Lol. After all these years they’re thinking of rolling back the 5v5 changes. To quote someone from Reddit:

PVE was dropped, heroes are free again, and now 6v6 is back. Blizzard spent the last couple of years turning overwatch 2 back into Overwatch 1.

Edit: See also the developer’s blog post about this, which goes into great detail explaining their decisions over the year and how we got here. Really worth a read if you are (or were) an OW player.

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      That’s the price of a full game, in a game that I paid full price for, that I had removed from me for not paying enough.

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        Non-essential and predatory are not mutually exclusive, especially given Blizzard’s history of player manipulation. They have perfected the science of making you want someone that you don’t need.

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          They have perfected the science of making you want someone that you don’t need.

          I should call her

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              I appreciate the kind words, I was just joking around. I’m a happily taken man with a great girlfriend. To those considering bad choices, I promise the unknown is scary but has much greater rewards than going back to something that already failed.

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        Did you play the OG, you could get basically everything for free. All it cost was time. OW2 is just an enshittified update

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            And now it’s $40 for a skin. What’s your argument? Lots of people already bought the game and were forced into the current system.

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                I agree with not buying them. I’m simply saying that Blizzard pulled the rug from the people that bought the first game.

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                Nobody is arguing that, I dont buy skins in games. The point is that a lot of people are cosmetic-minded and manipulated into spending large amounts of money on skins and other customisations, the system shouldnt exist.

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        I mean, cars aren’t essential to existence either, just don’t buy them <-- technically correct, but not at all a helpful statement when discussing car-price-related issues.