HAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH FUCKING

>>381295246
>killer of tf2

sorry to hear you guys paid for a tf2.

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>>381295246

>There's a tremendous demand by sales for something and we're making a lot of money
>Let's make more of it then

>>381295246
You'll just keep buying them anyway. Why take action?
Put your fucking wallets away, children.

>>381295246
What are people pissed about?

Can you even buy this thing? Isn't it an Amazon prime exclusive?

>>381295497
Golden lootboxes give you a guaranteed legendary skin

You can only get one and only if you're a Twitch Prime member

>>381295618
Ok? I have one, but if it doesn't give me an event skin what is the point?

>>381295497
>>381295618
Can't you just keep making new Amazon accounts, and new Twitch accounts, and keep getting this loot? Just cancel your free trial.

>>381295690
You can probably only link one account per game.

>>381295690
its assigned to your blizzard account. one box per blizz acc

>he still plays Overwatch

>>381295675
Just a free loot thing that twitch has been pushing, I'm surprised it took this long for OW to get one

>>381295768
>>381295759
I got a code for it and I don't think my battle net account is linked

>>381295246
Wait people here actually buy boxes? You don't realize you're getting played?

>>381295497
They've been fucking with the RNG in the boxes, locking about the only content they consistently fucking add behind them, and doing the most evasive shit they can to get around gambling laws. They also pretended to listen to complaints for five minutes and promptly ignored it all.

And after all that, they then did this shit.

>People had a problem with the amount of Legendaries and their duplicates from Day 1 of the event? Let's not say anything about it and add an item with none of the content people are complaining about that still gets duplicates.

>>381295365

I paid for TF2.

>>381295987
It's not that people don't realize that, they're tired of getting played while Blizzard tries to cram that crap down their throat to get 90% of what they've been spending their dev time on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO0JaecRWy0

So if I've already done the amazon prime free trial shit I can't just do the twitch prime free trial shit? They're trying to force me to pay for it instead of the free trail.

>>381296287

Amazon Prime is Twitch Prime.

>People still support lootboxes
You did this to yourselves.

>>381295987

I'm a faggot that buys loot boxes. I just treat them like scratch off cards, if I feel the itch I'll plunk down $10 or $20 during an event. I went full retard during the latest one and I'm not proud of it but either way my rampant whale-ness is not something new, it was a big problem back when I played TF2 too. I'm just glad I'm not doing it to myself in rocket league as well.

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>>381296360
This is what I get for doing the free trial just to watch season 2 of The Man in the High Castle.

I've had amazon prime for the past 5 years. Didn't renew last month. And I still don't care ayy

>>381295246
Forums make up 1% of playerbase considering lootboxes makes them millions of dollars.

>>381295618
And it's only available in 5 something countries

>>381296438
How much did you spend and did you get all the skins

>>381296592
>Informed voters only make up 1% of the registered list considering voting patterns let them exploit the fuck out of the populace and make billions of dollars

>>381295995
>skins
>content
Why don't people just play with dolls anymore?

>>381297104
Capitalism, ho!

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>he hasn't found the glitch to get unlimited free gold boxes

lmfao

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>casual game for kids and stupid cunts
>kids and stupid cunts buy le gamble boxes
>company keeps selling because they know the shitty fanbase will put up with it

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>>381295246
This is the future of gaming. No more paying for exactly what you want. Now you pay the same price for a random chance at the thing you want. We gamers have our blinders on. Tell me, what is the difference between this and the lottery? It's disgusting and anyone who supports this should feel ashamed.

>>381295995
>gambling laws

I know you're upset but this is irrational levels of mad.

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>>381295246
give me a quick rundown on these gold lootboxes

>>381298259
You're guaranteed one legendary skin and no dupes

>>381298196
No, they literally did. Granted, China sucks and they're the only nation relevant for that, but they were forced to sell credits in China due to their gambling regulations.

Basic Epic skin is 250, 750 for events, Legendary is 1000, 3000 for events.
They're selling credits in bundles of 5, 10, etc., with a "Free Gift" of lootboxes with the credits. How sweet of Blizzard!

They way they're dragging their fucking feet on that, dealing with the credit/lootbox system, and every single event belies their intentions. It's funny to me how many people found a real similar controversy over the same fucking thing last year totally justified, but now people are iffy on it when they push the damn envelope again and get caught.

I never thought I'd see the day people defended microtransactions in a paid, full, AAA game.

>>381298474
>no dupes
Literally false, tons of people are pissed because they're getting dupes. Of the HotS skins, too, go figure.

OW is cancer and it tries to get it's players addicted to shitty E-gambling. Shit should be illegal already or they should let you sell those skins back to other players.

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>he didnt just get a free amazon prime free trial to get a free legendary

I only got a hanzo skin, but it was literally free

>>381295246
but thats literally what the community wanted. They were mad because they wanted more legendarys so you can sign up for some meme service with some meme email and get a box that drops a guaranteed skin

hahaha ha

>>381298691
>party pep
>pep

>>381298581
Anyone who gets addicted to e-gambling because of cosmetics with no in game effect is as retarded as someone who thinks Overwatch is bad.

>>381298578
>every event belies their intentions
You don't think

Hold on

Are you saying

The company

Is trying

Hold on

TO MAKE MONEY?

Fucking stop the presses!

You know I think those guys over there trying to work out why developers have pre-order bonuses and bundles need your help too, detective.

>>381298832
Anyone who gets addicted to things is retarded, but ti's still a problem, especially when kids play these games.

