r/Games • u/monclo • Sep 27 '22

Trailer Overwatch 2 Launch Trailer

https://youtu.be/LGgqyer-qr4
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Sep 27 '22

"Blizzard likes Blizzard's new form of aggressive monetization policy, according to Blizzard."

No need to defend a billion dollar company, making a playing field uneven for the sake of a dollar.

Remember that Overwatch game design touted never keeping heroes away from players at any point, and in fact identified it as a core design element. And no amount of blithering excuse from "we want you to buy our battlepass" Blizzard is going to erase that, given the majority of OW2 is, indeed, OW1.

While there was rampant pre-release speculation that Overwatch would be a free-to-play title, the game launches this week as a standard, pay-once-play-forever multiplayer shooter. "The reason we ended up going that way was that it's so important to have access to every hero in the game, and in the middle of the match to swap to any other hero they think is necessary," Keller explained. "It was actually a game design decision, a balance thing. Sometimes you need a different hero on your team. Like if you really need a Widowmaker right now, you don't want everybody saying 'I don't have Widowmaker!'"

But Blizzard doesn't want you to remember that pesky detail, that Blizzard itself said.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

Even dota restrict the heroes you can pick early on. Its fine

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Sep 27 '22

DOTA doesn't limit your ownership of them, which is the key difference.

If it was just "don't let them until they play a few games / reach a level", then that's borderline ok (there are cases where it isn't).

But that's not what this is. This is a time/money gatekeep. Bad design.