Personally for my sins I've got 4 active battlepasses: Destiny 2, Overwatch 2, Halo Infinite and Pokemon TCG Live. Overwatch and Destiny are the only paid ones, HI and PTCGL both give you enough currency from the pass to pay for the next one.

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Is pokemon worth it? I feel like the free pass is good enough

None.

I had zero until last week when i decided to come back to rocket league. Ive done apex in the past.

None, that shits a scam.

I only have Destiny 2. I check the Rocket League one when a new season comes up, but I haven't paid to activate the premium tier since like... Season 3? I also check the Marvel Snap one, haven't gone Premium on that one in a couple months.

I don't play any games with battle passes.

They're impossible for me to finish in the limited amount of time given unless that is the only game I play.

And I DO NOT like the feeling of having to get something done by X date, I get enough of that at work.

Zero.

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Nope. I don't even play games with battle passes anymore. Like I quit playing Overwatch when they started putting the unlockable characters behind the last step of the the battlepass pretty much making it p2w (or at least p2u) because I don't have the time or mental capacity to grind in such a toxic environment for an entire season just for a stupid hero/skin. I'd rather not play at all.

Just one: Rocket League Rocket Pass. Throughout the season you earn enough points to buy the pass for the next season. So I paid 10 bucks years ago and have been coasting on it since.

Two. I usually only bother if I am actively playing a game and of those two I only really paid for one because I got a lot of $$ currency for free in the other.

Only CODs. But even that was purchased with the free COD points I got from previous games. And they are "generous enough" to hand out for the next one.

None.

Battlepasses do not equal gameplay or fun.

Zero because they are a cancer on gaming.

None but I am currently playing 2 games that have them:

1. Overwatch 2, where it's all cosmetic. It doesn't matter much to someone like me who has 100% of the Overwatch 1 stuff (pricing it out, it's tens of thousands of dollars). I honestly want to sell my account.

2. Marvel Snap, where the best decks are almost always only accessibly via battle pass cards. The alternative is to wait months for the cards to enter the basic rotation, at which point their decks will have been nerfed/balanced. You can definitely pay to win but winning is pretty meaningless. It comes with almost zero reward.

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Every game should have a battle pass.

None, I refuse to pay for battle passes, even though I can afford it. I think they are responsible for why gaming is in such a bad state right now, and I cannot and will not support that shit

Fortnite , COD.

COD was bought with accumulated point from last season and Fortnite will always be an essensial fo my son.

So one paid and one free.

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I have Cod MW2, i completed the first battlepass and had a lot of fun. Had enough cod points to get season 2 without paying but I haven’t been playing as much as I doubt I’m gunna finish it or buy season 3.

Cod is fun for like 2 months once a year.

None but if I felt like playing one it would only be a single one. My entire life i have only played in one paid battle pass back in COD Cold War season 2.

I recently had almost 8 at once. Fortnite, COD, Rocket League, Valorant, Dead by Daylight, Halo Infinite, Apex Legends, and Fall Guys.

Now after finishing none of them I have finally learned my lesson. Although it’s nice I could continue finishing the Halo one without a time constraint.

This will get me downvotes but the idea of battle passes isn’t so bad, the problem is the time it takes to complete them. I think Halo does a great job at making battle passes seem worth it.

Lol why down-vote?

Life makes it so that I only get a couple of hours a week to game, so never had one.

Easy, Satan.

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Zero.

I also never ever ever bought a battle pass in my life. Like, explicitly battle pass. I on occasion bought a bundle or something like that which included a battle pass, but not as an individual purchase for its own sake.

Personally I think you literally have to be brainwashed or brain damaged to buy a battle pass, especially at the prices most companies are asking. The dollar to content value, compared to a core game, is almost always beyond abysmal.

I'm with you there man, battlepasses really don't offend me so long as they respect my time.

8 is a LOT though - I thought I was bad with 4! I only really get the BP if I'm sure I'll finish it; Halo, Overwatch and PTCGL only really ask that you play like 2 games per day to finish the battlepass with weeks to spare and I usually finish the Destiny pass in about 3 weeks.

You just reminded me that I had 9. I also got the Overwatch battle pass with Junker Queen Zeus outfit. Never finished that one either.