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>>381298775
hmm?

>people getting upset over nothing
Severe autism

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>>381298971
it's easter toad, not pepe

>>381298832
Overwatch is shit though. A shallow as fuck version of tf2 with shitty waifu pandering and blizzard's retarded tank/healer/support shit that they can never break out of.

>>381295246
>pissed about lootboxes
Why are people so stupid?

>>381296062
yeah, 9 dollars, as opposed to 40.

>>381298947
kids shouldn't have access to resources with which to gamble. problem solved.

>>381298891
>pre-order bonuses and bundles

Jesus fucking Christ you're a cocksucker

>OH HURR DURR IT'S JUST THEM MAKING A PROFIT

When something's a shitty, annoying fucking exploitative practice, people are going to call it such even if it makes them money. That's practically the definition of exploitation. Everyone hates pre-order bullshit, comparing these doesn't help.

>>381299263
I paid $20, and all I got was a free hat

>>381298891
It's not about making money, it's about doing the shadiest shit possible to keep making that money.

>blizzard is fucking over customers with microtransactions
>they complain non-stop
>all they have to do is not buy it
>in the end they still buy it
This is why microtransactions are so popular. People will never speak with their wallets and will continue to be shit on.

>>381299280
>Kids shouldn't have pocket money because that shady guy Blizz in the street corner keeps trying to sell them crack.

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>have 4 golden guns from being in masters the past few seasons
>no matter how many lootboxes people buy they will be stuck with 1 or 2 at the very max because they're in plat or lower

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>>381299201
hes pepe to me fampai

>>381298196
>>381298891
that's a really reddit comment of yours. that guy has nothing to do with being mad and you're being intentionally fucking stupid.

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>>381298971
hmm...

>>381295246
Wait I don't get it. You don't like cosmetics that are based on a loot box system. But you paid full price for a game that has cosmetics that are based on a loot box system?

>>381295246
>>Hey, people are pissed about the fucking lootboxes
>>Like really pissed, like largest section of our forum pissed?
?????

>>381295246
Aren't these lootbox things only cosmetics? Why do people care so much? Also how is it not considered illegal gambling in states like Connecticut?

>>381299758
>Paid full price when it was easier to get stuff and cheap to buy with ingame currency after normal play
>Doesn't like when after the fact the developer locks 90% of the content they make behind the loot box system and then locks even that to a period of a few weeks
>Invalid complaint or their fault

It's one thing if they complain and spend $50 an event on boxes, but come on. Using F2P tactics that heavy in a full game is scummy.

>>381300070
>>Paid full price when it was easier to get stuff and cheap to buy with ingame currency after normal play
wait, what?

Why is /v/ so fucking autistic?

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>>381299953
Largest topic on the forums ever, grew fast. Literally exists because they kept deleting all the complaint threads about it and put it there. Has exactly one developer comment as the start of the thread.

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>>381295246
Overwatch is the transgender bathroom of video games. Why anyone would spend $40 on this shit is beyond me. Why wouldn't you just play Paladins? It is free.

>>381300167
As in it's one thing when it's $40 for a game and they're all attainable with a little play, and it's different when they're locking it behind time without consistent access to the ingame currency way of getting things. It was worst with the Summer shit, obviously, but still.

>>381300170
fluoride vaccines in the water.

>>381295246
>complain about shit you can get for free
???

>>381300289
oh, I don't play the game, but the way you worded it made me think they raised the prices or grind or something to that effect.

Why do people even play online games still? They are the true cancer of the gaming industry, moreso than preorder gimmicks. Toxic communities, hackers/exploiters always, something always unbalanced, cash grab cosmetic shit or unlockables that takes away focus from the gameplay and targets people's urges for collecting.

Single player games and old school couch co-op are the only two ways to play video games. Online gaming was fun in the late 90s - 2008ish, but has since turned into complete and utter trash.

>>381300368
>Shitty jew practices are okay ever

I honestly think if each crate had gold it woud be better, the gold would still be from silver to 'gold' though in rarity.
Also duplicates of items out of an event should be impossible during an event.

>>381299495
>kids knowing how to put in billing information for online transactions

>>381299590
Good thing golden guns look like shit and nobody wants to use them anyways.

>>381300457
Companies just keep seeing how far they can push things, and fanboys keep defending them for it. I bet the paid mods shit sticks this time too.
Gamers may just be the most cucked consumer demographic on the planet.

>>381300570
>>kids knowing how to put in billing information for online transactions
It's not like it's complicated, the instructions are right there.

>>381300391
Well, they raised the prices of the ingame items. That's really the problem.

To rephrase; it's one thing when you get 1/5th the value of a duplicate item, the items are relatively cheap, and those items are always available to purchase or have drop. It's another when they add so much of it and classify it so highly that you get 1/15th the value of a duplicate item, they are 3x the cost of the normal items, and you have a 3 week window to get them or they're gone, presumably, forever. The only way to generate enough currency or "chance" consistently to get them all is buying into the microtransactions. And as stated in >>381298578, when they're forced to just sell you the currency to opt out of the RNG, they do it really begrudgingly and passive-aggressively. THAT'S the problem.

>>381300496
Yeah, that'd entirely fix it, actually.

Shit, I'd almost be fine if they did the HotS thing and had epic crates, or the crate quality was decided on drop. The items are already pre-set, allegedly, so I'd rather know it'll be a shit crate rather than a good one and get my hopes up.

