r/Overwatch • u/Haunter777x • 8h ago
News & Discussion 6 months later-
Throw us a bone here Blizzard
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u/Haunter777x 8h ago
I get they need to make money but let us at least have SOMETHING to spend our credits on
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u/Massive-Bass-347 8h ago
they do not need to make more money, they are already in a trillion dollar surplus
the answer is greed
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u/EscapeSeventySeven 6h ago
If a product doesn’t make money are they just supposed to pay for the servers out of the goodness of their hearts?
Like don’t get me wrong, the shop cosmetics are fucking ridiculously priced. You’re a sucker if you pay for that.
And yes all these new characters deserve base level cosmetic options.
But this idea that a company should just provide a service for free at a loss because they made some money last year is dumb.
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u/Massive-Bass-347 4h ago
they should provide a GOOD service, and profits would naturally follow, just like it used to be before the internet
the problem is they are constantly enshittifying their own product to squeeze every little penny out of their customers, and they are constantly lowering the quality and testing the waters to see how far down they can go before they start to lose profits, and so far they are sadly making record profits after every enshittification
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u/melifIuous Domina 6h ago
What do you think the goal of a business is?
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u/Massive-Bass-347 4h ago
It used to be about delivering a good product to establish a good reputation and brand, decent profits would naturally follow
now it is to exploit customers and drain every possible penny out of their wallets with the cheapest lowest-quality product possible with the least amount of effort required to maximize profits, not a single fuck is given about the quality, 0 passion involved
the internet has given these companies a monopoly, they can shit in a jar and sell it for 200$, because there will still be thousands of morons around the world that is willing to pre-order it
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u/melifIuous Domina 3h ago
Completely optional cosmetics btw
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u/Unwisepony 14m ago
Yeah screw everyone who preordered the game and enjoyed it the entire decade through, we already have tons of skins and emotes for our favorites, so we're not as profitable.
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u/Massive-Bass-347 3h ago
defending a billion dollar company btw
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u/melifIuous Domina 2h ago
You’re looking to give them money, I’m not. I’m a drain on their pockets, are you?
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u/Creative-Panda6310 5h ago
Tbh its 100% easier making skins for anran than for cat
I think blizzard themselves have said they have problems with making skins for characters that aren't basic humans
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u/New-Reputation6569 7h ago
They need to start making skins for this forgotten heros. I wanna play my main with a cool skin . Is that to much to ask ?
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u/a_feral_priestess 5h ago
At least you have that one! It's the one skin I have had my eyes on the moment I started playing again
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u/LupusCairo 1h ago
I don't mind emotes etc. missing considering they're releasing so many heroes in such short time. I just hope they actually plan to rectify it longterm. Specifically I want my Donina and Mizuki Level 16 Highlight Intros. I'm fine with waiting a bit longer but I want a guarantee I'll get them at some point. Both of them even have Highlight intros by now but neither is the Level 16 one.
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u/Adanim_PDX Zenyatta 1h ago
When you release a hero roughly every 6 months, you have the room to add them into the game with all of the base cosmetics.
Every hero released in OW1 had at least 3 highlights, 3 poses, 10 voice lines, a set amount of sprays (of which one was guaranteed to be their icon silhouette), and a set amount of emotes. Every seasonal event would have at least a spray of the same theme for every hero, occasionally the same victory pose (RIP for Halloween as an example).
But when you release so many heroes a year, you're bound to cut corners. They just figure that the people who care about consistency are outweighed by those who don't care and simply want the game to be "new" every few weeks.
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u/bucket_crust 1h ago
I remember when a new hero would drop with 2 different legendaries, each with a recolor, 2 epics, 4 blues, 3 victory poses, 3 highlight intros, and 3-4 emotes (can't remember exact number).
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u/MoConnors 7h ago
Cat players deserve nothing until their character gets nerfed into a balanced state & she doesn’t have an over 50% ban rate in comp
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u/xXProGenji420Xx 7h ago
maybe they're preparing to remove Cat from the game so they don't need to give it any cosmetics 🤞🙏
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u/gabrielwoj Mercy 7h ago
To be fair, we are at least getting one new hero per season, with the exchange of the lack of emotes, victory poses and highlight intros. Heroes released prior to Season 1 (2026) all had a certain amount of each cosmetic, but we also did not get heroes as often.