Overwatch - It's Actually a Trick To Make Everyone Play HotS, also BUY - Games

[QUOTE=Steel & Iron;52273870][t]http://i.imgur.com/AiQF47w.png[/t] You can pretty much grasp what the article is by the title, but [url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/05/24/there-are-not-enough-hours-in-the-day-to-grind-for-overwatch-anniversary-skins/#4aff63537628]here's the whole thing if you want it[/url][/QUOTE] Glad Blizzard is getting their ass blasted for this. They got away with Uprising surprisingly.

For as cancerous as the TF2 economy is, I felt a lot less guilty about buying Keys once I was able to dump an item I didn't want on the market place, make a few virtual fun bucks, and exchange that for something I DID want. There's a very simple solution to this: a trade system. Only instead of Steam Trading, where the exchange rate for hats can fluctuate to the point that people are trading a dozen items for a single accessory, make it so that every trade is 1:1. A skin for a skin, or a set amount of coins (100, 500, 1000, 3000). Now you have a system that allows people to get the items they want, but also continues to exploit the completionist whales who will drop $200 every event. It's all the fun of an in-game economy without the constraints of the economy being dictated by a braindead playerbase.

I just want them to start adding non-event based content to the game instead of locking everything behind events. Like, it's cool that they added some new emotes in the new update, but it's idiotic that they're locking the fucking dancing emotes behind the event. Like what the fuck?

[QUOTE=BanthaFodder;52274011]For as cancerous as the TF2 economy is, I felt a lot less guilty about buying Keys once I was able to dump an item I didn't want on the market place, make a few virtual fun bucks, and exchange that for something I DID want. There's a very simple solution to this: a trade system. Only instead of Steam Trading, where the exchange rate for hats can fluctuate to the point that people are trading a dozen items for a single accessory, make it so that every trade is 1:1. A skin for a skin, or a set amount of coins (100, 500, 1000, 3000). Now you have a system that allows people to get the items they want, but also continues to exploit the completionist whales who will drop $200 every event. It's all the fun of an in-game economy without the constraints of the economy being dictated by a braindead playerbase.[/QUOTE] Not gonna happen, bliz can't gorge itself on whale blubber when you can trade your second pirate torbjorn skin for the one you actually want. Imagine if you could trade all your trash skins for the ones you actually wanted. Everybody would have all the skins they wanted after a couple dozen hours and nobody would get frustrated enough to waste their money on the Overslot machine

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/r09P9LP.png[/IMG] FUCK THIS GAMES LOOT SYSTEM still no event legendary like 30 boxes in

The whole problem is blizzard being so stingy with gold. Even when paying for lootboxes, the amount of gold you get from drops or duplicates is just pathetic. A legendary gold drop being 1/6th an event skin makes it impossible.

The names of those golden icons are awful.

[QUOTE=E.C.S;52274053]Those golden icons are awful.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=E.C.S;52274053]The names of those golden icons are auful.[/QUOTE] I think Mei's icon has the worst name. It's not even a pun on gold. It's just May.

I sure love those games where you're getting melted by absolutely everything for no discernable reason. Winston doing 200 damage per second? Makes sense. I think it might've been due to a bugged Widow or Reaper, but it's impossible to tell (sometimes the screen shake effect / hit sound / firing sound for either just don't work correctly until you restart the game, so you can spend quite some time getting fucked by either if you aren't looking at them).

[QUOTE=Grandzeit;52274065]I think Mei's icon has the worst name. It's not even a pun on gold. It's just May.[/QUOTE] Dance

[QUOTE=Mr.Moustachio;52274049]The whole problem is blizzard being so stingy with gold. Even when paying for lootboxes, the amount of gold you get from drops or duplicates is just pathetic. A legendary gold drop being 1/6th an event skin makes it impossible.[/QUOTE] What's also fucking greedy is normal Legendary skin costs 1000 gold, you get 200 gold for a duplicate, 1/5 of the price. You get a duplicate of event legendary (3000 gold)? Also just 200 gold.

i got another fuckin player icon crate with three whites

There are skins and things I really would like, and now I have to face disappointment because I'm going through a really busy and stressful time in my life

On my first 3 boxes. I got the same event player icon 3 times in a row. Gee it makes me wonder if Blizzard has a system in place to make this happen on purpose.

Why is every player I encounter in 1vs1 a "gg ez" retard.

[QUOTE=MissingGlitch;52274193]On my first 3 boxes. I got the same event player icon 3 times in a row. Gee it makes me wonder if Blizzard has a system in place to make this happen on purpose.[/QUOTE] There's a theory now that Blizzard held the event back a week because they realized getting the 10 boxes from the HotS crossover would give players 10 event boxes instead. I'm almost inclined to believe it.

Turns out Ana's sleep dart on Total Mayhem is timed just right to allow her to sleep-lock anyone she likes FOREVER :v: [t]http://i.imgur.com/tTmHQdh.jpg[/t] I was Winston on Route 66 and this one Ana kept darting me for the entire match and I couldn't stop laughing the whole time, there even was a Lucio that passed by and hung out with us doing emotes and saying hi I love this gamemode, holy shit, it may have eternal overtime but these kind of things make it worth it.

