Wow, the Overwatch Beta Was Stupidly Popular

Good, because it's fantastic... Unlike a certain other moba-esque FPS game that came out recently! o.O

I only played a few rounds due to being busy with family staying at my house before moving down to sc, I only have a 2 bedroom condo so had an aunt/uncle in the man cave, and a grandmother in the living room while my little brother and daughter shared a room. But of the rounds I played it felt great, but I'm still hesitant on dropping $60 on it.

Loved it and in someone who rarely plays FPS games.

It was fun, but I'm on the fence... It's another titanfall perhaps (online only, very few game modes)... a fab game, plays great but lacking long term appeal. Plus £50 is way too much, should be a £30 game at most.

I am tempted though (but I probably won't)

The price is the problem really. On PS4 at least.
Since it's multiplayer only it feels as lacking in content as SFV.
It's fun though, if you have people to play with.

@AyanamiReign
In the end I rather just pay the money upfront, cause you know that Blizzard is going to support the Lucio out of this. $60 is a lot of cash, but after playing in the beta I'm convinced I'll spend at least 50 hours playing this game, but 100+ is more likely; I haven't been as excited about a game, let alone a shooter, in ages! Every chance I got I tried squeezing in a match or 2 and when I wasn't playing I was thinking of talking about it.

F2P is nice and all, but it also attracts people you really don't want in a shooter like this; a $60 treshold might keep them at bay. Furthermore I've seen that Hearthstone got kinda crippled by its own succes, the moment Blizzard tried making some money on it. The game is awesome, but if you want to enter now, you better bring at least $100 or else you won't be getting the full experience. Overwatch can be enjoyed however I like: I can play short bursts, binge or stop playing for months and come back without missing out on anything. The moment I enter the Arena I have just as much chance of winning as the opponent with only my lack of skills to blame when I lose.

@Boerewors don't be under any illusion that Blizzard won't try to make additional revenue on Overwatch. I don't think it'll be anything as in pay to win, but definitely cosmetic items etc. That's the reason I find the £50 price tag a little too high, though I totally agree on your free to play comment attracting the wrong type of players.

And what you are describing about dipping in and out or playing a LOT etc is no different to how Titanfall seemed, and that died off pretty quickly.. I just don't know how long they will be able to keep people interested in this game, and I'm not bashing it, I'm genuinely curious.

@AyanamiReign @Boerewors it doesn't have to be free to play. PC players can buy a $40 version, and we can only get the $60 one, with the only extra thing being a bunch of skins, which I don't really care about. Here in the UK it's even more ludicrous, £30 for the base edition on PC, £45 for the Origins edition on PC, £55 for the Origins edition on PS4. It's almost twice the price.

That's my problem, this is a £30/$40 game, and we don't even have the option to buy it at that, with no explanation why. I wish more people would point that out, it's really unfair to console players.

It should have had a story mode if only because of how good the characters are, but I'm fine with the content as long as they add more maps over time. Can't wait til the 24th anyway, I can't believe how bland it makes other shooters feel.

@drclayman where are you looking? Its 42 pounds on Amazon right now

I can agree. Played it, loved it, bought it.

A free beta and lots of people played it such a surprise. The Beta was fun but I did not like the balance of the different Heroes until they make changes I would not buy this game. Also the price tag of £40 not sure its worth that for PvP only I think at £30 I would get it but not at full price.

I'm gonna buy it, I'm just worried because I'm rubbish at fps I will struggle.

Is this beta / demo still live?

Alexs video is pretty good, only watched 15 minutes but have a great idea of what they are aiming for with this one.

@themcnoisey there are different roles to play within the team if shooting is not your thing then you can play a support role like healer. Unlike a lot of other games healers seem to be more appreciated in Overwatch.

All of a sudden I want this game. Glad it's out pretty soon!

@Cron_13 blizzard will cross-promote it with wow for additional revenue - extra pets if you play both, they'll sell a new plush on the store...

and they may just have a game viable for mlg too . Well star craft I guess but I know that a while back wow was rejected.

Hefty price tag for something that won't be played in 6 months

Some guys at my work are very big fans - though they are PC players. They already have it on order (though they were moaning about the PC launch price - they have things too good on Steam!).

@Neurotic_Biotic Sorry, that was the PSN price I was talking about. 42 is a bit more reasonable I guess, but I still feel like we should have the option to buy the base game. It kinda feels like releasing only a collector's /premium edition of the game, and the base game being exclusive to a platform.

@DrClayman it essentially is the base game just with a few skins as pre-order bonuses, or at least that's how I see it.
I think 42 is perfectly fine, I paid more for uncharted which will arguably only last 20 hours tops, I probably spent longer than that playing in the beta.

I could never get a blooming game I kept getting server problems.

It was fun, but I don't think its worth the price tag. Seems like it would get old after a couple weeks.

Almost 10 million gamers played the beta because it was free. I am curious however how many of these gamers will buy the game on the console, I won't as long as they don't lower the price. Why is there a difference of €20 between console and PC?

@Cron_13 Well that's quite a one-sided comparison. The most popular game in the world is League of Legends and that only has one mode and is online only. Other incredibly popular games are also online only, like Dota 2 and CSGO. Looking at Blizzard's own games, they've always been very online-focused, even back in the mid-90s with Warcraft 2. Their biggest hit and one of the most successful games ever is online-only; World of Warcraft.

The price thing is a tough thing to take into account when it's going to change over time. The quality of the content will stay the same - or actually increase - while the price drops.

Edit: I see people have already talked about the price not being that high so I just deleted my last paragraph where I compared the prices. Yeah, it's only £30 for the basic edition on PC. That's Blizzard's main audience and also one they can sell directly to without having to go through Microsoft or Sony. I'd imagine they've made the console versions "Origins only" because the game would've ended up costing that much anyway after paying Sony and MS so they've basically thrown the digital stuff in for free. You also don't get the Tracer hero in Heroes of the Storm or the wings for Diablo 3 with the console version so all the remaining extras are for Overwatch itself, thus people are less likely to not want/need them I guess?

@Kohaku This has been the case for our entire lives. Console games always cost more than PC ones. Maybe easy piracy drives the price down, maybe console gamers are more likely to just buy from terrible places like GAME and get ripped off without shopping around. For some reason, Sony, MS and Nintendo all see fit to rip off their customers in their online stores, even more than high street stores do.

Besides which, there isn't that much of a price difference. If you compare the PC Origins version to the PS4 Origins version, it's a £7 difference from Amazon. The base PC version is only £30 direct from Blizzard, but like I said above, they're selling that direct to their customers without Amazon/GAME/other shops taking a cut on top of Sony/MS's cut.

Didn't actually play it in the end. Oh well.

@Neurotic_Biotic I got the same vibe the characters are way to cool to be left without a storymode. That is my only complaint.

I played the beta for a short amount of time and loved it! I've been playing League of Legends for some time now (all of my friends play it), so it was cool to see some MOBA features in a first-person shooter. The game feels like a more addicting Team Fortress 2. I'll definitely be picking it up sometime down the road.

In the Beta we had mixture skill-wise simply because the Beta was free to play but when the full game releases we'll definitely come across more skillful players.

That said, it was definitely the most polished beta I've ever played.

With free contents coming in the future, let's hope this game has legs and keep players interested unlike other PVP-only games like Titanfall or Evolve.