Want to know the best part? It'll donate a percentage of proceeds made from sales if these skins AFTER profits.
Ain't no fucking way they making money selling skins in that game, they've effectively killed it by cancelling the long awaited PvE, even Bethesda eventually made Fallout 76 workable and fulfilled most of the promises them made....eventually.
That just confirms the growing belief a lot of people have that the people who get involved in this shit aren't actually in it for the gameplay they want to collect skins and they have an addiction problem. If that person were an actual gamer they wouldn't touch that shit with a ten foot pole and yes I'm gatekeeping hard.
Nobody is playing Overwatch just for the skins, they just don't want to switch to a different "mostly generic multiplayer game with infinite cosmetic money sinks" which is what I assume his sales pitch was for.
This is especially the case for Overwatch, which lacks the two things that "playing for the MTX" games live on. Which is hot, mostly naked skins and meme crossover ones.
Well I never bothered with Overwatch 2 in particular but all of these games follow the same patterns now. You get a bare minimum 'game' setup by devs just to get gamers fairly interested and generate some hype.
However that's not really the primary goal of game devs these days, the main open secret of games is to hook in a significant amount of players with the promise of endless customisation that are inevitably just stupid skins that the artists probably spent 10 minutes on maximum. It's a deliberate tactic to lure in specific kinds of people who like this sort of thing and will spend the most amount of money, they don't give a shit about anyone else.
There's a fantastic video on this called "Let's go whaling" that perfectly explains the psychological manipulation used by these psychopaths all the time. Real gamers simply don't matter anymore, those of us who love to play games for gameplay aren't the target because we don't fork over enough cash to keep the executives happy and they've worked out they can make more money generally selling shitty skins and customisable shit than they can making an actual game. As others have pointed out, there's a cap per sale on each customer when they release a game but there is no such thing when it comes to returning customers and micro-transactions.
Great way to avoid inevitably shitty games these days is, if it touts 'gud graphics' and 'lots of customisation' chances are it's probably going to be shit and should be avoided from the moment they announce it. What's especially fascinating is how you get autists who go into the maths of these games and work out things like how much you'd have to play in order to even unlock some of the most expensive stuff in these games for 'free' and the amount of hours is often ridiculous as you'd expect.
TLDR: There is no real gameplay in these games beyond barebones shit and you can say goodbye to the idea of any kind of content updates, it's all about micro-transactions.
Mostly the basic gameplay loop is team vs team with objectives (akin to Team Fortress 2.) Nothing bad on the surface except for how Blizzard has treated the players and the game:
Blizzard promised a PvE mode with skill trees which they canceled.
They lowered the total number of players per team (from 6 per side to 5). Better for balance but a downgrade is a downgrade.
They removed loot boxes for a very very slow progression system for basic bitch shit and a Battlepass with loads of FOMO skins. This was so hard it caused people to ask for loot boxes back.
They canned the original game and forced people to rebuy a lot of skins players had in the first game.
Any controversy involving the game resulted in a short comic that introduced X as sexual preference.
So glad I stopped playing Blizz games years ago before they really went full retard. BfA was just horrendous I made it to the first main patch then nope'd out when Mecha-Gnomes were revealed. The rest of the expansion sounded equally dumb with the final Old God being revealed, released, and then defeated in the same patch let alone expansion. Supposedly Blizz has pulled a hard retcon on this and is bringing back that boss again because they realised how fucking stupid it was to get rid of such an important lore character so quickly.
Other damage was done though. Shadowlands was mostly filler with a brand new Big Bad who was "responsible for everything" that had happened before, and then killed him in the same expansion. The rogue devs changing various historic features during the woke purge red pilled quite a few normies. All in all it was a great play for keeping ex players like myself away because not only had the house burned down, it had been pissed on, salted, set on fire again, then relabelled as what players should play rather than what they will want to play.
You'd be surprised, now don't get me wrong, it won't be 'regulation' by itself, but many of these corporations and the people who run them are all part of the same club. That's why when they get together and discuss things they all act at once just like with the games journalists spamming about gamers as a demographic during GamerGate.
Just throwing this out there, very recently there was a Bilderberg Meeting, I'm sure that I'm just being silly and paranoid, but maybe that might have had something to do with them suddenly shifting tone? They have openly declared they're on a timetable for all this shit to 2030.
We know this is a fact not just thanks to GamerGate but also the twitter leaks where all the NPCs get their updates through memos like when it came to the Pakistan farmer weirdness and all of them started immediately spamming about it even though it was clear they didn't know what was going on.
The same goes for any kind of situation in America involving a black person. They do not have their own opinions on anything, they take orders on what to post to their followers. Part of the reason it's become so clear now is they are far too obvious with how synchronised they are in everything.