>>381300443
>Toxic communities, hackers/exploiters always
And neither of these would be a problem with proper dedicated servers instead of fucking matchmaking.

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Can somebody redpill me on what golden lootboxes actually are? Do they have different loot?

please i cant find this information anywhere surprisingly its like trying to read pravada

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The game's, what, a year old? You should have every skin that you could possibly want by now simply from level ups and event shit, even if you're F2P.

>>381300457
>>381300679
I'm legit shocked so many people are just going "THEY'RE JUST MAKING PROFIT BRO, IT'S JUST COSMETICS BRO"

The fanboys aren't even enjoying it, their cocksucking forums are pissed. This is the same as the paid mods shit in terms of intention, and it's crazy to see people defending either of these fucking things.

>>381300960
>F2P
>overwatch

>>381301058
My bad, by F2P I meant never buying a crate.

>>381300939
Only for a Twitch/Amazon promotion at the moment, but I'm sure they'll sell them. They're guaranteed to have one Legendary item. That's it. It can even be a duplicate.

>>381300939
As far as I know it's one golden lootbox from having a Twitch/Amazon prime sub, and you get one guaranteed legendary + 3 random items.

>>381295618

>caring about non event legendary

They'll be there for ever to get and you can literally buy them. Who fucking cares.

>>381300960
It isn't F2P, and that's entirely true. Except for the event items they lock away and make cost 3x the rest of the shit so there's no way you can afford to buy it all. Literally no problem otherwise.

>>381299167

>using autism as an insult over a legitimate complaint

check out this comedy god from 2007 /b/

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I hope more countries count pay 2 rng shit as gambling. This is unhealthy as fuck.

>>381296438
>"I'm a cuck."

OK. Kill yourself. You're killing gaming.

>>381295827
>the thread didn't end here

>>381300960
My complaint is that once you have each character at roughly 15-20% complete the new items slow to a crawl and getting 4 dupes or gold becomes way too common to make buying anymore seem worth it.

>>381297205
It's not good content, but it's the only content Blizzard will fuckubg drop since apparently making maps or characters is too fucking hard.

This isn't Battle net Real IDs, they're not gonna cave because people whine on their forums.

>skins
who cares. why exactly are people upset?

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>>381301427
Let's be real, if someone is dumb enough to buy digital skinboxes, they'll just waste their money on something else just as meaningless and irrelevant. At least real life gambling has the -chance- to get actual money, here it's digital skins that you only see half the time, are untradable, and have absolutely zero value.

>>381301769
Its just TF2fags desperately trying to shit on Overwatch for irrelevant things because its 100x more populated

>>381302601
Why in the fuck would a single person criticizing loot drops defend or love TF2 at this point

Fuck, I wish I could. I miss old TF2.

>>381302601
tf2 players don't give a shit. try again retard.

>>381302601
What the fuck is up with Blizzdrones always being so buttflustered when somebody shits on their company being predatory

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>man this tastes like shit but I will keep on eating it anyways
Don't like it? Then don't play it.
SIMPLE.

>>381303107
It'd actually be funny if it weren't so pathetic. Hell half the Blizzdrones are even screeching now.

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>>381303107
>being predatory for selling stuff that doesnt impact the game at all and is also available entirely in game

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>>381303227
>"Man this meal is just fine, very enjoyable, I like it. Can't wait for the next course!"
>Chef brings a side plate of shit
>"Can you take that away? I don't want to eat shit."
>"WOW FUCKING ENTITLED PIECE OF SHIT! DON'T LIKE IT? THEN GET OUT! GIVE ME THAT FOOD BACK, TOO, YOU EAT IT ALL OR YOU DON'T GET ANY OF IT"

>>381303346
>jew practices and getting kids addicted to e-gambling is okay because it doesn't impact the game

Except it does. To blizzard it's not about the game anymore.

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>>381303227
That's the joke, I don't play it

In fact, I haven't given a single cent to the blizzkikes since my boyfriend bought the game for me

>>381303346
>also available entirely in game
not since events and it's all they fucking make practically, lord knows they aren't balancing the
game

>>381295618
wow, its fucking nothing.

>>381303568
>making money off irrelevant things from retards who enjoy it is bad

>getting kids addicted to e-gambling
In game purchases are disabled by default. The only way a kid could buy a loot box is if he tricks his parents into disabling it on his profile and using their card. At that points its no ones fault but the parent.

>>381303579
But event skins ARE entirely available in game. Are you suggesting people can buy event loot boxes after the event is over?

They also just released yet another balance path today along with a new map :^)

>>381303575
People like you just need to off yourself

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>>381303473
>both downplaying the outrage over the issue and blowing the response by others out of proportion
???

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>>381303985
Why would I play that shitty game?

>>381303915
>>making money off irrelevant things from retards who enjoy it is bad

kike please go. You have no way of actually defending this.

>>381299437
the problem with this business model is that 99% of customers could not spend a dime and it can still be successful.

There are people who have more money than time to spend it that will happily buy into this system. there are mentally ill people who will fucking hate themselves until they get a complete set of skins or, god forbid, "100% overwatch". these people can justify the lottery style lootboxes alone, but theres plenty of others who will buy.

Children, who dont have a proper understanding of value, will spend money on this shit only to be disappointed. so they keep throwing money at it to justify the previous money wasted on it. theyll feel the sting of gambling before anyone knows theyre exposed to it. spending allowance and their parents money on the same game instead of many different things. this is common in shit like fifa too.

