Yes, Overwatch 2 is the straw that has broken this camel’s back. More and more games are cropping up, charging absurd prices for additional content and cosmetics, feebly justified by the game being f2p. I can’t speak for anyone but me, but this is NOT what I want or look for in games; and if you’d direct your attention briefly to the overwatch sub, you’d see hundreds of thousands feeling the same way. It didn’t work for halo infinite; what the players received was a half-baked model relying on players maintaining interest through the legacy of the title alone. However, whilst fortnite is one of the games that spearheaded this model, they’ve since reduced the prices of their in-game currency, alongside providing quality content within the battle passes, and so I respect Epic.
I WANT to pay for a game. Developers, please let me support you’re title and all I ask in return is a finished and whole product , which contains all which I can acquire through the original price tag of the game alone. Ghost of Tsushima did this, for example, and it was magnificent, however, take this with a pinch of salt because i think the comparison of a single and multiplayer game is unfair. Overwatch 1, although not perfect, had a good system and although there were an array of players who complained at the time about the scarcity of rare skins, I think I speak for the whole community when I say it is only now that we realise how great we actually had it.
Essentially, I am wholly against this new financial model of games transitioning to f2p as I am more than happy to fork out an initial sum for a game and receive a finished product in turn, complete with cosmetics and such to collect within.
I want to just say one last thing. Battlefield 2042 really dropped the ball on this one, like really. Not only do they charge full price for a game, they also lock a huge chunks of cosmetics behind a paywall. I always thought battlefield games did well catering to the playerbase, it appears a new era of greed and predatory business has proved me wrong.