Consumers get rightfully pissed and make some noise.
Company pushes the emergency gay button
The Company has setup a win/win situation.
If consumers will rail on the company for their fuck ups/broken promises then the company keeps screaming "bigots!" as a distraction until their fuck ups and broken promises fade from living memory.
If consumers bite their tongue to avoid the accusation then the company keeps screaming "gay!" as a distraction until their fuck ups and broken promise fade from living memory.
Repeat the cycle ad nauseum.
The reason you notice it is because the practice has became widely adopted and it has become standard procedure whenever a company gets into hot water.
Think it's entirely a coincidence they started screaming gay when consumers are rightfully pissed off after blizz broke the promise of delivering Hero Mode in Overwatch 2?
Considering the Rey and Rose Tico figures never sell, like most female action figures before them in pop culture history. I'm wondering how badly these things sell?
Also, Blizzard is long dead. It's all low skill activist employees now, lead by product managers who don't know shit about games, only monetization schemes.
Cultivate a rabid fan base by feeding them exactly what they want while encouraging them to indulge to their hearts content? Capitalist pig dog! How dare you!? Other ridiculous lefty screeching!
As long as Danuser still has his job at the company, you can use that as a barometer on if they value "quality and capability" or simply "right think."
And as those usually cancel each other out, they will continue to not improve.
Hey Blizztivision, how about you make a videogame that isn't fucking cancer instead for fucking once in your god-forsaken lives?
Really though, I have to credit Blizzard with curing me from preordering vidya. I preordered Diablo 3. Yeah, fuck me. I loved D2 so much I couldn't see the obvious issues beforehand. And then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbR0OK5MU18
Once blizzard and china stopped working with each other.. blizz went balls out. The chinese factor kept blizz's gay shit to a minimum. Blizz never had a gay pride month event. Now they do.
They sold gay pride stuff and actively promoted their participation in pride parades in towns near their offices. They just wouldn’t promote any of it on their Chinese social media and kept that stuff out of the Chinese versions of the game. Blizzard would be doing this regardless of their business dealings in China having ended
Blizz never did pride month in overwatch. They had at most some rainbowflag profile pic.
Now... they putting rainbows in the map where you cant avoid, most likely gonna troon out a few chars during this first pride month, and god knows what other crap.
Your logo represents an entire culture of subhumans sexually harassing women, or the fact that your ceo allegedly pushed a woman to suicide.
Both of these have been confirmed to be lies by an internal investigation that was forced on them by California's gender "equality" courts.
As I said in another thread : Women and the truth go together like blue cheese and chocolate.
The world would be a better place if the darkness inside them precluded them from being listened to. Ever. Would you take advice from a goosestepping Neo-Nazi on how to treat Jews? Why would you take advice from women on how to treat men then?
No chance I'm joining Yaccarino's Twitter. One day she will "leak" the database so her feminist allies can blacklist everyone who criticizes women from employment.
Why do you think there was such a hard push for $8 Twitter Blue? You can't fake payment details. You can't hide who you are from people who have your bank details.
Blue cheese is known to go well with grapes. Or in salads with apple vinegar. So sweet stuff in general.
So it's not that hard to imagine it to go well with something like chocolate as well.
Want to know the best part? It'll donate a percentage of proceeds made from sales if these skins AFTER profits.
Ain't no fucking way they making money selling skins in that game, they've effectively killed it by cancelling the long awaited PvE, even Bethesda eventually made Fallout 76 workable and fulfilled most of the promises them made....eventually.
They aren't skins, they're cheaply made t-shirts on the merch store.
The skin in the picture is a Lifeweaver skin you can unlock with in-game free credits.
I asked my friend who plays OW2, so I'm sure it's right.
I'm more impressed you found someone who PLAYS it still, I would've thought they'd switch over to any other game by now.
I tried to get them to, but they refused. Too much money down on skins already.
I told them I wouldn't risk giving my number unless the Microsoft takeover is complete.
That just confirms the growing belief a lot of people have that the people who get involved in this shit aren't actually in it for the gameplay they want to collect skins and they have an addiction problem. If that person were an actual gamer they wouldn't touch that shit with a ten foot pole and yes I'm gatekeeping hard.
Nobody is playing Overwatch just for the skins, they just don't want to switch to a different "mostly generic multiplayer game with infinite cosmetic money sinks" which is what I assume his sales pitch was for.
This is especially the case for Overwatch, which lacks the two things that "playing for the MTX" games live on. Which is hot, mostly naked skins and meme crossover ones.
I've never played it, what's so bad about it? The fact that they made every character gay or lesbian doesn't affect the gameplay, right?
Well I never bothered with Overwatch 2 in particular but all of these games follow the same patterns now. You get a bare minimum 'game' setup by devs just to get gamers fairly interested and generate some hype.