Lets ignore all that shit though. Lets talk about normies. Most normies wont buy any. some will, thinking about firefighter mei or whatever. theyll buy several boxes and not get what they want. most of these people will stop. some will continue, throw more money. they wont get what they want. most of those guys will stop now. some wont. this is partially due to overwatchs boxes also being a progression system. the amount of time between free boxes gets exponentially loonger the longer you play. so it makes enough sense to supplement with buying boxes. then you start to think boxes are the goal of the game instead of playing the game. you start hearing these people say "i could spend 5 dollars instead of hours of my time getting boxes". theyve now outed themselves being tricked.

This system makes more money as is than if every customer could buy their favorite skin outright. it punishes the people who arent fully developed, it punishes people who most enjoy the game and its elements, and it punishes the majority playerbase by hiding their favorite aesthetics behind lottery tickets.

1/2

I can understand character skins in third person games, but first person? What's the point?

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>>381300052
>Connecticut
>Relevant
LMAO

>>381304157
vanity aka I'm a huge faggot special snowflake please look at me.

>>381304153

2/2

the worst thing about it is though, is that blizzard gets thanked for these lootboxes. because they said "these lootboxes fund the FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE updates which are FREE and full of FREE value!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

this is a lie, by the way. blizzard can absolutely continue to make dlc, free or otherwise. overwatch sold like fucking hotcakes. and the FREEEE dlc isnt that fucking special. But lets say they couldnt make it off of the massive profits. they could make it off of an evolve-esque skin shop. (when evolve has a better business model than yours you fucked up). But, the intention blizzard had when saying this took effect. players said

"hmm...i do like free dlc...and its free because other people buy lots of lootboxes...."

".....GOD BLESS LOOTBOXES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

this system is brilliant, but it makes me sick. fuck actibliz and fuck overwatch

>>381304157
The skins people are getting pissed about actually change voice lines and first person perspective and the like a lot sometimes, so there's something. And you see your body quite a lot when you die or emote I guess. And they do put you on the main menu sometimes.

Really, it does come up more here than most first person games.

>>381303568
But it's ok when Valve does it, right?

>>381304629
Blizzdrone if you can't immediately tell the difference between both of these systems you have no argument.

>>381304629
Its okay when anyone does it because if it wasn't okay people would buy their shit and play their games.

>>381304629
no, but its more ok since valves games prices range from "almost free" to "completely free".

and because blizzards fans manage to be more cancerous than valves, and defend this shit all day.

>>381304505
>these lootboxes fund the FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE updates
At this point one should ask "What updates?"

TWO GAMES MODES

TWO

GAME

MODES

No, cancer arcade shit doesn't count. Get real.

>>381304153
>>381304505
Fucking absolutely, 10000%, 10/10. The FREEEEEEE bullshit is grating. They've made like literally a billion dollars already and 90% of what they produce is the aesthetic skin shit locked behind events and lootboxes. A year out and they've added all of three full maps and three full characters to the game. It's clear where their priorities are, and especially with the recent issues in China it's even clearer what their intentions are with the system.

>Fuck actibliz
And this is the fucking thing I don't get at all. At all. It's strange enough to see /v/ calling autism and defending microtransactions, but from them it's even crazier. If we didn't refer to them as "Blizzard" and people remembered the "Activision" chunk of that, especially considering I bet that's where a lot of this comes from, I guarantee people would be much less forgiving about it.

>>381304629
Valve at least had the sick mercy to make it F2P and put it down before they tried to pull this kind of shit. And they even let you trade and craft shit, Blizzard doesn't.

>>381300261
The girl I have sex with on a regular basis gifted it to me so we have something to play together
Its fun making her laugh because I don't know what the fuck I'm doin in the game, while her boyfriend gets increasingly mad at her for enjoying the game with me

>>381305006
No, the Mannconomy update came a year before the F2P update.

>>381303227
>your country declares war on another country and wastes away its whole population
don't like it? don't shoot at the people raping your mother and sisters

>>381304223
Its the same in most New England states, I just used my own as an example. Got to make sure those casinos make money.

>>381300939
>redpill me
And disregarded.

>>381304629

In valve's defense I sold an unusual hat for $60 which got me A couple of nice games. Sure it's valve-bucks but at least some shmuck will buy it off my hands. So there's that.

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>>381305209
Oh sorry, I didn't realize that if you didn't play the game your mother and sister would be raped. Still doesnt mean you have to care about lootboxes though.

>>381299287
Didn't say I'm dumb enough to buy into micro trans or pre-order bullshit; I'm stating that no one with a functioning brain is not aware that they exist to continue to soak money out of the myriad of people who WILL buy it. Put yourself into the developers shoes: Is there any reason to NOT have pre-order bonuses and bundles when you release a game? When a market exists and you do not take advantage of it, you aren't taking some sort of moral-capitalist high road, you're just allowing someone else to take their money.

Are you that ignorant to how the world works? Try to find a price break-down for designer fashion. Try to get someone at a car dealership to justify the cost of "optional extras." Any time consumers have choices (in food, clothing, entertainment, etc.) they create the market by deciding where their money goes; Companies merely cater to them. It is not the other way around. There are no "poor poor consumers" who are being forced to pre-order, or make microtransactions. There are only willing participants, non-participants, and indignant imbeciles like you who get upset at the open market.

how do legendary skins affect the game

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Meanwhile in the realm of good games
>Free content updates
>No gambling for real money
>80% of cosmetic stuff is only obtainable by just playing the game
>other 20% you can buy without gambling, just pick and buy whichever you want

just looked up reddit and battlenet forum and no one is pissed

fuck you OP

>>381306052
kys Blizzdrone

>>381305917
you forgot
>no players

>>381304737
>almost free
>completely free
Because their games are fucking garbage and/or old and they bank on making all their money through idiots buying and selling shit like glove skins.

