Comment on Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs)
underisk@lemmy.ml 7 months agothey probably got a lot of people to buy the first couple battlepasses. a success for that quarter, maybe, but probably not the long tail they were hoping to get from transforming it into the GaaS model. they probably made more money from OW1 lootboxes, overall
NekkoDroid@programming.dev 7 months ago
I really doubt it considering how many boxes you got thrown after you, with coins for dups with which you can just buy skins. Was a great system for the player, but probably terrible monitarily.
underisk@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
It had made them over a billion dollars as of 2019