However that's not really the primary goal of game devs these days, the main open secret of games is to hook in a significant amount of players with the promise of endless customisation that are inevitably just stupid skins that the artists probably spent 10 minutes on maximum. It's a deliberate tactic to lure in specific kinds of people who like this sort of thing and will spend the most amount of money, they don't give a shit about anyone else.
There's a fantastic video on this called "Let's go whaling" that perfectly explains the psychological manipulation used by these psychopaths all the time. Real gamers simply don't matter anymore, those of us who love to play games for gameplay aren't the target because we don't fork over enough cash to keep the executives happy and they've worked out they can make more money generally selling shitty skins and customisable shit than they can making an actual game. As others have pointed out, there's a cap per sale on each customer when they release a game but there is no such thing when it comes to returning customers and micro-transactions.
Great way to avoid inevitably shitty games these days is, if it touts 'gud graphics' and 'lots of customisation' chances are it's probably going to be shit and should be avoided from the moment they announce it. What's especially fascinating is how you get autists who go into the maths of these games and work out things like how much you'd have to play in order to even unlock some of the most expensive stuff in these games for 'free' and the amount of hours is often ridiculous as you'd expect.
TLDR: There is no real gameplay in these games beyond barebones shit and you can say goodbye to the idea of any kind of content updates, it's all about micro-transactions.
If your asking why Overwatch 2 is bad:
Mostly the basic gameplay loop is team vs team with objectives (akin to Team Fortress 2.) Nothing bad on the surface except for how Blizzard has treated the players and the game:
Blizzard promised a PvE mode with skill trees which they canceled.
They lowered the total number of players per team (from 6 per side to 5). Better for balance but a downgrade is a downgrade.
They removed loot boxes for a very very slow progression system for basic bitch shit and a Battlepass with loads of FOMO skins. This was so hard it caused people to ask for loot boxes back.
They canned the original game and forced people to rebuy a lot of skins players had in the first game.
Any controversy involving the game resulted in a short comic that introduced X as sexual preference.
So glad I stopped playing Blizz games years ago before they really went full retard. BfA was just horrendous I made it to the first main patch then nope'd out when Mecha-Gnomes were revealed. The rest of the expansion sounded equally dumb with the final Old God being revealed, released, and then defeated in the same patch let alone expansion. Supposedly Blizz has pulled a hard retcon on this and is bringing back that boss again because they realised how fucking stupid it was to get rid of such an important lore character so quickly.
Other damage was done though. Shadowlands was mostly filler with a brand new Big Bad who was "responsible for everything" that had happened before, and then killed him in the same expansion. The rogue devs changing various historic features during the woke purge red pilled quite a few normies. All in all it was a great play for keeping ex players like myself away because not only had the house burned down, it had been pissed on, salted, set on fire again, then relabelled as what players should play rather than what they will want to play.
I had the same issue playing Smite but I can confidently say haven't paid money for that game in YEARS. Get enough free shit that I don't need to.
Now the only thing missing is better teammates in casual sometimes as man do you get some manbabies in that game!
No, I'm just not revealing anything about their identity.
Anyone else doing that would make sense. But given your post history I don’t think anyone would believe there is a woman you consider a friend.
True. It's just a force of habit really.
You'd be surprised, now don't get me wrong, it won't be 'regulation' by itself, but many of these corporations and the people who run them are all part of the same club. That's why when they get together and discuss things they all act at once just like with the games journalists spamming about gamers as a demographic during GamerGate.
Just throwing this out there, very recently there was a Bilderberg Meeting, I'm sure that I'm just being silly and paranoid, but maybe that might have had something to do with them suddenly shifting tone? They have openly declared they're on a timetable for all this shit to 2030.
We know this is a fact not just thanks to GamerGate but also the twitter leaks where all the NPCs get their updates through memos like when it came to the Pakistan farmer weirdness and all of them started immediately spamming about it even though it was clear they didn't know what was going on.
The same goes for any kind of situation in America involving a black person. They do not have their own opinions on anything, they take orders on what to post to their followers. Part of the reason it's become so clear now is they are far too obvious with how synchronised they are in everything.
Your tolerance is weaponized against you.
Here's how it goes:
The Company has setup a win/win situation.
If consumers will rail on the company for their fuck ups/broken promises then the company keeps screaming "bigots!" as a distraction until their fuck ups and broken promises fade from living memory.
If consumers bite their tongue to avoid the accusation then the company keeps screaming "gay!" as a distraction until their fuck ups and broken promise fade from living memory.
Repeat the cycle ad nauseum.
The reason you notice it is because the practice has became widely adopted and it has become standard procedure whenever a company gets into hot water.
