#fix the game

[lifeweaverspeach]

OW2 PROBLEMS

So I've really wanted to talk about things that have been annoying me about ow2 that are not gameplay related. And I believe that they're others who might be annoyed by these things too and I think we should really talk about it.

1. Free things

As much as like when ow gives us stuff for free (example - doing mission for cosmetics or just logging on certain dates), it hurts me to know how blizzard is gonna be lazy/greedy sooner or later.

For example for logging into Overwatch 2, during their first Halloween event, we got Cursed Captain (legendary) skin for Reaper. Even though I am not a fan of this skin, it was nice of them to give us free skin.

But imagine how annoyed I was when during their first anniversary, they gave the skin for completing missions. I kinda get that they brought it back for the sake of newer players.

But the main reason it got me annoyed was the fact that they just gave away skin that was for free instead of making some new reward for the mission.

Or when they did the same thing with the Optics highlight intro for Sojourn. At first you had to log in on a certain date to get it and then they added it as a mission.

Personally, I hate most of what they did with Jester Sombra (Rare) skin. It was a little gift for ow1 players who logged into the game on a certain date before ow2. And then, not so long ago it was in a bundle with other clown skins. 

It got me kinda mad since it was specifically for ow1, but what made me even more mad was the fact that they made people pay to get that skin. (The bundle also included clown skin (Rare) for Roadhog which was free weekly skin for you to earn in the very last ow1 Halloween event)

And when they first released Captain Torbjorn (Legendary) in the shop, just to give it away on Twitch after you watched Overwatch streamers for a certain amount of time. Which is disgusting if you consider that because of that, some people wasted their money while they could get the skin for free in the future.

Most of the time, the only things that don't repeat as rewards in missions are voice lines and charms. (Maybe sprays but I am not sure). And even though these things are also not the cheapest, I don't think players are super excited to do missions for something so small like charm or something like voice lines. And I personally think that most people do the mission to be able to get some battle pass levels.

2. Favoritism 

Something I also have a problem with how devs or just people working on ow2 related stuff have their favorite characters that get most stuff.

And based on how much characters get, I would categorize them. We have:

- popular characters (example: D.va, Mercy, Genji, Pharah) who get most of the stuff because they're popular in the overwatch community and they're kind of a mascots for the game

- Kiriko who gets something almost every season (also got a lot of merch recently) (also I don't consider her super popular so I think she's just dev's favorite)

- And there's the rest of the cast who don't get that much skins/merch/stuff in general or just get things that just don't look that good

When it comes to things in the game, like I said, Kiriko gets something almost every season since her release. This includes Mercy, who gets skin almost every season. (honestly I think that's because most of the mercy mains on Twitter would cry over her not getting something every season)

And here I counted how many skins (Only Battle Pass and Shop skins) some overwatch characters got since the start of ow2 till season 7 (not all characters, but here is comparison of how much some skin some characters have compared to one that are super popular and also compared to Kiriko):

Baptiste has 3, Sigma 4, Winston 4, Zarya 2, Brigitte 3, while Kiriko has 8, Mercy 6, Pharah 6 and D.va 5.

I also looked at the EU store to look how much merch some characters have, especially the characters that came out in ow2: (I hope I counted them correctly)

• Kiriko (obviously has the most merch) - 12

• Sojourn - 8 (Including Murphy plush)

• Junker Queen - 10

• Ramattra - 4

• Lifeweaver - 1

• Illari - 0

So if you didn't see it before, you definitely can see now that overwatch definitely has a problem with favoritism towards some of their characters.

3. Money

I'm sure everyone noticed that already, but I think it's worth mentioning - Blizzard hates giving away their things for free. Like in the first part - they're-give their free in-game things. (Like Cursed Captain Reaper, Sojourn's highlight intro)

But I would dare to say that they make sure you can't get too much stuff without spending your money. And if they give something for free (when it's for logging in), they will most likely give it away again as a mission reward, just so players don't get too much stuff. (And it's either because of their laziness, the fact that they're greedy or both)

And stuff they don't mind giving for free are charms, voice lines, icons, sprays and ow1 stuff.

It also annoys me how hard it is for players to earn credits and overwatch coins. You can get credits only through battle pass and mission (keep in mind that without buying battle pass, it's hard to level up).

You can get coins through spending your own money or by doing weekly missions, which after completing 12/12 missions, you get max 60 coins, which is bullshit considering how everything that costs coins is super expensive. So if you do all the missions for 8 weeks (the duration of the whole ow2 season) you get 480, which means that you can only buy voice lines or sprays and that is basically it.

And if you want something from the Shop, without spending your money - not only you have to work hard to get the coins, but you never know when the cosmetic you want is going to come back or be released. (I had this situation with with Lifeweaver's Synthwave skin, that came in week when I didn't have enough coins to buy it and got enough the next week, when he wasn't in the shop anymore)

It's hilarious how expensive everything is and how devs make sure that you have to spend money to get stuff in their game.

They should bring back or just never delete loot boxes. Maybe not give them to players everytime they level up, but they should have kept them around. They also still could get money from them because they players, besides earning them, could just buy them if they wanted.

This is all I wanted to say, I really wish devs can really do something about these problems, but they most likely won't </3

[imperatoralicia]

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[morthern]

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[leodanbrock]

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[mookmayor]

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