>buy game
>game gets shut down and replaced with an inferior free version
>money stolen

It wasn't shutdown it was forcefully updated to ow2. There's a huge difference. You didn't lose any money There's plenty of games that have been for sale and went f2p. Tf2 csgo etc you paid for early acesss that lasted 8+ years.

too many people were getting free cosmetics via the earnable lootboxes, so they updated the game to Overwatch 2, removed the lootboxes (yay, so pro-consumer), added a battlepass, and made all cosmetics not free.

>>714276496
I got locked out of the game, because my phone provider isn't compatible with Blizzard, because I'm using pre-paid. They literally stole the game form me.

>>714276087 (OP)
Goes free2play.

Entire userbase shifts dramatically toward brown third world kids.

OP here, posted the wrong image

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

Sign the fucking initiative.

>>714277305
Sounds like it's not my issue. Phone verification should be standard across all ranked games like dota 2 has. Prevents niggers from cheating and third world shit holes from playing in general.

>>714276936
They have brought back lootboxes. Not in the traditional way though but it's back atleast.

I don't get this angle that OW was killed
I've never seen anyone say this about WoW every time it gets an expansion, and its the same premise. A massive patch that makes huge reworks and sticks a new name on the title.

>>714276087 (OP)
>>714277451
these are 70% of what I play

>>714277305
This phone verification bullshit is the gayest shit to exist in games and websites.

>>714276087 (OP)
bought it in 2020, literally happened to me

>>714276087 (OP)
Start Killing Games

is the game good nowadays?
last time I played was circa 2019

>>714276496
>It wasn't shutdown it was forcefully updated to ow2. There's a huge difference.
What's the huge difference?

>>714276087 (OP)
I'd be fine with it if they at least had a permanent workshop preset that reverts characters and abilities to OW1 instead of milking it as a back to the past limited time event.

>>714280626
Clicking on the ten-year-old .exe takes you to a functioning game?

>>714276087 (OP)
>>game gets shut down and replaced with an inferior free version
How's that possible, when 2 is better than 1 in every possible way.

If you're going to make an OW thread, you have to post lewd Mercy pictures

>>714280786
It doesn't?

>>714280626
If a game is shut down you can't play it anymore, retard. If a game updates you can continue to play it. The game was sold as a live service and you the user understood when you bought it that they can make any changes buffs nerfs rebalances and alterations to the core gameplay at anytime. Not a single person bought the game because it had "free cosmetics" they bought it for the hero shooter gameplay loop all the bitching comes from people who don't play the game simple as.

>>714276087 (OP)
I honestly wish there was a paid version of this to filter out all the Mexicans. I'd pay $10 a month just not to play with ftp people.

>>714276087 (OP)
AHHH STG HELP MEEE

>>714280915
So how many changes can be made to a game before you'll decide it's no longer the same game?

>>714281020
it's the same game, blizzcucks are just retarded as fuck.

>>714281086
Should the people who bought the original game be compensated now that the game is no longer pay to play?

>>714281193
Why would they be? Games lower in price after release all the time

>>714280518
I enjoy it. Most of the new heroes are good additions (minus the tanks that aren't Queen). 5v5 really isn't a massive change. You still need team coordination and mechanical ability to win for most heroes. Clash is a dumb map mode but whatever.

>>714281020
There's no limit. You paid for a live service game. If they turn the whole core gameplay into shooting HRT guns at indians shitting on a sidewalk and first team to transition loses, then it's still the same game you paid for. This retarded "how many chips out of a boulder until it's a rock" argument does not apply. They can change the game as much as they want and you the consumer have no say. Does this mean I agree with all the changes? No 5v5 was ass 6v6 is better balanced. I don't buy battlepasses I use my gold skins from my 2000 hours of ow1, but I cannot stand disingenuous niggers like you pretending you got "scammed"

>buy game
>enjoy taking it seriously for a a little while but once FFA deathmatch came out almost all my time was just having fun on that
>some time later, devs restructure game entirely and then expect you to pay extra for things that actually impact gameplay (i.e. new characters)
>immediately stop playing game
>devs roll back that decision later because of how dumbfuck retarded it is
I'm still never playing this again, Blizzard can go fuck themselves for even thinking of pulling that shit at all

>>714276087 (OP)
You never "bought" the game. You bought a licence to play it while it was available. Such is life under Late Stage Capitalism