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Players Will Need to Fully Reinstall Overwatch After Next Major Update - MMORPG.com
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Players Will Need to Fully Reinstall Overwatch After Next Major Update - MMORPG.com
The Overwatch site has been updated with a new post to let the community know that the game's next major update will require players to reinstall the game completely. According to the post, this is due to the addition of "some pretty fundamental changes to the game client" on the back end. The post goes on to say that the "substantial number" of changes means that it isn't efficient to simply patch over the existing client.
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All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
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Doing some quick research seems there is a definite plan to go cross platform with OW,although i doubt that is happening already.
The BAD? This reminded me of their very shotty cash grab..pre order now to get this HERO,buy that hero,this is a very lame way to grind money by selling heroes.
It would of course be MUCH more fair to just sell the game which is the TYPICAL way this has been done the last 20 years with other fpsr's but this is the new wave of GREED.
They also could have simply allowed modding,allow the public to add skins,but oh no we must have full control over the sales market and not give the players ANYTHING.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
uh please dude, stfu. modding in an online pvp game, you must be fucking kidding.
and for the cash grab part: again, you must be fucking kidding. if you have ANYTHING usefull to say, do it. but please spare us your bitching
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
Nice little rant there with your second paragraph that had nothing to with anything in the article or anything to do with anything anyone said.
I need to put your rant in it's place though...
FPS games are where microtransactions for skins and cosmetics started in the west.. and it was Valve that did it with Counter Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2.. so.. it's been pretty standard in online shooters for the last.. 15 years?
Please explain how they are supposed to matchmake players when they are all running 1000s of different user created skins. How is that ever going to work in this type of game? Force everyone to install every mod anyone has ever created so everyone can see the skins you are using?
.. and, er, all the heroes in Overwatch are included in the box price and every hero added since the game launched has been free. All the new maps and game modes are free too. They will continue to be free.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Like ... there's literally no paywall to anything in Overwatch. Once you buy the game that's it, you get access to every single hero released or about to be released.
I don't know how dumb one has to be to misunderstand at least this about Overwatch.
And yeah, in case you didn't know (and you clearly didn't) the game is buy to play with no recurring fees.
And no, you can't even buy skins with real money. Why? Because you purchase loot boxes with real money. And loot boxes do not guarantee anything. You might only get player icons and emotes from 10 boxes.
The only skins that cost money are the Overwatch League ones. And as far as I know, the money made from those skins go in huge part to the organizations behind the said teams. It's almost like buying merchandise for that said team, but digital.
just like his real life counterpart, give him a coin (or a wtf) and hope he goes rambling somewhere else.
They took away Torb's armor packs and made his turret easier to deploy but more disposable and without his remote-triggered turret ult, and gave him lava that he has to shoot in person. So he's basically another shooter with a turret on the side.
Now they've introduced Ashe, half-sniper and half gun-slinger with a couple tricks up her sleeve.
One of the reasons I played OW was that it offered some different ways to contribute, letting people who aren't the sharpest-eyed and fastest-reflexed enjoy playing anyway.
That seems to be going away, much to the joy of those who just want another FPS game. Or is that just my misperception?
Brrrflp!