Just as it was with overwatch 1. I like free to play, as overwatch 1 really started to suffer from a declining player base, but not if it comes with $20 skins and a battle pass with heros in it.
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I’d rather pay full price for games than play F2P games with ridiculous macro transactions within them.
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Thank you, very unique outlook you have there. Haven’t seen it before.
And your feedback on it afterwards? Flawless, as per these posts.
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All games suffer from a declining player base, but not all of them suffer from predatory monetization.
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If I got everything along w each character as they were released yes.
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Many new games to come in November and 2023 <3…
Your reply is as equally exquisite my friend, never seen one quite like it.
I’d pay a $60 annual subscription to have the store and battlepass removed from my Verizon of OW2.
Well, you have your answer. You don’t like it, don’t buy it.
If that’s such a detriment to your gameplay, stop playing.
These posts saying “No, I won’t buy things” make sense. The prices suck. But I don’t know why everyone needs to know about it.
They’ll probably be much be much better value for money too.
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I don’t have anything against the monetization, had F2P Overwatch been a new F2P game but it’s not. Hard to understand how they can put that price tag to skins from a game that is 6 years old but well…
The main issue with Overwatch currently is that the update came in pretty empty in terms of new content and the roadmap to any new content is very lazy, unfortunately.
Let’s hope PVE comes really soon in 2023 (and not like at the end of the year or something). My list of all the new games I’m looking forward to play is really exciting <3 !
I would pay $60 to have everything unlockable forever. If that choice does not exist, as now, i will pay exactly $0 until the game dies
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I’d even pay the $70 that some publishers are trying to push if it came with cool skins that you could unlock doing challenges or things like that
I prefer to pay what it’s worth, so nothing.
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I paid that for the first overwatch and I occasionally dropped $20 on lootboxes for events because I felt like I was supporting the game.
I will never drop $20 on a single skin
TBF though it was different when Kaplan was still here because he treated this game like it was his child. (yes, all parents make some mistakes.)
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Keep telling them how you feel, with your wallets. They already are trying to lower prices on things, so they recognize people aren’t super hyped for it all.
But these posts just saying “buying skins is bad” do nothing. Especially when that is as deep as the post gets. You don’t like it. We’re aware, they’re aware.
Same. I’d much rather pay one time, pay for occasional DLC packs—offered at reasonable cost—and have not have to deal with time-gated opportunity windows to earn the content I paid for, or forever lose out on it for not fitting the arbitrary (and ridiculously short) deadlines of a video game around my personal schedule. I enjoy playing the game, but hate being compelled to play, and definitely having the game decide for me which modes I get to enjoy and (and when) to get the full experience out of my purchase.
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I know, just trying to raise awareness and convince people that think otherwise.
The real problem is that this monetization system on standard content goes far beyond the normal livelihood of a F2P. The BP with exclusive gallery content (legendary skins and emotes included), Mythic skin and instant unlock of new heroes is already one of the biggest incentives to spend continuously, and within 6 BP you have paid what you would have spent on the game at the dayone … with the only difference that there are a lot of people inside, with cross play included.
with what should be “standard” game entertainment content, you can’t even collect 10% of your main hero’s gallery even in 1-2 years of gameplay with these weekly release rhythms. I give the silliest example around a voiceline or 100 coin sprays:
- would you seriously spend your hard-earned coins (60 per week) on them or do you want to aim to save forever for the legendaries?
- 100 coins literally means a $: is this a fair price for a few seconds registration or a png image? Artists who have worked on the art or the spray will never make money based on how many units they have sold, I think it’s obvious;
it always comes back to the only answer: collecting is clearly designed for whales as a mobile games, but there is no F2P for PC / console to make these prices for so little. it is wrong even if you are not interested in aesthetics, because for every resource they invest in this “content” they have not done it for what people have been waiting for since the announcement of OW2, namely the PVE. so I would say the question is “would you rather know that the developers only work on the PVE but are wasting time on skins that no one will ever buy or in the meantime you know you can enjoy the very nice skins while they are refining the PVE”? in any case, people would much more willingly pay $ 45 for story campain, NEVER for a skin. and we … for 20 $ are paying for the skin, not the nature of OW as f2p.
i already paid 40 for watchpoint pack