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After 27,000+ Steam reviews, Overwatch 2 is graded as 'Overwhelmingly Negative'
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Okay but we got like 5 years of free updates for OW1. If they had an option to play 6v6 and locked out the new characters, that would basically be "the game you paid for".
I mean, I hate the 5v5 too, but I can't say I didn't get my money's worth for OW1.
"Got my money's worth"
Seriously, why do people bend over backwards to justify getting shafted by companies. The game was active and still running, they yanked it to try to make more money off OW2. They could have left it running and just stopped making new content for it, but they were greedy.
Unless they're paying you to go around posting support, you are a sucker trying to justify getting shafted by corpo greed.
I'm just old enough to remember when you bought a game and that was the whole game, not the game plus years and years of free content. I paid like $30 for OW1 at the first anniversary (or was it second? whichever), then didn't drop a dime into it. Got a bunch of new characters and maps and balance tweaks for free after launch. For other games that would be DLC, or back in the '90s paid boxed expansions.
Yes, OW2 has been a big let-down. If I had to pay up-front for it? I wouldn't. I haven't put a dime into OW2 and I won't because of the company's problems.
But in terms of its relationship with OW1? I'm mostly a satisfied customer. I can still play Overwatch, I still have all the drops I got in OW1, and I got many years of complimentary loot in OW1.
Now, would I have preferred to get stuff at the rate I did in OW1? Of course. But I'm also realistic that this isn't a sustainable business model, especially if they want to go f2p. Also paying for random loot boxes is increasingly illegal in many places, so no matter what they had to switch to a cash shop at least partially (but afaik random drops would've still been legal, but still - sustainable business model, remember?)
My biggest complaint is that they didn't keep OW1 (2-2-2 with weaker tanks) as a mode in the arcade of Ow2.
I'm still playing decades old games with years and years of free content because they have community server support, a modding community working on new stuff for the game they love. Like I would be with wc3 if they didn't kill it.
they give people like you some bullshit maps or a playable guy in-between thousands of dollars worth of microtransactions and you let them walk all over you, take your game away after a couple years. You're the reason that old business model of just releasing shit isn't profitable. Even if you're not the sad sack buying shit you're the grease keeping the machine going. Fuck what you've done to our hobby man.
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