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Overwatch gets Summer Games update (new mode in Weekly Brawl, new skins/etc)
- Thread starter Vault Dweller 111
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Eurovision Song contest dlc!
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I dipped my toes into the $5 lootbox junk... NOPE
Lordi Reaper skin pls.
I love Overwatch, but this loot box stuff still doesn't sit well with me.
Only loot boxes. Fucking Blizzard.
toastyToast
Member
Wow. That sucks. I would have just bought track Tracer and BMX Reaper if it's a skin (lol). I just prestiged so I'll get a bunch of levels quickly which makes things a bit easier.
Yabberwocky
Member
I've been sitting on some coins, too. They're well aware of that, I'm sure.
ScaryShark
Banned
I appreciate the clarification that they will replace the existing loot boxes but that's still really weak sauce. Currency in this game could become essentially worthless if they release more limited edition stuff in this fashion.
I'm not an anti-DLC/cosmetic guy by any stretch but make the in-game currency not as an alternative is a serious bummer.
Hearthstone, which is F2P, lets you buy entire Adventures with in game money.
I'm not an anti-DLC/cosmetic guy by any stretch but make the in-game currency not as an alternative is a serious bummer.
Hearthstone, which is F2P, lets you buy entire Adventures with in game money.
Yeah, the heroes aren't $10 a piece.
Respect to frustrations, let's keep perspective here.
Depending on the longer-term availability of the Summer Games cosmetics (i.e. after August 22nd), it'd be better to simply allow players to purchase items directly.
ahem..
Is this your pic?
toastyToast
Member
Your use of ellipses indicates how little you believe they'll do that. Like that train of thought is just giving up lol
nope... found it on twitter.. you know I´m not German.. ;o)
Grim Patron
Member
Ready to drop some cash on them new loot boxes.
I don't think letting players purchase the skins directly with real money is the answer, if they did that then why not just let us purchase Vanilla skins directly?
It's the limited time offer being tied in with the special loot boxes that bothers me. They know the more hardcore players are in the higher ranks now where levelling up happens less often. Doing 23 levels in a month is quite a tall order for a lot of people.
The skins should just be available via in-game currency. That way the player can make the decision "Do I purchase this limited time skin or keep saving for the Legendary I wanted?"
It's the limited time offer being tied in with the special loot boxes that bothers me. They know the more hardcore players are in the higher ranks now where levelling up happens less often. Doing 23 levels in a month is quite a tall order for a lot of people.
The skins should just be available via in-game currency. That way the player can make the decision "Do I purchase this limited time skin or keep saving for the Legendary I wanted?"
Wow i just posted that like a Minute ago and now i see it here xD Spent 10 on 11 boxes aaaand no boxes ingame. I guess the game needs a update for the boxes to appear.
Its funny to see this happen after so many people were upset with youtubers like Jim Sterling explaining how shitty and manipulative loot boxes are.
Now we have an even worse example where people will eventually shell out money because this is a limited time event. Just playing the game wont do you much good when theres 90 items with a chance to get dupes that dont help you at all.
Now we have an even worse example where people will eventually shell out money because this is a limited time event. Just playing the game wont do you much good when theres 90 items with a chance to get dupes that dont help you at all.
Frankly this is inexcusable. Before you could play for 1,000 hours and get the majority of the items. Now if you can't play or pay enough in a limited time yiu will never be able to get the content. It's bad enough on a F2P game but in a $40 game like OW Blizzard should really know better.
Why would you expect them to? There has to be a content patch first to add the items. It'll probably be today during the normal time they usually patch stuff on Tuesdays.
But players, especially the 100+ ones, are probably sitting on enough coin to cherry pick what they want. It'd eat into sales if they allowed that.
Would it? I feel like people say this assuming the prices would be far far more favorable than they would be in reality. Someone posted on another page, they'd pay $3 for Track/Field Tracer, but I can't imagine Blozzard would sell that or any other epic/legendary skin for that price if that's what they wanted to do.
Yeah, I suppose. I'm glad it seems the skins only belong to Lucio, Tracer & Zarya. Zarya's the only one I play out of those three and even then it's not much.
They'll get away with it. Blizzard fans are used to being f'd in the a 24/7 and they are still asking for more.
Then why have in-game currency at all if they're too money-hungry to let people use it for anything but Vanilla skins?
Loot boxes are still random. There is no guarantee you'll get anything you want. So the potential cost of acquiring items through the real money slot machine could be far more expensive than $10 to $15 a skin.
The description says there are 90 Summer Games items including skins, emotes, and intros.
It's still useful to pick up items you haven't gotten through chance. And new character releases like Ana didn't have any restrictions in place as far as using in-game currency to buy all her stuff. The only limitation was placed on look boxes in that the loot is generated at the time earned, not opened. So you can't stockpile boxes and just open them when new stuff comes out.
To give you the illusion that the game isn't a ripoff.
When is this?
Succinct Verbosity
Member
I wouldn't care if they were loot-box only if they were permanently available, but this is just dumb. IMO limited edition skins should only be reserved for skill-based play whereas seasonal items should just be straight up given away for logging in at that specific time and, I dunno, carrying out challenges or something on those days.
Rewarding dedicated players who paid full price for your game and continue to play it regularly helping to keep the community alive. What an alien concept.
In 7 or 8 hours I think?
Either it's a random chance of getting a summer box or all loot boxes become summer boxes for three weeks.
I'm not in agreement with this release model. But that's what makes the most logical sense to me.
No one knows, because there is no goddamn press release yet. This is essentially a leak because some PSN stores updated earlier than others. Lol.
It's possible that during this period, ALL loot boxes are replaced with Summer ones. It's possible that you can earn them through some other mode. We don't know!