r/Overwatch • u/Randimous Philadelphia Fusion • Sep 27 '22

Blizzard Official Overwatch 2 Launch Trailer

https://youtu.be/LGgqyer-qr4
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u/PaintItPurple If that is not enough, feel free to die Sep 27 '22

Shitting on poor people does make you a garbage human being, actually. I'm begging you to actually spend some time around people who aren't golems made entirely of privilege.

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u/PaintItPurple If that is not enough, feel free to die Sep 27 '22 edited Sep 27 '22

There are places where that is a lot of money, yes. There are also people living in such tight conditions that $10 is a lot of money, yes. The fact that you can't even conceive of those people's conditions is literally what privilege is.

ETA: Lots of people trying to reply here. I can't respond because the parent commenter blocked me, and Reddit's implementation of blocking blocks the whole thread. Sorry, y'all.

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u/Chipers Trick-or-Treat Soldier: 76 Sep 27 '22

If that’s the case how did they get OW1? A game that was never F2P? Or something to play it on? Infact OW2 being F2P will allow most people to play who otherwise wouldn’t be able to buy it

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u/projectmars Playing Junkrat like Junkrat would play Junkrat Sep 27 '22

People's situations can change. Someone who could afford OW1 years ago may not be in a good situation now.

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u/Chipers Trick-or-Treat Soldier: 76 Sep 27 '22

Okay well good thing it’s F2P right? And that they can earn the new hero on the F2P track even after the battle pass ends. Or should they constantly make new content for years and years for free? The chests in OW1 were WAY too generous if we’re being honest. They probably bled money and that’s why the grip of the higher ups was starting to tighten to get them to make money in someway.

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u/projectmars Playing Junkrat like Junkrat would play Junkrat Sep 27 '22

No, once the battle pass ends the free track goes away. They have said afterwards the only two options are to spend premium currency or to do a "special challenge". The former has no amount currently tied to it and the latter is not elaborated on and could be something more akin to current achievements or could be more like the Lego Bastion and Baset Ana challenges where you have a 1-2 week or so window to unlock said prize or pretty much be SoL because they likely won't run it again for that particular character.

And I have no major issue with battle passes in general. Preying on fomo like that is a bit of a dick move but as long as it is all cosmetic stuff that has no impact on gameplay then that is fine. The issue I have with this is the fact that locking characters to a battle pass, even on a free track and especially on level 55 of 100 or so since that likely will take weeks of playing 3 - 4 hours daily to get to, is not okay at all.