Valve system is even more jewish then blizzard's because they bank on people trading the same item multiple times and upwards of hundreds of dollars for an item that took 10 minutes to make. At least the Blizzard money milker stops after you buy the crate and doesn't keep going until someone decides to keep the item forever.

>>381305917
Microtransactions of any kind are wrong, the only exception is DotA because the game is 100% free and cosmetics are the only source of income for the devs. And I can't stress enough that paying gives you absolutely no advantage over non-paying users.

>>381306410
>dota
>only source of income for the devs
Are you a fucking retard?

>>381304810
1v1, 3v3, and even 6v6 lockout are fun

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>get legendary skin
>it's for the shit waifus instead of the best ones

>>381305917
Fucking shame it's on Origin and they sent it out to die.

Played it at a friend's house on PS4 and absolutely loved it, I'd dump tons of time into it if it wasn't on Origin. But I've been boycotting it for the better part of a decade and I'm sticking to it. Damn shame.

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>get a gold
>it's coins

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>>381307152
But anon, all of them are shit

>Caring about lootboxes or skins
Cancer.

>>381307301
that's actually the best result for non-event lootboxes

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>>381297632
>gamers

>caring about cosmetics
I use the default skin on every character and I've never looked at my inventory.

Lootboxes are good deal with it poorfags
Lootboxes are good deal with it poorfags
Lootboxes are good deal with it poorfags

>>381307476
Yes, you have autism, we know.

>>381306410
That's the case with Path of Exile too.

But no, I don't agree with you, unless you meant that microtransactions are okay as long as it's just cosmetics -- even if it's not the only source of income for the devs. I don't see an issue with them if it's not p2w shit. If people want to throw extra money at the devs to get some over-the-top armour skin, let them.

>>381306052
B.net thread was full of dev cocksucking, who'd guess. There's a couple token complaints with a few upvotes at least. Reddit thread actually has some decent suggestions, maybe they'll listen for once.

>>381295246
Mark my words these boxes will be available eventually but only for real money.

>>381295575
It's one per account so people who have multiple prime accounts in their family could give out the codes for 'em.

>>381307476
>everybody wants skins to be a special snowflake
>nobody uses stock skins
>using the most common skin turns you into a special snowflake in turn
really did made me thought

>>381308437
>Bnet thread
see
>>381300204

It's like 5000 posts. The first couple pages are positive for them even saying anything. Read some of the rest, near exclusively upboated outrage.

Can't even find it on Reddit because it's such a circlejerk, but still.

>>381308653
>everybody wants skins to be a special snowflake
I always found this pretty ridiculous in games that aren't RPGs.

Like when you have 1-3 special skins available for your character on top of the normal ones, you'll still look the exact same as at least 25% of the people playing your class, putting aside how popular each individual skin is in comparison with the rest. Chances are there's that one skin you find cool and want to use, but it just happens to be the skin everyone else finds cool too and in the end you have 40% people using the default skin, 40% people using the cool skin you like too, and 20% people using the other meh tier ones.

Such individuality.

Just play RPGs or some shit where you design your character's looks from the get-go, on top of wearing whatever. It's a fucking FPS not like you'll see your character anyway.

>Event skins cost 3k
>gives 200 coins when pulling them

>>381295246

Neat, got a Hayseed skin for Junkrat.

>>381308937
You haven't played Overwatch. You literally see your character more than 90% of FPS' and that was always a stupid fucking excuse anyways.

>Unreal Tournament and Quake are huge series that everyone loves and makes a standard for arena gameplay
>Had huge mod scenes dedicated to, among other things, making new player models
>Also came with tons of models to choose from
>UH WOW MY DUDE IT'S JUST AN FPS WHO CARES LOL IDK WHY THE DEVELOPERS MADE ALL THAT

>>381295246
>log on to redeem this shit because why the fuck not
>play the new map because I hadn't before
>the walk to point B for defense is the shortest it's ever been on any capture map

Jesus fucking christ blizzard. Can you do ANYTHING right?

>>381309664
>making new player models
Yeah, ones that actually change how the characters look. Not just clothes.

Was the case with Quake II/III too.

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In over a year, Overwatch has added:

>2 new maps (one of which is universally hated)
>3 new heroes (only one of which is actually good)
>3 billion skins that have all been limited release just to jew everyone out of their money

Haha cool blizzard cool it's not like your game is mechanically shallow and new maps are literally the only way to keep it fresh
It's not like this game is developed by incompetent fucks who somehow made a game with less depth than Hearthstone

No let's just bank on waifufags handing over their cash every single time we make new skins

I hate HotS, but they should implement the same lootbox system from that

>lootboxes can be rerolled
>different tiers of box with a guaranteed rarity in them
>daily "quests" for more coins

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>people actually buy lootbox shit

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>>381295246
What these dumbasses need to do is fucking unlock their event shit so people can buy them with coins.

Put it at 4000 coins, at least people can fucking own them. I fucking hate this new system of business where you pay for a full game and they lock out some of the best items because you didn't own the game during an event, or RNG was a bitch and gave you nothing.

