Kiriko being immediately available to OW1 players definitely helps to soften the blow a bit, but I still think locking heroes behind the battle pass is scummy. It doesn’t make sense in a game like Overwatch.
It does if you want money… hello blizzardActivision.. now they have to buy the battle pass and if they really want that character they’ll either play a lot or pay us to skip levels
It doesn't make sense on overwatch 1... Believe it or not, this game is a different game, will have a different future and I think that this new organization will be extremely beneficial for the game. I'm ready to accept it tho
In a game who's foundational goals have always been to encourage players to "swap heroes to strategically counter the enemy team", the fact that you are locking those counter-picks behind a "battle pass" just shows how far you have distanced yourself from the values you used to badge.
If you suck at the character the counterpick isn't going to matter even if you have access to it. If you are willing to put in the 10-15hrs of play to unlock the character, you'll likely be at a level where it's important and this won't matter. This argument is so dumb.
@@scootycam I love it when people act like they don't already play that much. If it's behind a 10-15 hour paywall, I'd have that character in a week. Yes, I know, someone's going to say "people have jobs". Yeah, same. Playing a few hours a night wracks up pretty quickly.
It’s hard to believe it’s finally here. I definitely distanced myself quite a bit over time, but I’m excited to come back and see how much the game’s evolved.
@@CouleeCosmonaut There’s literally no positives to the Battle Pass system. It just forces people to grind and focus on progression instead of having fun
@@CommanderJona Definitely a major oversimplification. They were working on a bunch of stuff including the pve which is going to be a huge part of the game when that eventually releases.
I hate it, I hate what it stands for: greed. This company has taken do many disgusting turns, the only thing recognisable from 2 decades ago is the name (half of it, anyway) and the logo. Greed, it's all about greed.
I don´t think I like the Battlepass. Overwatch always represented a "purchase once have every future content unlocked" philosophy. It just seems wrong to have new characters locked behind either a lot of grinding or money not to mention it makes a really bad money hungry impression :/
I'm very concerned about the Battle Pass. I noticed in Halo Infinite that people will tend to play the Pass, not the objective, in games; victory comes and goes but hitting 4 headshots in 1 match to get your new cosmetic has a tangible reward associated with it. I'm worried that Battle Pass will fracture OW for casual play. You can't win if 2 of your team are focused on personal challenges instead of the match objective.
Thats cause how infinte pass is made you don't level up unless you do challenges So long as overwatch doesn't have crazy challenges as the only way to level the pass it will be fine
Imma be honest. I'm still very sceptical of heroes being in the Battle Pass but everything else looks amazing. Edit: Apparently heroes are locked until you reach level 55 on the BP... That's.... not good.
As long at they are not too deep in the BP, it’s honesty fine. It also has the added benefit of less people insta-locking the new hero on release cuz they’ll have to play other ones to unlock it! 😂
@@TheDarkVictini yooo, like if you buy battle pass, you can play this hero on a start, but if you dont, just wait some time? That will be much fair. I cannot imagine, that you lose some heroes just because you was offline for a long time
I hope we can get some more information regarding the Battle Pass and costs for stuff prior to October 4! All of this looks awesome but i can't help but think how all of it is placed behind a price tag now.
I can't wait for the 4th new hero to be added and people finally get mad at Blizzard for implementing this stupid practice when they realize they can't play the new meta character without either grinding for hours or paying for it immediately. Everyone's still riding the hype train of OW2 finally coming out, but It'll eventually catch up with the community eventually mark my words.
Unfortunately, I feel the same way. I wish they had just continued Overwatch as it was back in 2019 instead of pushing out a trailer for a game that truly remains unfinished and making us wait 3 years to play a disappointing fraction of that unfinished game. I liked the way things were back in 2019. I was nowhere as in love with the game as I had been 2 years prior, but I still loved Overwatch back in 2019. Somebody take me back there. Literally all we wanted was the PVE. Nobody wanted a predatory micro-transaction system. Nobody wanted a buggy re-release of a game we already know, packaged as some sort of big new game. I mean, some people did want the balance changes for the direction that they're taking the overall gameplay, but I certainly didn't. I'm not enjoying this direction so far. Anyway, I think a lot of people would be happy if they had just continued the way they had been while working on a revolutionary PVE update. The s**t they actually advertised when they originally told us about this.
@@premiumheadpats4150 well, to be fair: Overwatch 2 is not really Overwatch 2. It's more like Overwatch 1 Version 2.0. Actually makes fun, but the predatory battlepass leaves a bitter taste.