Think it's entirely a coincidence they started screaming gay when consumers are rightfully pissed off after blizz broke the promise of delivering Hero Mode in Overwatch 2?
No. It's not a coincidence.
https://archive.ph/3BPkz - Don't forget to archive too.
Run by a lesbian woman.
Also, don't direct link to the NYPost please.
Considering the Rey and Rose Tico figures never sell, like most female action figures before them in pop culture history. I'm wondering how badly these things sell?
Also, Blizzard is long dead. It's all low skill activist employees now, lead by product managers who don't know shit about games, only monetization schemes.
laughs in Japanese
Kotobukiya, Max Factory, Bandai, Good Smile company, etc beg to differ and they sell for prices that Western companies can only dream of.
Cultivate a rabid fan base by feeding them exactly what they want while encouraging them to indulge to their hearts content? Capitalist pig dog! How dare you!? Other ridiculous lefty screeching!
It came out alright, and is now having one last pride moment before being stuffed back in the closet.
BUY OUR GAY CRAP !
Isn't it mostly kids who play Overwatch?
Why else would the groomers be drawn to it?
Not really. The game takes far too much coordination as a group to succeed and lacks any modes beyond spamming competitive maps.
Its playerbase is almost entirely failing esports wannabes and dudes queuing up on reflex after work.
Isn't it mostly no-one who plays Overwatch?
Not sure. Either way who would buy the merch?
No. Its millennial losers
They're a meme at this point.
Controversy? Moar gay!
Daily reminder those two colours are reported to have pro-pedo origins.
Is this going to fix the state they keep leaving their games in?
They have great ideas that never get put into the games they make.
The games they make are now just stores with the faintest hint of games attached to them, rather than a solid game with an optional cash shop.
As long as Danuser still has his job at the company, you can use that as a barometer on if they value "quality and capability" or simply "right think."
And as those usually cancel each other out, they will continue to not improve.
Super Groomerman Buttterfly.
Hey Blizztivision, how about you make a videogame that isn't fucking cancer instead for fucking once in your god-forsaken lives?
Really though, I have to credit Blizzard with curing me from preordering vidya. I preordered Diablo 3. Yeah, fuck me. I loved D2 so much I couldn't see the obvious issues beforehand. And then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbR0OK5MU18
Once blizzard and china stopped working with each other.. blizz went balls out. The chinese factor kept blizz's gay shit to a minimum. Blizz never had a gay pride month event. Now they do.
They sold gay pride stuff and actively promoted their participation in pride parades in towns near their offices. They just wouldn’t promote any of it on their Chinese social media and kept that stuff out of the Chinese versions of the game. Blizzard would be doing this regardless of their business dealings in China having ended
Blizz never did pride month in overwatch. They had at most some rainbowflag profile pic.
Now... they putting rainbows in the map where you cant avoid, most likely gonna troon out a few chars during this first pride month, and god knows what other crap.
The trans Blizzard shirt announcing the wearer is a liar is a nice self-own.
Ah, so this merch must be what was taking away all the OW2 resources that they needed to cancel OW2's actual release.
Ok, what the fuck did they do this time?
Underdelivered on OW2 to the point it was just a cash-grab.
makes sense, their only remaining playerbase are 90% alphabet
Both of these have been confirmed to be lies by an internal investigation that was forced on them by California's gender "equality" courts.
As I said in another thread : Women and the truth go together like blue cheese and chocolate.
The world would be a better place if the darkness inside them precluded them from being listened to. Ever. Would you take advice from a goosestepping Neo-Nazi on how to treat Jews? Why would you take advice from women on how to treat men then?
Say it on twitter. You're not winning any converts here.
No chance I'm joining Yaccarino's Twitter. One day she will "leak" the database so her feminist allies can blacklist everyone who criticizes women from employment.
Why do you think there was such a hard push for $8 Twitter Blue? You can't fake payment details. You can't hide who you are from people who have your bank details.
Hundred Flowers Campaign 2.0.
You don't need to use real identifying information to register. Get a ProtonMail email address and use that.
Then they shut down your account and demand a phone number!
Ok your call fren.
I just don't want to be doxxed. I have way more to lose than the Trump supporters. Not even the new right will back someone anti-woman.
That's a bad choice because those two flavors, strangely enough, go together very well.
I was just trying to imagine something incredibly disgusting. People actually do that?
Yes. With flavor pairing it's actually hard to predict what will be good.
Blue cheese is known to go well with grapes. Or in salads with apple vinegar. So sweet stuff in general.
So it's not that hard to imagine it to go well with something like chocolate as well.
Well, I know orange juice and mint go together horribly.
so....based.
People downvote but you know women celebrate when men commit suicide due to their actions.
Not saying I agree with what you said, but it's an interesting aside.