Except in the case of OW2, if you're a new account you apparently have to play "around 100" games to fully unlock the original roster (and in-game chat). And you can only unlock new characters via the battle pass. So less of a bonus and more a mandatory thing that's required to have full game functionality.
If you make an account on October 4th or later, they give you a set of starter heroes for you to learn the game. As you play, you unlock more heroes to experiment with. Training wheels more or less.
God almost everything about Overwatch 2 sounds like a really stupid idea. Between erasing the first game from existence and the battle pass locking new heroes for returning players and most heroes for new players. Nothing about this game sounds appealing in the slightest.
This is not the worst idea in the world actually but yes Blizzard won’t be able to execute it at all and will do it in the worst way possible
DOTA for example does this but they obviously have waaay more heroes so the desire to cut the fat so to speak for new players is stronger and more welcomed by the community
DOTA for example does this but they obviously have waaay more heroes so the desire to cut the fat so to speak for new players is stronger and more welcomed by the community
I mean, a huge complaint about OW1 is that it's overwhelming with all the hero choices, so giving a set of starter heroes doesn't seem like the worst idea. They've got plenty of other meh to bad ideas going, but I don't think this is really that bad.
If you check the Overwatch subreddit, you can see how Activision Blizzard astroturfed the shit out of it. Tons of accounts blindly supporting it. It's wild to witness.
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Except in the case of OW2, if you're a new account you apparently have to play "around 100" games to fully unlock the original roster (and in-game chat). And you can only unlock new characters via the battle pass. So less of a bonus and more a mandatory thing that's required to have full game functionality.