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Overwatch 2 is finally bringing back 6v6 with tests to decide OW’s future (www.dexerto.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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Lol. After all these years they're thinking of rolling back the 5v5 changes. To quote someone from Reddit:

PVE was dropped, heroes are free again, and now 6v6 is back. Blizzard spent the last couple of years turning overwatch 2 back into Overwatch 1.

Edit: See also the developer's blog post about this, which goes into great detail explaining their decisions over the year and how we got here. Really worth a read if you are (or were) an OW player.

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[-] rigatti@lemmy.world -5 points 4 months ago

Yeah I realize that looks dumb now. I was thinking of microtransactions that affect gameplay. You know, the important kind.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Microtransactions don't have to affect gameplay any more. The video games industry has successfully sold this narrative ("Please ignore cosmetic microtransactions mkay?!") while also raising a whole new generation of gamers that value ingame cosmetics to a social-interactions-affecting degree.

There's a reason kids laugh at one another over default skins in Fortnite or lack of cash in Roblox and so on.

Plus just as importantly, they normalize mtx on an industry level, making selling of other types of monetization easier in the future.

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

If cosmetics weren't important to players, people wouldn't spend money to buy them. We are human, we care about looks, that's why companies make so much money on cosmetics. So yes, it is important enough to dislike predatory microtransactions.