@@Megalomon That's the problem. 3 years later and they still haven't given us the Overwatch 2 that was promised. Instead, they put this half-baked nightmare on the table and somehow convinced a whole bunch of people that we should say, "Thank you for this bountiful, ever so nourishing, dumpsterfire. I can't wait for the next course." All of that said, half of this is definitely just me venting my frustrations. As much as I am depressed by the balance changes and the direction they're taking the gameplay, (since it seems they're trying to become more like the competition when what I loved about this game in the first place is that it was different), there are more people who like the balance changes than there are people who dislike them and it's not like it's absolutely ruined. Although she's definitely not all I hoped she would be, Kiriko is still fairly enjoyable. The monetization system is just so absolutely ridiculous that it makes everything else look worse than it would if they had simply charged an extra high box price and left the lootbox system untouched. As it is now, I was doing some math in the shop last night. To get the Watchpoint pack for the battlepass, coins, and space raider skins, plus Kiriko's epic bundle, and two old OWL skins that I missed, it would cost me just over 80 bucks. I started playing Overwatch in the open beta. I have almost every cosmetic that was available in the game and the amount of money I just stated was, like, the hard max I would spend on the game in a year, my max spending usually being much lower. As in maybe half that if I spent any money at all. Instead, it's just over 80 for A FRACTION of the new cosmetics and two old ones I missed. I know there's a WoW classic. I want an Overwatch classic to play while I sit and hope that the PvE eventually comes out. Knowing the quality of the "upgrade", I would take it exactly how it was with zero complaints. Only half-joking (I know that's hoping to reel in the Moon, but I would so love it)
@@legoclonetrooper971 making money doesnt mean good. Star wars sequels made a bunch of money despite it being dogshit. Justin Bieber's Baby was the most watch video on the planet at the time. and etc
One of the things I did love about Overwatch was that I never felt like I had to play it because it was a live-service game but without a battle pass and you played on your own terms. I do not enjoy season passes with a 100 tier grind, especially if it takes weeks to complete. As a destiny 2 player, that already takes up a lot of my time. Now I'm gonna feel like I have to play the game or miss out on stuff when in the past I could just play it whenever I wanted and still get everything that wasn't locked to events. I wanna say that quickly, events are not the same as season passes. I hope people understand this when I say that. An example is the fact that even if you miss the event, next year or during anniversary you can still obtain the things you missed out on. The season pass encourages constant play but when I have 20 games that I "constantly" need to play I'm overwhelmed. I understand that his is a way for games to monetize themselves and for fans of the games to support and recieve more frequent updates. As I said, I'm a d2 player. But it's overwhelming when it's the baseline method for games these days. That being said Overwatch 2 looks great. I can't wait to try it but the season pass stuff really rubs me the wrong way.
Totally understandable. At this point though, I've pushed past the mental manipulation, and I honestly do not care about missing out on skins anymore. I understand they only do it to keep people playing, and I can't be arsed just playing 1 game constantly. I can't do that. My only concern is missing out on heroes... You either buy the pass and get them instantly, or don't and grind. And if you don't grind, you miss them. It's the most scummy, awful use of FOMO I've seen.
It’s just the same as most other games nowadays. Gotta keep up with the change In the gaming world otherwise you’ll just be dissatisfied with every game
@@gardenprogeny1141 you forget that blizzard do actually need to make money with a now f2p game so it's pretty much the only way, they could have done the battle pass just for cosmetics but tbh hardly anybody would buy it then. It's not great but kinda necessary
All I ask is that the battle passes stay available to progress through after the season ends like I’m halo infinite, I love how at least I’m that game you don’t have to worry about losing access to something you already bought after the season finishes
Blizzard OW1: Just play a few games every week and you can unlock every skin in the game, no problems Blizzard OW2: Give us $10 every 9 weeks or you get nothing.
argh! 10$ to earn access to the battle pass 25$ (probably or more) for the "premium pass" (which usually means tier skips for those people who love to throw away money)
@@anthonyjimenez2280 Dude for real... I get the concerns, but this isn't an airport, no need to announce your departure. If you don't like this game don't give Blizzard your money. So much reeeing going on in this comment section.
Watching this gives me a bittersweet feeling. Overwatch 1 was one of the games where I got into the hype at launch and spent many long nights matching up with random players I had good ranked games with from 2016 to 2019 when I stopped playing. I found out I liked playing DVA and Winston even though I hate tank rolls in other games. I'll probably give OW2 a shot but now that I'm working full time and have a GF with limited time to play except on weekends I don't know how I feel about the battlepass system.
Blizzard needs to realize that their audience has grown savvy enough to notice trigger words like "Weekly bundles", "Instant Unlocks", and "Battle Pass". These are all words that indicate that 90% of this game will be weaved into a scheme that encourages you to pay more money. Do you guys remember the days when you bought a game and were able to play all of its content without being constantly pressured to spend more money on it?
This in no way looks like a sequel... it looks like a seasonal update and new character. Wasn't there suppossed to be a big single player campaign with this? Wasn't that their entire thing with OW2?
Blizzard, you probably won't read this but what if you made a hero xp update where if you got kills or you played this specific hero you get xp and you can use that xp that you gained and spend it to buy skin, voicelines, etc. Then there will also be challenges to do with that hero and get xp from the doing the challenge. This is just a suggestion, so if you would like to make this change it just might increase your player count and will have a of replayability. Please respond and tell your thoughts about this comment. Edit: Oh and make it easier to get credits cause 30 credits for challenges is not enough
I'm fine with paying regularly to support everyone who works on this game. I am not fine with paying and being unable to play the game. Really hoping the maintenance that just started helps.
Ok that Mythic Genji, Bomb voyage Junkrat and Cyber punk RoadHog skins looked so awesome. And the long awaited new Junkenstein's Event looks like an all female hero storyline that sounds cool to play through.
