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    • vlad@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      That’s why they’re putting it on Steam. They’re hoping for an injection of players

  • Plain@beehaw.org
    6·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t actually played ow2 after a few tens to the low hundreds of hours I played in ow1. Is it true that they’re locking characters behind battle passes now?

    • saigot@lemmy.ca
      7·
      1 year ago

      you have 3 options:

      • Pay 10bucks every 4ish months to get the hero immediately
      • grind 45 levels of the free battlepass (note that the hero is locked in competitive for the first 3 weeks). Personally this takes me about 10hrs.
      • wait until the season ends and do some rather trivial challenges (essentially play a tutorial for the character and play like 20 games)

      Personally I see it as a subscription based game, and 3bucks/mo is pretty fair imo. like all competitive MP games, it doesn’t really make much sense to play it unless you can play a fair amount of it.

      • hotchurkey@beehaw.org
        4·
        1 year ago

        This is pretty much in line with my experience. As someone who didn’t play Overwatch 1, the monetization through the battle pass really doesn’t feel all that bad, but I totally understand how people who played Overwatch 1 from the start would be unhappy with it.

        I know it might not be a popular opinion here, but I play a lot of Overwatch and actually find it really enjoyable. It doesn’t feel like a dead game at all. Plenty of people playing, and really easy to find matches. Plus if you’re willing to use Bing for Microsoft Rewards (which if you’re not is totally fair) you can use that to get the coins for the battle pass rather than paying.

    • mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Miserable game design for something that is trying to get players to come back every few months for content releases. “You can’t play the new hero until you grind for it until you burn out or pay” is just not a compelling pitch to get people to resume playing your game.

      It’s only going to get worse over time as the proportion of premium characters grows… 😐

  • ExoMonk@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been out of the loop on this game. I really liked the first one, it brought back a lot of team fortress 2 memories. How bad is the second one? The general sentiment is “bad”.

    • astrionic@beehaw.orgEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      There isn’t really a “second one”. Overwatch 2 was just a patch with essentially two major changes. They changed the monetisation, making the game free-to-play and introducing the battle pass. An especially unpopular part of that is that new heroes now have to be bought with real money or unlocked through the battle pass. The other big change is the move from 6v6 to 5v5, which was controversial. There are definitely some positives, like getting rid of the “double shield meta”, which did make the game more fun. But there’s also more pressure and focus on the single tank.

      The game is free and if you bought OW1 you still have all your stuff (cosmetics and all the non-OW2 heroes), so if you’re curious you can just check it out. Personally I’m still enjoying the game but there’s also a lot of valid criticism.

    • ADHDefy@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      Idk if it’s “bad,” exactly, but I don’t like it. I liked the meta for the first game way more, I miss the old 6v6 team structure, I don’t like the changes made to my favorite characters, and the monetization is really sucky. It felt to me like they took everything that was wrong with the first game, kept it as is, and then took a bunch of the good stuff and made it worse. lol

      But that’s just my opinion, I know there are def people that like it. I only wish they’d release “Overwatch Classic” or something so that people who prefer OW1 can still play it–ideally with the lootboxes removed and a way to unlock character skins and stuff by playing those characters and progressing, but I’d honestly take just like a snapshot of the last stable release before the OW2 update. It was one of my favorite games and I just really don’t like the OW2 updates. 😥

  • sylverstream@lemmy.nz
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve played it on xbox recently. Initially loved it but after playing for some time I realised I was getting addicted and grumpy. On lower levels still enough players but I don’t trust the intentions of Blizzard and their matchmaking algorithm.

  • Headcannon@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    I have hundreds of hours in OW1 and about 40 in OW2. I will never play a blizzard game again. Blizzard lied about what OW2 would be. Broke the games balance , and now throw out battle pass after battle pass. The vitriol of the player base has intensified as everyone’s frustration increased. One of my most played and beloved games absolutely ruined.