While other developers like Larian are riding high with Baldur's Gate 3, it seems Blizzard are not doing so well with the recent Steam release of Overwatch 2 becoming the worst user-reviewed game of all time on Steam.
I loved OW1, it was a fantastic game with a very fair payment model. Game cost $40 but you could unlock cosmetics by simply playing. You could buy lootboxes to speed up the process.
Then they axed OW1 and replaced it with OW2, made it free to play, and took away most of the abilities to unlock free stuff. Something that was quite fair to the consumer that I had paid for became something very anti-consumer. The PVE was a gigantic bait and switch as well.
Most infuriating thing (aside from it being terrible), I don't have the game installed, don't want the game installed, but couldn't run WoW from the BattleNet launcher without dismissing a stupid OW2 ad. Never happened with any other promo message before. Even killing the client, then reloading didn't make it go away, you *have* to click the X to close the ad before being allowed to interact with the window.
one of those games like League, DOTA, Destiny and CoD where they're monstrously popular but whenever you encounter people talking about it it's nothing but complaints
Stephen Greenham
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •I loved OW1, it was a fantastic game with a very fair payment model. Game cost $40 but you could unlock cosmetics by simply playing. You could buy lootboxes to speed up the process.
Then they axed OW1 and replaced it with OW2, made it free to play, and took away most of the abilities to unlock free stuff. Something that was quite fair to the consumer that I had paid for became something very anti-consumer. The PVE was a gigantic bait and switch as well.
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐ง๐ฎ • • •well deserved! ๐
I absolutely loved first overwatch, but 2nd feels like an attempt to predatory monetise a corpse of former game
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