I still can't belive that the next heros will be locked in the Battle pass. This is a serious downgrade from overwatch 1. I still want to play competitive with all the heros and without limitations. Overwatch has become a pay to win game
I don't think you can just use the phrase "most rewarding overwatch experience ever" while at the same time selling heroes to people. Seriously just fix that one thing and you have a pretty good business model. People will buy your battlepass if you have good enough skins you don't have to pinch people for the heroes. Have some confidence in yourself.
I'm happy that they made Kiriko insta unlockable if you owned OW1. Also the Genji skin's dragon has also been changed, first time in ages this has happened
I think they only changed it once right ? With the Baihu skin. I wish they'd add more "special" details to skins like Hanzo's Wolf skins shooting... well wolves (and also give Reyes skins his young voice)
definitely gonna try it, but I am just not feeling it yet. hope that we can get back to that 2016 era hype again, cause it still is one of the best pvp games out there.
if you want the 2016 era back join the cause and boycott f2p games. if people keep spending hundreds no thousands of dollars on f2p games instead of 40 for a full game upfront then itll just get worse
@@wtf.is.this.new.alias.system I am gonna play, but I'm not gonna pay. If more do that, the effect is the same since they won't make any money from it.
Being in university, I can't wait to hop on for a quick game to de-stress, where my team surely won't get stomped on because we don't own a hero or have the time to unlock them. I surely won't quit! Right?
1:23 I like how mercy says “this is not the end!” Despite being the end of Overwatch 1. However, I suppose it is not the end of Overwatch as a whole, thank god.
I used to brag about how different Overwatch was. Not needing to grind forever just to play all the heroes and the way you could easily earn all the cosmetics you really liked without spending a dime as long as you played enough. I loved Overwatch because it was something special. Something different. Something unique and refreshing. Not even just in the cosmetics department, but in the gameplay too. Now it seems as though y'all just wanna be like everybody else because it pays more. It's sad.
That's what I've been saying but I've been called a hater for calling out this garbage. Literally nothing but skins but the kicker is we have to pay for it now
"The most rewarding" huh, even though I have the Battle Pass I mostly feel like im just getting junk.. Dont wanna imagine how it feels to not have the battle pass....
Please dont milk this game with money! Ive been playing overwatch for 6yrs and i enjoyed unlocking the skins. I dont mind paying for a pass as long as its cheap
@@neppeth I think they meant specifically that Overwatch was originally supposed to be about counter-picking on the fly by switching heroes in-game as needed. You can't swap heroes mid-match in any of the games you mentioned.
@@devzorsmallz I think the game has evolved from that standpoint. Sure you can switch, but what’s the point in switching to a completely new hero that you’re just going to throw on due to lack of experience. Plus, the heros are not locked behind a paywall: you can unlock it by playing the game. The only thing that you have to pay for are the cosmetics.
Not gonna lie, adding only 3 new heroes might be a death sentence for this "sequel". I don't mind the battle pass, but that's just not enough new content. I vaguely remember Jeff Kaplan promising at least three new heroes per role. What have they been doing all this time ...
SO THERE IS CONTENT!!! i was so scared it was just going to be the beta but with cosmetics glad to finally see something different than junkensteins revenge for the 1000th year in a row
"love" lmao, "pay us more for the cool things" more like, because old lootbox model wasn't good enough to bankroll Blizzard's e-sports addiction... I mean, consistent patches, say goodbye to playing for good skins forever
@@HigakiRinne yeah, about the e-sports part, i have no idea why they are so obsessed with e-sports. Other games maybe make some cosmetics and maybe take a little advice from pro's, but with Blizzard everything revolves around the OWL, instead of listening to the majority of the playerbase.
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Kiriko being immediately available to OW1 players definitely helps to soften the blow a bit, but I still think locking heroes behind the battle pass is scummy. It doesn’t make sense in a game like Overwatch.
It does if you want money… hello blizzardActivision.. now they have to buy the battle pass and if they really want that character they’ll either play a lot or pay us to skip levels
it doesnt work with competitive when you need a counterpick but no one has it unlocked
it makes more sense to do it like apex, overwatch doesn't have enough characters to be locking them behind battle pass
It doesn't make sense on overwatch 1... Believe it or not, this game is a different game, will have a different future and I think that this new organization will be extremely beneficial for the game. I'm ready to accept it tho
You're right - it doesn't make sense in Overwatch 1, but its the only way in OW2
I swear Genji always gets the good stuff
Cause genji mains are so common
Because he’s that guy
Hanzo? Is it you?
Of course… younger siblings…
because genji is amazing
genji is literally F tier
In a game who's foundational goals have always been to encourage players to "swap heroes to strategically counter the enemy team", the fact that you are locking those counter-picks behind a "battle pass" just shows how far you have distanced yourself from the values you used to badge.
you really havent read into it have you?
@@꾸기-o1h I need to read?
If you suck at the character the counterpick isn't going to matter even if you have access to it. If you are willing to put in the 10-15hrs of play to unlock the character, you'll likely be at a level where it's important and this won't matter.
This argument is so dumb.
