That's why I love games with cosmetic mtx. I personally don't give a rats ass, but it gives people that DO like to play dress up a way to both support the game and do what they like. And I get more game development out of it. Win/win imo.
@@KhronicDExcept that golden age has passed and devs/publishers game the system now. You think you're getting more content? They carved out things that were created years ago, fired the devs that made them, and insert them back into the game as a "micro" transaction for $25 that can only be purchased in a $50 bundle with things you don't want or need. Also, they cut the content they promised that actually takes work to develop.
@@BlizzardofOze Indeed, that seems to be how most games work these days. It's why I don't fault GGG for those ridiculous $400 packs and whatnot in PoE. But that's a pretty old game at this point. I don't have any delusions that anything new will be anything more than a cash grab if it contains that sort of thing.
This is actually disturbing. They're charging for each individual bit of the character skin now, and it's an insane amount. And it shows how shameless it is when the monetization swaps to selling skins, the game stops being the priority.
@hawkshot867 nah in fairness, each level of the mythic skin is a totally unique skin. In some cases the lower levels are better, I prefer tracers level 3 mythic over her level 4. With that being said, you should absolutely not buy them.
It's so sad what the once-GOTY game has become. How did they mess up a game like OW so badly? From literally being the best multiplayer shooter in existence to an utter s-show with 80 dollars skins and one bad gameplay decision after another. I loved OW1, played it for 6k hrs, but I can't support what they've done with it in the past few years. Breaks my heart.
"Its so unashamed of itself that I almost commend them for having the stones" Why? Its super safe for them to do these sorts of things since they have a die-hard fan base that's 100% okay with being bent over by them. They have no incentive to not be greedy when all the sheeps keep licking up the slop they dish out.
I play PC as far as current gen goes(collect all other consoles/games), but it's crazy to think someone with 4-6 of those $80 skins playing on current gen console spent more on a few skins than the machine they're actually playing the game with lmao
pretending Microsoft is the blame for blizzards issues is the biggest joke EDIT: The people in my comment bootlicking for Blizzard is actually hilarious.
Considering your opinion on other videos. It's weird that you would have a persona character as your avatar. They tend to lean more on humans mattering not just the rich and well... You don't seem to think that. 🤷🏻♂️
Nobody’s blaming Microsoft. What’s sad is that ANYBODY expected Blizzard to change after being purchased by them, lol. After all, MSFT is just another huge corporation that really just cares about the bottom line, no different than what ActiBlizz was under Kotick
You know what "pushed the limits" of customization? City of Heroes. You could fine tune and create practically any "look" you wanted, and design your OWN costume. Why don't we have games that allow that degree of customization? Oh right. They can't sell us costumes if we can literally just make them ourselves.
Apex also have a system kinda like this. Tier 4 almost always have a helmet and the rest are just the same skin but with the helmet removed and some colours changed. It's like they have a skin ready and then just remove aspects so that they can market it as a type of upgrade system.
I've been playing shooters, MMOs, MOBAs and tons of other games that offer cosmetics and I've never once in 20 years ever been impressed by a cosmetic someone had. Literally never. Who are these people out there paying hundreds to get one of these?
I am sure you have been tired of looking at certain heroes over and over again if they look the same. There is a limit to it and to some people their limit of how many times they want to see their character look the same is very low.
Yup. Sometimes I go "ohh, the artist did a good job here" but not an over 5 bucks job. Only MTX I've actually kinda adored was back in Black Ops 2, back when even Activision only sold like 5 skin packs for very cheap.
Sad people that play games way too much and usually aren't even financially OK. It gives them a sense of being cool or unique, some of them even call others broke while being broke with zero financial abilities to make good decisions. If you're over 22-25 and not making enough money to have 10k in savings, or maxing out your 401k/roth accounts, you really shouldn't be spending $80 on a skin lol. Sad thing is, the people that ARE financially stable and are mature with money, realize how dumb spending $80 on a skin would be so they'd never fall for it. Microtransactions prey on broke people who want to feel something and whale hunting for people with so much money they yolo buy everything on every game they play.
It’s sad how Blizzard ruined a game with so much potential. It had the fun gameplay, a big cast of characters, interesting lore, the list goes on. I would play it almost daily for hours and get excited for new content. Now it’s not the same anymore. With every step forward they take, they also take two steps back.
I don’t think I’ve seen it talked about, but look at Diablo 4. They’re selling singular amour sets for 30$ each right now. Blizzard has changed a lot of gen it comes to micro-transactions
Australium, though a slot machine, still had you actually do something to earn it. This Aspect nonsense is a sign taped to your back saying "I am funding our misery here"
Yeah but theres more lore in Australium than nearly any other in game currency and that alone makes it feel less scummy, haha. Valve knew how characterize everything.
