Lol. After all these years they’re thinking of rolling back the 5v5 changes. To quote someone from Reddit:
PVE was dropped, heroes are free again, and now 6v6 is back. Blizzard spent the last couple of years turning overwatch 2 back into Overwatch 1.
Edit: See also the developer’s blog post about this, which goes into great detail explaining their decisions over the year and how we got here. Really worth a read if you are (or were) an OW player.
Overwatch was so fun, the devs just kept adding and changing shit that we didn’t need. OW2 is a complete distaster though, they can keep their predatory macrotransactions, just revert to the OW1 patch for everything else.
What macrotransactions? The game is free and the only this that’s monetized is cosmetics.
$20-$60 skins are macrotransactions.
They’re not essential to playing the game. Just don’t buy them.
Non-essential and predatory are not mutually exclusive, especially given Blizzard’s history of player manipulation. They have perfected the science of making you want someone that you don’t need.
I should call her
Lmao I’m leaving it.
Did you play the OG, you could get basically everything for free. All it cost was time. OW2 is just an enshittified update
I did. You also had to pay $40 to play the game though.
And now it’s $40 for a skin. What’s your argument? Lots of people already bought the game and were forced into the current system.
There was actual game content locked behind a paywall.
There is not anymore. All characters are unlocked for free.
You have to buy the battlepass to use the newest characters. And the cosmetics used to be free.
They monetized competitive gameplay elements and cosmetics that were supposed to come with the $60 I spent. Both of these are microtransactions.
They actually changed that a while back, new heroes aren’t in the battlepass any more, everyone gets them for free. I don’t know how that works with the “new player experience” where you needed to win games to unlock the base heroes on a new account though.
I believe new players also have all the characters unlocked immediately.