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Just imagine having an MTX that is so fricking predatory that it makes your playerbase nostalgic for the lootbox cancer from the 2010s, and now that most of them have migrated to Marvel Rivals, you bring them back as a way of saying that you listen to your community or something 
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I am designing a video game that forces people to take cocaine irl pls fund my kickstarter
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Overwatch lootboxes weren't even bad. You just passively got cosmetics from levelling.
COD had the most egregious lootboxes. You bought an expansion then the new guns were added to the lootbox pool or you could pay even more money to get them immediately.
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Blizz has a troubled relationship with them after hots died because there was basically no reason to spend money on skins.
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Heroes of the Storm was a marked improvement over League of Legends and was the best Blizzard product in the past decade.
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The only reason why HoTS died is because they didn't slut up Kerrigan and have her scissor Nova.
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Kerrigan is way hotter in her zerg form !coomers !g*mers !yellowfever
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Darn bro, you peepee looks weird...
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Thanks! It's detatchable, too!
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Most visually pleasing neovag.
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Imagine having zer as a gf and zhe could fly you places.
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I don't care bout the coomshit but my heart skipped a beat when Raynor rescued her in wings of liberty
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!asians
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These records are why us Koreans fricking REEEEEEEEE whenever the bad ones get uplifted like that b-word in Civ 6.
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Goddarn it now I want to play some HotS and wipe a full team with a Kerrigan combo + cooldown reset rampage.
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I hate them for killing Starcraft: Ghost and letting the Starcraft franchise idle for so long.
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It pretty much solved the biggest problems with MOBAs but it could never overcome how LoL and to a lesser extent DOTA 2 made their ungodly huge playerbases from irl friend groups and big name streamers roping people into the game.
MOBAs are a weird anomaly in gaming that were the result of several things lining up at the same time. In the future subsequent gens of g*mers will probably be able to understand the popularity of MMOs far better than MOBAs.
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Yeah the OW ones were nbd. You got a ton of them from just playing, they made it so they couldn't give dupes if possible not to, and everything in them you could "purchase" directly with credits that you got from dupes (or just directly from the loot boxes). When OW2 came out, I had something like 50k credits - the most expensive skins cost 3k, so I could basically buy anything I wanted (not ALL of them but anything I was realistically going to use). Easily the best cosmetic system.
They obviously changed it to get more money. Anybody saying they did it for "fairness" is r-slurred.
Another fun fact for people who didn't play OW but want to laugh at how shitty it was - the same "free" cosmetics from the original game, like the EXACT same ones, they turned around and resold for a straight $20 in the cash shop.
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OW2 is the cancer that killed OW
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They were considered bad at the time because it wasn't a free game. There's also the whole effect of as worse monetization schemes are introduced prior ones start to seem quaint in comparison.
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I did a bunch of COD in 2023 with some sweatier friends and it is pretty funny how pay to win it was.
My friend would even pay for some data mining site and the best gun always happened to be easily purchasable that season lol.
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/u/wvj you could literally buy the event skins for free using the free currency that got fricking piled on you for just playing the game, any mode.
You guys need to understand anybody who actually bought loot boxes in OW could not have actually played the game. Every last one of these people are the kind to drop $100+ on skins/lootboxes for a game they legitimately didn't play, because if they did, they'd get it for free.
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I agree with this one.
I played Overwatch for a few years. I remember all the debate about predatory monetization and how lootboxes are shit and all but...
I bought the game, I never bought a single lootbox and I had a shit ton of cosmetics. I remember them being a scam because they were so bad, but why the frick would you even buy it if the game throws lootboxes at you for free? It wasn't a shy dripfed of cosmetics like 1 skin a month in League of legends, it was legitimately a shit ton of stuff for... playing the game.
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A free blowjob wouldn't bring most people back to Overwatch 2. Good luck with more predatory bs.
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I'd play Overslop if I got a free blowjob from DVA
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but officer she told me she was 12
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reminder that blizzard changed her canon age from 19 to 21 so !2dgooners would feel less guilty jerking it to her
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I thought they aged her from 16 to 18 before releasing the game, but now that it's "overwatch 2" I think they aged her up again.
Same model ofc.
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Why is she drawn to look like a child?
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… how much overwatch 2 do I have to play in order to qualify for the free blowie?
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Steam
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George Soros has paid me $25 million to create this hurricane with a wooden spoon, glitter, and a bottle of Prosecco. I can do this because I'm a woman, and I can bleed each month without dying. He is sending me the money via magical unicorn. Gay Rainbow unicorn, of course...
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