@@scootycam I love it when people act like they don't already play that much. If it's behind a 10-15 hour paywall, I'd have that character in a week. Yes, I know, someone's going to say "people have jobs". Yeah, same. Playing a few hours a night wracks up pretty quickly.
@@Jekyde412 and if "I have a job so I can't play as much" is the excuse, well great, you have a job, BUY IT.
It’s hard to believe it’s finally here. I definitely distanced myself quite a bit over time, but I’m excited to come back and see how much the game’s evolved.
Evolved paywalls lmfao
@@alastortheradiodemon5567 Do you read?
You mean devolved
devolved* ;[
@@CouleeCosmonaut There’s literally no positives to the Battle Pass system. It just forces people to grind and focus on progression instead of having fun
Ngl the art team went incredibly hard. Definitely a tier above what we're used to. Only fitting for the new title 🔥
3 years and only 3 heroes and new gamemode plus remove one because they can't balance... Just look at riot games 20 champs 100 skins constant patches.
Hi KarQ love your streams
@@CommanderJona tf2, 11 years and little to no rebalancing. Game plays well
LMAO no way this guys using riot games as a comparison for what a good game should be
@@CommanderJona Definitely a major oversimplification. They were working on a bunch of stuff including the pve which is going to be a huge part of the game when that eventually releases.
Hard to believe it’s finally here
cool
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@@Drunkass69 misread what you said thought you were saying OW2 is trash
The artists did a great job creating these skins and what not, let's see how much the business people make us grind/pay for it.
Ya gotta grind to the 6th page of an 8 page battle pass. It's on tier/level/whatever 55. Out of 80. It's so bad.
If it’s like multiversus it will collapse, if its like fortnite itll fair well.
And the artists will earn the same while blizzard gets the extra money for putting their job on the battle pass
@@Score_Magala bruh imagine we just can't unlock a character if we miss a battle pass
@@starshotstream They said if you miss it in the battle pass there will be challenges to unlock them or you can just purchase them.
Kiriko is AMAZING, but we can't forget about that MYTHIC SKIN for Genji
The mythic skin is so cool
I think that having a high octane looking support is also going to bring a lot of new players to the role which is exciting as a support main :)
@@dippydoco2868 Agreed
Excited ML7?
When your stream will start?
I hate it, I hate what it stands for: greed.
This company has taken do many disgusting turns, the only thing recognisable from 2 decades ago is the name (half of it, anyway) and the logo.
Greed, it's all about greed.
I don´t think I like the Battlepass. Overwatch always represented a "purchase once have every future content unlocked" philosophy. It just seems wrong to have new characters locked behind either a lot of grinding or money not to mention it makes a really bad money hungry impression :/
I'm very concerned about the Battle Pass. I noticed in Halo Infinite that people will tend to play the Pass, not the objective, in games; victory comes and goes but hitting 4 headshots in 1 match to get your new cosmetic has a tangible reward associated with it. I'm worried that Battle Pass will fracture OW for casual play. You can't win if 2 of your team are focused on personal challenges instead of the match objective.
Thats cause how infinte pass is made you don't level up unless you do challenges
So long as overwatch doesn't have crazy challenges as the only way to level the pass it will be fine
Yeah this is a big concern of mine too.
Don't like it don't play it.
They showed how challenges work it’s all about winning the game
I believe it's been confirmed that you don't progress with specific BP missions in OW2
I already feel the burnout from feeling pressured to play when I don’t want to just so I can get all the skins for dva
At least the first one is a gimmie. Its in teir 1 of the battle pass meaning as soon as you buy the BP you get it no matter what.
If your problem is to play the game, then you should change it
@@theedgyboy4644 no my problem is to grind the game within a certain time period
Aww poor bot :(
@@IllegalPizza777 yeah as soon as you "buy" the BP. Haha
“Most rewarding overwatch experience ever. And by that it will be most rewards for us to put everything behind a pay wall”
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Imma be honest. I'm still very sceptical of heroes being in the Battle Pass but everything else looks amazing.
Edit: Apparently heroes are locked until you reach level 55 on the BP... That's.... not good.
As long at they are not too deep in the BP, it’s honesty fine. It also has the added benefit of less people insta-locking the new hero on release cuz they’ll have to play other ones to unlock it! 😂
@@gerharddamm5933 they are unlocked 55 out of 80
@@gerharddamm5933 If they do it like Siege where you get the character on tier 1 with a exclusive skin then I'm fine with that.
@@TheDarkVictini yooo, like if you buy battle pass, you can play this hero on a start, but if you dont, just wait some time? That will be much fair. I cannot imagine, that you lose some heroes just because you was offline for a long time
Why are people mad at this? It seems much easier to get these heroes than to get them in Valorant or league
I hope we can get some more information regarding the Battle Pass and costs for stuff prior to October 4! All of this looks awesome but i can't help but think how all of it is placed behind a price tag now.
You can look at the whole track in the game before deciding to buy or not
1000 OW COINS for the Premium pass
Probably gonna be $10 for the pass
Its roughly 10$ usd
I can't wait for the 4th new hero to be added and people finally get mad at Blizzard for implementing this stupid practice when they realize they can't play the new meta character without either grinding for hours or paying for it immediately. Everyone's still riding the hype train of OW2 finally coming out, but It'll eventually catch up with the community eventually mark my words.
