#battlepass

[phanzon]

The new ship name for Pomni X Jax X Zooble is now Battlepass. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

[v-worldd]

A dragon doesn't fear the fire, he commands it 🔥

[candiedfrogs]

Haha funy fortite

Guys i have a fn obsession its genuinely so embarassing

[torakigaha]

Another attempt at my favorite skin right now in the Fortnite battlepass.

[nebulablackjack]

[ramblesbiab]

Not gonna lie, I miss when I could just download a colorful little mobile game cuz I’m bored and it wouldn’t have 3 battlepasses, 15 “New Player” value deals, a purposefully low maximum energy that only recovers every 2 hours, a completely unneccesary gacha mechanic, and somehow still a 4+ rating in the app store.

[wack-ashimself]

I figured out blizzard's scam with making overwatch 2 free....it's quite evil genius...

I couldn't get my head around it.

Why make a paid game free? I know it's been done before, but usually when they outright failed initially (COUGH DESTINY). And not that I didn't want people to play it (tho adding mass amounts of noobs wasn't on my happy list), it was more 'you are a 22 BILLION dollar company. YOU DO NOT DO THINGS IF THEY ARE NOT PROFITABLE!'

Took me 3 days, but I figure it out.

First off, like so many pay to play: multiple in game currencies.

The money I gave hours of my life to earn in overwatch 1 was 1/2 worthless in the new game. Sure, I could buy things...but things I already owned/had access to. Practically NOTHING new.

Second, the new meaningful currency was impossible to earn.

Battlepass (which had a LOCKED character you could not get thru ANY other means) had it so the currency was 1000 credits. If you did the challenges, at max, PER WEEK, you could get is 60. That's 16.6 weeks. Each battlepass is 60 days. So you couldn't earn enough ever to get it regularly. They made it impossible.

Which brings me onto #3. The worst thing to realize....

Battlepass, by their numbers, is 60 days long.

That 6 a year.

At $10 (plus tax) per time.

The original game cost $60.

In other words, every single year, if you go full battle pass, you're practically buying the game EVERY-SINGLE-YEAR.

Oh, I lied btw. Here's the dirtiest part.

Their challenges, for battlepass credits (yeah, you buy it, but have to still EARN it) AND the credits to buy battlepass are almost exclusively locked behind 'won games.' So in other words, you spend your hard earned money, but suck or have a shit team, it's near impossible to complete a battlepass in the time frame.

But don't worry; they got you.

Too sucky or stupid or no friends or shitty team mates?

You can buy tiers in the battlepass.

Costing even more than the original game.

Not to mention the whole phone # thing was to data mine. Not protect you. So they got you by the balls.

It's like no one ever thinks a tech company would do a false flag on themselves for money. Idiots. They were not prepared, it got them endless press and media coverage, they could lie about who did the attack, and come out looking like the good guys. Geez. EVIL BUSINESSES ARE WHAT MAKE UP ALMOST ALL BUSINESSES YOU DUMB FUCKS!!!!

[artofbigham]

My recent contributions to Valorant! The .sys line which began its life inspired by storm trooped helmet shapes and eventually turned into the spiritual successor to the old .exe line.  My first explorations of it began with a carbine which sadly wasn’t a part of the final weapons lineup hence why it doesn’t make an appearance.  Enjoy!