It's a good change for sure, but the cynic in me can't help but think they're doing this solely because they believe it'll make them more money in the long run.
Comment on Overwatch 2 season 10 will make all new heroes free, Blizzard announces
Carighan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Instead of having to pay for the game’s premium battle pass or unlock that new hero through dozens of hours of gameplay, Blizzard will make Venture and all future heroes available to free for all players when they launch.
Wow, Blizzard actually taking a factually negative change back. No further modifications, no further rework, just a straight rollback of something that was a bad idea to begin with. That’s really a sign of the times changing, that always felt like something that is strictly forbidden at Blizzard! 😮
imecth@fedia.io 8 months ago
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
The actual reason is to hide the fact they’re probably not gonna have much if any pve content soonish. That’s the whole ‘reason’ behind ow2. They just layed off a bunch of staff too.
NekkoDroid@programming.dev 8 months ago
The actual reason is to hide the fact they’re probably not gonna have much if any pve content soonish
They literally out right said multiple times that PvE content is mostly shelved and to not expect anything.
imecth@fedia.io 8 months ago
I don't see the correlation between those and making new heroes free. Maybe as a way to douse the community flames.
I think it's simply because people want to play the new content. While some will cave and buy a battlepass, it doesn't offset the losses of the grind and paywall that stops people from coming back and investing to begin with.Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
It’s a distraction tactic. Blizzard has been doing it for years in wow too.
smeg@feddit.uk 8 months ago
That’s not bring cynical, it’s just being realistic. They’re a publicly traded company, every action they take has to (by law?) be to make more money!
CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
And it only took how many years of people saying “wow, this is a really bad idea”
I loved OW1, went and saw a couple OWL games live, put hundreds of hours in…
No interest in OW2.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I played the hell out of OW1. They turned off OW1 servers and required my actual real phone number to continue to play on OW2. Wouldn’t even let me use a VIP number. There is no time in this universe where I will want Blizzard/Activision or its advertising partners to have my real phone number. No interest in OW2.
simple@lemm.ee 8 months ago
AFAIK they removed the phone number requirement from people who own OW1
zaph@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
They did because my alt accounts work and they don’t have numbers attached.