I'm already missing OW1 :/
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Unfortunately, I feel the same way. I wish they had just continued Overwatch as it was back in 2019 instead of pushing out a trailer for a game that truly remains unfinished and making us wait 3 years to play a disappointing fraction of that unfinished game. I liked the way things were back in 2019. I was nowhere as in love with the game as I had been 2 years prior, but I still loved Overwatch back in 2019. Somebody take me back there.
Literally all we wanted was the PVE. Nobody wanted a predatory micro-transaction system. Nobody wanted a buggy re-release of a game we already know, packaged as some sort of big new game. I mean, some people did want the balance changes for the direction that they're taking the overall gameplay, but I certainly didn't. I'm not enjoying this direction so far. Anyway, I think a lot of people would be happy if they had just continued the way they had been while working on a revolutionary PVE update. The s**t they actually advertised when they originally told us about this.
@@premiumheadpats4150 well, to be fair: Overwatch 2 is not really Overwatch 2. It's more like Overwatch 1 Version 2.0. Actually makes fun, but the predatory battlepass leaves a bitter taste.
@@Megalomon That's the problem. 3 years later and they still haven't given us the Overwatch 2 that was promised. Instead, they put this half-baked nightmare on the table and somehow convinced a whole bunch of people that we should say, "Thank you for this bountiful, ever so nourishing, dumpsterfire. I can't wait for the next course."
All of that said, half of this is definitely just me venting my frustrations. As much as I am depressed by the balance changes and the direction they're taking the gameplay, (since it seems they're trying to become more like the competition when what I loved about this game in the first place is that it was different), there are more people who like the balance changes than there are people who dislike them and it's not like it's absolutely ruined. Although she's definitely not all I hoped she would be, Kiriko is still fairly enjoyable.
The monetization system is just so absolutely ridiculous that it makes everything else look worse than it would if they had simply charged an extra high box price and left the lootbox system untouched. As it is now, I was doing some math in the shop last night. To get the Watchpoint pack for the battlepass, coins, and space raider skins, plus Kiriko's epic bundle, and two old OWL skins that I missed, it would cost me just over 80 bucks. I started playing Overwatch in the open beta. I have almost every cosmetic that was available in the game and the amount of money I just stated was, like, the hard max I would spend on the game in a year, my max spending usually being much lower. As in maybe half that if I spent any money at all. Instead, it's just over 80 for A FRACTION of the new cosmetics and two old ones I missed.
I know there's a WoW classic. I want an Overwatch classic to play while I sit and hope that the PvE eventually comes out. Knowing the quality of the "upgrade", I would take it exactly how it was with zero complaints. Only half-joking (I know that's hoping to reel in the Moon, but I would so love it)
Nice to see blizzard are doing things that most people hate about video games
It’s sad. But most thinks that is how a game is being cared by devs nowadays
People hate super cool skins and other cosmetics, Fortnite is literally making millions of dollars off this.
@@legoclonetrooper971 making money doesnt mean good. Star wars sequels made a bunch of money despite it being dogshit. Justin Bieber's Baby was the most watch video on the planet at the time. and etc
@@yeagermanhwo tbh i love the battle pass 10usd per 9 weeks for a ton more content sign me up
@@yeagermanhwo are you saying the Star Wars movies are trash?!?!
One of the things I did love about Overwatch was that I never felt like I had to play it because it was a live-service game but without a battle pass and you played on your own terms. I do not enjoy season passes with a 100 tier grind, especially if it takes weeks to complete. As a destiny 2 player, that already takes up a lot of my time. Now I'm gonna feel like I have to play the game or miss out on stuff when in the past I could just play it whenever I wanted and still get everything that wasn't locked to events. I wanna say that quickly, events are not the same as season passes. I hope people understand this when I say that. An example is the fact that even if you miss the event, next year or during anniversary you can still obtain the things you missed out on. The season pass encourages constant play but when I have 20 games that I "constantly" need to play I'm overwhelmed. I understand that his is a way for games to monetize themselves and for fans of the games to support and recieve more frequent updates. As I said, I'm a d2 player. But it's overwhelming when it's the baseline method for games these days. That being said Overwatch 2 looks great. I can't wait to try it but the season pass stuff really rubs me the wrong way.
Don't buy the gamepass
Totally understandable. At this point though, I've pushed past the mental manipulation, and I honestly do not care about missing out on skins anymore. I understand they only do it to keep people playing, and I can't be arsed just playing 1 game constantly. I can't do that. My only concern is missing out on heroes... You either buy the pass and get them instantly, or don't and grind. And if you don't grind, you miss them. It's the most scummy, awful use of FOMO I've seen.
@@CCoreOW I dont care about the skins the problem is that if you are not playing you are missing the heroes
As a d2 player myself, if you play d2, you deserve what you get.
@@אלעד-פ2ר Yeah, that's what I said haha
I'm already missing the loot boxes. At least you can get a ton of them just by playing.
Pharah straight up looks like a Warhammer 40K Space Marine!
We're all in this together!
