Overwatch 2 season 10 will make all new heroes free, Blizzard announces
Overwatch 2 season 10 will make all new heroes free, Blizzard announces
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Overwatch 2 will stop locking new heroes behind a battle pass with season 10
This is the only good move they've made since OW2 released. Good to see tbh
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! 😮
The new hero Venture is so/so though, IMO. Yeah their movement ability is awesome, but that weapon is so boring. And they hype it up so much, but it is just Sigma's primary fire, including the ability to fire around corners and all. Unavoidable with so many heroes and not nearly enough niches for all of them that things will get doubled and tripled up, but it's still disappointing to see something copied&pasted so directly.
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.
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.
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 this way.
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.
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!