Overwatch microtransaction prices revealed
If you don't want to wait to get loot boxes, then buy a few.
If you have been playing - or trying to play - Overwatch since it launched, you've been getting loot crates as you level up. If you don't want to wait, Blizzard has unveiled the pricing for getting more cosmetic loot quickly.
Here's how much impatience will cost you:
- 2 loot boxes: $2 / £1.69 / €2
- 5 loot boxes: $5 / £4 / €5
- 11 loot boxes: $10 / £8 / €10
- 24 loot boxes: $20 / £16 / €20
- 50 loot boxes: $40 / £33 / €40
Each loot box will include up to four new skins, voice lines, animations, and sprays.
Be sure to keep up with our Overwatch coverage as it happens, including all the guides and how-tos.
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replyJohn Keefer posted a new article, Overwatch microtransaction prices revealed
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I think everyone knows that Blizzard is only doing this to focus on the people who have "catch them all" syndrome and already spend hundreds of dollars on microtransactions in other games.
It isn't for the people who don't give a shit about cosmetic stuff. I think Blizzard is doing the right thing here because it will hopefully fund the game for quite awhile long past release. They don't want a paid DLC model that fractures the player base.-
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Over 900 hours to unlock everything without using any coins, someone calculated.
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Yeah, it seems silly these days to make a game that doesn't provide a way for whales to throw money at them. Even if it's less than a hundred of them out of a million players, they'll still see some major bank from it.
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they will be forgiven for having microtransactions, unlike most microtransaction games around here
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i'm not so sure i agree with the reference to WoW.
yesterday i bought from the WoW store a token that gave me:
- level 100
- two maxed professions
- maxed cooking
- a whole bunch of good
- complete set of gear
seems pretty gameplay benefitting to me. if this isn't "pay 2 win" then what is?-
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Because you don't win shit doing that. You're just paying to skip questing/leveling, which IIRC, you don't like doing in the first place.
Now, if you could pay to get raid geared or high end PvP stuff, I'd agree.-
are those not part of the gameplay? royalally was talking about any DLC item with "benefits to gameplay." i'm the one that brought up the term "win."
imo the real difference here is that WoW isn't considered a competitive game. Overwatch obviously is. it's more important that the playing field be level with Overwatch-
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Yeah, I've always felt like "Pay to win" means over other people. A game offering a way to skip a bunch of gameplay isn't P2W, but I don't understand why anyone would do that.
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i've killed two thousand human players and counting since my pally's boost. that's not really relevant though, you guys are missing the point. royalally suggested we'd be mad if these boxes contained anything with benefits to game play at all and mentioned WoW as an example. i mentioned that actually WoW does have things you can buy with benefits to gameplay, and also suggested that i don't think Overwatch will have this because the games are different. you guys went off on a tangent about a term that royalally didn't even use
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Um getting to be a fucking Gundam and shooting rockets is what I need.
I Need coins!!!
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I think I remember them being up front with microtransactions early in closed beta or something. It isn't a surprise for most that followed the news on Overwatch.
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Yeah, cosmetic-only is the way to go when it comes to microtransactions. I never liked it when they provided experience boosts, leveling boosts, mounts, etc. for people that have a lot more disposable income than me.
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it's just literally boxes of skins and sprays. there is no need to ever buy them because you can earn them forever in game as fast as you want
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It doesn't affect you, the (crazy) people out there that want to buy them can, and Blizzard makes $. I'm not seeing a problem.
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Buying loot boxes is such a terrible thing to spend money on. If you could specifically buy skins that would be one thing, but spending money to essentially roll the dice is lame. I knew if I bought a pack of these I'd end up with a ton of sprays and taunts or whatever, sprays are only fun when they are user created like TF2
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My friend bought 1000 boxes. Ridiculous
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Wow ok. There are 21 characters. Each has 54 unlockables. Thats 1,134 total items to unlock. He still needs more!
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oh wait. That'll give him 4,000 items. What does it give you outside of that? Oh hmm. Currency forgot about that.
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But what does currency do outside of unlock those things? If you unlocked them all via boxes, wouldn't the current be pointless?
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That has to get you everything right? Or enough currency to buy what you don't get in the boxes?
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Yep, duplicates gives you coins to buy stuff so whatever he doesn't have by 1k boxes he can buy.
Sad thing I got duplicate item on box 2 :(-
I've gotten one duplicate in like the 8 boxes I've opened so far.
How many items are there to unlock?
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1000 boxes??? Wtf that's like 500 dollars right?
50boxes=40.00
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And now we all know why Blizzard put that in there.
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Oh god, the repetitive stress injury
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Nah, he'll just pay his maid to do it for him while he goes to watch a movie.
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lmao
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in case anyone was still wondering why companies like to include microtransactions
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Yep, it just makes too much sense to give the whales something to spend on. It's easy, fast money.
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That's what she said.
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IIRC they give you one per week for winning a game of that week's arcade mode (a la Hearthstone.)
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it has one transaction that in no way impacts your ability to play
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Does t affect the game in anyway, just like Dota you can play with no dlc/additional content.
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let's pretend it's 2004 and we're having the first conversations about paid DLC all over again
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While willfully forgetting expansion packs.
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yeah that was basically how the DLC conversations went too
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where have you been the last 5 years?
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Go to Hero Gallery. Pick a hero. Buy stuff with credits.
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Don't waste coins when you are low levels currently. Almost every other match you level up and get a loot crate, so why spend gold on something you might get out of a box.
Once people hit level 30-50+ it will take you a while to level up then people will start spending coins.-
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