing to me. There is nothing they could convince me to buy. I still buy Fortnite’s battle pass but that’s because you earn 150% of the cost of the BP by finishing the BP so I could have bought one when I started playing years ago and never paid again. I don’t any longer buy standalone cosmetics there either. Life is expensive, the future scares me lol.