Except for those who haven't bought the original Overwatch and can't play all the heroes.
@bir liso wtf that wasn't even the subject .
@bir liso cringe bot response
@@shepherdrm8486 he’s a bot
How is that top answer?
@@Drunkass69 there won't be comp players if only people with the cool new broken hero can actually do good in the game
love how they're sticking to their lies with "now unlockable" instead of "now purchasable"
Not a fan of locking characters behind a pay wall or a play grind, i miss the instant unlock in OW1, makes the game fairer to every single player
Don't like it don't play it.
A good argument was it deters smurfs, which is nice
Ok this is great and all and I love it EXCEPT I don’t like how the new heroes are going to be unlocked from now on.
Fr I couldn’t agree more
Imagine it like brawl stars
It’s just the same as most other games nowadays. Gotta keep up with the change In the gaming world otherwise you’ll just be dissatisfied with every game
@@jeffreythelad8398 Or you could actually try to be different and not fall victim to the same tropes that plagued halo infinite.
@@gardenprogeny1141 you forget that blizzard do actually need to make money with a now f2p game so it's pretty much the only way, they could have done the battle pass just for cosmetics but tbh hardly anybody would buy it then. It's not great but kinda necessary
rip OW1, you will be deeply missed but never forgotten ❤️
take me back to the night we met
"a new era begins" lmao
All I ask is that the battle passes stay available to progress through after the season ends like I’m halo infinite, I love how at least I’m that game you don’t have to worry about losing access to something you already bought after the season finishes
Given Warzone doesn't do that
Overwatch won't either bruh
agreed.
unfortunately not gonna happen
Alright guys, make sure to keep your expectations at ground level. Maybe even underground.
Nuclear fallout shelter level
The echo and lucio skin didn't come out until season 2, fun fact
0:43 It's great to see Bangalore finally accepted into Overwatch I'm so proud of her.
Bangalore don't be looking that hot in apex though 👀
🤣
Mozambique here? 😢
Blizzard OW1: Just play a few games every week and you can unlock every skin in the game, no problems
Blizzard OW2: Give us $10 every 9 weeks or you get nothing.
argh! 10$ to earn access to the battle pass
25$ (probably or more) for the "premium pass" (which usually means tier skips for those people who love to throw away money)
More concerning was how 40% of the trailer was about new cosmetics you can buy
THIS IS NOT A DRILL! WE FINALLY HAVE MARKETING FOR THE GAME! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
:D
WE UNLOCKED MARKETING WOO HOO
we have unlocked marketing perms
Don't like it don't play it.
@@anthonyjimenez2280 Dude for real... I get the concerns, but this isn't an airport, no need to announce your departure. If you don't like this game don't give Blizzard your money. So much reeeing going on in this comment section.
Cosmetics I get, but locking HEROES behind a Battle Pass paywall/grind is absolutely atrocious. I can’t be the only one who feels this way.
Watching this gives me a bittersweet feeling. Overwatch 1 was one of the games where I got into the hype at launch and spent many long nights matching up with random players I had good ranked games with from 2016 to 2019 when I stopped playing. I found out I liked playing DVA and Winston even though I hate tank rolls in other games. I'll probably give OW2 a shot but now that I'm working full time and have a GF with limited time to play except on weekends I don't know how I feel about the battlepass system.
you could buy the characters instead but that’ll be a lot of characters/skins to buy. this is a mobile game problem
Blizzard needs to realize that their audience has grown savvy enough to notice trigger words like "Weekly bundles", "Instant Unlocks", and "Battle Pass". These are all words that indicate that 90% of this game will be weaved into a scheme that encourages you to pay more money. Do you guys remember the days when you bought a game and were able to play all of its content without being constantly pressured to spend more money on it?
Well said 👏
All we need is to be able to pick favorite skins so it shuffles between the ones we want to use
Yes please, having too many skins but didn't know which one to choose
Not a problem for new players, they will have 0-1 skins to choose from
ur wish is fulfilled
Imagine we are all coming back in one year and say "Ah, I miss the OG days".
And we do
I miss the OG days.
I never thought i will see a new Halloween event. I'm proud of all of you overwatch Developer's.
Um...like...junkerstein event?
@@PyroManiacOW A new one , as in one that isnt Junkenstein's revenge with different heroes to choose from.
I never thought I would be excited by the idea of another Halloween event
@@alybadry203 even other events never change, junkestein revenge wasn't the only event
So cool u get to play with tank , junkerquee
This in no way looks like a sequel... it looks like a seasonal update and new character. Wasn't there suppossed to be a big single player campaign with this? Wasn't that their entire thing with OW2?
Blizzard, you probably won't read this but what if you made a hero xp update where if you got kills or you played this specific hero you get xp and you can use that xp that you gained and spend it to buy skin, voicelines, etc. Then there will also be challenges to do with that hero and get xp from the doing the challenge. This is just a suggestion, so if you would like to make this change it just might increase your player count and will have a of replayability. Please respond and tell your thoughts about this comment.
