Comment on Overwatch 2 is finally bringing back 6v6 with tests to decide OW’s future

warm@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What macrotransactions? The game is free and the only this that’s monetized is cosmetics.

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  • warm@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    $20-$60 skins are macrotransactions.

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    • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s the price of a full game, in a game that I paid full price for then had removed from me.

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    • rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They’re not essential to playing the game. Just don’t buy them.

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      • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        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.

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      • Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Did you play the OG, you could get basically everything for free. All it cost was time. OW2 is just an enshittified update

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      • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I mean, cars aren’t essential to existence either, just don’t buy them <-- technically correct, but not at all a helpful statement when discussing car-price-related issues.

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  • Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ”What microtransactions”

    proceeds to describe the microtransactions

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    • rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah I realize that looks dumb now. I was thinking of microtransactions that affect gameplay. You know, the important kind.

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      • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Microtransactions don’t have to affect gameplay any more. The video games industry has successfully sold this narrative (“Please ignore cosmetic microtransactions mkay?!”) while also raising a whole new generation of gamers that value ingame cosmetics to a social-interactions-affecting degree.

        There’s a reason kids laugh at one another over default skins in Fortnite or lack of cash in Roblox and so on.

        Plus just as importantly, they normalize mtx on an industry level, making selling of other types of monetization easier in the future.

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      • cheddar@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If cosmetics weren’t important to players, people wouldn’t spend money to buy them. We are human, we care about looks, that’s why companies make so much money on cosmetics. So yes, it is important enough to dislike predatory microtransactions.

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  • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There was actual game content locked behind a paywall.

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    • rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There is not anymore. All characters are unlocked for free.

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      • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There is still literal story content behind a paywall. Just load the game and see for yourself.

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  • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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      • rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I believe new players also have all the characters unlocked immediately.

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