Fuck this and fuck Xenoverse 2. They put up a 1 fucking day raid to unlock one of the most iconic costumes from Dragonball and lock it away so only fucking youtubers even own it. Pic is what Xenoverse locked away.

>>381310203
part of the cancer killing gaming.

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>>381309992
This. It's literally this.

Nobody would give a shit if they were balancing their fucking game and adding content that wasn't just the skins. But since all they're doing is practically these fucking events, of course people are getting sick of it.

The only thing wrong here is that now they've added three maps, but the new one isn't being met very well.

>>381309943
are you pretending to be stupid or were you born that way

>>381310524
Are you asking that from yourself or what?

How are entirely new player models comparable to fucking clothes? It's like adding an RPG character creation system to the game because you can play as anything you want. It's a huge step up from just being able to dress your not-Pudge pig man in new clothes.

>>381310287
It SHOULD be 1000g during the event and 3000g all other times. The idea of limited time content is rewarding people for being there, and paying a premium price for something isn't a reward.

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>>381295246
They can get me a gold lootbox but they can't ship my stuff in 2 days like they're supposed to

>>381309943
I meant III. They do actually change the way the characters are quite a lot, but because of the nature of the game they keep the silhouette/animations. But some really do change it up, especially the more recent event stuff.

>>381310650
Yeah but they change about as much as they can within the design principles. That isn't the point, either, I'm saying that you'd see even less of your character in those games than you ever would in Overwatch, so if the argument is "Oh well you never see them it's an FPS" then you should explain the fucking point there.

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>>381305065
It's a literal cuck game.

>>381310734
Who is this mommy

>>381310696
The worst was them saying "This is an event all about the fans!" for the Anniversary. You didn't get a free skin, you didn't get any real content for playing a year, and it was the most expensive (Coin-wise) event to get everything for, and none of it was even "Anniversary" like. It was literally just random shit they didn't have a place for, did not need to be limited content. At all.

>>381310734
nice

>>381310696
Exactly, in fact it's counter productive.

>Buy Overwatch or DBZ XV2 right now
>Kike developers: "Kek, sorry should have bought it sooner. See those dozens of outfits? You'll never own them!"

It's just asking to have the game refunded.

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>mfw I get Frogston skin from the box

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>>381295246
Who else tired of jumping through hoops to get in-game content

>Preorder
>Get the limited edition
>Play our other game
>Get on Twitch
>Go to Blizzcon
>Buy the lootboxes before it's too late
>Let's make the event skins 3000 gold so you HAVE to buy lootboxes
>Let's lower the legendary drop rate while we're at it
>Now we're having fun

>>381310767
At the end of the day, it's not really about whether you see your own character, but rather, that other people see your character.

I don't personally care much which outfit they see my character dressed in. There's not that many options out there, and given how they're acquired, it really doesn't matter to me. In games where outfits are locked behind some achievements (or just in-game grinds with no achievements, you get the point) and things that require some effort or skill, maybe. When it's just about how much money you spent on boxes, wow, who cares.

Now, custom models actually feel a lot more important to me personally. If you make your own model altogether, no one's going to have the same one. It'll actually be unique. And you can make whatever the hell you want as long as you have some 3D modeling skills. Or, alternatively, you can just do that in-game if the game has a char creation system.

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>>381310461
It's because Blizzard thinks the MOBA approach to content development will work in a shooter with no mechanics.
Say what you will about League and Dota, but there's actually tech in those games that you need to practice if you want to play competitively.

The second you read a character's abilities in Overwatch, you know exactly how to play them.
The ONLY complexity that exists in the game is the way certain characters interact with certain maps, places Genji/Hanzo can climb, places Pharah can hover, etc.

And yet they don't give a single shit about map design, THE lifeblood of any shooter.
Because they think waifufags will keep their game alive for new skins and the occasional mediocre hero they can masturbate to.

>hey jeff how do we make this new map balanced?
>ehhhhhhh just put a really fucked up chokepoint right at the start so nobody has to see the rest of the map ever

>hey jeff should we make this new hero like, complicated but high skillcap and interesting?
>ehhhhhhh no the dummies will get confused just release sombra lmao

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>>381298891
of course a double-space faggot would support blizzard's shitty practices for their shitty 'game'
can't wait until the next big flashy shitheap game grabs your attention and ow becomes another blizzard ghost town

Overwatch is too nooby with the OP ults and stuff, kinda turned me away from the game and balance was also garbage when I played it for free. Nu-blizzard is too stupid to fix one character over the spawn of a several beta tests.

>>381301109
No it's one legendary and no dupes guaranteed.

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>>381310887
>You didn't get a free skin, you didn't get any real content for playing a year
Not even a fucking icon. Not even a fucking .jpg to show you were there for the anniversary celebration. Fucking HoTS had a better anniversary and it didn't even add anything.

>>381310969
Thank you for this post, I can't believe people willingly do this shit.

60 dollars for a multiplayer-only shooter?

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>>381306410
>be 5k mmr
>haven't spent a penny on in-game items
>rush pudge mid with no cosmetics
>gets flamed by enemy for going 20-2 with both deaths being rot-suicides
australian players are garbage

>>381295246
Blizzard knows that there will always be enough fanboy "whales" that buy everything. A tiny minority props up a shitty system and makes things worse for the rest of us.

>>381310973
Well, that's fair and I miss the days of models. I really do, and I get what you're saying. All that being said, I like the customization where it can be. Blizz just needs to stop being cocksuckers about it, because then we wouldn't even have to agree to disagree, everyone could just not give a fuck.