Edit: Oh and make it easier to get credits cause 30 credits for challenges is not enough
1:13 Blizzard decided to make echo's skin a season 2 battlepass unlockable fsr... Just blizzard doing blizzard things I guess
"The most rewarding Overwatch experience ever" *proceeds to give players 60 coins per week for completing challenges*
I'm fine with paying regularly to support everyone who works on this game. I am not fine with paying and being unable to play the game. Really hoping the maintenance that just started helps.
I am so HYPED for this! Overwatch is back!
Hopefully overwatch Makes a big comeback cause I absolutely loved the first
looks like an amazing game! surely nothing will go wrong...
Dva's EDM skin is everything 😍
I know im buying the battle pass becuase of it 😍
hero locked to battlepass is fine if it's in the first 15 tiers BUT WHEN IT'S AT 55th TIER THEN THERE'S A PROBLEM!
"The world could always use more heros" SHE STOLE THAT FROM TRACER HOW DARE THEY. THATS HER LINE
0:52 *OH MY GOD YESSSSS!!!*
I cannot wait to make (hopefully) endless videos on this, October is gonna be awesome
Please don’t lock heroes behind the battle pass.
The soul of this game left with Jeff
I love this news I just hope they don't go overboard with paid things
It’s Blizzard, of course they will
Rip the only fair lootboxes in gaming time for 10$ skins lol
I honestly hate how oblivious people are, hoping that Blizzard will stop being Blizzard.
It’s literally all paid things bruh
Activision Blizzard made Diablo Immortal. They absolutely will cause it makes them the most money. Gotta pay for Bobby Kotick's for seventeenth yacht.
Ok that Mythic Genji, Bomb voyage Junkrat and Cyber punk RoadHog skins looked so awesome. And the long awaited new Junkenstein's Event looks like an all female hero storyline that sounds cool to play through.
"For the most rewarding Overwatch experience ever."
there's no way they put that in there
I love how it turned out, it’s just a little bit sad that the heroes are locked behind the battlepass but I hope it works
As long as they aren’t in the paid pass I’m okay with it
Can thou read?
@@charKT-7461 they're not, it's official
@@adamkamienski7322 still entices people to pay tiers to skip.
@@SmokeyOwOs yup, that's the world of f2p games, you can pay but you're not forced to do it
I love paying money to unlock heroes
Money hungry Blizzard cashing out with a ‘battle pass’. Must’ve been hit hard by all those lawsuits.
Overwatch continues to have the best skins in the fps scene bar none
Apex on a good day can be pretty compelling IMO, but yeah, in general, usually.
Fortnite Goku would love to have a word
@@Supermariosupervideo Fortnite is on a different dimension if skins I'm not even thinking about them
@@jackbrooks1053 Fortnite censors its female skins no thanks.
I still can't belive that the next heros will be locked in the Battle pass. This is a serious downgrade from overwatch 1. I still want to play competitive with all the heros and without limitations. Overwatch has become a pay to win game
You have to have all heros to play comp and at the start if the season there's a 2 week period where the new hero can't be played in comp
I still need to pay or to grind the battle pass to play competitive
Don't like it don't play it broke boys.
@@anthonyjimenez2280 are you self projecting?
@@Yumemi_Riamu don't like it don't play it
okay but looking back at this, what is that echo skin???
look at season 2 battle pass lmfao
I AM SHITTING DYING CRYING, I CANT BELIEVE OW2 IS SO CLOSE. ALL OF THE SKINS LOOK SO GOOD TOO!!!! YOU DID THAT TEAM 4!!!
I don't think you can just use the phrase "most rewarding overwatch experience ever" while at the same time selling heroes to people. Seriously just fix that one thing and you have a pretty good business model. People will buy your battlepass if you have good enough skins you don't have to pinch people for the heroes. Have some confidence in yourself.
Heroes are locked until tier 55 for people that don't want or don't have money to buy the bp... that is scummy.
So this game is marketing/selling itself with skins, rather than gameplay LMAO
"Rise up for the most rewarding Overwatch experience ever" BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I see Junkrat prefectly fit in the Addams Family
Kiriko being an instant unlock for OW1 players warms my heart :)
You shouldn’t have to unlock heroes in the first place anyway
Why should the heroes be unlocks at all?
@@iainkilcar7463 bc it’s f2p
@@sonza___ f2p
@@potatogamerz3421 would rather it wasn't
I'm happy that they made Kiriko insta unlockable if you owned OW1. Also the Genji skin's dragon has also been changed, first time in ages this has happened
They didn't though. You need to buy the NEW version of OW1 that includes the first OW2 battle pass for that.
I think they only changed it once right ? With the Baihu skin. I wish they'd add more "special" details to skins like Hanzo's Wolf skins shooting... well wolves (and also give Reyes skins his young voice)
I never thought I'd say this, but God I miss loot boxes.
Wow, look at all these monetization features! So glad we got this instead of more than three heroes!
