"I love this game and the winter event has always been my favorite but this year it’s but plain depressing. The new event skins and the new genji and ram skins got me excited as all hell, that was until I realized I can’t and I won’t unlock them without spending +100$. Why, why do that, why make me not even want to play because it feels pointless. Before the draw of the events was to grind for lootboxes or coins to get the new skins, now it’s that I get to play the winter brawls? they’re not even that good. For Christmas this year we basically get some recycled brawls from years ago and the gift of gawking at skins we have no chance of getting unless we buy them.
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Please look at this. Look at the huge amount of players agreeing with this and feeling the same thing. Look at the damage you are doing and realize that you killing your own game and players. If you wait till Season3 to fix the broken monetization system that might be too late.
I understand that currency packs are now important income replacement to lootboxes, but if you just remove the general reward system without replacing it with something that’s just overall makes many players feel like they are missing something.
I don’t know how to fix it. Maybe return lootboxes: Legally you are only not allowed to sell them but for free you can give them away. Give 1 out as the last weekly challenge reward. (that reduces the weekly coin people can earn to 50 but give them a chance to unlock something random and nice.)
You could switch out the free rewards you give out every 4th level in the battlepass: Make them lootboxes instead of the current fixed items. Getting random 4 items with a chance that it might be anything from a voice line, rare skin or currency to an emote to an epic or legendary skin is way more rewarding.
Totally agree. This is what is putting people off this game, having to spend money on “decent” skins. This is why I feel OW2 will never succeed.
They won’t return loot-boxes because of “Gambling”. Yet they still allow gambling to be done on WoW with the fortune cards that can be made and sold on the Auction House.
I so vouch for this. It gives us people something to look forward to. This is why I feel this game will die quick.
And the worse is all these people that go “just play the game, who cares about skins”. All these people never felt the joy of grinding. The feeling that you had after playing all weekend and suddenly having enough credits to buy a skin that you wanted for a while. It made you feel like you EARNED that skin, and its only yours because it was your choice, and it wasn’t freely given out. Just because something doesn’t cost money doesn’t mean its free
We should be able to convert legacy credits into the newer credits or just be able to use them to unlock the new stuff, the reason I still have a bunch of legacy credits is because I already unlocked everything I wanted from OW1. They are virtually useless to me.
They’ve opened up what you can buy with them though through and hero screen, but yeah converting them isn’t a bad idea. The exchange rate wouldn’t be 1 for 1 though, they’d want to “screw” you someway.