I’m really opening my eyes to how bad I’ve been with getting too many battle passes.

Can't speak for other games as I don't pay attention to their BP but Overwatch, Destiny, Halo and PTCGL Battlepasses are all pretty good value imo.

Overwatch and Halo give good skins in their passes and Halo specifically rewards you with enough currency to get the next BP for free.

Destiny gives great rewards like new weapons, skins and resources. Most Destiny players buy the Deluxe Expansion yearly which includes the expansion and all 4 season passes for the year. Destiny also delivers a TON of content in its seasons - they put other games seasons to shame if you ask me.

PTCGL essentially doesn't have a paid BP. They flat out just give you the currency to buy the "premium" battlepass and there's no way to actually pay money for the in-game currency. Pretty fair.

0, wtf is a battle pass?

None right now, as overwatch's new one hasn't dropped yet and I'm not sure I'm going for Neverwinter's this round. I just finished both of the old ones for both games. (except the names for OW, which I don't care about as much.)

Three! I think? A mobile game I play called Knighthood; one for Call of Duty and Fortnite.

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None because I don't play games with battlepasses. Also don't have internet on my computer.

Active? None, never. If I like the game and play it a lot I buy it before the season ends and I hopefully reached the maximum level in it and the rewards are relevant. Especially if you earn enough premium currency to just buy the next one. If the game does not allow for that or at least a fraction of the price or to earn levels without having it and getting all the rewards afterwards fuck it, fuck the game and their publishers.

I used to have one with Warzone. They used to have it where if you play enough, you can win back enough in game cash through the season pass to “buy” the next one. That lasted about 6 months for me, because they changed how much in game cash you can win, so I’m not buying another one.

Well said.

I think r/gaming can be split into two solid groups:

1. Those who genuinely think the consensus of r/gaming is representative of the thoughts of the majority of gamers.
2. Those who seem to take some sort of contrarian pride in the fact that their opinions are not representative of the majority.

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1 for sea of thieves. Paid fully by money found in game. Enough to activate passes for a while.

Agreed, first day the season 2 pass came out I bought it with s1 points and I have probably got about 3 tiers done

Both Battlefield 2042 bc my dumbass pre-ordered the most expensive edition, and Cod MW2. Unfortunately, it's an addiction I've had to push to get out of. Thankfully, I've been going a couple of weeks since uninstalling them and are just playing single-player games I enjoy.

I will stand by this statement until the day I die:

Battlepasses are a predatory plague on the videogame industry. They reel you in to mindlessly grind them so that they can ensure you're constantly playing. They're bs microtransactions, which force you to grind what you just paid for. And, they've done nothing but reduce the quality and quantity of content in games bc dumbass free road maps, which lead to a game getting like 2 new maps a year.

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Just one. I bought the Apex pass a few seasons ago and have been buying every pass since with the coins I get back for completing it.

I won't buy a pass unless it has multiple things I want, and I am positive I will have time to complete it.

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Only 1, in Limbus Company.

Halo Infinite (they never go away and I like Season 3 so wanna kinda give a cookie to 343) and CoD but I’m not going to re-up season 3 unless something big happens.

I play numerous games with a battle pass but I don’t get a BP unless I know I’m gonna finish it.

Turns out you don’t have to engage with the paid aspect of live service games and you can still have as much fun given the gameplay is free.

Just hunt showdown, but you’re able to earn currency to activate it by playing. So i haven't given them any money that way. I don’t like battle passes in general though, but hunt is really fun.

Zero. Battle passes are for suckers at the best of times. But I refuse to buy them in full price games out of principle.

Currently zero, but when Crash Team Rumble drops in June I will probably pay for that one because I am a consumerist sheep that must consume everything a game has to offer. Baaaa

Similar situation for me. I started playing Splatoon 3 when it launched, and since then, I can't stand paid battlepasses. Anything that has a paid pass and/or doesn't give you any way to get items you missed later on feels so scummy and anti-consumer to me now.

(Splat 3 has something similar to a battlepass, but it's 100% free, and you can get anything you missed after the season ends.)

Only OW2.

Only have Valorant and Fortnite. But Fortnite I been using the same vbucks from the last BP to buy without money.

