After announcing the release date for Overwatch 2: Invasion over the weekend, Blizzard has no confirmed you'll have to pay for the new PvE content.

At this point it seems that Blizzard can’t decide what it wants to do with Overwatch. It seems kind of baffling how they’ve handled what is basically a live service cash cow.

  • Heisl@feddit.de
    3·
    1 year ago

    This game is dead. Very sad because OW1 prime was one of the best gaming experiences I had

  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    1 year ago

    I still don’t understand why the community has been so tolerant of blizz forcing a sequel so they can directly charge money for skins.

  • Tgnome@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    The only reason I would go back and play overwatch 1 every once in a while was for the free pve events. I’d then get sucked into pvp again for a bit, spend some money without thinking, and then leave again. If they start charging for pve events I won’t be tempted back into that loop.

    • banjoman05@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      “The blog post does note that you’ll have permanent access to the Overwatch 2: Invasion story missions…”

      Yeah, after I bought Overwatch and can’t access it at all I have little trust for dropping more money on anything Overwatch 2.

  • BurningnnTree@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    The idea of charging for PvE missions sounds bad on the surface (especially given the attitude surrounding Overwatch 2 at the moment) but honestly I think this sounds totally fine. I mean it’s basically like a paid expansion, which is a rare thing nowadays in the age of live service games. Personally I like the idea of paying a finite amount of money for a finite amount of content. The only question is whether these three missions are actually fun and replayable enough to be worth $15.

    • BitR1ot@fedia.io
      1·
      1 year ago

      Sure, charging a reasonable price for additional content is fine. This has been happening for decades as expansions.

      This feels particularly odd because Overwatch previously had events (Summer, Halloween, etc) where they released PvE content for free and the community loved it. I played a fair bit of Junkenstein and Lucio ball, it was exciting when it happened for a limited time.

      I hope the missions have enough content to warrant the $15 USD price. OW2 disappointed me and it feels like every news article continues that trend.