>>381311007
>comparing lol and dota to overwatch
I think its time for a sophisticated food analogy to round up this thread

>>381311349
Can't complain too much when it's an FPS game, yeah.

Blizzard has gone full on jew and is beyond redemption. Just put the skins into a store and up the prices. People will pay retarded prices just to get the ones they want and they probably know it just by looking at the stats for the boxes. But hey who cares about the players if the boxes can make some idiots waste a few hundred (let alone thousand) dollars per box.

>>381300204
The "Tracer is gay" week was worse.

Being pissed and being addicted to fucking opening lootboxes are 2 different things. Most people who gamble know that they are effectively ruining their life, they still can't stop it.

>>381311158
Fuck's sake, I hadn't thought of that. Even Summer Games had an icon and the like. Wasn't there at least a gold Overwatch symbol? Even still, really not a "thanks" to fans. That guy said "reward for being there" and there hardly wasn't even that.

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>>381311578
Yeah faggot, try and deny the fact that Overwatch literally has characters called "heroes" who use "ultimates" and the game has a microtransaction cosmetics shop.
Tell me again how you think the game has no MOBA inspirations whatsoever even though you'd have to deny reality.

No, it's not a MOBA and it doesn't play like one, but it fucking obviously derives from them, especially in the way content is produced.
New heroes are released more often and hyped WAY more than new maps, because that's what MOBAs do.

They know exactly what they're fucking doing and you're an actual blizzdrone if you're gonna tell me Overwatch is 100% original and not at all designed to bank on other popular games.
I like the fucking game but I'm not a blind retard, I played League for a long-ass time and I can recognize the patterns.

>>381310969
>Go to Blizzcon
I will always be angry for the blizzcon bastion. I had a slightly hoped for adding it later but no.

>grind for oni genji and dva despite hating the game
>of course most people have it but not everyone
>they patch it in the lootboxes
BLIZZZAAAAARRRRD

>>381311959
They announced that the HotS skins would be added to normal lootboxes eventually, it's your fault

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>>381311139
You were saying?

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>>381311139
>>381312084
Granted, I almost want to give them that this is a glitch, but it's still a wildly stupid bit of a cherry of incompetence to top off the shit sundae that's been everything relating to loot lately.

I thought this is only awarded for those with twitch prime. Didn't expect /v/ is full of those faggots.

>>381308501
Nope, you can only activate one per Blizzard account

>>381312195
>twitch prime is amazon prime
>amazon prime is pretty cheap for students

>>381312457
>students
well fuck

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>>381295246
I'll never understand people who get mad at lootbox style microtransactions for cosmetics, they're just fucking hats. You can easily get them for free and you can use the coins to buy the specific stuff you want instead of leaving it to chance. I'd understand if people were mad because the stuff in the boxes gave better stats or something, but instead people are just getting mad because they haven't gotten their favorite hat yet

>>381312195
that is what I don't get
>complaining about lootboxes
>while paying for twitch prime

>>381295246
>Like really pissed, like largest section of our forum pissed?
Why?

>>381312514
I can't speak for others or for certain, but I think it was more about how little people actually got for the event.

Me, personally, I got nearly every fucking icon for the event. One for each hero, a shit ton of sprays and I think.. 3? Skins. One of which I got multiple times and thats with me playing ass tons.

Now I'm not mad, cause like you said, I just bought the shit I wanted. But I can see why people would be angry when they overinflated the event with a lot of crap people wouldn't want even if you paid them.

>>381312621
see
>>381312457
cocksucker

Also the point of the thread is literally that it's dumb they're trying to "make up" for their shitty system with something they premiere as a Prime exclusive

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>>381311842

>>381312514
>>381312762
It's sort of what like the other guy said. They literally added more "Legendaries" than ever before, lowered the drop rate for them, and if you aren't privy to the events they can't be bought anymore. At all. They're done, that's it, and if your drops were shit, tough luck kid. The only way to get the ingame currency was duplicates, which were frustrating as fuck because the highest tier duplicate was literally 1/15th the cost of the high items. It was practically impossible to get it all without playing excessively and not buying a single crate within the last year.

And as has been said, it's also because it accounts for the majority of the content they've put out since launch, so yeah.

Jeff Kaplan said he acknowledged the feedback about crates.

This is his answer.
Plus he has proven himself to be a passive aggressive cunt to players on the forums. He's probably one of the WORST head-devs out there.

>>381313484
Yeah, shame. He used to be Tigole Bitties or whatever. He could do well, but this looks real bad. He acknowledged the feedback, and this is what happens after.

They're burning what little goodwill the game built for me off right fucking quick.

>Skins are locked behind a slot machine simulator instead of just being able to buy them.
>only way to buy them is with credits you get from dupes from slot machine simulator.
>only gives you 5 cedits at most while skins cost at max 3000.
>wonder why people are made.

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>>381313484
>People: We think this this in a massive slap in the face of the community
>Jeff: ok

>>381295246
>>381295618
>>381295995

Dont like it? dont buy it :^)

>>381313484
Pretty sure his answer was the double XP weekend that went on before the end of the event.

Can't wait till the EU regulates vidya gambling like this to hell and back
And you burgers will be dragged along kicking and screaming

>>381314490
Fuck the globalists to all hell, but I'll allow it. I don't want nanny state bullshit but gambling needs regulation, as do those who propagate it under false terms.