LITERALLY! AND PEOPLE ARE EXCITED ANYWAYS
It's what the gaming industry has become, maybe adapting to the modern gaming industry will help the game survive
Taking the lazy route of hiding characters in the battle pass to get more money will never stop disappointing me
So many skins- they've been holding them back these 3 years for this game. Give me. Give me skins
Give them money then, and for some skin it will be like 60 bucks apparently 🤡🤡
definitely gonna try it, but I am just not feeling it yet. hope that we can get back to that 2016 era hype again, cause it still is one of the best pvp games out there.
if you want the 2016 era back join the cause and boycott f2p games. if people keep spending hundreds no thousands of dollars on f2p games instead of 40 for a full game upfront then itll just get worse
@@wtf.is.this.new.alias.system I am gonna play, but I'm not gonna pay. If more do that, the effect is the same since they won't make any money from it.
Being in university, I can't wait to hop on for a quick game to de-stress, where my team surely won't get stomped on because we don't own a hero or have the time to unlock them. I surely won't quit! Right?
Nah you ll like to see the downfall of a game you used to like so much and play it everyday like you did in the past...
Please list here all the +80 new skins, I am curious
I much prefer the loot boxes in OW 1. I bought every skin, emote, etc. I wanted without spending a dime over my initial purchase.
1:23 I like how mercy says “this is not the end!” Despite being the end of Overwatch 1. However, I suppose it is not the end of Overwatch as a whole, thank god.
This is not the end. It’s only the beginning. - Olivia Pierce, Doom 2016
I used to brag about how different Overwatch was. Not needing to grind forever just to play all the heroes and the way you could easily earn all the cosmetics you really liked without spending a dime as long as you played enough. I loved Overwatch because it was something special. Something different. Something unique and refreshing. Not even just in the cosmetics department, but in the gameplay too. Now it seems as though y'all just wanna be like everybody else because it pays more. It's sad.
As always, trailer has me HYPED!!!
After all this years its soo exciting to see new faces on the roaster
Kiriko witch skin is cute asf
why is 80% of the trailer for a self proclaimed sequel about skins and a battle pass?
That's what I've been saying but I've been called a hater for calling out this garbage. Literally nothing but skins but the kicker is we have to pay for it now
I'm not gona lie...I had some tears in my eyes. Finally...it's almost here!
WHY DID THEY HAVE TO MAKE EVERTHING SO MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE LIKE THEY WENT OVERBOARD
"The most rewarding" huh, even though I have the Battle Pass I mostly feel like im just getting junk..
Dont wanna imagine how it feels to not have the battle pass....
Please dont milk this game with money! Ive been playing overwatch for 6yrs and i enjoyed unlocking the skins. I dont mind paying for a pass as long as its cheap
I will miss OW1 so much.
Me too
Me as well. This 5 v 5 run and gun stinks.
@@hockeyspaz8425 Agreed, they removed what made overwatch its own thing :(
Pretty awesome. And the fact that this drops in less than a month is almost enought to make me cry 😩
u srs? 3 new heroes and a paywall. Yeah best game ever...
@@Boundless2k10 can’t you just let people be happy, you sad prick?
it's literally the same game as the one that's available since 2016 except you're forced to grind for new heroes lol
Feel the same, maybe too much changes but I feel the hype
@@Boundless2k10 paywall u know what it mean ?
Imagine locking heroes behind a battle pass in a hero oriented game that’s dependent on metas and counter picking 💀
I wonder what other games are like that !
Like Valorant, Apex Legends, League of Legends and more? Yeah I can clearly imagine it. Seriously you guys need a reality check...
First time?
@@neppeth I think they meant specifically that Overwatch was originally supposed to be about counter-picking on the fly by switching heroes in-game as needed. You can't swap heroes mid-match in any of the games you mentioned.
@@devzorsmallz I think the game has evolved from that standpoint. Sure you can switch, but what’s the point in switching to a completely new hero that you’re just going to throw on due to lack of experience. Plus, the heros are not locked behind a paywall: you can unlock it by playing the game. The only thing that you have to pay for are the cosmetics.
You can easily see how this might blow up in their face
I didnt expect a 40k themed skin but I am here for it.
1 step forward 2 steps back
Not gonna lie, adding only 3 new heroes might be a death sentence for this "sequel". I don't mind the battle pass, but that's just not enough new content. I vaguely remember Jeff Kaplan promising at least three new heroes per role. What have they been doing all this time ...
Overwatch 2 should have just been it's own game with a whole new cast of characters. I'm really not going to pay for battle passes to unlock heroes.
SO THERE IS CONTENT!!!
i was so scared it was just going to be the beta but with cosmetics
glad to finally see something different than junkensteins revenge for the 1000th year in a row
I would have happily payed £40 or more for this game. Why did they feel the need to do a battle pass?
I wish they had put this level of love into ow 1. It probably wouldn’t have died tbh.
that first year of overwatch was godly. wtf did they do to it. all the events wowed me and then they just ... repeated them
"love" lmao, "pay us more for the cool things" more like, because old lootbox model wasn't good enough to bankroll Blizzard's e-sports addiction... I mean, consistent patches, say goodbye to playing for good skins forever
they put way more love into OW1’s launch, then just screwed off for 6 years
@@HigakiRinne yeah, about the e-sports part, i have no idea why they are so obsessed with e-sports. Other games maybe make some cosmetics and maybe take a little advice from pro's, but with Blizzard everything revolves around the OWL, instead of listening to the majority of the playerbase.
I think a battle pass is what's gonna make me quit overwatch, no offense but I hate battlepasses