[QUOTE=Jorori;52274231]Turns out Ana's sleep dart on Total Mayhem is timed just right to allow her to sleep-lock anyone she likes FOREVER :v: [t]http://i.imgur.com/tTmHQdh.jpg[/t] I was Winston on Route 66 and this one Ana kept darting me for the entire match and I couldn't stop laughing the whole time, there even was a Lucio that passed by and hung out with us doing emotes and saying hi I love this gamemode, holy shit, it may have eternal overtime but these kind of things make it worth it.[/QUOTE] didnt they go out of their way to lengthen her cooldown in mayhem so she couldnt do that

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/J4Q2sho.jpg[/IMG] wowey what an ebin event legendary haha thanks so much blizzard this is just what i wanted lol time to grind for another hour xd

Honestly I think it's ridiculous that people are [I]this[/I] outraged about being unable to get every last skin. I mean there are people calling this a [I]scandal,[/I] for god's sake. Blizzard released a quality-ass game for $40 dollars, beneath the generally agreed upon full price. There is no grind for Heroes in Overwatch. You don't have to pay for expansions with all new heroes and maps. There's no season pass. We live in an age where having to pay or grind for days to get updates is just something you have to live with if you play modern video games, and they didn't go for that monetization scheme when they easily could have. Being unable to get every last rare cosmetic in an event is not "greedy consumer-hating assholes" make, guys.

idk why they don't make it so that these lootboxes have a minimum of 2 event items [editline]25th May 2017[/editline] actually i mean i do but cmon

At least you guys can play. I may have to order a new motherboard which shaves off a good third of my time

[QUOTE=Furnost;52274254]didnt they go out of their way to lengthen her cooldown in mayhem so she couldnt do that[/QUOTE] I tried myself today and nope, I can pull it off with good timing. I wouldn't be surprised if they did, tho

[QUOTE=Simplemac3;52274298]Honestly I think it's ridiculous that people are [I]this[/I] outraged about being unable to get every last skin. I mean there are people calling this a [I]scandal,[/I] for god's sake. Blizzard released a quality-ass game for $40 dollars, beneath the generally agreed upon full price. There is no grind for Heroes in Overwatch. You don't have to pay for expansions with all new heroes and maps. There's no season pass. We live in an age where having to pay or grind for days to get updates is just something you have to live with if you play modern video games, and they didn't go for that monetization scheme when they easily could have. Being unable to get every last rare cosmetic in an event is not "greedy consumer-hating assholes" make, guys.[/QUOTE] i dont expect to get every skin, but every event ive had to buy the things i want since they never dropped for me in a loot box, and gold drops are usually shit for me so i just end up with 3k at the end of an event and im only able to buy one skin. luckily ive either had minor things ive wanted drop for me (emotes, etc.) and ive only wanted 1 skin out of the events. what if theres more than one skin i want? guess im shit out of luck and have to pick and choose what skin i want. i dont get to play that often either since solo playing is an all around bad experience that i dont even want to bother anymore, and the one friend i get to play with has had a difficult time finding the time to do so (and to add to that, there are more games i want to play beyond grinding for drops in OW.)

I just got off 1v1s with some guy who was begging me to throw

[url]https://clips.twitch.tv/YummyAcceptableClipsmomTTours[/url] If only everyone in Comp were like this, picking a comp in less than 2 seconds.

[QUOTE=Simplemac3;52274298]Honestly I think it's ridiculous that people are [I]this[/I] outraged about being unable to get every last skin. I mean there are people calling this a [I]scandal,[/I] for god's sake. Blizzard released a quality-ass game for $40 dollars, beneath the generally agreed upon full price. There is no grind for Heroes in Overwatch. You don't have to pay for expansions with all new heroes and maps. There's no season pass. We live in an age where having to pay or grind for days to get updates is just something you have to live with if you play modern video games, and they didn't go for that monetization scheme when they easily could have. Being unable to get every last rare cosmetic in an event is not "greedy consumer-hating assholes" make, guys.[/QUOTE] I didnt want every skin I wanted 1 skins and didnt get it or enough currency for it but atleast I got the genji skin twice over in 30 boxes which is stupid

I think the thing that bothers me most about the lootbox situation is that it's so transparently just so they can farm microtransactions. Blizzard is all "oh, we have the most amazing fanbase, thanks for an amazing year, you're all wonderful!", yet it comes off as totally disingenuous considering the only reason they have for not improving parts of their product is "well if we fixed that yeah it would make people happy but we'd also rake in less money on lootboxes so yeah no go". Like, fuck's sake man, this is a [i]full price[/i] game. I paid $40 for the standard edition because that was all I could afford at the time, and even that required reading a lot of fine print and clicking in the right place; I know plenty of people who paid the full $60 because they're either playing on console or didn't even know the standard edition was an option. They parade Jeff around to the public because people love him, but the business tactics beneath it all are really fucking scummy. It all just puts a super bad taste in my mouth. I could understand wanting to farm as much lootbox revenue as possible if this was a Free-To-Play game, but people paid money upfront, you'd think that would earn us the bare minimum respect from them that they wouldn't try to pull shit like this so blatantly.

I just want the dune buggy and dance emote for Bastion I want to make best bot dance his heart out