Who is hotly anticipating skins? Stop. They don't do anything. You are wasting your money. Find joy elsewhere.
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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Also: who is surprised by Blizzard's shitty business practices at this point? You are wasting your time and money with them. Find joy elsewhere.
Blizzard does stupid thing, gets backlash
I didn't think OW2 had enough people still playing it to have a backlash.
If just one guy is upset about it that's a significant portion of the player base.
There are 7 of us!!!
To no one's suprise....just stop playing their shiat
People on the internet: EA sucks! it couldn't possibly get worse than them.
Blizzard: Hold my beer.....
Blizzard fans: we have been treated like shit for 15 years straight yet we still buy their shit
Yeah, i know this is what happens with fans of any good game i just biased against blizzard in this
Blizzard fans are a different breed, they're fiercely loyal for no legitimate reason whatsoever. They've pumped out half assed wow expansion after wow expansion and have only made one new IP in the past 20 years with overwatch.
They've left StarCraft to rot, they keep stringing HotS along and have no idea what to do with the game, disrespected the well crafted and absolute classic that is warcraft 3, ruined overwatch, screwed themselves with diablo 4 and the horrible class balance and seasons, diablo 2 resurrected was being made by vicarious visions before blizzard bought them so I don't even count that game as a blizzard title. Blizzard couldn't code their way out of the break room fridge with a bottle of breast milk (reference to people actually doing that shit at blizzard btw). On top of all of this incompetence and Idiocracy, upper management bullied a poor woman to suicide and somehow that's just been swept under the rug.
If you care about skins you deserve to pay.
I'm tired of people defending the existence of cosmetics being purchase only. I want to be able to unlock the appearance and accessories of my characters. That's part of what a fucking game is. Can you imagine if Baldurs Gate did that?
I want to be able to unlock the appearance and accessories of my characters.
I miss the ability to have skins being unlocked through quests/challenges. I occasionally play Apex and it feels like the skins would be more impactful if they were actually hard to get. To get a legendary skin you should have to do something legendary, not just open a box. Like imagine you see the person with the skin, unlocked from getting 20 kills on that character in a match with both teammates dead. (I understand there are skins that upgrade on kills but that's a pretty boring linear achievement). Instead it's just paint with arbitrary rarity, that requires no mastering to unlock.
It's just another in a long line of reasons why modern games, sometimes specifically AAA games are just not as good anymore. They feel soulless and paint by the number with no real satisfaction attached.
Unlockables, which were mostly cosmetic in nature, were part of the fun I had with video games & completionism. Especially when you have extensive customization options and the ability to combine / mix & match pieces together. Nowadays you pay 40 bucks for a fucking one piece outfit while everything in the game looks like shit or has other limitations. Video games lost their soul.
Forty dollars? Tell Blizzard what, when a non-canon reference skin pack priced at the same value of three months of sub to my MMO of choice can mirror the quality and constant usability of the money spent at the MMO, maybe then we'll talk about 'deserve'-- but as it stands? This is just another avaricious grasping from a flailing company, long past its prime, long past having worn out its welcome, and ready to die.
What a shit take. Yes, there's people caring about character customization. Why do they deserve to pay for that? Why not apply your logic to every other type of content? Items? Features? Maps / locations? Potions? Gotta milk you all, because you deserve it.
Yeah man, everything can just look like Dwarf Fortress, graphics mean nothing, visual variety and progression in a game add no substance or perceived enjoyment /s
Wonderful example of a strawman argument.
Just let me know when the porn drops
I found a Tracer x Widowmaker x Youbasicallylayinginbedwithsleepparalysis VR porn somewhere. It was like 20GB. It’s… interesting.
I've been boycotting Blizzard since the bNetd lawsuit, unfortunately they'll still profit from this because most of you are suckers.
Thats the 57th last straw
Someone on here the other day called it payware, and that's what it is. It's not pay-to-play or pay-to-win, because OW2 and D4 aren't fun to play, and there is no ending. You pay to work, then if you are interested enough to pay for cosmetics, you pay for those too. My wife and I are three levels from 100, and are dreading completing the last few levels. It feels like a part-time job, it's miserable. We really enjoyed the last few seasons of D3. I don't see myself continuing to play any Blizzard game after D4 season 1.
If you guys are dreading it… why not just stop playing if you guys aren’t playing with anybody else?
If a game isn’t fun, I don’t see why people would go play the game and think “I should reach this part of the game” or “I have to complete this grind”. Like I played a shitload of GTAO solo and once I realized I was basically starting to get bored and grinding out money and rep was basically becoming a second job, I dropped the game completely and moved on. Nothing is worth wasting your time on something like that imo, not even getting that sick digital cosmetic nobody will care about nor reaching an arbitrary level that won’t mean shit once the next season rolls out.