It’s not a pay-wall. It’s an optinal item. A “Pay-Wall” is something that blocks access to your product: the game.
If Blizzard were to become Activision, they would be selling Seasonal Passes for the latest map and hero updates. Overwatch is a premium, one-time-buy that offers free updates for nothing in return.
I’m greedy for not wanting to spend $30, more than half the price of the game, for 1 emote? I don’t care for anything else in that package as I don’t follow OWL. So for me and plenty others its a $30 emote.
I do agree that this emote not even being remotely related to the access pass is quite absurd, however, I really would be fine if we could actually buy this skin in game for like 5-10 dollars, and just get the skin, and all the money from that, Blizzard gave to OWL. I honestly think that would allow Blizzard to make a whole lot more money. Because I know that I have seen a lot of people who are not going to buy the all access pass. So if they just made the skin available for purchase in game, than I think that a lot more people will buy it.
No no. See I don’t think you understand how investors work.
They don’t just give you free money.
You have to pay them back, with interest, lots of interest. If you don’t, they make rules about how you need to conduct your business, and force you to treat customers a certain way, etc. Etc.
Alt accounts are a massive problem in OW. Blizzard is avoiding the issue because it’s very profitable. I think they make more money from alt accounts than loot boxes and OWL skin sales. They need to rework their revenue model…
I think that Blizzard needs to stop putting money over their customers.
The thing is, this $30 lucio emote wouldn’t be such a big deal if we knew they didn’t have much other sources of revenue. But considering they have lootboxes, alt accounts, and the OWL, these little gimmicks don’t fly.