Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

Overwatch 2 becomes Overwatch 1 again. Gosh, who saw that coming!? *rolls eyes dramatically*

They don't

They don't

A lot of the non game mechanics, yes. But the core gameplay has changed so much it can definitely be called ow2 in my opinion.

They plainly fucking can.

Like... The bomb mode? Hostages? The whole thing with buying equipment at the start and if you die, you're dead until the next round? I feel like that would suck balls with OW's character mechanics.

Have you ever played Overwatch? Players have been begging for lootboxes since they were removed. Not because they are gambling addicts but because all i mean every single lootbox was free. It remains free except 2 that you can get in premium battle pass. It's very tame compared to any other f2p game. Make it normal to know context before commenting bs.

[Lie better.](https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Loot_Box#Prices)

It's clear you never played the game. Idk why you keep coming back. You didn't have to pay a single dollar to get lootboxes if you played couple hours a week. No one bought them because it was a 40$ game and they were an option to buy. I get your point. I don't like spending money on games either. But that's not the same for most gamers. Look at rivals skin sales or Valorant skins. You can drain thousands of dollars on these games without any lootboxes. People want that. You can't change it.

That mode is way closer to a moba than csgo. Its kinda just stealing what Deadlock is doing. Even added 3rd person for it. Why are writers at the Verge so bad at describing games?

Nah the Verge is just fucking stupid. Its a mode that let's you buy moba-like upgrades between rounds. The rounds are basically shortened versions of normal overwatch gamemodes.

I could agree that subjectively it isn't worth real money, but its kinda silly to say games should never charge for anything. Free games need a source of income, and if it doesn't effect gameplay in game purchases are fine by me.

Ban the entire business model. It's an abuse. There's no form of it that is separable from deceit. Bickering about numbers means nothing. But here you are bullshitting me about how *these* lootboxes won't cost money, when *that's what lootboxes are,* and I gotta get raked over these specific coals before I'm allowed an opinion about raking anyone over coals. Fuck off. You can't sneer your way out of denying the blindingly obvious. Fuck any game where you can spend money. It's a scam. What I *like* has nothing to do with it. It's exploitation that's ruining the entire industry.

It's objectively abusive. Games convince you to value arbitrary worthless rewards - that is what makes them games. Attaching a price tag exploits how humans are bad at distinguishing forms of value. There's no conversion ratio between soccer goals and hamburgers, no matter how badly you want a few of each.

Fuck off. Don't tell others what they want. What an annoying individual.

Project any harder and we could have this conversation on the face of the full moon. This shit is like gambling - where it's not literally just gambling. 'It can't be wrong if it makes money!' is amoral libertarian crap. People had this foisted upon them, until the widespread demand to stop fucking doing it could be dulled to background noise. You're lying about yourself. I *know* you don't like paying for this shit, because *you told me.* So don't fucking roll your eyes and insist someone somewhere must love it. They all know it's a shit deal, as surely as you know it's a shit deal. You're just bargaining around it and refusing to acknowledge that any amount of this is too much.