I actually don’t have any

The idea of battle passes is fucking terrible

“Give us even more money for things we easily could have just put in the game, but we need to make our shareholders happier each quarter so we need you to spend more on this random skin that you probably won’t even use”

Didn’t downvote you I just can’t fathom how someone thinks they’re a good idea.

Battle passes for a $70 game sure. I can behind the idea that they suck. However, for a FTP game and even a $20 game I think it’s fine. Which aside from COD, all of the games aforementioned are all FTP or $20 (DbD)

One: Super Animal Royale

Zero.

I don't think I have any either too

One, for Marvel Snap. I usually don't buy battle passes at all, but I figured I'm playing every day anyway, so I may aswell just get a little more out of it.

Even if you buy the Snap BP for the card, you still have to have the other cards necessary to make the deck work. I've just started last month, and have been playing every day for the last 6 weeks. I'm collector level 650 or something and I'm missing most of the cards necessary to build any of the meta decks. It really only makes sense to always go for the BP if you have most of the cards anyway. If you don't, the card included with the BP may even be completely useless. Technically it's a pay to win mechanic, but in reality it's probably not for most people.

Me too. Only ever bought the first Rocket Pass! I don't even know how many of em there was, but it was a 10$ well invested, for a 20$ game at the time.

Never bought one, I see the appeal in them if you’re planning to play only one game the entire time.

I don’t see a problem with battle passes, so long as it’s only cosmetic items on them. I only have a problem with BPs when they have p2w items on them because that’s then unfair for both the people who don’t want yo buy it and those without enough time to complete it. If it’s just a cosmetic BP then it’s no big deal to those who can’t buy it and although annoying for those who bought it’s still not going to harm their progress if they don’t complete it.

Battle passes aren’t inherently bad, pay to win battle basses are. The cosmetic ones I don’t see a problem with because that’s then, you don’t like it, don’t buy it since it won’t harm your progress in the game you shouldn’t care so much. If you buy it and don’t complete it that’s on you, either shouldn’t have bought it unless you was going to finish it or you should have finished it.

The Halo Infinite battlepass is probably the best one tbh. Only cosmetics, never expires after you buy it and gives you enough credits to buy the next one once you complete it. Also not a colossal time-sync. 10 ish matches per week will have you finishing it with plenty of time to spare.

Both Destiny and Overwatch put exotics/heroes behind their battlepasses (instantly unlocked for premium, free track has them fairly deep in) but these can be unlocked fairly easily after the season is over. Not ideal but if it means we get content regularly then I don't think it's a big deal.

Here's my reasoning for thinking they're a good idea for some games:

Overwatch. The first game was a paid boxed product and only had loot boxes for the recurrent monetization, but they could be earned for free by playing the game. The end result was that no-one bought the loot boxes so the game stopped generating income, which meant they couldn't justify making new content for the game.

When the game switched over to Overwatch 2 it also went free-to-play, removed the lootboxes and implemented a premium battlepass and direct-purchase store for cosmetics. This meant the game was now generating regular income that has allowed the devs to devote more resources to making new content and doing regular balance patches - which were the problems that caused Overwatch 1 to die off.

The unfortunate truth for live service games where new content is expected is that they need to generate recurrent income, can't expect the devs to work for free. I agree that for a paid boxed product paid battlepasses are rarely a good idea but for free-to-play games I think they're probably the best form of monetization when paired alongside a direct-purchase store.

At this point I feel like D2 should be viewed as an annual subscription game. Certainly the majority of regular players purchase the Annual Expansion Deluxe edition. Plus the amount of content that comes with each season really puts other games to shame.

Season 3 of Infinite has been great. The opening cinematic really got me hyped for the ongoing story and the new maps and modes are super fun. Just a shame that the bandit didn't live up to the hype.

Just one, Apex Legend.

It such a great setup. Playstation gives you two free games a month so I got Rocket League free back in 2015. Probably the only free game I've gotten that I still casual play on.

Zero here too

It essentially is. Without buying the content, you basically get the new (and/or returning) location, one mission, and the "basic" upgrades/improvements and loot. I tell people who are interested in the game that they should still use the free-to-play offerings to get a feel for the basic gameplay mechanics, but expect to buy content if you like the game.