”What microtransactions”
proceeds to describe the microtransactions
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rigatti@lemmy.world 3 months agoWhat macrotransactions? The game is free and the only this that’s monetized is cosmetics.
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
rigatti@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah I realize that looks dumb now. I was thinking of microtransactions that affect gameplay. You know, the important kind.
Carighan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Microtransactions don’t have to affect gameplay any more. The video games industry has successfully sold this narrative (“Please ignore cosmetic microtransactions mkay?!”) while also raising a whole new generation of gamers that value ingame cosmetics to a social-interactions-affecting degree.
There’s a reason kids laugh at one another over default skins in Fortnite or lack of cash in Roblox and so on.
Plus just as importantly, they normalize mtx on an industry level, making selling of other types of monetization easier in the future.
cheddar@programming.dev 3 months ago
If cosmetics weren’t important to players, people wouldn’t spend money to buy them. We are human, we care about looks, that’s why companies make so much money on cosmetics. So yes, it is important enough to dislike predatory microtransactions.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
There was actual game content locked behind a paywall.
rigatti@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There is not anymore. All characters are unlocked for free.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
There is still literal story content behind a paywall. Just load the game and see for yourself.
rigatti@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh true, the partially delivered PvE content that was canceled almost immediately after releasing after a year delay.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You have to buy the battlepass to use the newest characters. And the cosmetics used to be free.
They monetized competitive gameplay elements and cosmetics that were supposed to come with the $60 I spent. Both of these are microtransactions.
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
They actually changed that a while back, new heroes aren’t in the battlepass any more, everyone gets them for free. I don’t know how that works with the “new player experience” where you needed to win games to unlock the base heroes on a new account though.
rigatti@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I believe new players also have all the characters unlocked immediately.
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Starting Season 10, all new heroes will be immediately unlocked when they launch. All existing heroes will also be unlocked for players. This means that heroes will no longer need to be unlocked through the Battle Pass to be playable in all game modes.
New players will still need to complete the first-time user experience to unlock heroes as they learn the ropes. Once the heroes from the original Overwatch roster have been unlocked, all Overwatch 2 heroes will also become available.
So unless there was another change, new players still need to play/win games in order to unlock the full roster.
warm@kbin.earth 3 months ago
$20 skins are macrotransactions.
Sabata11792@ani.social 3 months ago
That’s the price of a full game, in a game that I paid full price for then had removed from me.
rigatti@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They’re not essential to playing the game. Just don’t buy them.
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Non-essential and predatory are not mutually exclusive, especially given Blizzard’s history of player manipulation. They have perfected the science of making you want someone that you don’t need.
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I had an ex like that.
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Did you play the OG, you could get basically everything for free. All it cost was time. OW2 is just an enshittified update
rigatti@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I did. You also had to pay $40 to play the game though.
Carighan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean, cars aren’t essential to existence either, just don’t buy them <-- technically correct, but not at all a helpful statement when discussing car-price-related issues.