You know, $15 used to get you a pretty hefty dlc pack for most games in the mid 2010's. Emphasis on the word pack, minimum 4 maps, that type of stuff. Now if you're lucky you get 1/4th of a skin. Crazy how lootboxes don't even seem as bad anymore
"Prices aren't decided by our team. That's a different Blizzard team.". The mother of all 'pass the bucks'. It's not us, don't be mad at us, it's someone else we'll never name, blame them, it's their fault, we're on your side.
Micropayments are defined as payments that are so small, that it is basically not economically feasible to use transaction methods with a high minimum fee or a high set fee (e.g. bank transfer). Anything above $5 (varies depending on the transaction method) is considered a Macropayment.
The torb crossover skin is recycled from a skin that was given out for free in like 2018 or somethin. They also recycled 2016 reaper into the Halloween pve hoping nobody was left from OW1 to notice Its almost cathartic, knowing I'm not crazy and alone in condemning this game and how much it and the company that made it abuse and manipulated the players. They genuinely want people with IQ points lower than the price of cosmetics as their target playerbase
Starship Troopers: Extermination just left early access, if you're sick of OW and looking for an absolutely badass pve experience with 6 classes and up to 16 players. Very respectful microtransactions too; no in-game currency bundles or price manipulation, just $10 USD for a bundle of optional themed cosmetics, along with tons you unlock through progression
I would agree if Blizzard took that money and gave back in some way to the community. Instead the games just become about feeding the whales more and more....
They're clearly making money off this or they'd have pulled the plug, so I gotta wonder, are we all just, as Shakespeare put it, "a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"? Friends don't let friends play slop.
Overwatch 2 is so dogshit. In the 2 years that its been out, what has it done to set itself apart from overwatch 1? The shop? microtransactions? thats it.
Everyone on the internet is shaming Blizzard for being greedy. I think not enough blame is placed on the absolute pathetic SHILLS who fork over their money and enable this predatory behavior. None of these companies would have the balls to pull this nonsense if their player base had any bit of self respect and refused to pay up.
I'm curious he said early on Microsoft killed the pve team but did that not happen before the merge I mean sure Microsoft hasn't done much with blizz but let's not blame things on them that they didnt do when there is enough there already.
@@johnoden5932 yeah that is the case. OW2 announced they’re removing the pve aspect back in May 2023 or so. The acquisition didn’t occur until later than year. You could make the argument that Microsoft announced they were looking to acquire Activision/Blizzard back in January of that year. But an announcement/prospect of being bought shouldn’t cause an entire department of Blizzard to cancel a project that’s been worked on for years.
The skins and the emotes are the only thing that gave this game life. They took all of the good stuff out and are more than willing to sell it back to you
What makes it worse is that the quality of the game itself isn't improving. The game is plagued with inconsistent design decisions, buggy menus, and console in particular is full of cheaters. I don't think it would be unfair to call Overwatch 2 a scam.
you should also talk about how they are buffing and nerfing based off who gets the mythic skin each season. they just nerfed sombra (THE big widowmaker counter) right before the widowmaker mythic season
Overwatch 2 is Overwatch 1 but with even more disappointment. If you told me before 2006 that we'd be asked to level up cosmetics in games, I would have though you were crazy. For those that don't know, 2006 is when Bethesda released the infamous Horse Armor DLC. At the time, expecting a player to pay for a horse skin was one of the most insulting things that had ever happened in the gaming industry. That's when a lot of us older gamers knew shit was about to go down a real, non-fallacious, slippery slope. And that damn slope just keeps on going.
remember, any choices made by the company are a product of the players. If they keep making skins and selling them for huge prices, its only because people buy them. blame the community
Blizzard is desperately trying to make all their PC games feel like mobile games. I mean they got great feedback on that take for diablo immortal, right? Overwatch WAS the big IP, but they mismanaged it so far on every single aspect that it should be labeled the biggest crime in game history. Never before or after have there been such a massive amount of pure potential that was ignored in favour of short term profit
I used to have an OW account, but I sold it years ago because of the content drought caused by the OW2 announcement... After seeing what Blizzard did to the game, I have never been happier by this decision.
I'm still furious to this day that they forcibly overwrote OW1 with this garbage. Why couldn't they kept them as separate games??? I might still have played OW1 if they had done that, but I'm not touching OW2 with a ten foot pole.
You answered your own question. They knew you and others would have stayed in OW1. Allowing people to stay in OW1 would mean weakening OW2's profit potential.
Recoloring skins is something ubisoft doing as well for Siege with LTE game modes, the upcoming Halloween one will have recolored skins, and last LTE had recolored skins as well.
Ok I agree with your points, like wholeheartedly the monetization is god awful... But at the same time you can't say that the team has cut at least in half since Microsoft acquired blizzard, and then 5 minutes later go "where's the funny gamemode for this one time event blizzard, ya done didded it in the past why not now!?"
