#blizzard activision

[pi-seas]

Blizzard give Juno a fishbowl skin rn

[pissfunposting]

Blizzard Activision after getting away with the sexual assault allegations and tricking their player base into playing a half baked sequel that's never going to be finished

[gamingisalifestyle]

Onslaught Garrosh by Joseph Weston

[emma-dennehy-presents]

So havent really been fucking with Blizzard for a long time now, but I think I might be going back to Overwatch. Been really wanting to play a team shooter since the whole Concord debacle. Started playing Paladins again but it looks like that game is a dead horse. I always play against the same people. Devs and artists are dropping out of the game too and I suspect its servers only have a couple years of life left. I have my reasons for not playing TF2 anymore. OW2 seems like my only option if I want a player base.

[eyesoverinfinity]

As a tf2 and l4d fan watching from the outside.

[falconlord5]

70 Billion Dollars!?!

I had a different post planned for today, but then Microsoft dropped a bombshell that will no doubt reverberate through fandoms for decades to come: They bought Activision-Blizzard for 68.7 billion dollars. That’s billion, with a ‘b’. Aside from the stupid amounts of money involved, this buy-out (to be completed by the end of Microsoft’s 2023 year, according to Bobby Kotick himself, as seen…

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[corhore]

[clownaddict]

(My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined)

So I downloaded Overwatch2 to see what’s new and what’s not and... welp

So you can only buy the “new” skins, aka the skins that came out after the game was released/every skin not included in the base game/event skins, with a special battle-pass currency. This battle-pass currency can only be obtained through doing weekly challenges where you get a sum total of 60 coins a week.

A legendary skin costs you about 1900 coins.

Which means that you need to do weekly challenges for 8 MONTHS STRAIGHT before you can buy a SINGLE LEGENDARY SKIN.

This, however, can all be bypassed by simply buying the coins off the store, where you can buy 100 coins for a dollar. Which means you are rewarded less than a dollars worth of coins for a whole week of playing. 60 cent for a week of your time, if you are a free-to-play player.

“bUh iTs fReE tO plAy nOw!”

Yeah, but what the fuck am I playing for? I paid for the game when it came out, and now there are NO REWARDS AT ALL for playing the game! Back in OW1, I could play 3-4 matches and get a free box with 4 cosmetics, a simple dopamine fix that kept me hooked so I would play some more. But now all you get is a battle-pass level and maybe a sticker every 5 levels unless you wanna pay for the premium pass. I don’t get a feeling of satisfaction from seeing an imaginary number go up, I get it from looking good and having fun emotes and sprays while I’m being really bad at FPS games.

The loot-box system WAS fucked up purely because you could buy the boxes for real money. If the loot-boxes was only obtainable though playing the game, leveling up and doing event challenges, that would be perfectly fine! That is how I got all my cosmetics, because I dedicated myself to the game!

Now, all I get for that dedication is a slightly higher number on a wall that no-one else but me sees and a shitty little icon.