Gentleman Jack
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She's clearly stabilizing her center of gravity for the recoil on her sniper rifle.
Yeah, that's it.
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Blizzard announces Overwatch. Team based MP Shooter [Up: Trailers, Screens, More]
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She's clearly stabilizing her center of gravity for the recoil on her sniper rifle.
Yeah, that's it.
This isnt Titan though. At best its some pieces of Titan Blizzard thought worth saving.
Much, much worse.
Because to just get all the champs in LoL it would cost hundreds of dollars? Yes you can unlock them through play time, but when the other option is $60 for everything I know which model is worse.
I wouldn't say so. Dota definitely pays for itself and generates a ton of revenue besides. We know they made like $30 million just from one virtual item. There are other reasons why Dota's model wouldn't work for a lot of games, but trojan horse ain't one.
League gets away with it because characters are pretty interchangable in their role so you arent missing out by not having multiple AD carries or whatever. Best models are cosmetic microtransactions followed by Smite's model, which is basically league's model but you can get all the gods present and future if you pay a lump price. So you have real options, not grind forever or pay a shit ton to unlock everyone.
Getting everything (functional, not cosmetic) requires you to pay a lot more than $60.
TheRealTalker
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story looks corny but who cares it is a MP shooter
game looks great
Edit: Cornered about Balance though
game looks great
Edit: Cornered about Balance though
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Deleted member 10571
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I don't know. It looks nice, but for a balanced Team Shooter, it sounds like way too much classes n shit. Maybe I think too much into it tho. If it's F2P I'll probably try it, but it'll have a hard time to be better than TF2. Or Quake, depending on what style you like.
I like the character designs and personality they're going for with this after watching a few videos. Roster looks distinct and interesting while still managing to be cohesive in tone, almost like the cast of a fighting game. Even if Overwatch pulls ideas from a lot of established sources (including Blizzard games) it's nice to see a burst of creativity from that studio after being dormant for so long.
Woo-Fu
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Steam is the trojan horse, you've got it backwards. Dota2 makes bushels of money off of cosmetics. It isn't some sort of loss-leader for Valve just to promote Steam. Did you notice how much money was dumped into the last International by fans?
If a game is going to be F2P I prefer for it to be this model, where nothing but cosmetics are behind the paywall. Where there is no pay2win.
As far as other companies being able to follow that model the only limitation is the quality and mass appeal of their games.
If Overwatch isn't F2P I would be disinclined to buy it. I don't want to have to keep paying for expansions now that there are many other good F2P games that have new content on a regular basis without having to buy an expansion, without having those expansions fragment the community. Let the whales pay.
SolidSnakeUS
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Honestly, I'd love to play this. Looks like the kind of shooter I could definitely get into 
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.veloxStrix
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The bane of every new game that has released this year. They always looks so generic.
SolidSnakeUS
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Tracer and Hanzo would be my characters.
-MD-
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I'd say the same, faster hit-n-run classes are more my style. I dig some of the support characters too.
Not a fan of tank classes though, those will probably be my least played.
SteveWinwood
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no freckles 
-MD-
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no freckles
You have to buy them!
Turin Turambar
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MMO champion is posting that stuff so i guess it's ok to share this.
Even more characters teased.
No freckles in the ingame model, 2/10.
edit: hahahah someone made the same comment before
I kind of dig that this game's been developed and is playable and is ready for beta soon, and Blizzard (if it's to believed) still doesn't know how what the business model for it will be. If that's the truth, than the game design isn't necessarily being fully informed by the model for how it'll be sold, and I think that's good for the game. They're just concentrated on making a good game, not making a good F2P game. You know?
Position-wise, wouldn't they be obscured by the frame of the goggles on the right?
No freckles in the ingame model, 2/10.
edit: hahahah someone made the same comment before
Position-wise, wouldn't they be obscured by the frame of the goggles on the right?
fluffydelusions
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Robot Carnival
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just saw this, looks VERY charming design wise and I'm loving what I see in the video. will diffidently keep an eye out for this. one question (and sorry if it's been answer before but I can't read through the whole thread), are all the characters set or can you pick the same one as someone else? (i.e. if there's already a Tracker on my team do I have to pick someone else or can a team have more then one of the same character?) and is it always going to be Reaper, Widowmaker and such vs Winston, Tracker + buddies? like can I mix and match teams so I have Hanso and Reaper on the same team and such?
Completely flexible. They said that part of the reason there is no campaign is because it would be incohesive to have the same character multiple times on the same map. Also, you can switch character with every spawn, so there is a lot of potential for dynamic match-ups.
Edit: Lol at dodging that question btw.
JetBlackPanda
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hush
do you think he holds her so he can still walk?
he starts sliding his feet instead of walking after he eats her so im guessing they are both walking simultaneously
TyrantGuardian
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From a consumer standpoint, of course they should. It literally makes the game significantly better. Monetary-wise, the jury's out. Most people playing Dota own no other Steam games, and Dota by itself is ridiculously profitable even without people purchasing other stuff on Steam. I think this argument is a complete misfire.
Dreams-Visions
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Especially in the case of Blizzard, who is not a company begging for bread.
Sir Abacus
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So the first question was about diversity given the number of women and minorities in the initial roster. Metzen's answer was basically "yes we want people to be able to identify so we're going for a very diverse cast".
Another thing to be excited about.
Another thing to be excited about.
Robot Carnival
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cool~! thanks for the reply.
It's not a situation that can be applied to other developers. Name others with the same model that are anywhere near as successful.
It might not feel like a MOBA but definitely looks like one with all the character archetypes (sexy female sniper/outlaw cowboy guy/cyborg ninja/Japanese samurai type). And the fact that you choose a character rather than a class means your abilities will be unique to that character. So two tanks will play differently but fulfil the same role.
SteveWinwood
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All of the other F2P games that use microtransactions for boosts or unlocks. The everything is free model isn't very common.
SteveWinwood
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yep quality and good decisions are rare in video games
Bl@de
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Totally agree. That cinematic trailer was pixar quality. Amazing what blizzard does. Game also looks like fun. But I don't play multiplayer shooters so I will most probably skip it. But I'm sure this thing is going to make a lot of money.
PC only for now, but it's a good guess they'll put it on consoles if it takes off. Either way, they'd probably announce it at a more console-centric event if / when it happens.
PC only to start, no word on console versions but they seem fairly likely.
Mobius and pet octopus
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oops, top chart was wrong one