Except most positions cut were either management positions or story making positions. Overwatch team is absolutely capable of putting together a quick and easy one time gamemode and not worry too much whenever it's fair to play because I'll stay for two weeks at best.
you keep repeating "its an insult to thier own brand..." that would have been true, but blizzard now is not the same people that were there when overwatch came out. its not insulting thier own brand as much as it insulting brand that other built.
The saddest part for me is that if they had actually added a PVE mode with actually interesting missions, I'd have played the game. I have zero interest in team based pvp shooters. I even still play Hearthstone occasionally to this day, specifically because they have multiple PVE types of content that are only enhanced by getting the newest cards, if at all, and don't require you to farm gold or pay out of pocket for the newest broken cards.
I likely would have come back if they released that PVE story mode. They never did, so I never did. Overwatch could have been so cool if they werent limited to just PVP.
At this point it's moral obligation for everyone in the lobby to bully the players who show up with this. It is one thing for Blizz to shovel the crap towards you, but nobody is forcing you to open your mouth and swallow it.
I find it funny they somehow couldn't find the time or budget to finish PvE and yet they constantly pump out new heroes, skins and map reworks... _Hmmm_
For real I got one of the Dva mech statues and absolutely adored OW. OW2 even from a PvP perspective is somehow worse than its predecessor and failed the core point of making a sequel. Now aside from scummy macro transactions(because they cost more than a full price game now) I don’t think the OW2 team did anything to ruin the IP and a good OW3 or overhauled OW2 could bring people back in a meaningful way.
Overwatch (1) was the final straw after years of being a Blizzard fan playing SC Brood War and Diablo II. Deleted my account and never regret it when I only ever see this crap coming from them.
The game is a hallow shell of what it used to be. The hope and excitement for the game are gone. Honestly, I want to see Blizzard/Activision go the same route as ubisoft now. Just to teach them what happens when you ignore the actual money and go for corporate greed like they have been.
I just wish these games would cater to small purchases instead of whales alone. Make cheap skins and lay off the weird fomo currency conversions. It would equal out to more customers who spend more over time and the game stays alive longer. Once people see past the psychology of it a lot of people get turned off by it.
Seems like they just shifted to the same strategy as League of legends. As long as they focus on keeping the PVP interesting their focus on selling cosmetics doesn't really bother me. I'll buy the occasional league skin here and there but I've always been uninterested in overwatch skins because it's first-person I can understand their shift to weapon skins I haven't changed a skin on a hero since the launch of overwatch 2. They've already failed on making overwatch bigger outside of their PVP I don't expect much or am I interested in anything outside of PVP from the game at this point now.
Love you guys, you’re doing great work. Some reflection is needed from your generation of gamers. Putting in perspective …. It’s you guys. It was your generation that ate up what Activision did to WoW when it took over; it’s your generation that ate up micro transactions ; it’s your generation that supports lousy YT channels; it’s you. These problems will get better when you guys grow up.
Bellular: "How can you respect a game when it cant even respect itself" More like how can you respect the developers that continue to contribute to the wasting away of artistic integrity of the gaming industry.
What people need to understand is that pushing all this overpriced garbage in Overwatch 2 is way more profitable for blizzard than Overwatch 1 ever was. Suckers will just keep forking over their bucks for this slop and there's nothing you can do about it.
To be fair, all F2P games have a specific task to fleece people. Valorant is just as horrific. The issues are the whales. 🐋. Those weirdos who happily pay £30 for a skin that they can’t even see because it’s an FPS game. I’ve played Overwatch 2 since it launched and not paid a penny for skins.
Welp, if people are willing to give them money.. Why not take advantage of it? I've stopped playing OW as soon as they've announced the monetization model for OW2. I'm just really mad that I can't keep farming my regular lootboxes in OW1 to complete my collection. Stop giving them money. Don't play their greedy ass games. Don't pay sor D4, WoW or OW2, make them go back to what Blizzard used to be.
overwatch 2 is an endless cycle of developer slop being delivered to players in a rinse/repeat cycle. the franchise is going absolutely nowhere, fast. it's literally just a money siphoning operation run by a soulless shell of what was the former dev team, preying on the sweatiest and most loyal customers who, sadly, do pay $28 for a single skin. it is really sad to watch. everyone else avoids the game like the plague. it isn't fun anymore. it's just a MTX vehicle at this point. how far it has fallen... but I'm not surprised, Papa Jeff left years ago, and with him the soul of the game and the dev team for the game.
*insert "Look how they massacred my boy* meme.* I miss Overwatch. It was my game to play when I didnt want to focus on anything else, just enjoy some fun arcade matches. It's been a sad two years since they killed our game. 😢
