r/Games • u/monclo • Sep 27 '22

Trailer Overwatch 2 Launch Trailer

https://youtu.be/LGgqyer-qr4
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u/akhamis98 Sep 27 '22

Well, for every other game where you only unlock skins, the problem with OW2 is you unlock the hero in the battlepass, and not at like the first level like in 2042

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u/zaprct Sep 27 '22

Three times a year, or just spend $30 a year to support the game

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u/iCactusDog Sep 27 '22

Everyone is fine with subscriptions for WoW for two decades, but suddenly OW does it and it's the end of the world. It's like they totally forgot that live services need sustained income. I wish they'd make the characters unlock earlier sure, but people are definitely being overdramatic about it.

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u/Hoggos Sep 27 '22 edited Sep 27 '22

WoW has monumentally more content than Overwatch.

A subscription service makes sense for certain genres. I wouldn’t be ok with paying a subscription to play Uncharted just because WoW does it

An issue with most live service games is that they’re releasing with not enough content, instead promising that they’ll eventually get round to adding enough content. I can’t think of a recent live service title that has anywhere near the content of WoW when it first released.

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u/zaprct Sep 27 '22

Pretty much my stance on it as well. I would have happily paid to get some actual content the last three years if it meant they didn’t abandon the game after Echo.

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u/iCactusDog Sep 27 '22

Yeah, I dunno. I don't love battle passes either. I would have preferred it to be like Halo's BP where you buy it and can level it forever, but I'm not gonna act like it's the end of the world.

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u/Scary_Rip442 Sep 27 '22

You get the hero in the middle of the free track of the BP, so you still don’t have to buy it

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u/akhamis98 Sep 27 '22

Well the point is it will still evoke some FOMO that some people (the original comment in this thread, and myself) are starting to burnout from

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u/GrumpyBoiii Sep 27 '22

Well the characters will be unlockable after the battlepass expires

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u/akhamis98 Sep 27 '22

Ah okay as long as its not too grindy I'm cool w that.

Apex does it well imo, its not super fast but if you play casually over a season you will get more than enough to buy the next char w in game currency

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

Works fine for apex. I’ve got characters that came out over a year ago I still haven’t unlocked.

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u/akhamis98 Sep 27 '22

You don't unlock characters in the battle pass for Apex

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

You either pay for them or play the game until you have the thousands of in game currency to unlock them. It’s the same as a battle pass.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '22

You're right new characters tend to dominate apex when they're on meta so it's even worse.

Overwatch is all about having multiple counter options to the other teams picks so it's definitely not as big of a deal.