It is easy enough to get the skins you want at the least. Bitch ass players
Just no life till you get all of them

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>>381305252
>being triggered by a term

>>381314724
gender is fluid

>people actually give a shit about cosmetic loot pinatas
but y tho

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>don't play overwatch
>have twitch prime
>could just share the code I got on /v/ to make a fellow anon happy
>instead I just generate the code and won't touch it until it becomes invalid in 3 months

Wait so if you do the free trial box you get 1 box, but if you wait until August you get 5?

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>>381314901
Well, personally I disagree, but you are free to have your own opinion fellow human. Good day

>>381315119
>this big of a response
lol definitely not triggered. so triggered he wont reply

Feels good to already have the best skin in the game so I don't give a fuck about this cosmetic shit
Yeti Hunter Mei

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>>381301101
that's not what f2p is you dumbass

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>>381314592
nanny state bullshit is needed to a certain extent, because people are more dumb that you may think. As long as it doesn´t reach bong levels of nanny

Who fucking cares, it's just shitty skins that are even more worthless than TF2/CSGO/Dota2 items since you can't trade them
It's cosmetics so it doesn't have any influence on gameplay.


>but it's gambling
No, it's not. It's more like stickers, baseball/trading-cards

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>>381314490
Good luck

I don't give a fuck anymore, I just want to get this off my chest.

I work crazy hours and OW is my only form of relaxation: it's easy to start up, quick games, minimal time investment.

However, it's gotten to the point where every loss I have feels like a punch in the guts. Every victory, which is becoming increasingly rare, I feel on top of the world.

It feels like those stupid numbers now reflect my worth. I mean, what else do I do with my life? Work a job and play OW. If I'm not good at something I spend this much time on, how does that reflect on me as a person? Low numbers = low self worth.

Oh, I try to break the cycle - quit after 2 losses, go for a walk, go back to practice in QP, but it doesnt work.

I invest time in practicing, I play, I lose, I feel emotionally devastated and depressed. I try to lighten up. Never tilt (verbally), try to crack jokes with my team mates when they get salty, try to cheer everyone up. I'm the first to see "We've got it next time!" or "It's all good, we can hold it.". Doesn't matter; I see those numbers drop and I want to stab myself.

I don't know how this happened. Shit, I'm not even a gamer. I guess when I decided to actually practice and watch tutorials and read threads here I expected to get better. When that didn't happen, I tried harder. But it still didn't happen. I guess it feels like being a fat slob, going to the gym everyday, eating right, but when you get back on those scales you've gotten heavier.

I'm ready to fucking give up. As soon as I hit 500, I'm out. Since theres only really this in my life, maybe totally. If I can't get out of the lowest 6% in a stupid fucking video game I've invested so much into, then what am I going to even achieve with the real world?

>>381317193
You sound like a pathetic faggot who can't deal with reality. Who the fuck plays games to see a number go up?

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>>381317193
Play a real game instead? If you were a "gamer" you should know of the forced 50\50 of the game, the fact that you are nerfed when you are in win streak (less damage, take more damage etc... you can check it on youtube) and is just a game of picking and counterpicking so if someone screw it you are condamned to lose. Why the hell you keep playing something that is so stressful?

>>381310958
I go Young Master for Hanzo.
I now have 4 legendary skins for him.
I do not play Hanzo.
Life is pain.

>>381317193
>I lose, I feel emotionally devastated and depressed
You see loss as a character flaw and a personal failure rather than as just another experience to learn from. Also you can't really call trying to git gud 'relaxation'. If you have a very stressful, time consuming job and then come home for some relaxing... competitive gaming, then you're never getting a chance to relax.

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>>381317585
You got all the skins for a champ you didnt play. Is incredible but is just like the system in game gives you good stuff only for the character you dont play.
Really makes you think hm?

>>381317725
But i also got multiple skins for characters i do play. I think I have at least 2 legendary skins for every character i do play.

I know people like to throw arround the idea that Blizz is monitoring play time and only giving you shit you don't want, but i don't think even they are that jewish. Taking the amount of heroes and legendary skins, chances are you'll get one you don't care for regardless, so why would they bother.

>>381317947
>Blizz is monitoring play time
But they do that, in every game. Whenever you are doing something good for too much time (win streaks, get good stuff from boxes) something intervene and you got blocked.
If you like this suit yourself but is like running with a stone tied to your legs.

>>381317193
If you're looking for a game to base your self-worth on, and I'm not saying it's a bad option, I would probably avoid the team-based shooter where you are only responsible for 1/6th of the outcome. You can't control your wins/losses in a game like overwatch at all, dude.

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>>381317947
1 hour of gametime with tracer
6 games played

now i have all tracer skins, BOY WHAT A COINCIDENCE

>>381300261
>>381310828
>wahhh any game i can't be toxic in is an lgbtq+ cuck game
Paladins makes you pay for heroes
Overwatch doesn't make you pay a dime extra for anything except aesthetics
Overwatch also has a way bigger player base and competitive scene
Go back to madden 2017 stupid Drumpftard

>>381311842
why are jack posters so cancerous
is it just an extension of bronies being shit and /co/ being a containment zone

>>381310287
nigga how is gokus orange jumper not more iconic

i dont even recognize that shit

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>>381304629
>Bringing in Valve because you have literally no way to defend these shit lootboxes
Dude that's low.

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>>381322156
Don't you mean a... /co/ntainment zone?

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>>381309992

Exactly this.

I'm a fucking idiot for buying this shit pile of a game thinking they were going to add actual content instead of just jewing their gullible player base.