9-11GaveMe5G t1_iu56gg7 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:03 PM

Reply to comment by Tortorak in Real life Overwatch 2 charm costs less than it does in game | A real-life Overwatch 2 charm of its Pachimari mascot costs less than its in-game equivalent, highlighting microtransactions in Blizzard’s free multiplayer FPS by chrisdh79

This is just another symptom. The real problem with OW2 is it is quite literally OW1 with a few added maps and characters, and all the first game unlockables behind a new paywall

The game is so much of a copy paste, Microsoft still lists 2016 (OW1 release date) as the release date of 2

Link to MS store: https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/overwatch-2/c1c4dzjpbc2v

Oriden t1_iu6a306 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 9:35 PM

The reason the listed date is 2016 is because Blizzard just reused the Overwatch 1 game ID in the MS store for Overwatch 2, it was basically them setting the price to free and submitting a new set of files to update to. Most likely because they wanted the smoothest of transitions from OW1 to OW2 and doing it any other way would have required directing users to a new store page and having them manually download it. Done the way they did, the user experience was the same as normally updating the game.

Tortorak t1_iu5p1ze wrote on October 28, 2022 at 7:08 PM

Tbf I never played ow1 so while I understand it's an issue it isn't one for me as I don't know whats new or not

I like the skins for ow but I'm fine just checking out the battlepass ones and getting that, seems cheaper and I get a character to boot.